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I'm still not seeing a non-semantical difference. Because it seems awfully coincidental that the spirituality you "experienced" matched well with what you were already open to. It's not like you were feeling the world was a connected place but ended up with evidence of a wrathful monotheistic deity determined to keep mankind crushed beneath his bootheel.
But then again, it is hard for me to talk since I've never experienced anything that seemed the slightest bit spiritual or religious or supernatural. If such exist, they apparently have no interest in me. The Fran Lebowitz quote I mentioned earlier (or in another thread) was about how for her "spirituality" just confused her. It is a concept with zero meaning to her. Same for me. I don't deny the existence of a higher power, I've just never seen any reason to suppose one exists.
But I'm still not clear on how you decide which articles of faith are serious and which are simply silly and signs of a delusional mind. Surely you don't believe all things "taken on faith" by all the people of the world are equally valid simply because the people claim to have experienced them in some way?
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