What I would like to ask the people, then, who are (supposedly) experiencing God is how do you know that what you are experiencing is God (which I thought was a concept).
A few years ago I had an experience, while driving in my car in the state of Connecticut, came out of nowhere (not the state of CT, my state of mind). All of a sudden I became aware of the infinite, eternal, unbounded nature of creation as it flowed through me, I became part of the flow, it was very very clear, all the words I had ever heard "unbounded," "infinite," "eternal," meant something to me for about five minutes. While this was going on I never thought that I was experiencing something called God. Infinity/eternal-ness/unboundedness, yes, I was experiencing that, it was it's own experience. Is what you are calling the experience of God different from this? Who ascribes definition to the conept of God as it is experienced? Ken --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Letter I wrote to the editor of TIME in response to their current cover > story on the Evolution/Creationism/Intelligent Design debate: > > > I have yet to hear in the evolution/creationism debate the consideration that > > for some, God is not a concept in which to believe or disbelieve, but a direct > > experience more real than any other. Saints and mystics in every religious > > tradition and some independent of any tradition have been capable of directly > > cognizing subtler realities which others could only accept or reject through > > faith or logic. To them, the intelligent governance of the universe is self > > evident. Ancient books are superfluous. They perceive that infinite > > intelligence permeates every grain of creation. From this perspective, the > > existence of God is perfectly compatible with gradual, incremental change over > > millions of years. But natural selection is not random. It is a mechanism > > through which infinite intelligence achives fuller, more complex expressions > > of itself. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
