I had decided not to post in any threads of the OP anymore but if this biased argument continues I will be forced to get involved to provide to it some balance.
White Unicorn, on 27 February 2013 - 04:27 AM, said:
A Buddist perception comes to my mind in this situation about humility. You can pick up truth within many beliefs, religions or philosophies.
And another one comes to my mind : One cannot sail in two boats at the same time. For if he does so, he is destined to drown.
White Unicorn, on 27 February 2013 - 04:27 AM, said:
I've seen many threads exploring the AP, demons, angels, holy spirit etc but I never noticed one on the Cosmic Consciousness, being analyzed as an experience. I would call it the "God experience" because you seem everywhere at once, looking back at everything else inside & out and experiencing everything at once ..you are the trees, the clouds, the planets, stars, the astral realms and the small things etc. If that happens to a person, they can't help but call it "walking with God" for lack of a better description, but after after you realize there is even more than what you experienced because it was just an "orchard experience" compared to the rest of the universe as a whole. Pride sends you away form it and humility brings you to the whole.
Is this your own opinion or a fact? You have written it as if it is a fact. Even you are among those people who are analyzing things here, you realize that, don't you?
Now please bear with me, I will have to be blunt. I think it is ridiculous and paradoxical for the OP (who calls herself a Christian) to divinize herself over a silly video game she played in a half-awake and half-asleep state. Go back to page 1 and read carefully, I have encased the word "demons" in quotes. I didnt want to expand it then to avoid making her a scapegoat for the skeptics here. I think those "demons" she "destroyed" weren't even real beings. If they were real beings do you think they would be just standing there without resisting and waiting to be destroyed? If that was indeed the power of God (the creator) would it take 2 long hours for it to "destroy" those "demons"? That doesn't mean there are no real demons out there but here it simply doesn't seem to be the case.
"God experience" you claim??? Get me an atheist or a misotheist and I will teach him how to become this "god" and populate an entire room with "demons" just with his mind and then play a first person shooter game by shooting beams of light or laser rays or whatever he wishes to shoot at them.
Are you claiming that it was not AP and everything happened in the physical realm like the OP claims? Or are you claiming that subsequent etherialization into sub-ethereal constituents of human body and shifting of your conciousness in one of them is not possible just because you never attained it? Or are you assuming that my interpretation is less valid than yours just because my post-count is less than yours? Or are you forcing your biased interpretation for this "experience" or whatever it is just because the OP is in your friends list (I just checked your profile BTW

)?
In a majority of school of thoughts about AP, this experience would be interpreted as subsequent etherialization. The astral body is just a "shell" just as the physical body is a "shell". Between the astral body and the soul there are numerous sub-ethereal constructs/states that can be attained and your conciousness can be shifted into any of those. The actual number is only known to God. When I experienced that, it was a shift of conciousness from stage 1 to stage 2 of deformed subtle body, stage 2 was very unstable and it spontaneosly proceeded to stage 3 of light and I was able to shift my conciousness into that too. Which forces me to conclude that the "light" is a part of yourself just like a "shadow" is a part of yourself. Now whether the shadow is same as the light or whether the shadow has its own conciousness or not is a whole different issue, but the fact is there is nothing "divine" about such experiences. Not that I'm generalizing it, but it is far more plausible for a meagre human to experience this rather than any "holy spirit".
Thanks, for adding your biased interpretation but I will continue to differ. Not only because it was a biased attempt to support your friends but also because it is an attempt to gratify the narcissistic tendencies and self-proclaimed "devoutness" of people whose only purpose to "share" their "experiences" seems to be to get people in these forums to admire them for their "religious" experiences and not to hold real discussions about what the experience actually could be. Seems to me it was only meant to seek attention.
Now please bear with me for a moment... this isn't a personal attack. I am forced to conclude this after seeing that a quick look at the story of the OP reveals that the accounts about her experience are filled with
inconsistencies:
Sometimes the color of light is white and sometimes it is golden:
SpiritWriter, on 13 February 2013 - 07:35 AM, said:
A flooding bright white light came out of the center of my chest.
SpiritWriter, on 11 August 2012 - 08:20 PM, said:
A bright golden light came out of my chest.
Sometimes it takes 30 minutes to destroy the biggest demon and sometimes it takes only 10 minutes:
SpiritWriter, on 13 February 2013 - 07:35 AM, said:
The biggest and most massive took the longest, probably 30 minutes just for him.
SpiritWriter, on 11 August 2012 - 08:20 PM, said:
The last demon was the huge one in the middle of the room, which was the largest. He took the longest to destroy, I would say it took 10-15 minutes.
Sometimes the light is the "holy spirit" and sometimes it is not:
SpiritWriter, on 13 February 2013 - 07:35 AM, said:
I am convinced the white light I witnessed was indeed the holy spirit.
SpiritWriter, on 14 February 2013 - 07:59 PM, said:
I didnt assume that any manifestation of it was God or the Holy Spirit.
And I'm sure there are many other inconsistencies if one reads carefully all the accounts of this story that are scattered across different threads but I'm not going to waste my time on searching those. I took it from only two threads so far.
Was this experience even real? What was the real purpose of making this thread? Was it only to seek attention? There are many questions that come to mind. But one thing is for sure there is something fishy about all this which the friends of the OP, it seems, have deliberately chosen to ignore. I'm not obligated to ignore these inconsistencies or whatever purpose lies behind making such threads so thank you but I will stay away from entertaining that. I'm a believer but also a rational person so I will take everything narrated to me with a grain of salt.
And I also think it is time for the skeptics of these forums to join this thread to add some balance to it by sharing their own interpretations about the experience of the OP (or mine

). Because I think that the request of the OP that the skeptics should stay away from this thread and not try to debunk her experience is not reasonable. They may debunk mine too if they wish, I don't mind.
Thank you.