re: #43 Sharmuta

I don’t think it’s outside of mainstream Christianity (or other religions, for that matter) to think that one has felt a Divine presence at some point in their life (an angel was watching over me/us- for example), or even a moment of Divine inspiration, but it’s usually limited. When you start getting into “visions” and other events that sound more hallucinogenic, then we start leaving the realm of the spiritual and start reaching for the unbalanced.

It’s not that hard to produce visions. While using hard drugs is usually politically unpopular, the use of sleep and food deprivation has been religiously approved since the early anchorites. Note her references to “prayer and fasting”.