The Personal is Spiritual

I've had some 'spiritual' experiences in my life that the typical person may
proclaim as 'crazy'. Even I have questioned my sanity, because when I compare my
experiences to what society deems as 'normal' and 'sane', my experiences do not
fit within the acceptable parameter. Society has so narrowly defined what is
Reality, it reminds me of the parable of the three blind men who are each
holding a different body part of an elephant trying to describe the entire
animal based upon the one portion that they are immediately experiencing.
Due to society's lack of acceptance for anything deemed 'paranormal', 'psychic',
or 'spiritual', those of us who do experience something out of the ordinary, we
are reluctant to share it because we face ridicule, persecution, and are labeled
'crazy'. The experience is usually dismissed as being 'all in your mind'. I
don't find this to be an untruth, because what I have experienced has taken
place in my mind, but that does not make it any less 'real' or any less a part
of Reality.
There is this prejudice that the only Real experiences are those that are
physical experiences, the kind that are 'solid', have 3 dimensions, and can be
replicated on demand so that a group of scientists can make a graph of the data
and a mathematician can create a new formula to describe the event. Yet, just
how 'solid' is our world? Quantum physics has revealed that what we so fondly
think is a 'solid' world is really 'illusionary'. (Ancient mystics have been
proclaiming the world is an illusion for centuries and now finally science is
giving them credibility after debunking them.)
I read once in a physics book that the volume of an atom is on occupied by
99.99999999% nothing! In other words, less than 1% of an atom contains a solid
substance, and if you look at how much each subatomic particle weighs, it's
very, very, little.
Aside from all of this, those scientists who conduct research on consciousness
have yet to come to a definitive conclusion about just what consciousness is!
From the various sources I have read, researchers are like the three blind men
describing portions of the elephant. Aspects of consciousness can be described,
but what it truly is as an entirety is still not yet cohesive.
Now that my long preamble is over, I shall start sharing some of my experiences.
Most of my experiences have come through in my dreams. I have had a few 'waking'
experiences.