![]() You will see God through new eyes and understand that His relationship with you is unique to you, and that He is working out your circumstances. Hands On – Journaling Exercises Provided.Discerning God’s Fingerprints in Your Heart.Some of the Topics Presented During this Seminar are: I am so excited to share this with your group! (1 1/2 – 2 Hour Workshop) XOXO Debra The result will be accelerated growth spiritually and emotionally. During this workshop I will teach you how to discern God’s fingerprints in your soul and how to step into His movements, so that you can join Him. He then said, “Where is God’s fingerprint in your soul?” I could sense the Holy Spirit pressing this powerful question into my spirit. One of the key points of the book was that experiences people characterized as mystical were the same across cultures, and generally people who had those experiences no longer felt bound to a single religion, or felt that love and respect should be confined to any religious, ethnic or cultural group.Recently a visiting Pastor approached one of my children asking them what they were going to do with the gift that God gave them. ![]() Visions, hallucinations, or fantastical imaginings can be of any color… but pop someone seeing destruction of the world in an fMRI and I’ll bet the same areas of the brain activating in these “divine” experiences will not light up. The mystical experience is generally characterized by either melding a person with the totality of creation, or being in direct contact with a loving consciousness. The religious experience generally separates the divine from the self. ![]() What implies that Revelations was a mystical experience? Religious experiences are often not mystical- hence each religion having it’s mystical counterpart, such as Kabbalah to Judiasm, Sufism to Islam, Gnosticism to Christianity. Greater Good wants to know: Do you think this article will influence your opinions or behavior? ![]() But Hagerty traces her path full circle to where neuroscience and Christian Science agree: that the brain has the capacity to change itself. Science cannot reach beyond the material world, and so we may never know. Ever the skeptic, Hagerty finds scientists who also try to debunk these claims.Īre spiritual experiences anything more than a quirk of brain chemistry? In the end, Hagerty can't say for sure. She does find a number of clearly documented instances when the seemingly impossible happened: the blind see, or the clinically dead report what happened in the operating room, where they claim to have hovered over their bodies, watching doctors resuscitate them. In considering the implications of these findings, Hagerty talks both to scientists who have had mystical experiences and scientists who write off these experiences as mild seizures. (Some psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin, have the same effect of blocking out external sensory information.) What's more, regardless of one's culture, during a mystical experience, people all over the world show similar brain activity: The frontal lobes light up, the parietal lobes (which orient you in time and space) go dark, creating a feeling of oneness. Interestingly, research shows that across religious divides and cultures, people offer the same descriptions of their religious experiences, reporting feelings of love, compassion, purpose and connection. Those who meditate, pray regularly, or have had near-death experiences show significantly altered brain function. In a thorough survey of research on people who have reported transcendent experiences-from Pentacostal Christians speaking in tongues to meditating monks-she learns that the brain does indeed physically change during experiences that participants classify as divine. From the GGSC to your bookshelf: 30 science-backed tools for well-being.
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