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When religious authorities reject your spiritual experiences

My pastor says my mystical experiences are demonic but they fill me with love and peace and I don't know who to trust.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional religious authority conflicts with direct spiritual knowing, forcing a choice between external validation and inner truth.

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