I have been thinking about what a "religious experience"
means to me for some time now. When I first started this class I
have to admit that I thought that I could only have a religious
experience if I followed my religion (Catholicism). My views have
now changed. I am not really sure if I now what a religous
experience is but what I do know is that it contains a sacrifice of
the ego, and an understanding of imperminence. A person does
don't have to have a specific religion in oder to have a "religious
In "Lame Deer-Seeker of Visions" the grandmother had most
definetly had a religious experience because she willingly
underwent the two elements that I feel are essentual to having a
religous experience. She cut forty pieces of her arm and gave it to
her grandson for strenght. Giving pieces of your skin have to be
among the greatest sacrifices that anyone can make. She
understude that she was part of a greater whole, and that she
wasn't the most singficant part of this whole. She also understode
that the our psysical fitures don't live forever and that giving them
I think of a religious experience as a journey that people go
through. It is something that we can't cause or prevent it will
happen when we are ready. A religious experience does not come
easy it involves truely giving up the ego and facing the true self.
And understanding imperminence. We must be willing to give up
the "I", The one thing that we identify our selves with. Take me for
example if someone asked me to describe myself. And that person
told me that I couldn't say that I was a student, or a young
woman I don't know if I could accurately describe myself. I am so
used and attached to being a student that I wouldn't know what t
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