In the past, my attitude was to dismiss people's spiritual experiences out of hand. Now my approach is to be open and respectful of other people's experiences, but sceptical at the same time (because they may not be telling the truth, they may be deluded, or they may not be able to express what they experience). I also realised that it was pointless to ignore the possibility of God, simply assuming that my godless experience was all there was without going looking for God. It would be interesting to collect an anthology of people's communication with God, and see what the common strands and differences are.
I had a similar experience once. I threw up, then went to hospital to get myself sedated. Instead of hearing from God, I heard from some very nasty thing that was determined to be unkind. If such a situation ever arises again, I'll try prayer.Wombat wrote: One small example, I have a stressful job but generally cope. After a very stressful day i went to bed stressed and woke up at 1:00am unable to sleep. At about 3:00am the stress overwhelmed my ability to cope and I had some sort of panic attack. I didn't know whether I was going to have a heart attack, throw up or collapse but it was a most intense and most unpleasant feeling that I did not know what to do about.
