Re: Guru Swami G
Date: June 22, 2013 04:24AM
Hi Guru Watch; just another opinion here. If someone has indeed had some kind of religious experience/dissociative event, does that necessarily mean they have special insight into anyone elses life, or even into their own?
Just mo, but plenty of people who meditate, chant or pray, have had spiritual experiences at one time or another. And plenty of people from rough childhoods can disassociate quite successfully into a "happy place" which some would consider similar to a spiritual experience as well. Epileptics can have spiritual experiences quite often during or after seizures.
Does this mean we need to give them our money or support their lifestyles or revere them for their special abilities?
In TM for example, ( not the group I was raised in by the way) they talk about people who bliss out; use meditation to get so detached from reality that they don't function very well.
Derren Brown , an avowed atheist and hypnotist, is quite capable of apparently giving people wonderful spiritual experiences too.
Just mo again, but I am more interested in how people behave and treat others in everyday life, than in whether or not at some point in their life they may have had a spiritual experience, or even whether they can make other people have a subjective spiritual experience.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2013 04:27AM by yasmin.