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 Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:51 am
I was wondering what y'alls opinions on this is.
When I did martial arts, I spent a lot of time looking into occult type beliefs such as yogic practices and Buddhist ideas of spirituality and human energy. A lot of it really made sense to me and I liked the idea of it all, but I eventually came to realize that the core of it was false. I left it all behind because I saw how Buddhism and martial arts really screwed up people's souls and I knew in my heart that Christianity was the way. I was always a pretty solid Christian, but there were some things that happened in those meditation sessions I can't describe or justify with Christianity.
Like, a few times we did this thing where we meditated for 30 minutes, and then would stand in a huge circle with one person blindfolded in the middle. Then we'd turn the music on extremely loud so you couldn't hear anything else, and one person would slowly walk toward the person in the middle to touch their shoulder, and the person in the middle would have to try to feel where they were coming from.
We even narrowed it down to one person in circle just focusing on the person in the middle, and the person in the middle trying to feel where it's coming from and pointing.
most of the time if worked. Some people were better at it than others, but some people were on top of it 100% of the time. I was usually 100%, and I don't know why, I could just feel it.
Even to this day, my best friend, who is also a devout Christian, and I have this weird connection. She lives in another state but about 60% of the time when we call each other, the other one of us is either thinking about or dialing the other's number. When the other is having a bad day or something happens, we can just tell.
It kind of scares me to think about sometimes, because it's this idea of some unseen psychic energy sensing voodoo, and I felt it. I have no reason to lie about that, but I wonder if I have reason to not talk about it or try to cover it up. I love God with all my heart, but I don't know what that was.
a few months ago, I was at a party where a guy read my aura and said it was pink. I was like "whatevs, that stuff is dumb" because I don't believe in that stuff. But then this past week I was at home with my dad in his office, and his boss brought in a Hindu holy man he was good friends with who read my aura. He also said it was pink, no one else there got pink, just me. He also described me as being particularly sensitive to the universe to the God(s), and when I looked up the meaning of a pink aura, I felt like it really fit me.
What are y'alls thoughts on this weird unexplained happenings?
could there be something not addressed in the bible about our spirituality that can be true?
Just because it's not addressed, doesn't mean it can't exist, but is this false teaching or just "slightly off" teaching about something that can be true?
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:06 pm
Well, there are err... similar traditions in Christianity. For example, there are Catholic meditation traditions (two separate types of meditation to be exact.) Given these meditations are strictly about the bible and trying to come to a better understanding.
Stoicism also forms the main philosophical/moralistic basis in Christianity. So there is the possibility of a similar connection being a sort of miracle or skill. Given, a Buddhist friend of mine claimed to have a similar connection to me at the time so I can't say.
Don't quote me on this but sometimes things aren't always black and white with Christianity. I for one keep running into things becoming increasingly gray. Remember sometimes it is
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:09 pm
Well, I guess I would get totally frowned upon by my parish priest, but meh...
Frankly, I see the "sensing people out" thing, meditation as one of the many mysteries of a human mind. I don't really believe it's anything spiritual, more like training your brain and sense of perception.
About the auras and whatnot's - I think I kinda get your point. I mean, we all have these experiences in which we witness something yet we kinda feel it's not totally ok with our faith, but hey - it's there and we see it happening. That's how we roll.
When I actually experience something like you did with your friend, something that I can't really explain yet it feels right, I try to look at it as if it were simply a kind of God's gift. smile
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