The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104170   Message #2130087
Posted By: Amos
20-Aug-07 - 09:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mutual respect
Subject: RE: BS: Mutual respect
Bill:

Obviously you are not a master Baiter. The answer should be obvious. While the majority of humans on earth have experience with the spiritual at least in some degree, no matter how muffled, expanding that experience to an actual experience of divinity is not something many claim, and very few have tried to describe, and most of them have not succeeded in my opinion.

But in terms of individual experiences, of personal spiritual nature, it probably outnumbers (in # of individuals) those who have not had any such.

The literature is full of bits and pieces of individual transcendent experiences -- NDEs, OOBEs, moments of telepathic or remote viewing, snatches of reincarnation memories, deja vues, and so on. Obviously there is a huge spectrum of quality of information and degrees of certainty involved, but I think you get the point. I believe that more people believe in their own spiritual nature, living lifetimes one after another, than believe in a single-body model. And even the latter have some sense of themselves as a "soul" in many cases, confused though it may be,.

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