freetoroam, on 25 November 2012 - 09:55 PM, said:
i am pleased they find you normal, but why do they test you in the first place?
When i had symtoms of a heart problem I went to the top heart surgeons in Australia When i was visited by an angel who removed my teenage addiction to nicotine and then entered an ongoing relationship with a real and powerful god of course i first went to get my mental health assessed by the top experts in the field. Turns out i am one of the few certifiably sane members of UM LOL. Basically they accpeted that what i expereinced were real paranormal events. They said these were quite common in their experience as professionals, and that all the test results showed that i was "highly functioning and well integrated." (They dont define people as crazy insane etc these days but they do tell you if you have a clean mental bill of health which I did. I also had the best scans etc done to check my neurological health, and continue these every 5 years or so. That, also, is excellent.
I really already knew i was fine, because of the nature and "contextual integration" of my experiences A logical and educated person can apply a number of reality and logic checkers to every event in their life to establish their independent reality and objective existence, or lack thereof.
Beany puts it very well in his post above. I judge my own and others accounts by a number of criteria Eg was the subject wide awake? Were they completely sober and drug free? Are they mentally well and have no background of hallucinations etc?
Then one must examine the contextual evidences. Eg if one sees a very bright light appear at night does one also see all the surrounding landscape lit by that light, and can that be verified in the morning. It is significant if there are indpendent witnesses to the external aspects of such events. Internal aspects can be verified by their own "truth" eg if a voice tells you it will cure you of cancer and in the next week you go in for tests and find an advanced cancer completely disappeared you can know the voice had some validity, whatever its source. If it accurately predicts a future event ditto If a force and voice acts to alter the physical reality of the world around you and that can be independently verified, then the force is real and physical. And so on.
tthere is alos the number and times events occur. If you are told a hundred times where to find a car park in a busy city, and there is ALWAYS one there, then you can know something unusual is happening. If you often read minds are told where lost objects are or are given knowledge of events to come, then again the number and accuracy of the events counts as validation just as a repeated scientific experiment does. If twenty, thirty, or fifty times, you are told where to find money to meet your needs, and it is always there, again this is a physical demonstraion of a real force.
Edited by Mr Walker, 26 November 2012 - 09:32 AM.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world..
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
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What I attempt to do is explain to others, as factually and rationally as I can, my encounters with god. Of course many people find this impossible, so i end up "defending' my self, but i dont see it that way. You dont have to defend a truth. It just is, and therefore is its own best defence.
