Beliefnet
Okay, so we feel something unusual, overwhelming even. How can we be certain, as F1fan suggests, it's not simply imagination or tricks of perception due to our misinterpreting quite ordinary sensory input? DotNotInOz
It is.
It is a purely natural response of the human mind to focus all of our attention on some unusual but ordinary sensory input to determine if it is a threat or or just something memorable. Tennyson's poem is just a word salad. A word salad like any other word salad but with an unusual "dressing" that tastes funny. Is it poison like the word salad
"And
God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have
brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou
shalt have no other gods before me. (Exodus 20:1-3)"
or something profound that a reasoning human being should consider a life changing event?
It is always your choice. It is even your choice to dismiss it as imagination or misinterpretation. Or something that was "inspired by God" and therefore a poison to run away from. That "God hole" in your mind is a precipice to Hell. Avoid it all all costs. But it is also that scary view from the rim of the Grand Canyon, or the brow of Half Dome. Never go there, your life might be changed forever.
But as I said in a different context "I feel sorry for you."
