When God Talks Back | Tanya Luhrmann | TEDxStanford
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- Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann’s research on the Evangelical relationship with God has lead to astonishing discoveries about those who say they hear God speak to them, literally. For some, this intimate relationship with God includes putting out an extra cup of coffee for Him. Luhrmann explores how rational, sensible people of faith experience the presence of an invisible being and sustain that belief in an environment of skepticism.
Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. Luhrmann's work focuses on the way that objects without material presence come to seem real to people, and the way that ideas about the mind affect mental experience. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and received a John Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007. When God Talks Back was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. It also was awarded the 2014 Grawemeyer Award for the best book in religion, from the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
When my daughter was four
Me and her mom got divorced and I had to drop her off every Sunday at 6pm. It tore my heart out to hear my daughter say
“Daddy don’t go.”
One nite I as I was walking I was telling God I can’t handle the pain
It’s too much. A minute later I saw a guy in a wheelchair trying to cross a major blvd.
Cars were speeding by. It was crazy. I ran out there and pushed him to safety. He thanked me in a barely audible voice and said he needs help.
He said he has to use the bathroom. I pushed him 2-3 blocks to a supermarket. I pushed him to the bathroom in the back. He couldn’t use the bathroom by himself. I literally had to help him !!
Afterwards I thought to myself
Ok God, I can handle my little pain
Take me to Mcdonald's ?
@@johntruman382 You are the kind of person who would laugh in the middle of a performance of King Lear, which, like your comment here, would be depthless, that is, a complete failure to exercise ethical, epistemic, and emotional insight. Grow up!
LOL! Yes. God works in mysterious ways. Even in the Men's Room.
Have you never had the thought that this man could have been God in human disguise in Order to Open your eyes?
@@Agape1006
No. But we are all made in the image of God.
“The hand of the beggar is the hand of the King”
Mother Teresa
When I feel anxiety taking over and fear or whatever, I imagine that I curl up in God's arms. It really really helps
In discerning God's voice, distinguishing it from your own unconscious, you need to guard against three liars: Wishful Thinking, Fearful Thinking, and Habitual Thinking. You also need to test the fruits of such a voice. God's voice leads you to love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and self-control--anything that leads you to hatred, misery, anxiety, impatience, cruelty, harmfulness or weakness doesn't come from God. Even when His voice leads you to repentance, there's a joy from being released from the exhaustion of trying to hold off admitting that you're not perfect. Even if God confronts you with an unhappy reality, such as the suffering of others, there's a sense of strengthening, of becoming empowered to deal with it.
Thank you for taking the time to respond to this! Really intrigued with the three liars you brought up! I definitely don't disagree but I would love to hear what led to your boiling it down to these three?
🙌🏽🤍
That automatically excludes all of the mentioned experiences, doesn't it?
@@florianopolis6299 It can filter out a lot, but what remains is gold.
@@DoloresJNurss so... What does remain?
A couple of years ago, I will never forget when I was in my kitchen and I heard "I am always here." and it was so soft and in my mind I thanked God for his presence.
In that moment, I went to my room to pray, and I had this little devotional book, and I felt something telling me to read it front to back (mind you I never read this book til the end, only this time). This devotional book was about God's advice to humanity.
And I began to cry, because the very last phrase of the book, that God wanted us to know was this: "And I want them to know that I am always here."
The same phrase I heard in kitchen, on a book I never read til the end. God hears you, just believe!
''Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." -Hebrews 11:1
Can one have faith and believe in Allah?
The Cult of Happy Religious Poo Eaters, thinks that you need to scarf down more poo!!!! Yum, yum, yum!!!!!!
Yes
@@FishRFrenzNotFood May religious poo - plop upon you and your loved ones!
Martin Kent What is your problem with religion? They just want to wish you the best and apparently that's a issue?
In my low points I have heard God tell me “My daughter, I will always love you 💕”
no he hasn't hes not alive
999 then why are you here? obviously something brought you here...reach out to him
Lol
@@Bananaguy693 he doesn't exist
Or if he did
Then we cannot find him in our humane religions
@@Bananaguy693 The Cult of Happy Religious Poo Eaters, thinks that you need to eat more religious poo!
After I became a believer, my family rejected me, I was estranged from my family for 10 years. And I lived alone in a town thousands of miles from my family. One period I was so sick it was very hard to do anything for myself. One evening in my sick state I needed to eat but was too tired to and I cast my mind back to how tenderly I would have been cared for had I been sick at home and it was more than I could bear. I broke down started sobbing and I kept saying God I need my mom. Till date I never forget. After sometime a gentle presence came into my room and began to gently pat my back till I fell asleep.
Why is God punishing you?
@@willievanstraaten1960 how did you even interpret this in that way? Seems to be a projection to me. God gave humans free will, which often times results in pain through sin.
@@RetiredTroll7 Dixie Normous: “how did you even interpret this in that way?”
Dixie, then who punished him and why. You preach that god is love. God was not there for him, so god is punishing him and leaving him alone in his misery.
@@RetiredTroll7 I interpreted it in a negative light too. Just because your family doesn't believe, you reject them? Now you're alone because love wasn't enough. There was obviously love in the family. If God is love and God is good, why would someone feel they have to sacrifice their own family to be loved by God? This is called spiritual pride.
@@amyrenee1361It is very obvious to me that this person did not sacrifice their own family. In fact, they PLAINLY say that their family rejected her or him because of the new found faith in the Truth of Jesus.
Thank you so much for sharing this. Jesus is real. This is how He speaks to me and how he spoke to me 2 years ago. I was Hindu and two weeks after hearing His voice, I gave my life to Jesus 🙏🏽 If you’re watching, ask Jesus for a sign. He never fails.
Amen to this. Just ask. Simply ask Him to reveal himself to you. Holy Spirit will reveal exactly what you need to move forward in Jesus Christ.
@@dawilliar The Cult of the Happy Religious Poo Eaters, agrees!!!!!
So happy. See u in heaven in some day 🥰
@@IndianaCharlie812 I pray you find there is somehow
@@IndianaCharlie812 Good point. I can't help but notice the disconnect between the idea of a loving God and all the horrible suffering in the world not just of people but animals, all creatures. Is this love? Really?
I was searching for God and studying Islam and other religions, trying to find God and I prayed for guidance and one day as I was on my couch I had vision of a blue Cross with lights and I heard Jesus call me by my Name!!!!!! Ever since that vision I keep on seeing blue crosses everywhere, I saw them on church building and on back of cars on bumper stickers, I saw blue crosses on billboards on the freeway and I was jogging and I bent down to tie my shoe and on the ground I found a necklace with a blue Cross on it!!
The Cult of Happy Religious Poo Eaters, thinks that you had a nervous breakdown.
I esperienced two events in my life - many years apart - in which God suddenly interjected into my mundane world. I was instructed to adhere to a specific course of action in each situation.
Because I obeyed, no fewer than 15 human beings did not die
Please elaborate
The Cult of the Happy Religious Poo Eaters, believes that this is a miracle!!!!! Hallelujah!!!! Your poo is beyond words!!!! Hallelujah!!!!! Praise the Holy Turds and all who munch on them!!!!! Hallelujah!
@@annaquinteroslainez1311 He had a nervous breakdown, silly.
Wow. Do you say the same to Muslims, Buddhist? Come on man. If you’d let the power of God hit you, you would regret and aask for forgiveness, for mocking like you did. Bless you pal
I am Spiritual and I talk with God all the time. He has held my hand in my darkess time, help me to see things as they are and not as I want them to be.
Thank you TED TALKS for offering all voices for the ears of those who will listen.
What is the difference between a person sitting in a corner of a room afraid to face the world and the person who talks about his experience with God to the world?
It's freedom and power.. God can give these two things in abundance when you have the relationship with Him
Praise to You my Jesus
I've been doing what some people pertain to as "maladaptive dreaming", and whenever I hear worships, pray or just stare at the sky/heavens, I always imagine God either sitting beside me or has his arms wrapped around me. I've been doing this for so long and it helps me so much whenever I need to calm myself down. Sometimes I would even imagine the heavens with God's throne in the middle and his divine council/angels around Him, singing Him songs of praise. And whenever I imagine God in those scenarios, His presence always feels much stronger ♥️🙏
A year ago, while sleeping...a very distinct, yet gentle voice said "quit punting the ball...knock 1 out of the ballpark..and thank you for loving me!" Well I haven't hit 1 out of the ballpark as far as life is involved...but I'm still open to what will happen and I do love God.
The Cult of Happy Religious Poo Eaters agrees. More poo for you!
I remember a few weeks ago my life was a Mess and my best friend called and asked me to pray with him yes I got up and as we where over the phone God said "Am with you in this storm ,it's temporary " just with this words depression left me I felt revived and very light in my soul .
It was long story that led up to this long story. But getting right to point, as I was laying my head down, I said, "Speak Lord, your humble servant is listening." Then I heard a sound like wind swooshing down through a wind tunnel, "The first time you weren't ready. This time you are."
It sounded like a man about 50 with a soft deep voice that echoed in the room. It was not my own voice. I was just turning 30. I thought I was going crazy as I looked around to the right and back toward the ceiling.
This was about 10 days before the birth of my second son back in May 1999. Many years later I found out that the solar wind stopped in those days, the dream about midway between May 10-12, 1999.
That was pretty neat, dad. I must be pretty special.
@@_grenade_3999 Don't ever let anyone disrespect you.💝
I got so excited hearing this!!!! 50 years old and never thought of imagery and prayer together!!! Can't wait to cultivate a closer relationship with God!!! Thank you I love you.
That is funny LOVE YOU TO BABE that is to FUNNY
I've been talking to God a lot more lately than I have in a very long time.
The challenge is in discerning His voice from your own thoughts (or worse). Prayer, fasting, and remembering His Commandments help. I'm Catholic, so I also pray the rosary and try to spend time with the Blessed Sacrament when I can.
Brad Jersak observes that if you have trouble deciding, 'Is this thought, which sounds like something God would say, actually my thought?,' that's a good thing.
You didn’t listen... she said to talk to Him
Your nervous breakdown is complete.
@@rhondarose8180 Religious poo is good for you!
@@davidford15 Mental health is a struggle for the munchers of religious poo!
Thank God He reveals His Love and Presence to those who seek Him with all of their hearts. You'll never find him with your intellect.
You better HOPE we are...
Lyn T that's because if you have any intellect you don't , and can't believe in superstition like religion.
Lyn T I totally agree 👍 I believe this video was for me because I try to seek Him everyday of my life. But He always comes through to me in different ways. God works in mysterious ways.
+D.E.B. B God bless you child
Lyn T There most beautiful of all beauties is the beauty of intellect - Muhammad
Wow, I wish I stumbled upon her earlier in life. She answered some of the questions I have regarding discernment. Thank you. I think she should study the Quakers next. Discernment was part of their process.
All the diverse positive interpretations of God are true. They are as individual as we are, and as intimate as we want them to be in a personal relationship. God speaks SILENTLY. As we align ourselves to HIM, by making less noise & being more silent, the BETTER we hear & perceive. I could explain for hours! It is a personal journey to walk with God. When you do, you will never again want to be in the chill of His absence!
One time in bible study I heard God tell me “you will do great things in my name”
The Cult of Happy Poo Eaters is delighted about your nervous breakdown, Rube!!!!
That’s awesome 👏🏻 make sure your number one goal is to truly know Him
That's good. Be sure to listen.
How do you know it was God?
And did you? Probably not. Most people suffer from the God delusion of being "chosen".
We can all experience God this way.....if we all are willing to do the work. Just in awe..
I never touch poo.
Most tedx talks sink to me. But this... was special. She has a very nice voice, and the presentation was clear. She is really on to something.
When I have gone through the hardest times in my life I see God carrying me. One set of foot prints
That's cuz "Sand People" walk single file.
The Cult of the Happy Religious Poo Eaters, agrees. More Poo for you!!!!! Hallelujah!!!!!
I had that experience, but it turned out that it was my footprints. I was a Christian until I went through the hardest time of my life, I felt that God had abandoned me. In the end I dropped my faith, and the depression lifted and I felt the best I ever had!
Praise The Lord.
Jesus is Lord
Jesus is a prophet, and the last prophet is Muhammed.
Hope you don't get triggered but rather seek the truth.
Jesus Christ is Lord, God in the flesh. The Word and the Lamb of the Almighty Heavenly Father in Union with The Holy Ghost. One God forever. All three divine persons equal in power and same in Being. No one can touch this faith. No one can touch this faith
Palestinian Rambo He didn’t say anything about that, but as you bring up mental illness I am left to think you thought you heard something that wasn’t said, which isn’t necessarily mental illness. And if you believe God was the reason for your doing so, you’d be totally correct. He is the reason for everything however absurd it might seem. If you believe he wanted you to dwell on the words you thought up, considering them God’s words prescribed to you, I would beyond just remaining skeptical ask you to err on the side of ignoring completely what you could otherwise get caught on like a sprout would a thorn
@Palestinian Rambo Hahahaha you don't know anything, do you!😂
dara jabar muhammed is dead, buddha is dead, confucius is dead.
Jesus is alive. He is the alpha and omega.
Dr. Luhrmann's scholarship is unbelievably first rate. Original, insightful, and deeply organized thinking on this subject is very, very rare in my experience. Incredibly well done. I'm reading the related book of her's right now and it is fantastic.
God is so real. I appreciate that she is talking about a personal relationship with Christ.. because a lot of Christians in todays world don't understand, its not about going to church every week or how much you read your bible, although good.. it is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ that counts, with that your life will truly change. It is hard to discern Gods voice at first, but the more you read his word.. the easier it will be to tell what comes from him. For me he gives me thoughts and if I push them down.. they will keep coming back up, they weigh on my heart, that's how I know its him. I also believe he talks through people as well. Sometimes I am struggling with a certain thing, I will turn on one of my favorite preachers.. and they preach the exact message pertaining to that thing I'm struggling with.. its unbelievable. Its almost as if God is talking through them directly too me. Another thing is when you ask Jesus into your life, the Holy spirit enters you and dwells within you, along with giving you this unbelievable unconditional happiness, the Hold spirit gives you the immense power to discern right from wrong.. like its an instant knowledge that comes over you that I can not explain. Everything suddenly makes sense. You understand why everything is the way it is. I know Jesus is with me because when I call his name an instant warmth and peace washes over me so powerful it almost brings me to tears, I get goosebumps even thinking about it. Every human being deserves to experience this!
Scientists have investigated the parts of the brain that activate when subjects were in communion with god... the synapsis is the very same small region as when we are having internal dialog. Meaning, if you think you are talking to god... it's just you talking to yourself.
@@socksumi Explain with science how I went from being a homeless junkie with less than a 3% chance success rate of staying off the drug I was using, long-term, to getting a car, home, bachelors degree, volunteering and leading at my church, working in a hospital in the ER, and having even the thoughts of drugs and craving erased from my mind completely. With just talking to myself? That is scientifically impossible. I could not have possibly had even the cravings and thoughts just erased from my mind according to science. Rehabs and therapists did nothing to help or benefit me, because no matter what techniques they showed me that I tried I continued to relapse. It was not until I cried out to Jesus Christ that I was truly fixed, even my thought process. I could not have possibly turned my life and mind around to that extent without the help of something way beyond my human strength. Explain to me how I was able to break the chain of addiction from a drug so powerful the success rate is almost non-existent without the help of a therapist, doctor or rehab, to the point where my brain was rewired so profoundly that I don't even think about the drug anymore, with just "my own thoughts"? Not only were the cravings and thoughts erased but also every single habitual pattern that was bad in my life such as stealing, lying, and using people were also erased in literally the blink of an eye? How could I have possibly done that in such a short span of time with just "my own thoughts"? How is that scientifically possible? If it was for my own strength I would be dead right now 100%. Please start explaining with science everything I just presented, because I would like to understand your logical answer as to how this could have happened with "my own thoughts". I am so utterly thankful I went through all I did because it is in my greatest weaknesses that God was able to reveal his mighty power for ALL to see. I am a living miracle, a miracle that science can not explain. A miracle that beat all the odds, statistics and probability though Gods mighty hand, leaving scientists baffled. My life puts science to shame and I will never stop preaching how when I was dangling between death and life, God pulled me right up for all to witness.
@James You are so correct. God shows his power through your weaknesses. I think about my own life. How low I was, how addicted I was, how awful I was as an individual. When I cried out to God.. he not only answered my prayers but was able to show his strength and power through my weaknesses so that all who knew who just how low I was may see the power of him. So that all who knew who I was then , and see's who I am today may look in "aww" at what has happened to my life and the transformation. I now know that I have a great purpose in life, and part of that purpose was to be an example of Gods great power through my very own life. when I was holding on to life by a string and I cried out to God.. he saw me and he lifted me up so high that the world could see what a miraculous turn around a human being could have. A turn around that defies science, that defies all odds, that defies logic and reasonability. A turn around that is so powerful and immense that it is considered humanly and statistically impossible. This was all part of Gods great plan for my life every bad thing I have ever been through was to show that God can turn it around and give you a life you never dreamed of having. People don't have to believe my words.. I have my life as living proof! God is so real and he is so alive. He can turn anybody's entire life around if they ask and are willing.
@@saviinicole2200 Awesome message- powerful and stands to benefit many. Thank you and best wishes.
Well said, you are SPOT ON. I will never stray from my faith in Christ Jesus, and God again. He wants you to read His word, she is not hearing or experience God Jesus, and The Holy Spirit unless she gives her life and repents to Jesus. So this woman will never understand this.
God is amazing. Through knowing Him is the only way we can be changed. Without Him we have nothing. What an incredible feeling knowing that the God of the universe knows and cares about everything in your life!
Completely off topic, but I had an NDE as a non-believer when they brought me back I knew, and know to this moment that God is real. I no longer fear death as God is with us through eternity. You don't need to be a believer to experience nirvana/heaven, good or bad. We all go to God when we leave here.
The Cult of the Happy Religious Poo Eaters agrees! Rubes make the religious hustlers rich and these dupes are owned by their Christian Churches.
“Just because you’re using your imagination, doesn’t mean it isn’t real.” Fantastic!
Religious hustles own their Christian rubes!
She would never understand because to her the only thing that exist is the mind. “I thank you Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed to little children” we are all headed to a day of reckoning this is one critical question to get right I pray that God will open your eyes before the day.
Over 40 years ago, I had a NDE, which also was an OBE (out of body experience). During my NDE, I spoke to no one verbally, and no one spoke to me in the verbal sense. But somehow, someway, I had a "knowing" about what I was experiencing. I had a feeling of being accepted and a very profound experience of being loved. It was like I knew I was accepted, and I was loved. This love is different than the kind of love we experience in our Earthly lives. It felt as if my entire spirit was permeated with this unconditional love. This is all encompassing love. I also knew I was in the presence of the Source, the Divine, the universal consciousness, God, or whatever someone chooses to call this. The last thing I experienced was the "Oneness". Sort of like the oneness of the universe, or the oneness of everything. Somehow, someway, everything is one. I now realize that the unconditional love I was sensing was coming from everyone who is at this place. I call this place Paradise. It doesn't seem physical, but is very Earth like in many ways. Probably because we will feel more comfortable in an Earth like setting. It felt like I was living a perfect existence when I was there. I was experiencing a happiness and joy that I didn't even know existed. I went back into my body right after this, and I'm still here to relate my experience.
No, there were no words exchanged during my NDE, but I have learned so much over the past 40 years, when it comes to the meaning of my experience.
Religious poo is not as popular with realists. Their mothers think that poo belongs in the toilet. How does your mother feel about religious poo? Does she delight in it's corn-filled glory! Do YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@martinkent333 My NDE was NOT religious. There weren't any bible verses or anything like this. Actually, I'm not comfortable with religion, because there is too much fearmongering and too much nonsense. I consider myself to be spiritual , but not religious. I'm simply relating what I experienced during my NDE.
God has always held me up in som impossible times
She has a soft voice. It seems that she's the ideal person for the subjec. It's a blessing. 🙏 She did well.
She's my Aunt. She's a brilliant woman. I'm glad you enjoyed her talk!
Ty, what a good way to offer this topic,l believe it works and it's true!😀
Mental institutions are full of people to whom God has talked back. Only preachers who assist God to part you with your hard earned money enjoy a rewarding chat with the almighty.
It's gratifying to see that those in Western Sciences are beginning to understand this. I've had people in spirit talk to me my entire life. I've tried to make it more accessible to those who haven't experienced it but using the teachings of Jesus in the Bible to show them how. I won't get into it here. But it is life changing, for the better.
Your nervous breakdown is fun, eh?
@@martinkent333 why are you following this - can’t look away eh?
That’s not what she was saying at all. She was basically saying she that the communication with God was just a figment of their imagination. :/
@@ANK2116 She said how we pay attention to our inner landscape, how we pay attention to our mind, shapes what we experience. Apparently you condensed this down to figment of the imagination. I agree with her that how we pay attention shapes what comes out of those experiences. One way how we pay attention is In the context of God or no God, it boils down for me to a disagreement on the nature of consciousness. Some claim that Consciousness is created by the brain which disappears at death. Others claim that Consciousness (aka spirit) preexists the body, entering in the body at some point during conception and at death separates from the body. My perspective is the latter, because of 'figments of my imagination' as you put it. A big part of this, something she didn't mention, is if we go into this with the mindset of asking questions and looking for answers from those figments they come and when they come they fit in with reality and are answered. When we take the atheistic approach and view there's nothing to this God thing, it's ignored. I ask questions, get answers to current things going on in my life and I get answers that are very useful. This quandary is only answered on an individual level, for those who're willing to ask questions and allow for the answers to come where ever they come. Then decided for their-self. In my view this Ted Talk can open the door for people taking a chance and asking for themselves. It's all theory until you seek your own experience. Then decide. An important part of getting a legitimate experience is to momentarily set aside skepticism. The Subconscious acts as a screen that creates what we experience of reality and when something is excluded, the Subconscious excludes it. (Watch Brain Games if you'd like to learn more, They say Brain I say Subconscious).
This is what catholic and orthodox mystics used to do. If you dont train or you never give Him place, you loose the experience
Hey lady, ask God, for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You will hear from him, and you will never doubt again. Father God Bless her.
Thank you Jesus Christ our Lord.
”For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.“
I Corinthians 1:21 NKJV
You can never reach God through wisdom, but it pleases God if you are willing to believe.
I have never been a religious, much less a spiritual person. I was a very tangible person but after seeing my goddaughter die in front of me, in my despair I finally said to the night sky, if you there, show me I’ll be open.
He responded and I realize that he is nothing like what I learned in church when I was a child. He is actually pretty nice and understanding. I actually have said some mean things lol he listens, he really does and he talks back.
I don’t think god cares about any particular religion. If you want to talk to him. He will talk back.
YUP
I love how respectfully and yet scientifically accurate she is talking about the subject.
Christian Schaufelberger In fact she is not. There's time argument fallacies al over the place: 'this has been done since the medieval ages.' 'Long ago they realized that...'
There is absolutely no evidence presented by her throughout the speech. She only relies in the personal experience of people, which is not part of the scientific method.
Scientifically! There's no science involved here.
I agree she kind of says it like it is, well yet with a bit of logic included with it
Respectful? She says it's all in their imagination and refers to their experiences as "odd". She seems to have decided before ever beginning her "study" that the one thing that is NOT happening is that God is speaking with these people. Just how does she know that? Science seems not to enter into the equation as far as I can see....just her preconceived notion and prejudices.
right
I did a ransom swipe on my android keypad and it brought Me to this video. 🌹
Brilliant!
Religious poo impresses you!!!!
awesome. she deserves more accolades.
Thank you for this ted talk.
One of the best responses to this Ted talk
Religious poo is good for you! Yum!
@@geraldmartin8195 Religious poo is good for you. It's corn-filled goodness will make you able to defeat Satan, herself!!!!!
Thanks for this
Excellent talk
Good talk Sister💕😊💗
yes this has happened to me audibly and visually x4 times I have also had a full vision
Too much religious poo. Your nervous breakdown is when?
I have personally had a strong experience of God trying to save me from all this negativity that brew into me. I tried my hardest to show love into the world but it seemed like everyone was depressed. I was in a mental health hospital and the Bible was my savior. God was my savior. Two other books were my savior. They led me a stronger relationship to God's. These books were 9 words how to create the best version of yourself and another book called how to make your brain great again. I was looking in the clouds and I saw things. I saw God telling me to relax. It was such a vivid picture of someone laying down. I knew it was him only because it defined what I should've been doing as oppose to having racing thoughts. People might say I was seeing things but I believe through my Christian background God saved me through visions 🙏
Your nervous breakdown convinced you that, Religious Poo is good for you!!! Me too!!!! Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@martinkent333 chill 😐
I loved her book
Each religious poo filled page filled you with excitement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Yum!
I really enjoyed this take.
I'm getting the impression she is trying to say " it's your imagination" But I have heard God's voice, and I have seen visions. My imagination had nothing to do with it. I left my church, and stopped communicating with God..and guess what, I no longer hear, or see God. And it seems no matter what, I can't hear him. Yet, I know he is there. I need to open up my heart, because that is where he dwells, and how he talks to us..through the heart..not the imagination. Sorry to differ but I know this.
Carol Vautour ive gone thru the same thing. i feel he is real, no matter what they say but the jesus and other things dont make sense to me and thats why im struggling to figure out what life is really about but i have felt GoD.
Sounds like it is time for you to come home. Start visiting a different church every week. You will know when you are home.
It's integrated subconsciously, thus meeting conscious thought or REM sleep.
John 14:7. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him. Ask God directly if Jesus Christ really is the Truth, Way and light. Jesus Christ is real. Go and check Dr Rodonaia's experience or Ian Mc Cormacks' experience. Both where atheists.....until God gave them a second chance after they died and came back. This is how God is merciful. He is the God of second chances. Actually gives us a gazillion chances. But then, we reap what we sow.
Carol, can you imagine the existence of iPhone without the existence of Steve Jobs!?
These pillerless skies, these floating and rotating planets, these fragrent flowers, the living and dying humans, the voices inside ,the emotions and your presence are calling us to believe in the existence of a Merciful Supreme Creator of all that is in the earth, byound the skies and in between them.
From experience the same "voice" (unprovoked thoughts) that arise during meditation, when the default mode network is going quite, is the same kind of "voice" one hears(or I heard)under intense times of prayer. I once compared it to being like my own thoughts,but more more quite, distinct,and set apart.
When I say intense times of prayer what I mean is that these intense moments were followed up by quieting myself completely and opening myself up. Exactly what I've done in current meditation and had thoughts occur that seemed not of my own, yet were.
The Cult of the Happy Religious Poo Eaters agrees!
@@martinkent333 ,what is that even supposed to mean?
We often don't get an elaborate study of the inner dynamics of the God - Man relationship. When you hear a preacher say " God IS love", many outside the circle think it a figurative or metaphoric meaning when it is actually mean't literally. Then conclusion says " well i think i know and understand a thing or two about love but i don't quiet understand how God IS love ". The premise demands a total rethink and meditation on our understanding of love. For if God IS love then the moments of your past when we experience real love between people is actually God impressing himself into peoples lives but we don't acknowledge it as his handy work and often claim it as a facet of our own.. The nature of real love can be learned. 1 Corinthians 13 outlines what love is and it's nature. When we become sensitive and aware of these characteristics active in our lives we are privy to seeing God at work. most people and many Christians never quiet grasp this core fundamental so they continue with an exterior imitation of who they think God wants them to be and do. IN SHORT - everything is happening as God has commanded. 1) We left Eden and lost that intimate relationship 2) The 10 commandments is God reestablishing his order for humans, knowing we couldn't fulfill these requirements. " then why bother " i hear you say. To prove to ourselves we are lost without his intimacy. 3) Jesus dies for all sin for everyday you will ever live. Why ? the son being pure and holy, without sin stepped in the gap and purchased your sin debt, what kind of a merciful heart is that ( rather than the angry judgmental God everybody has no problems believing ). For you will no longer be judged on the issues of sin, it is done away with. In it's place you have a new dynamic with God, a relationship based on your response to his love. The beginning and the end is at the foot of the cross, not in self judgement which always leads to self condemnation which actually angers God, for it reduces Christ sacrifice to no effect. We are to walk each day in the full knowledge of God's desire to forgive us forever and restore that intimate walk for this is what LOVE desires. The whole story of the christian story is nothing but God demonstrating his love and standing on the promises he has made with us. And love is most glorious when it shines on a dark broken suffering world.
I would so love to know you.
We all are looking to make ourselves believe about the existence of True God! I have felt him talking to me in a book named Quran.
And I have witnessed the mention of the God of Old testament and the God of Bible in it.
I read it without being prejudiced and I recommend everyone to give it a try.
Peace
Praying to God is talking to yourself.
I doubt some of the extremely insightful observations made via Peter Lord and Neal Donald Walsh talking with God was merely them talking with themselves.
really love this talk!!! great great stuff! im encouraged to develop my spiritual life
You are full of the Holy POO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now you can defeat Satan. He is scared of your religious poo!!!!!!!!!!
Religion is a very delicate subject. The lecturer is phenomenal.
It is with great respect for everyone that I ask:
The more prayer, the more contact with God, and what about other religions?
Considering religion is a set of instruments for development of spirituality, does it mean those who have no religion have no spirituality? Thus, no contact with God?
See the frustrating thing is I’ve seen miracles I can hold in my hands, and the sad part? Even if I told you the stories you would either be creeped out by me or not believe me or think I’m crazy even if I showed you them! Because a man can go into outer space and see the earth, moon and be apart of the universe and still not believe. That really shows how stubborn mankind is and how small some peoples worlds are even when they are in the soul of it all. Dear God please direct me to these people she talked to cause I have yet to find another I can about talk about these things to.
There are alot of us that deeply believe and have had amazing life changing events. Don't be afraid to share your experience. Only ones who have not looked for him yet have doughts And yet he will still find them.
Your analysis leaves out the miraculous, which is the EVIDENCE for the PERSON which is God, evidence which confirms that it GOD which is actually talking, for you see, the Bible says to test the spirits....
People are all trying to the answer the question, questions, or the big picture but if we as scientist examine history our selves and who we hope to became so our past present and future on a first personal and gradually a more interconnected level. We will soon find answers to the questions that have always plague our hearts and minds and answers to new questions that we have never considered or never through possible.
I am understanding alot in my own study but what i do believe is that god voice is spirtual not physical so you do have to spirtually connect in order to hear his voice but he is real
Done it for 60 years with all the gods and not 1 has ever shown.
Kieron Browne Seek the God above all Gods, the Holy Trinity. The only way to access Him is via Jesus. He offers you eternal Life should you chose to accept His gift.
And what evidence do you have for this magnificent claim? I hope the answer isn’t the bible?
You have to consume piles of religious poo to have a vision.
@@kieronbrowne7881 They have a hunch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
@@martinkent333 I think she is talking shite.
Respect
"When you love the Universe, the Universe loves you back." -- Matthew Stover
It’s been more then 8 years people what’s going here? Are you really faithful? Ask yourself that question and think about it. The word appreciate is soooo deep especially when it comes to God the meaning is full depths
fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.Knowing GOD is a journey and it requires patience
As an 11-year-old, I was taking a nap on my grandma's couch. My mom had just given birth a day or so earlier and she had put my baby sister fairly close to me on the couch to take a nap as well. Suddenly, I heard a voice tell me to wake up. I wanted to ignore it but it felt so extremely urgent. I felt the voice tell me to open up my eyes "right now". I opened my eyes and focused on my baby sister laying next to me, completely still. I watched her breathing very closely for about 8 seconds, looking for any changes. Then she stopped breathing completely. She did not make a single sound. I went to my mother immediately to tell her that my sister had stopped breathing - she ran back into the living room, picked her up, and hit her back for about 15 seconds until she finally began to breathe again. Had I not listened to that voice, my little sister would not be alive today. I am almost 21 years old today and I will never forget that moment.
Religious poo is good for you!
Matthew 6:6 'And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, Who is unseen.'
We are all here for a purpose, we do not belong to ourselves or others. We are not puppets to be controlled or told dictated to for what is to one can be a different world being loved around us.
Great to hear. I was raised secular by an ex-Catholic, and have embraced an interfaith Christianity after moving from the 12 step group Recovery Movement and Buddhism into an inclusive relationship with God thru Jesus. From Greenpeace is like what Gandhi did to seeing how it all relates together, and into Fair Trade and food co-ops. And asking, inspired by Louise Hay, "What do I need to know?" with gratitude. As a real world miracle, a small bus was robbed as I woke up with my wife and two kids on Easter weekend, and we were ignored. ?????!!!
The Cult of the Happy Religious Poo Eaters concurs.
@@martinkent333 The Board to Tears of Scientism Judmentalists, who don´t see or feel the shovel they step in smacking them, deigns to snicker at your clever wit. Oh, would that lifting a pinky and helping the downtrodden weren´t such a bother to prioritize as a check on snivelling joke-making. That wrecking ball of sustainability and human rights violations in your blind spot and trajectory wouldn´t be such an ironic threat to your cynical humor.
@@robinhoodstfrancis Fancy talker? Ya gonna eat your religious poo, or do give it to some other Rube?
My take is that we have access to God/Essence/Source because we are part of that whole. This Source lies within us and its access is not beholden to one religious expression or the other. It is a marvelous space of wisdom and peace, beyond ego, which can inform and guide us if we can tap into it. The future of the human race may well depend on whether humans can evolve to the point of residing in and living from this space. This will not happen if we are afraid of reaching for it or are so wrapped up in our "reasoned" living. Do not presume that you know everything about the human condition...go explore your deeper consciousness. You will be amazed at what you find there.
The mind is a digestive sister to process the substance that God gives us into our beings
Religious poo eaters concur. Religious poo is akin to the Holy Spirit. It floats you boat and cranks your chain. An it's yummy too!!!!!!!!!!!
I can reminesse you your best memorie .....
I think I like using my mind to day dream and to feel connected and one. It feels so gratifying, uplifting divine and grounded. God or not why would anyone fight feeling so good???
Mental health struggle with a religious poo eater.
What if God were one of us? Like a stranger on a bus? He’s just trying to make his way home, sad, no one is texting him on his phone
C S You rock!
Your nervous breakdown still happening?
@@AM-nh6oz Religious poo gets you excited, eh?
I hope He answers my prayer of healing.
Replying to my own post as a testimony and reminder. He has healed me. The date was Feb 25th 2021
She is right happened to me once
Always talk to him & Mother Mary
Please come to an Eastern Orthodox Liturgy. Come and see what it is like where the Church has intentionally practiced the way Christ and the Apostles practiced for 2000 years. Evangelicals are now rediscovering what the Eastern Church has never forgotten, and when they do, they convert in droves.
@St. Marina's Baby is it just the priesthood? Can you not have women deaconess preach?
What she try to explain is there's a special dimension of connectivity between human and God but this can be only experienced by those who goes beyond their physical senses.
What constitutes my 'non-physical senses' ... ?!
Thoughts...
Aha, thoughts are not physical I see. Unfortunatly, the scientists researching related areas have extreamly (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) good reason to think otherwise. Bad for you I gues. A lack of understanding something does still not make it supernatural ;)
Inner spirit that inhabits your physical body. body = vessel, container. While on earth spirit and body are connected.
@@BlaBla-ny4bo Show me a thought please.
All the athiest in the comment section... I was diagnosed with spondylitis(incurable according to some nuts with white coat). I was on bed for 1 month, i cannot walk due to pain and i got healed within 2 mins in the name of Jesus.
i was on no medication..
Explain this to me ????
Easy your a liar!!
@@Thirdleg4sale I'm afraid not. Same thing happened to me. Had a serious disease, on meds, docs couldn't do much for me. Got desperate, called out loud for Jesus, He healed me instantly right there in my bedroom. I ran outside, soaring like an eagle being freed from sickness. Feeling like a kid in a candy store because I knew it was ALL REAL.
@@JaveonB yep your a liar! Please post your medical documents and or your doctors name so i can call and confirm your outrageous story!
@@Thirdleg4sale too much trouble to do that. I'm just another witness to his power. Why are you upset about it? I'm thinking maybe you are still young, and that is ok, you can always seek Him when you are ready. No need to stress out about it. Jesus even says most will not seek Him while they are young, but will when they get older, took me almost 40 years to be ready to seek Him. If I'm telling a lie, then Satan is my father. "Satan is the Father of ALL lies".
@@JaveonB what to much trouble to provide evidence of your great healer. He must not be worth your time! See this is the problem. You cant show evidence cause you have none! Sad you feel the need to lie! Your god should stand on his own and not need your feeble lies.
Magnificent. Yes.
Religious poo in all of it's fabulous glory. The smelliest and stinkiest available - to defeat Satan and his minions!!!!
I think it's funny that there was hardly no applause for Tanya's speech at the end. It appears to me that the audience wanted her to choose a side, express her personal opinion, which she did not do. The talk was excellent but possibly left the audience confused.
They were expecting her to introduce them to God, which is obviously impossible, something which all religious people need to realise.
TED is typically scientific talks
and this talk was *not* scientific and had no evidence
she passed over scientific knowledge on thought altogether
@@martynnash6904 given what the audience found comedic I'm thinking it was the other way around
As i understood it.. this talk is about understanding and explaining the illusion that is experienced once under conviction of spiritual practice and less a discussion about the wonders god can do in your life as the comments seem to suggest. In my opinion she gives evidence to support Gods "voice" being an illusion and one that is worked on and strengthened over time.
"While we sit in a circle and suppose, the secret sits in the center and knows" R. Frost.
It is the heart that speaks to and hears , it is love which transcends language, it is personal and carries on before the mind is aware to notice. Adam and Eve is a love story, ask God. Ask your heart to reveal, what you already know.
God bless you. Amen
Religious poo is good for you! Its yummy too!
God proved to me he talks to me by making me psychic
Did you know I was going to say this?
How's your nervous breakdown?
No it's through the grace of Jesus Christ
God calls us His friend, so as we know a friend, we talk, eat, share our life with, enjoy, laugh and cry with God. Let Him in and He will be there for you.
Both the spirits of Our Elohim and the deceiver can be an intuition to our mind, even so we may believe it is the voice of god. Through discipline and discernment we must sort through every thought and discard all that are unrighteous or foolishness
I literally gave to ask my angels to look out for me and my most important love ones this is madness
Why Americans believe in angels? We are supposed to pray to the Father, the Son and the Holly Spirit. Angels are simply messengers who acted as intermediate between us and God before Jesus vame to us. The Holly Spirit can talk to you for your day to day spiritual needs, who are these angels you are talking about ?
Thank you, I've wondered about this a lot. This is very helpful.
Religious poo really and truly helps the Rubes, defeat their imaginary enemies.
I’d be curious to find out what involvement the pineal gland has in those that report more connection to God. Basically, define some pineal gland metrics and incorporate them into a rerun those tests.
I see what you're saying, and it is exciting in a scientific sense....
ya, whack my pineal
oh boy
whatta long strange trip its been
I'm assuming that you would assume "bigger penal gland= stronger connection with god". So, because the penal gland is bigger they feel a stronger connection with god or because they have a stronger connection with God there penal gland grows?
@@69smilex Religious poo gives you the fastest orgasm, eh?
@@steviejones888 More religious poo for you!
Very interesting Tanya. Have you conducted any research into glossolalia in churches? Or do you have any insights into this phenomenon?
That's why God blessed America only! Listen... talking heads...
One early morning a few years ago I was in bed not quite as sleep as it was about time to get up but not fully awake either I got what I believe was a message or a vision from God. It was a story a concept and it wasn't something that played out chronologically for me to watch and experience it just all flooded into my mind in an instant and I understood. I never really thought it was a dream because it felt different and even to this day I can recite and remember it in great detail.
The vision was this. A young girl maybe 12 is at school and her teacher assigns the class a project, they are take Popsicle sticks and build their vision of the ideal home. The teacher told them that they are to do their very best on this project because that home would represent their righteousness. So this girl goes home and she makes the best looking model of home that she can imagine. It is a beautiful home with a white picket fence, she has painted it and there is a family made out of sticks in the front yard. It is good and she is proud of it. She takes it to school and she places it on the table with the other models. Some are good and some are very bad you could tell not much effort went into them. She realizes hers is the best and she feels very good about herself, she is sure she will receive a good grade. But something different is happening on this day in class because God himself has shown up and He has also made a model and it is so magnificent that it cannot fit within the school it is in the field behind the school so they go out to see. What the girl witnesses is the most spectacular castle she has ever seen. It is amazing with gardens and the flowers in those gardens have flowers carved from the Popsicle sticks and on those flowers are lady bugs and beautiful butterflies that look stunningly real. As she walks up to the castle she can see in the windows and there are magnificent furnishings and paintings throughout the castle and it is just as beautiful inside as it is outside. Behind the castle she sees a hill with trees ablaze with color and a meadow full of flowers in the middle of that meadow she sees God himself glowing with the most wonderful light and He is smiling at her. She then thinks about her model and how compared to this it is nothing. She has failed her righteousness is pitiful. At that moment she feels a hand on her shoulder she turns to see Jesus and He is holding a model every bit as spectacular as God's and He holds it out to her and He says here take mine.
God always provides