My journey from Atheism To Belief in God.
I grew up in a non religious household, and never attended church in my life. I still do not attend church.
I now believe in god, but there are not many religions I would give credence to.
I have always been an avid reader, and it was not until I was 17 years old that I picked up an old book by Harold Sherman about ESP.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Make-ESP-Work-You/dp/0449212025
(if anyone considers the book link spam I will delete it.)
Somewhere in that book was a story about how the author and a friend engaged in regular psychic experiments. The sender would transmit thoughts between 2am and 3am while the receiver was in a time frame close to when REM would normally be.
(Altering dreams has been one successful application of telepathy with success)
-Having an interest in trying this I thought I would attempt to contact a girl I knew who had vanished from our circle of friends. She had seemed to drop off the planet, and nobody had heard from her in 3-4 months.
-I stayed up late till 2am and visualized her sitting in front of me facing me. I spoke these words, "(her name here), (my name here) misses you very much, get in touch!". I repeated them to my imaginary friend for 1 hour as the book had suggested.
-This was done on a Monday night. On Friday a letter showed up from Rochester New York. I live in Toronto Canada across the lake from her and in a different country.
-The letter was cryptic at the beginning saying stuff like "you probably do not know who this is from", and "we went to a Toga party together", etc.
-At the bottom of the first page of the letter was a sentence that forever changed my life. She stated,"Last night I had a dream about you that prompted me to write".
-It seemed like a very weird fluke, and I was anxious to repeat the experiments, and was able to. Friends also replicated the test.
-This was in a pre-computer era, so I sought answers at every library I could find. My university had one of the better "occult" sections, however the answers I was hoping for I wanted to come from science.
-Pre-internet there was no way to realize that telepathy was such a taboo in the science community, and I was always looking for books and theories that made sense.
I had science majors in University and am a licensed Engineer. I have participated and volunteered many hours towards the study of the mind.
I developed the only method for practising intuition in the world. I probably raise a few eyebrows stating that, but it is true. I do not wish this to be considered spam, but you can practice your intuition for free at this link to verify what I just stated.
http://www.choicedowsing.com/mind_research_institute/intuitivepractice/colorpage.php
If you do click on above link choose color, and go to bottom of the page and click continue. Someone already was confused at this page.
(there is no money to practice intuition. I do not normally state these things about myself on Sciforums but it is topic applicable. If a moderator considers this spam or self promotion I will remove the link.)
If you believe in mind power, you may really like that intuition website. I am very serious when I say it is unique, and works. For the record being intuitive does not have to based on PSI powers. It can just be based on subconscious knowledge, as is this website.
Let's just assume I have been involved with more psychic experiments than most people you will ever meet. I have witnessed mathematical anomalies with experiments I have been involved with and although we cannot show how telepathy exists we can show probabilities that telepathy exists, and oddly enough precognition as well. I am used to the Sciforum trolls so I will state here I am not going to turn this thread into one where I link statistics about telepathy experiments. If you have an interest do it yourself.
- So now here I am with the internet, and I am much older. I am now mildly disabled and spend my time writing science fiction, and maintaining some of my websites. I am in my mid forties. A long way from that curious 17 year old I once was.
- I still cannot find a theory to fit how a message can go from person A to person B telepathically.
- Most attempts to find a theory of how telepathy is possible is short lived. If you initiate discussions on Forums you are written off as a "woo-woo", and there still are no textbooks explaining the how/why of it.
-Fortunately there are venues now to have intelligent discussions and read theories. There is more acceptance for PSI events than I knew, and research is constantly moving forward (just not any on Sciforums).
Now no matter what theory I entertain it must follow at least 1 rule. It must allow for thought transference between 2 people. It is not a popular rule for theories.
I'd like to comment that trolls on this subject, and the ones who yell "hogwash" and "woo-woo" are within their right. This is one of those topics. I would like to add that I feel sorry for these people/trolls. It must be very sad to not have seen what I have seen. I imagine I would be skeptical as well if I lived a life where I had not been involved first hand with telepathic research.
How limiting their belief system must be. Very harsh.
Now I must look at another thing. If two people are connected then everyone is connected. It becomes like a zen thing. we are all one, but are we?
Does god know of every sparrow that falls in the forest because he is every sparrow that falls in the forest?
Does mankind form a mass consciousness of which god is a sum of all parts plus a tiny bit more. Do we live in some sort of holographic Universe where thoughts can create? I'm open for suggestions.
At this point not only do I believe in god, but I believe we can be reincarnated until we achieve the experiences and vibrational level to move on. I believe we are all a part of god, and that originally god became (split personalities) to experience things. How boring just to sit in an empty universe.
Like I said. I have been forced to look beyond conventional explanations, while many here are happy with their own views.
I do not endorse any religion, however I might endorse some sort of new age religion based on "law of attraction", or prayer power.
But...
I did go from being an atheist to believing in god, and that was the just of my journey.
I grew up in a non religious household, and never attended church in my life. I still do not attend church.
I now believe in god, but there are not many religions I would give credence to.
I have always been an avid reader, and it was not until I was 17 years old that I picked up an old book by Harold Sherman about ESP.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Make-ESP-Work-You/dp/0449212025
(if anyone considers the book link spam I will delete it.)
Somewhere in that book was a story about how the author and a friend engaged in regular psychic experiments. The sender would transmit thoughts between 2am and 3am while the receiver was in a time frame close to when REM would normally be.
(Altering dreams has been one successful application of telepathy with success)
-Having an interest in trying this I thought I would attempt to contact a girl I knew who had vanished from our circle of friends. She had seemed to drop off the planet, and nobody had heard from her in 3-4 months.
-I stayed up late till 2am and visualized her sitting in front of me facing me. I spoke these words, "(her name here), (my name here) misses you very much, get in touch!". I repeated them to my imaginary friend for 1 hour as the book had suggested.
-This was done on a Monday night. On Friday a letter showed up from Rochester New York. I live in Toronto Canada across the lake from her and in a different country.
-The letter was cryptic at the beginning saying stuff like "you probably do not know who this is from", and "we went to a Toga party together", etc.
-At the bottom of the first page of the letter was a sentence that forever changed my life. She stated,"Last night I had a dream about you that prompted me to write".
-It seemed like a very weird fluke, and I was anxious to repeat the experiments, and was able to. Friends also replicated the test.
-This was in a pre-computer era, so I sought answers at every library I could find. My university had one of the better "occult" sections, however the answers I was hoping for I wanted to come from science.
-Pre-internet there was no way to realize that telepathy was such a taboo in the science community, and I was always looking for books and theories that made sense.
I had science majors in University and am a licensed Engineer. I have participated and volunteered many hours towards the study of the mind.
I developed the only method for practising intuition in the world. I probably raise a few eyebrows stating that, but it is true. I do not wish this to be considered spam, but you can practice your intuition for free at this link to verify what I just stated.
http://www.choicedowsing.com/mind_research_institute/intuitivepractice/colorpage.php
If you do click on above link choose color, and go to bottom of the page and click continue. Someone already was confused at this page.
(there is no money to practice intuition. I do not normally state these things about myself on Sciforums but it is topic applicable. If a moderator considers this spam or self promotion I will remove the link.)
If you believe in mind power, you may really like that intuition website. I am very serious when I say it is unique, and works. For the record being intuitive does not have to based on PSI powers. It can just be based on subconscious knowledge, as is this website.
Let's just assume I have been involved with more psychic experiments than most people you will ever meet. I have witnessed mathematical anomalies with experiments I have been involved with and although we cannot show how telepathy exists we can show probabilities that telepathy exists, and oddly enough precognition as well. I am used to the Sciforum trolls so I will state here I am not going to turn this thread into one where I link statistics about telepathy experiments. If you have an interest do it yourself.
- So now here I am with the internet, and I am much older. I am now mildly disabled and spend my time writing science fiction, and maintaining some of my websites. I am in my mid forties. A long way from that curious 17 year old I once was.
- I still cannot find a theory to fit how a message can go from person A to person B telepathically.
- Most attempts to find a theory of how telepathy is possible is short lived. If you initiate discussions on Forums you are written off as a "woo-woo", and there still are no textbooks explaining the how/why of it.
-Fortunately there are venues now to have intelligent discussions and read theories. There is more acceptance for PSI events than I knew, and research is constantly moving forward (just not any on Sciforums).
Now no matter what theory I entertain it must follow at least 1 rule. It must allow for thought transference between 2 people. It is not a popular rule for theories.
I'd like to comment that trolls on this subject, and the ones who yell "hogwash" and "woo-woo" are within their right. This is one of those topics. I would like to add that I feel sorry for these people/trolls. It must be very sad to not have seen what I have seen. I imagine I would be skeptical as well if I lived a life where I had not been involved first hand with telepathic research.
How limiting their belief system must be. Very harsh.
Now I must look at another thing. If two people are connected then everyone is connected. It becomes like a zen thing. we are all one, but are we?
Does god know of every sparrow that falls in the forest because he is every sparrow that falls in the forest?
Does mankind form a mass consciousness of which god is a sum of all parts plus a tiny bit more. Do we live in some sort of holographic Universe where thoughts can create? I'm open for suggestions.
At this point not only do I believe in god, but I believe we can be reincarnated until we achieve the experiences and vibrational level to move on. I believe we are all a part of god, and that originally god became (split personalities) to experience things. How boring just to sit in an empty universe.
Like I said. I have been forced to look beyond conventional explanations, while many here are happy with their own views.
I do not endorse any religion, however I might endorse some sort of new age religion based on "law of attraction", or prayer power.
But...
I did go from being an atheist to believing in god, and that was the just of my journey.
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