Who is right when it comes to religions about spirituality and the spirit world? [Spirituality & Religion]

I only believe in Christianity because I had a vision of the cross when I was redeemed and it has explained ALL of my spiritual experiences almost to a T.......BUT I had a talk with a Native who goes to sweat lodges and he said that he can feel the hand of a spirit on his shoulder too just like me, to him its a spirit to me its the hand of the Lord.....I am not all too familiar with what it says about the spirit world in the Islamic religion, or even Buddists....Except that they too also see a great light which Christians believe is Jesus in spirit form......Are all of these religions trying to do their best to explaine the spirit world? Which one is closest to the truth?

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CopperCicada · M

The choice is really yours.

One approach is that you can be a fundamentalist with your faith. In which case only what is written in your religious texts is true. There are no other valid views. There is no point even asking this question. You are right and everyone else is wrong.

The other approach is that of the contemplative. There is only one truth there as well, but it is found in one's heart. Through experience. Through one's spiritual discipline. If that is your approach, then this is a meaningful question. It is a meaningful question as we realize that reality transcends words, and because we all have the same heart, mind, soul, and thus happen upon truth from different vantage points.

What I believe is pointless to you. Some people are fundamentalists, some people are contemplatives. But your choices seem to be that there is only one truth, and there it is {right here}. Or truth is bigger and more mysterious and it is popping through, showing itself, making itself known in a variety of contexts.