ONLINE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
Due Wednesday February 10, 2010
Response should be posted by 10:00 PM EST
Have you ever had a life-altering spiritual experience (that you feel comfortable sharing and posting on the Internet)? (Be sure to include your first name and first initial of your last name to the post.)
I don't know if it is spiritual experience, but sometimes if any of my relatives die. Like a week or so before it happens i have dreams about it. Not specifically just showing them dead, but signs. or example black dresses and my family crying. Or the family member is covered with a black cover or something very weird. My parents always knew that someone will die when i have dreams like that and they call our family just to talk for maybe the last time.!! Also the death is always natural, not like a person in a hospital or accident, only natural death.
ReplyDeleteSolange M.
ReplyDeleteim not sure you can call this a spirtual experince, but within the past year and a half five people that i know have been killed by gun violence. its life altering because it showed me that no one is promised tomorwow.
When my mother was maybe just a few years old, I heard she was possessed and she actually spoke, cursed at people and demanded to be brought (she couldn't walk though) to a place where there was a huge tree. Supposedly a girl died there recently, so an exorcism was performed right there and then she was fine later on.
ReplyDeleteI love my mom.
- Prithvi A.
I have to agree with Nadiya. Often times, before something is to occur, within 3-4 days I'll have dreams that give clues or hints. Call it crazy or a spiritual imagination, either way it is something that I definitely believe is done through the faith in God.
ReplyDeleteI've had several profound spiritual experiences. The most recent involved the death of someone I was very close with. We had a relationship for eight years. After about five years, things didn't work out between us. He returned to his country of origin, I left California and moved to New York, but we stayed very close friends and remained in regular contact.
ReplyDeleteThe second week of January 2008, several little things happened at my house. I "discovered" some of his gifts to me that had been tucked away -- jewelry, momentos, stuff like that. One night during that week I went to bed, and as I was laying there waiting to fall asleep I suddenly felt as if I was dying. I saw a bright light, and I felt myself separating from my body and being pulled toward the light. I thought to myself, OMG, I'm dying! I kept looking at the light. It wasn't scary, and I was curious about what was inside it. But I was also conflicted because I really wasn't ready to die. Then I had this idea that if I opened my eyes I could stop what was happening to me. So I opened my eyes and I was immediately "back" in my room, but my heart was beating very fast and I felt really nauseated.
The experience really rattled me and it took hours to fall asleep after that! That was on Tuesday night. Then on Sunday morning I got a phone call from his daughter. She told me that he had died on Sunday or Monday, and that they had found his body in his apartment on Tuesday morning and had buried him Tuesday afternoon. He was only 11 days from his 53rd birthday -- his death was a total shock; I was devastated. After a few days I remembered all those "little" things that had happened the week before I learned about his death and especially that Tuesday night experience. I realized then that he had been reaching out to me. Since then, I've truly believed in an afterlife and I'm no longer afraid of death
One of my most profound life-altering experiences was my travel to South Korea. It was a trip that I was able to go on because I joined a program that was affiliated with the YMCA and sent kids to different countries each year. I was able to spend three weeks learning more about South Korean culture from kids that were my age and was even able to spend a weekend with a Korean family alone. Overall the experience was one that gave me a new look on life and showed me to appreciated a lot of things that I both took for granted and never paid attention to. Overall it was a positive time in my life and a memory I will never forget.
ReplyDeleteHi Everybody... I didn't have one yet, but two of my closer friends had an car accident and one of them die... And one day i was in my house (Costa Rica) with her and my friend told me that Andrea (my friend who die) was having dinner with us... OMG!! i was so scared because i belief in spiritual things... I told me friend that i wanted to go out from my house and she told me it is ok Andrea missed us... That was my story even that i didn't see her but i did belief it...
ReplyDeleteMelissa H
I'm not sure if this qualifies as a spiritual experience, but I believe it's the closest that I've come to one. Last year, my mother and I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. My mother is Jewish, and her relatives, originally from Russia and Poland, avoided the Holocaust as they emigrated to the United States in the early 1900's to escape the pogroms. Although these relatives were not harmed during the Holocaust, I felt an overwhelming sense of sadness as soon as I entered the museum. I could not help but think that I could have met the same fate as 6 million other Jews had I lived in that place and time. Looking at the different exhibits, such as the shoes and suitcases of those who were killed in the concentration camps, I felt a connection with these people. Although we are not related, I still felt we shared something, something that I could not put into words.
ReplyDelete-Zoe D.
I had my spiritual experience when I was about 14 and I went on an Encounter. An Encounter was basically a trip that we went on in my church to become closer to God. For me it was a very emotional time when I felt God’s presence for the first time. I am thankful every day for the experience and His presence in my life.
ReplyDeleteMichelle A.
My spiritual experience happened when I was about 4 or 5 years old. I dreamt of my great-grandmother who I had never met because she passed away a year before I was born. I woke up in the middle of the night and got my mother up, I told her what had happened and she could not believe that I was even speaking of this. I was describing her in such detail that my mother began to cry and was franticly looking around. She found a picture of my Grandma Mickey and i told her that that was the lady in my dreams. Little did I know that that day was the 5th year anniversary of her death.
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Life-altering spiritual experiences. I had to read this question a few times to really think about my experiences. I would have to say No, nothing like that has ever happened to me. I believe in God and all that good stuff but nothiing really beyond that.
ReplyDeleteI would have have to say by one of my best friends passing away this summer I truley had a life-altering spiritual experience. It was so sudden and unexpected that I really had to re-evaluate my priorities and overall lifestyle. Take nothing for granted. Life is too short.
ReplyDeleteNelson S.