What do you consider a spiritual experience? Can you give an example of something in your own life you think of as a spiritual experience?

Is everyone a "spiritual" being?

Hi angeleyes .

There are surely many Spiritual experiences and today l thought of this and didn't know how to say it but now through your question l can .

Most of my life l felt that being a Homosexual was wrong . During my life of increased knowledge input in a kind of different learning capacity l semed to have more reasons to be against Homosexuals than for .

I have never had any sexual feelings for my own sex except for my cousins on the farm lol , oops just kidding , hmmn ,,, l'll start over,,, It is my natural feelings l have for females and l have always been this way and never have l felt a desire to kiss a male or anything like that etc., so l couldn't put my mind-frame in a Homosexual's mind-frame to see what they feel .


Then eventually , and sort of recently l asked God to settle this for me once and for all and today 'me and Bob' are happilly married ,,oops lol , "l did it again" ,, let me go back a bit .. After l had my individual private chat with God l saw the truth .

Mother Mary looks down at her children and their moms , and feels their bond and love that is as precious as ''Holy '' itself . She sees and feels the Joy in the mother and her child . The child is so good and kind and helps everyone in an innocent charm and is such joy .

The child becomes a teen and becomes 'Gay' and Mother Mary shines with Glory as she watches the mom's love they have for their children and watch them love un-conditonally and educate them with trust and support as the child enters a world still full of hate and mis=understanding and also so much more .

The "other" child was also 'Gay' and the mom persecuted the child with guilt and hurt and Mother Mary's tears were seen again and she cried for this innocent child and the mom .

The Lord showed me this and l am not Gay and never have been and don't have cousins on any farm lol .

There it is ,, one of my recent , and dynamic 'Spiritual Experience' which also had a whole lot of education in it for me .

To me a spiritual experience is an inner revelation. That "aha" moment. A moment of awareness. It is that part of us that is real, that is pointing to truth.

In truth there are no experiences or revelations or miracles. In order to experience anything, there has to be an opposite, a back ground to reflect the experience on.

I too have/had spiritual experiences such as mediumship and mystical ones. But where I stand today I see that they served a purpose to bring me to the realization that there is nothing outside of us. When the purpose is solved, the appearance disappears.

I don't see us being spiritual, but having our BEING in spirit.

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May your awareness be perfection

I can definitely relate to the "ah ha" moment that you both talked about. Other adjectives also come to mind that I've felt in conjunction with those insights/experiences: feeling "light"-er, joy, more appreciation for things around me, feeling connected (that's a bigee), new understanding.....

I had a spiritual experience just this morning. I decided to talk a mile walk, and when I came back, I was prayerfully "listening" to any direction as to what I might do, whether I should go immediately into my studio and start working. The thought of a bath entered my mind, and I thought "yeah, that would be nice after being out walking - I'd probably feel fresh and renewed for the day." I took a short bath and while I was in the tub I realized that it was the first time in years I'd taken a bath just because I wanted to, like a treat for myself. It was a real inner revelation that brought up some emotion with it. I recognized that I really haven't treated myself very well all these years. I've been doing some inner work lately and so it was even more meaningful.

In the final analysis, probably everything that happens to us is a spiritual experience. We are spirit, as Viv says, so how could it not be that way?

Good for us Angeleyes.

I could have said good for you Angeleyes, but simply by changing your perspective that you are giving consciously to yourself, you give to everyone. Was the painting not inspired with your being? Will that paining not touch someone else? Will they not pick up on the vibration that that painting was painted in? Was not your family effected in your being? Was not everyone that you come in contact with effected through your being?

Even you sharing this awareness on the forum, effects everyone that reads it, consciously or not.

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I too believe that every experience has a spiritual aspect to it, or can have if we are open to that possibility. I also agree that we are spiritual beings and so we do have spiritual experiences.

Over the years I have had many, many a-ha moments that have given me new insight or helped me to see something old with new eyes. I am so grateful for these insights as they have always provided a better understanding of myself or the human condition.

I also find such things as looking at a perfectly formed rose or a beautiful sunset or some other thing in nature to be 'spiritual' experiences. I sense a connection to all of life during such times.

Maggie

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I spent the greater part of my life in Spiritual Hibernation. In Hindsight I can see the need for this. In my early teens I was very spiritual. I saw energy, did kinesis, and had interesting coincidences. Certain very important books almost literally fell into my hands. Then my life took a hard right turn and I went into hibernation. Like a Bear, I would wake up every now and then and ‘do something big’ to cause a shift in my life. But mostly I coasted ¾ asleep through life.

Then at 38 years of age, I had a ‘dark night of the soul’ experience, and I woke up all the way. I said “God, heal me or take me, but I can’t live like this anymore”. Now I smile at the words I uttered, but at the time I was in deep despair. A month later I had my first ‘aha’ moment. 6 months later I had my first OMFG spiritual moment and found…myself. And it just kept speeding up, and it’s now 3 years later.

What is an example of a spiritual experience? There have been so many, in hindsight. In fact, it’s a nearly constant thing now. And yes, I take them all for granted, or more correctly I simply accept them as the way I now live. It’s hard to separate out something.

An example of one from the past. About a year after I emerged (4 years ago?), I was working on Love. Self Love, for I didn’t like/love myself, I didn’t feel worthy of being loved. So I asked for, and received, help. I had decided that I was comfortable working with an Angelic force. I placed a common name on this particular Angel, but that’s not important. So we had a discussion about how I would find the Love in my Heart(yes talking to Angels was something I accepted). Now I was aware of the Angel when it’s ‘close’ to me. I can see the energy pattern. The more my Heart opened, the clearer the image was. One evening I was very focused, and my perceptions were very high. I watched the Angel manifest quite strongly. It then ‘walked’ up to me (I was sitting up on the bed, it walked right through the bed, it wasn’t physical after all) and reached out and touched my Heart. It was one of my more profound experiences. The energy was incredibly intense. I could barely see anything physically in the room. The colors were mesmerizing. I felt such a profound Love I was almost overwhelmed. Needless to say, the tears, tears of Joy, flowed freely. And it worked. My Heart opened up a great deal and the healing continued.

Something as profound, or maybe more so occurred with another Angel. I asked the Angel to show me what I looked like to the Angel. The ‘seeing through the eyes of another’ adage. What I saw was something I’ve intuitively known, but had a hard time accepting. I saw an Angel. I saw what I see when I really ‘look’ at other people.

These experiences are less common now, for I don’t have the need. But whenever I feel that I need an Angelic hug, I get one. I get the impression this particular group is letting me do my own thing, and not cramping my style. Help is always available, but it has to be asked for, and allowed.

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I am what I have always have been and will be, I just remember better at times. Thank you for helping me remember, I will return the favor!

I have been feeling much more joined to other lately. Thanks for the confirmation.

It seems as though the frequency of experiences in my life has increased greatly as well. Or maybe we're just stepping into our "natural" state.
Thanks for sharing your experience - I really enjoyed reading about it.