what is your thoughts as me and my spiritual journey i cant stress that Christianity cant be the first or real. based upon Egyptian knowledge if you understand what im saying whats you throes or thought upon this.,.
please don’t criticism about what you think or know what is the truth is. just give your honest spiritual enlightenment ideas and journeys that you have experienced..don’t bring religion into this.

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How can someone not bring religion into this when religion is what this question is all about? It’s impossible to separate religion from spirituality.

Yes, based on that “Egyptian knowledge” I understand what you mean, having been an Agnostic for many years. My spiritual journey brought me back around to face the exclusive claim of Christianity (1). It was not about having something to live for, the fear of hell or death, etc. that lead me down this path. I was looking for enlightenment, to truly understand the core tenets of Christianity, not it’s various religious and denominational beliefs.

If there was a God, I wanted to find Him or the way to come to Him. It was during this time that the living God touched my heart and forever changed my life. It was not something that I was consciously trying to bring about, but rather a happening, an experience. I had a heartfelt conviction of the sin in my life and felt the need to seek repentance. My life had changed from that point on, in ways that were amazing and sometimes are hard to describe. One of the things that surprised me was the revelation that He was there, with and for me, even before I believed through this experience.

One would think that this experience alone would be enough, to know there is a God and that I was “saved” because of Jesus Christ. It was just the beginning of the greatest spiritual experiences of my life. A little faith in the possibility has led to a complete trust (faith) in the living God. It’s been over 25 years now, yet everyday it is renewed, becomes more complete as I love and rest in Him. Things I had dismissed before… like healings and answered prayer… I have seen. I know now that it is not the following of static rules and religion… it is having an active, dynamic and loving relationship with the living God. I now know that love, for God and for other people, is why we exist and the reason for our being.

Things I once put faith in… evolution, science, self, etc. became partial pieces of the whole. More importantly, that missing something that I had felt which drove my spiritual journeys had disappeared, it had finally ended. The void in my life was filled by what I have come to know as the only thing that will fill it… the presence of God in my life… His Holy Spirit. He has made me whole and complete.

People experience this being “born again” in many different way and because of many different things. The thing is… love is by it’s nature an act of our own free will. It has to be given, not commanded or demanded… that would only be obedience. God loves us all, that is why He sent Jesus to establish a new covenant with mankind. That is why He is the only and exclusive way God has provided for us. Repentance itself is an act of our love. Forgiveness is an act of His, by which our relationship is restored with Him. This is the central tenet, what Christianity is really all about.
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I am interested in people who had a genuine spiritual enlightenment experience. Please write in with your stories.

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This is a long story. I wasn’t brought up religious, never Christened and only learned about religion through school, prayed and sang hymns in assembly. For a short period, I think only for a few weeks I did go to Sunday school, my parents marriage was on the rocks and they started attending church. My mother’s a lapsed catholic and hated her catholic upbringing. She deliberately choose not to bring up me and my brother with any religion. We did however say grace at Sunday dinner. Yet, when she bought me a childhood version of the Bible I read it intensely. I would kneel beside my bed at night and pray and at one point had a crucifix over my bed which I asked my parents to put on the wall. It seems I was naturally inclined to religion but never got the chance to fulfil the inclination. I had problems in my childhood that was thought to be from a difficult birth and was labelled by some as backwards, poor co-ordination and general developmental delay. No one knew that I had a biological time bomb that would go off in my teens. We moved around different countries, Rhodesia and Canada. I was a normal teenager except strangely asexual, I looked normal but never developed a sex urge so to speak. Some of my friends said I was just a late developer but I nearly 50 now and it still hasn’t happened. At 18 I had a bit of a lump pocking out from half way down my back and then I fell head over heels down stairs. Well, no one knows what really happened except my body went crazy. I had massive sensory distortion, became photophobic, ice cold all the time, my personality changed, I had hot sweats, cold sweat, horrific leg cramsp, abdominal cramps, loss of memory, balance and co ordination problems, I became violent at times. I’ve always been a bit psychic, had premonitions and a bit of telepathy, but during this period the psychic ability whent crazy, I even had one experience of psycho kenesis and once saw my own aura. Anyway, how long that period lasted I don’t know to this day, probably a good few months. I never really recovered from it until years later. However, when I had recoverd from the worst of these undiagnosed symptoms my parents took me on holiday to europe. I discovered votive candles and started lighting them and praying as we visited different cathedrals in different countries. We came back to Wales finally and stayed with my grandmother before returning to Canada. While there we visited St David’s cathedral. St David is the patron saint of Wales and I am Welsh. Well, I was confussed and frightened by what I had experienced in the illness and after we came out of the cathedral I went back in alone to pray. I prayed for guidance. This prayer was different from any I had ever made. It seemd at the time my whole body was crying out to God. I think God heard because when I went back to my grandmothers house and upstairs to my bedroom I had a spritual experience. I was sitting alone in the room looking out of the window and expeienced what I call a transcendent experience. It came on fairly quickly, I saw the room 360 degrees all at the same time in intricate detail and experienced myself in the whole room, the room looked lighter as if there was sunlight, even in the darker corners. There was absolutely no sense of time, I felt perfectly at peace, serene and there was this incredibe love permeating the whole room. I was part of this love and part of the room but the love was not from me but something other than me that was also in the room. I believe it was God. I can’t say how long that experience lasted, probably only minutres, but afterwards I was speachless for a short while and shocked for months afterwards. I remember sitting on the plane back to Canada and looking at the perfect blue sky and down on the white cloud cover and thinking “God, I know God exists, God really exists.” Well, I thought and thought and tried to rationalize the experience for months but exhausted I gave up. The only thing I figured out was that I definatly wasn’t a Christian, didn’t believe Jesus was the son of God but absolutely certain he did exist. For years my life threw one problem after another and I kept on having funny symptoms, excessive sweating, sudden tierdness, occasional flushes and tremors. I went back and for to the Doctors with no result. On returning to Britain I trained as a nurse after a while. I thought I was healthy enough to do the work, but was wrong about that. While training the symptoms became increasingly sever, the psychic stuff returned flooding me with loads of premonitions, I had some very strange spiritual experiences and often knew God was present. I could shift my consciousness with little effort into a state where I would have premonitions, but it seemed that God was trying to persuade me not to do that. The illness caused quite a bit of pain and suffering and this was an escape from it. Despite the illness I qualified and worked as a nurse. Four years later I was diagnosed with a large fluid filled tumor half the size of my abdomen, crushing my organs. This had taken decades to grow. How I did my nurses training with this inside me and why I didn’t die long before is an unknown. I had a 6 hour operation to remove it and to rearrange my displaced and crushed organs. I have found out since that during that time I wrote a diary that was stolen and sold off to the media and has been used in many tv seris and films in both UK and USA. Scientists have looked into the illness and psychic ability and confirmed these things happened and frankly many, many people now know what they didn’t before, that certain things are possible. The connection between quantum physics and psychic ability talked about over the last 10 years is because of me and what has been discovered concerning what happened to me. It’s strange that although I can’t remember what I wrote exactly I do remember I felt an obligation to write and a great sense of an impending destiny and a commitment to the future.

I’m looking for some kind of religious or cultural symbol that represents spiritual enlightenment. Any ideas? Thanks!

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I just found I whole website full of what you’re asking for. http://www.world-enlightenment.com/Circle-Symbols/Circle-Symbols.htm

there you go =]

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Eastern mysticism and philosophy talks about a spiritual enlightenment of human being.All the eastern philosophies explain that there is a absolute truth or eternal consciousness which have to experiencef/attained,otherwise you will reincarnate again and again.So,according to them If you want a happy life in your next life after death then you have to do good works like charity.But that too is not enough If you want to attain truth.Meditation is the only way to know and experience that truth,then you also become that truth then your self will disappear.Then If there is only emptiness then what is difference between atheism and eastern enlightenment?
They may be talking about the nonexistence of the self which is by product of body and society etc.
And eastern philosophies are contradictory to each other.But they have same opinion about the spiritual enlightenment.
They all agree with reincarnation,but they have no proofs.They don’t have answer that how millions of souls are coming to earth,so what is the emptiness they talking about?
What is the speciality in that emptiness and the human non existence after death?
What is the views on this matter according to psychology and answer it with spiritual knowledge If you know..

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Is Spiritual Enlightenment represented in War of the Worlds (H.G. Well’s novel). How is this evident and what are the implications of such?

Thanks
Obviously me if I posed the question. Goodness, surely if you thought about what you were asking Mark you might of realised how much of an idiot you sound. I need help with my homework so I put this question to the users of yahoo answers who are usually very insightful; obviously you excepted

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