A Religious Experience

             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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