I have to begin by saying that religion and God (for me) are two separate things. At
an early age religion was a part of my life. My mother thought it would be
important to know God by learning about the catholic religion. She was of course
brought up to believe Catholicism was the only way to know God. My father on the
other hand thought/thinks differently. He told me God had nothing to do with
religion. He told me he also was taught by his mother that religion was the way to
know God. At a certain point in his life he came to think differently. This was pretty
over whelming to hear as child. I was fortunate enough that my dad said it was up
to me to decide how I wanted to interpret religion. I continued to go to Sunday
school to learn about the rituals and rules associated with religion. In my early
adulthood I began to break away from my former teachings. My life headed
towards a very dark place. I began to explore other forms of religion to find the
God I was told I would find. My efforts just led me to a dead end. Then I started to
experience things that were unexplainable. They were things that were difficult to
prove to others but felt very real to me. I had developed a whole new type of
consciousness’. What I thought was reality was no longer reality. What I thought to
be true was a complete lie. I know many people would say it was just my
conscience or some thing purely scientific. It went totally beyond that, to me. I had
experienced things
on a level that I couldn’t even understand at first. These were things that would be
difficult for any one to fully grasp unless they experienced it. It was then that I
understood, what my father had told me as a child. A personal concept of God
doesn’t come from religion. Religion is nonexistent in the spiritual realm.
In “Person Experience of God” Radhakrishnan talks about character of religious
experience” “The privacy...