Fw: Oh, Please!

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> RON

> Exactly right. Some people are (willfully?) distorting what I said. The 

> experiences (more than one) were emotional (How could an experience of 

> the most powerful Being in existence not be!), but not limited to that. 

> My point is that they went beyond the sensual. This is why mystics can 

> never fully explain their experiences (except visions) without resorting 

> to sensual terms like "light". We are not simply physical beings. We 

> also have a spiritual component which most modern Western people are not 

> familiar with. We are body (physical, material), soul (intellect, mind, 

> life-force), and spirit (that part of our being that is able to 

> communicate with the spiritual realm). By the way, not body and soul 

> only as the Greek Western paradigm (our present one) is understood. 

>

>IAN

>Ron, we all get these experiences when we WANT to believe. Why would 

>I, a doubting Deist, be able to describe what you went through unless I

>have been through it myself? If I took my 'experience with God' to heart, I

>would have to insist that reincarnation is a reality. For all the talk about

>reincarnation, the numbers just don't add up. So my 'experience with God' 

>was nothing more than an emotional experience I went through due to certain 

>life experiences. I am not a psychiatrist or even a psychologist so I can't 

>explain it and I doubt seriously if all of them would agree on it's cause.


RON
How does the fact that you believe your experiences were illusory prove 
that the experiences of others were as well? 

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