From: adam.ozturk1990@gmail.com   
      
   Great question and I actually appreciate it and no stupid response to the best   
   of my ability.   
      
   I am not "scared shitless of the Great Other" although I am not sure if we are   
   working with the same toolbox of definitions here either.    
      
   I have had such experiences. I have experienced a series of strangely timed   
   synchronicities whose causality I couldn't analyze under any circumstances.   
   These led me out of very dark situations, away from people who were trying to   
   hurt me, and towards    
   self-improvement. Simultaneously they also opened me up to something deeper   
   yet to come.   
      
   I have experienced in the Eucharist, much like Denis, a power I can only   
   describe as theurgic and sacramental being transmitted to me from other than   
   me. This is within the Eastern Christian ritual context.    
      
   I have encountered people from whom I felt a mysterious energy who were from   
   completely different walks of life and then parted from them with no   
   justifiable reason to ever see them again yet years later encountered them in   
   a new setting and found our    
   lives tossed together for a time.    
      
   I have seen icons weeping without being able to identify a mechanism or   
   artificial inducement to do so and I have a more skeptical mindset than the   
   average bear.    
      
   When my mother died and I felt she was no more and a wave of grief came over   
   me at the beauty and tragedy of her life and how she suffered in the end I   
   passed through a deep dark place until something happened, whether within me   
   or not I don't know, that    
   said it is okay. Death is nothing to be feared though our instinct is to cling   
   to life. I felt a deep sense of the wholeness of reality and my mother's   
   continued and never ending place within that wholeness.   
      
   There's a few others of even "weirder" varieties but I offer these as a   
   grounded baseline as they formed my life and convictions in their most   
   positive manifestations.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)