Do you ever feel the presence of God or someone else who isn

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I am a christian I go to church every Sunday and go to a church discussion group on a Wednesday night I used to be in the church music group which I left about a month ago. I have felt the presence of God loads of times I remember one Sunday last year someone prayed for me don't know what the person what the person was praying for but I really felt a presence of God and I can even describe it was like electricity running all over my body and then I felt emotional just for no reason I have been emotional more since then in fact I think I had a slight healing as well as since then I my AS has been a little less evident than before. It still there. I did question God to why I was healed only slightly and I felt I had an answer and the answer was because that it will be very overwhelming going from AS to NT. I have witnessed people getting healed before so I believe God will heal me completly but I believe it is in God's timing and when I'm reading as well if I got healed and I wasn't ready it would be a shock. I have infront of my eye have seen people come out of wheel chairs where the doctor has told them that they cannot walk again. I have seen a deaf person take their hearing aids out because they can now hear and the preacher gave them a hearing test as well. I have read an article in a magazine about a man with Low Functioning Autism get healed as well.

And yet you claim to have seen ghosts...

On topic: I have felt the presence of a God or whatever it is, but I can't say I've seen any miracles.

What do ghosts have to do with this?
Those are something you see, not something you feel. Or at least for me they were something I saw, like 2 feet in front of my face.

Most cases of ghost observations (or UFO-, Chupacabra- and Jersey Devil obersvations, for that matter) can be explained rationaly. People who claim to have seen the Loch Ness monster have usually just seen a log, and people who have seen UFOs have usually seen weather balloons or combustions in the atmosphere. As interesting and fascinating as kryptozoology and paranormal stuff may seem, it's basically just BS. My point is that ghost observations also can be linked to the brain.

A lot of people claims to have seen religious happenings as well. For instance, a friend of me claims that she has seen people getting healed.

Well I sure as balls hope it was all in my head.
Its just harder to believe something was in your head when you saw it with your own eyes, otherwise I would be thinking it was an illusion as well. If it was all just my mind playing tricks on me, then I probably would have seen more shadow men in my life!

Everything is all in your head. If it wasn't in your head you wouldn't know it was there. But some things in your head are caused by something happening outside your head and some things are assembled out of your imagination. Many people can't distinguish between the two.

That's such a good question. OK - I ~know~ God is with me. Why? Because it computes. Even when I'm less deserving of His manifestion - it's how I learn about altruism - just pure love without strings or conditions. God computes in my life in all realms and so I feel it, sense it with my soul and that's it.

I believe there is a saying that goes "each man to his own". I am not a religious person, but I am willing to accept that having faith is no bad thing. If having faith involves believing in the unknown, then so be it. There is little more that fascinates me than the mystery involved in cryptozoology. I would rather believe that than creationism, but that is my personal view. I have to accept, as a self-dx aspie, that I may not be right all the time. I have never had a divine experience, and I don't deny that they exist, but I get that sort of rush from listening to a tune that connects, or reading about the unknown.

Carl Jung considered it a good thing to have spirituality in one's life, which, coming from a psychiatrist, is thought provoking.

I'm trying out being diplomatic. I hope it is working.

I felt the presence of God when I was at the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism. The Wall has a very timeless feel to it. When you stand it front of it, you know it's the same place where Jews worshiped for 2,000 years, and before that, they used to bring offerings to the Jewish Temple (the Dome of the Rock now stands there). And when I prayed there, I could feel that God is somewhere very close nearby, just a few feet away. It was a unique feeling that I could not reproduce anywhere else in the world.

There's real spiritual power in Jerusalem. It's dynamic, briiliant and very tangible.

I have been to the Wall and it was just an old wall with a bunch of guys dressed in black wobbling in front of it. Most peculiar.

When were you there?

It depends on the perspective. I don't know if you're Jewish or not, but if no, then I can understand why the Wall looked that way, especially the first time you saw it. However, many people come to see it because it's a famous historical site, and many people just enjoy the timeless feel it has. (But let's not get too sidetracked; this thread is about God.)

Actually it isn't. Neither King Solomon or King David existed therefore it's crazy to mourn over a temple that never existed.

I'd say no for the most part.
I've been to church when younger, visited several others over the years where people claim to feel the overwhelming presence of God and start doing all doing all kinds of weird things.
I have no idea what is that they are feeling and I don't feel anything that compels to do the strange things they do.
The only thing I ever felt anything for in church was when people were made to be social and acknowledged my existence for a short time.

I feel a lot of beauty for nature and such, but I'm reluctant to call that feeling God's presence or anything.

I've felt that. I don't know that I would qualify it as "God in person" so to speak, but certainly a presence that I could only define as All Encompassing and Aware. I feel it is simplistic and arrogant to assume that everything that makes the universe tick can even be perceived by the human mind; let alone quantified and qualified by it. There are too many unknowns, too many circumstances and anecdotes that defy the known laws of physics, and too many advances historically in understanding our universe to reassure me that the human mind is capable of correctly interpreting what it perceives (or doesn't, as the case may be.)