Has anyone ever seen God?

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rezaf

Today when I was out of body I intended to meet God. I looked above and a red sun appeared. I decided to ascend but it was a long way and I was suddenly stopped in the middle  and couldn't fly higher. I found myself in a city with amazing architecture, a place I had been to before. I walked around for a while and since there was nothing more to do I woke up. Has anyone ever tried this before?

carrie.carnahan

I have never even talked to a regular person. I wonder if you would have to ask someone permission to see god? Not sure who though lol...

Carrie

LightBeam

"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem."
Captain Jack Sparrow

Volgerle

Seeing a sun is not a bad metaphor. In many mystic accounts and cultures, what is God is also described as the Great Central Sun.  8-)

The whole notion of ancient sun worship goes back to this too.

Volgerle

I remember I had bookmarked some 'mysic / God / unity' experiences in a specific bookmark folder. Lightbeam's experience was also part of it, I leave it out here since it was already posted above. So here are a few others:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_quantum_physics/the_light_at_the_end_of_the_tunnel-t43398.0.html;topicseen

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_astral_projection_experiences/a_lifechanging_experience-t42858.0.html;topicseen

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_out_of_body_experiences/interesting_near_death_experienceobe-t20989.0.html;topicseen

http://www.soundstrue.com/podcast/transcripts/william-buhlman.php?camefromhome=camefromhome

Quote(...) you end up shooting through layers of color and light and energy, and you feel like you're being stretched across the universe. The end result is that you're floating in this immense sea of pure white light and love. You can't put words on this, but you're beyond all form. In a sense, you've done what they talk about in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which is called "going into the clear light of the void." I feel this is the clear light of the void. There's no form. It's pure conscious awareness, and you're there; you're conscious. You're absorbing everything that's there: all answers, all questions, everything is present. Again, you can't put words to this, but I wanted to give you a feel for this. (...)

http://www.multidimensionalman.com/Multidimensional-Man/Higher_Mental_Planes_or_Heaven_Worlds.html
(read: Accessing the higher dimensions of reality, Diary entry 11.5.2011)

Stillwater

How could you see God without being God?

If you seen the edge of a flipper, would you say you had seen a blue whale?

The way God is generally defined  in most circles has to do with totality, unity, and infinity; we are equipped to conceptualize ideas like those, but we are not equipped to experience them.

What thing, had you seen it, would have made you say you had seen God? A lot of light? How would something like that, or in fact any finite experience you would have had explain a concept like God fully? I don't doubt you could see something very impressive, but I am near certain whatever it was would fall far short of the definitions ascribed to God.

Did you maybe consider that you are at this very moment experiencing God, and to experience God any more than this, you would perhaps have to be better equipped to experience than you are now?
"The Gardener is but a dream of the Garden."

-Unattributed Zen monastic

rezaf

Quote from: Stillwater on December 20, 2013, 11:39:52
How could you see God without being God?

If you seen the edge of a flipper, would you say you had seen a blue whale?

The way God is generally defined  in most circles has to do with totality, unity, and infinity; we are equipped to conceptualize ideas like those, but we are not equipped to experience them.

What thing, had you seen it, would have made you say you had seen God? A lot of light? How would something like that, or in fact any finite experience you would have had explain a concept like God fully? I don't doubt you could see something very impressive, but I am near certain whatever it was would fall far short of the definitions ascribed to God.

Did you maybe consider that you are at this very moment experiencing God, and to experience God any more than this, you would perhaps have to be better equipped to experience than you are now?


I don't know how the red sun was connected to God but it's interesting to discuss what we should be looking for. One possibility would be an awareness beyond or separate from our awareness. In this case any communication would be impossible and we wouldn't be able to experience it and it wouldn't be able to experience us. Another possibility would be sharing an awareness in a connected system and in that case we would be able to experience it as much as it could experience us. An example would be the relationship between the Sun and the Earth. The sun is affected by the Earth's gravity and the Earth is affected by the gravity of the Sun.

Fusions

"God is all that is. It is you. It is the chair, the room. It are the animals, the plants, the stars.
Everything is made from God because there is nothing else to make anything from. "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQRf0r-EjkM
The One is ALL. And the All are One.

rezaf

Quote from: Fusions on December 21, 2013, 13:42:51
"God is all that is. It is you. It is the chair, the room. It are the animals, the plants, the stars.
Everything is made from God because there is nothing else to make anything from. "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQRf0r-EjkM

This is one theory but if that's the case then that god would be completely selfless and wouldn't be able to communicate with us, existing beyond our awareness and we wouldn't hear anything about him. However wherever there has been the concept of god or gods as the creator or the one who we pray to there is mention of individual characteristics. Personally I think there is a selfless infinity out there which is everything but i don't think that's God in a traditional sense.