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How do I experience God?

I'd like to experience God, but everything else I experience, I can prove or quantify-- like gravity or sound. How do I experience something that is 100% un-provable from what I can tell. Do I just have to believe first and it magically appears? I want to believe that I'll walk on streets of gold after I die, if I believe it hard enough, will it become true?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Forget everything about science. Forget everything you have learned.

    Then you will be able to.

  • Arnie
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The mystery's of faith an GOD are beyond human comprehension.

    Faith concerns questions which cannot be settled by evidence.

    How can the universe create itself out of nothingness? Given the fact that the universe began to exist, it must have had a “cause” that originated it.Doesn't it make more sense to assume the existence of a Creation.

    The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, “What does blue smell like?” Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created or caused. God is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists.

    We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing being is what we call God. God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.

    You can't see the wind, but you know it is there because you can see what the wind is doing. You can know that the wind is there because you can feel it.God is like the wind, you can't see him.

    ~~~~~~~

  • 8 years ago

    You really can experience god but it takes many years of rigorous meditation. Meanwhile, the only way to god-realization is to be a good person.

    “Some have experienced in meditation the dissolution of ego and body. Those who have experienced this have ascertained that what they are left with is light. That’s all; just light. There is no ego in this space. There is no sense of self or other. There is no permanence of form, no individual thought, no selfish will, no personal consciousness. Beyond all these attributes there is pure awareness that the essence that was erroneously considered self is simply light and energy. This is what you are.”

    Aaron – Barbara Brodsky

    “The Buddha taught that there is no soul, and I speak about a soul. Here I believe we have what we’d call a semantic difficulty. There is no word in your language that is suitable for what I describe. I borrow the word soul as the closest. By soul you imply an individual. By soul, I mean that essence of energy which is totally impersonal, even devoid of memory and certainly devoid of self, but which is unique to you and is of the same material, the same essence, as the Divine.

    You have many aspects. One of these is the personal that you now experience. This aspect has form, thought, and so on, but of course it is impermanent. This is the conscious self. Then there is what might be termed the higher self or superconscious mind. This aspect retains the memories of all the forms in which you have manifested and the wisdom attained by all those forms. Within the same memory pattern, misunderstandings may also be retained until they are resolved through the physical life experience. Notice that I have called this aspect “higher self.” It is still a self.

    Beyond that is what I would term the soul. This aspect is pure light and energy. Some of you have had glimpses of this aspect through meditative experience. Thus, you can come to know that this is your true nature. There is no self here, and no possibility of such delusion. There is only energy, manifested as light. Thus we are all, in essence, beings of light.

    This is our true essence. We begin as sparks of that perfect Light. Choosing material form as your way of evolution, that spark is increasing in its brilliance and clarity, losing all shadow, so it will shine as a small sun. If you were to take my essence at this phase of my evolution, and place it in front of that perfect Light, you would see the barest edges of human form and a gray shadow cast against that brilliance. If you were to take the essence of a perfectly evolved being such as the Buddha or the Christ and put them in front of that perfect Light, they would be invisible! That is what each of you is evolving to: Perfect Invisibility. Immaculate Emptiness. Oneness with God.

    Meditation is the way to come to know your true nature by experience. It takes you past the delusion of a separate self. It leads you toward compassion and away from judgment. I cannot over stress the importance of these paths of learning.”

    Aaron – Barbara Brodsky

  • 8 years ago

    Accept God in your heart start going to a christian church n let go of the desires of this world like sins try to be a better person read the bible I didnt beleive in God n a friend insisted to go to her church after so long I got tired of her inviting me so I went n I told her first n last time I go to ur church so I went n I pray in the altar n receive the holy Spirit something I never felt it was so unique n awesome experience after I started going to church n learning about him cuz I had many doubts n now I serve the lord with all my heart n I feel him each time I pray

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  • 8 years ago

    The God of the Bible is not an experience, He is a person. He has feelings. (Psalm 78:40,41) He has likes and dislikes.

    If you wish to search for God with your physical eyes, then examine and meditate on the creation all around you. If you want to search for God with the eyes of your heart, then examine and meditate on God's word The Bible.

  • 8 years ago

    At what temperature of the gold street that you want to walk on.

    You can experience GOD through your soul since soul is immortal and do not required worldly dimensions to exist and since human have so little knowledge about soul.

    As the Messenger of GOD said, soul needs food to keep it healthy and its food is the love and knowledge of GOD.

    So if you want to experience GOD ,then you have to keep your soul healthy by feeding yourself with that food ,then at a certain level you will achieved what you are expecting for.

  • 8 years ago

    You do experience him everyday. He is life in every being. In night whilst asleep always you experience him. With whole day completely exhausted when you left everything when you fall sleep he embraces you and makes you relaxed and exhilarated. He is love in his purest form. Wherever you see true love, he is always present his essence his presence is what makes you feel delighted.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    John 14:21 (NIV) Jesus talking

    21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

    this may not be "showing" himself in the way you want him to, but he knows how to show you himself in a way that you will recognize, you just have to look for him and be patient.

    Psalm 9:10 For you oh lord have never forsaken those who seek you.

    proverbs 3:6 acknowledge him in all your ways and he will make your paths straight.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Salvia works for me.

    I wanna try some DMT or shrooms sometime though...

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Weed works for me

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