A bit to address here, but a lot i agree with too. The people that have muddied the water are def. people of religious 'organizations' (or the like) telling people they know the truth and if you don't believe them there are consequences. It goes far down the rabbit hole in who these people are. I can't blame people that have experiences to correlate them with their indoctrinated faith. Being very spiritually minded myself, i've noticed many people can't think about spiritual implications. Even the most basic stuff i bring up in conversations seems to wow people. I personally think there is such thing as spiritual intelligence. Which is people that can make sense of metaphysical platforms and their implications naturally. Unfortunately, some of these people become experts in ancient books too... and further manipulate people into these organizations that have entrapped people's minds.
But the point is, people still experienced something in order to correlate it to their belief. I'm absolutely with you that these experiences don't point to any specific platform. They are just... "unexplained." I wouldn't even go as far as saying a higher power. However, there are experiences that suggest some sort of "intelligence" is behind the experience. I'm going to paraphrase one of my experiences to illustrate what i mean. Image holding a necklace. Now, imagine you do everything to make sure you understand the natural spin before you start and that you are stable. Now, someone tells the necklace to spin to the right (it spins hard to the right), says stop (it stops), says spin it to the left (it spins hard left). There is more to the story, i'll tell you if you'd like, but that is the gist of it. Now... what conclusions can i make from that? I would say, spiritually speaking, something was able to follow commands and spin the necklace. The most logical natural explanation is that i spun it myself unconsciously. But i know i didn't, and did everything in my power to test it. So... it just becomes an unexplained experience right?
Therein lies my definition of spiritual. I define spiritual as a reality we aren't aware of that seems to exhibit intelligence. This could be god/gods, spirits, aliens, inter-dimensional beings, etc. It also covers maybe an unseen dimension in our own world that has some sort of agency through us. It really could be anything. In my case, i call all of these platforms. We have no clue what the platform is that allows for such things. Many are trying to explain it... including religion, but none, in my opinion, know. Except recently i've been starting to be very intrigued by the "infinite consciousness" type eastern philosophy stuff... it jives with science in my opinion so it's def. the most interesting. Also, since eastern people have been asking questions and changing for years... i'd say they are the experts in explaining the platform, if anyone.
But ultimately i don't think the platform matters. It's all about who you and i are to the platform that matters. Who i am to infinity (crazy implications). But i digress. I think if we can get the platform down and focus on one, maybe one day we can start discovering it. I think the rest i agree with you, but i would say one should equally look for supernatural explanations as well as the natural. Bc if you only look for natural explanations... you'll come up with one. My necklace example... i could easily say i spun it and that's it. But i'd be intellectually dishonest if i count out that wasn't the case. We are really young in our existence facing an infinite platform. Maybe some beliefs were wrong about thunder being thor banging his hammer... but could there be an entity that created thunder? Although Vikings and Greeks were wrong about certain parts... i think their way of beliefs (multiple gods) is an interesting perspective about the platform. Maybe there is one consciousness with multiple entities within it... one god and multiple gods. I just find it very interesting that humans can even think of such things.
One last thing is... i don't think humanity can handle a spiritual answer currently. My personal belief is that i'm infinite. That when i die i will just choose another experience to have. If i knew i was right 100%... i would probably kill myself. So... let's say i'm right for everyone. Why would anyone live if that was a truth? Even the infinite consciousness platform has similar implications... i imagine a lot would commit suicide. So, maybe it's by 'design' we currently can't have this spiritual answer and why it's so elusive. I have other thoughts on this... but i've already wrote too much. The implications of anything spiritual being true is pretty deep. I don't think one should count it out... at the same time, we have to fight against the humans trying to entrap people into their belief... bc i do label that as continuing something evil.
