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So they just mean a transcendent, spiritual experience?

• isoprophlex 4y ago
  Yeah i guess that's a lot more accurate if you want to avoid the cultural baggage of the god-word
• swayvil 4y ago
  It expands your consciousness is a popular way of describing it. Imagine a chronic obsessive cellphone gazer. One day he lifts his nose from the screen. Sun! Clouds! Birds and squirrels! Except moreso.
  • canadiantim 4y ago
    This is a really good explanation
  • bowsamic 4y ago
    But shouldn’t God be in all things, including the profound, if he’s really the Absolute? I doubt he’d be limited to our human conception of nature
    • swayvil 4y ago
      I prefer to observe first, theorize second.
      • bowsamic 4y ago
        So He is more of a Kami?
        • swayvil 4y ago
          That would be one of those theories.
• avisser 4y ago
  For me, on one of my trips, I had a profound feeling of being part of life in the universe. Like this feeling of how vast the universe is, but it's all dead rocks, except for everything on this tiny blue world (and hopefully more). I felt like a part of that. So no deities but spiritual like what you said.