Can you explain the difference between such an experience and say, the everyday experiences of there not being fire-breathing dogs?
I suspect you are talking about an emotional devastation and feeling of hopelessness, or dismay at being cheated and fooled. Perhaps a lack of direction or goals for your life, or the realization of your own mortality. Drawing a distinction between a feeling contradicting a deeply held belief rather than an accepted one might shed some light on the issue.
Actually, no, you're way off base.
Modulous has described it so that I have little more to add.
I am talking about a
numinous awareness of reality, without any gods in it
particularly; but there might be gods, but they'd just be more real things, like everything else.
Well, the sensation is hard to describe.
But this is completely different from the usual feeling I have that there is no God, which is comparable to the feeling I have that I am not incredibly rich, or immortal, or at least immune to the usual effects of smoking tobacco, and which might all be summarized by the word "damn".
The point is that one can have what feels like a "religious experience" which is in fact profoundly irreligious.
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