Quote Originally Posted by rabbitslayer
The way that you perceive "God" has a _lot_ to do with your spiritual upbringing (whether explicit or not). ie a young boy raised a Muslim will pray to Allah and occasionally receive a "spiritual experience" -- which he will perceive in Muslim terms. A christian boy will pray to "God" (ie Yahweh) and if he gets a revelation it will be in Christian terms. A Wiccan perceives spiritual experiences in Wiccan terms. A Buddhist with "becoming one with existence" or something like that. How different are all those really? So maybe its just your brain setting something off that makes you high and you start hallucinating shit... I don't know, the whole thing smells fishy to me.

if you do some shrooms and have some sort of hallucination, is the 'experience' real, or no? I say yes, it is real! Same with G-d experience...the only difference with a G-d experience, or religious experience is that it is based on thought, emotion, and/or spiritual awarness as opposed to being induced by a substance. It's still real, only derived from a different source.