I now know how it works

[SerenelyBlue]

I've begun to meditate.  What the religious experience as divine presence is simply trance.  Anyone can experience trance.  Religious people focus on and repeat religious mantras and in the proses brainwash themselves.

 

The fact that you can achieve trance even when you are secular shows that religion is simply man made.

 

It is so simple.

[mymistake]

Hope you are feeling better SB.

[SerenelyBlue]

11 hours ago, mymistake said:

Hope you are feeling better SB.

Thank you

[SerenelyBlue]

Doesn't anyone have anything to say about this great truth?

[mymistake]

I find meditation to be useful.  I wouldn't recommend your example as a proof that God is imaginary.  I learned to meditate through Aikido.  I don't know how other disciplines handle it but where I went the focus was mostly on doing the meditation right.  The beliefs were an afterthought.  Like 98% of the emphasis was on doing it right and 2% was about the religious explanation.  There was so little emphasis on religion that I didn't feel the least bit threatened by it even though I was a fundamentalist Christian at the time.

 

The religious experience that people get from all kinds of religion shows that religious experience is common to the human mind.  This is the anti-thesis to monotheism in general and Christianity in particular because Jesus supposedly claimed to be the only way.  But there are many religious people who take a more inclusive approach and don't mind that you can learn meditation from multiple sources or while having a variety of beliefs.

 

Today I use meditation to control my emotions.  I can stop panic attacks.  If my Christian training "repent of your past sins!" pops up I can become very upset even if I didn't do anything wrong.  Meditation stops that in it's tracks.  Or at least that is something I have learned to do with meditation.  Your millage may vary.

[ShotoManhattan]

I've been doing meditation since November 2017 and have been taking classes on it. I found I do much better under pressure as well as with grad school now.