UKP blog post from 2011: Just what comes to mind...

I read with interest people's discussions about contact with their deities. For some reason, I always imagine this contact as involving auditory and visual experience. This causes me to feel that I will never be anything other than an atheist as the sights and sounds I have on a day to day basis are (mostly!) very mundane. However, it has now occurred to me that I do have a great deal of 'other' sensory information in my day to day life that others would define as of divine origin. Those experiences just usually don't involve sights or sounds. Perhaps the anger I feel when I see others being bullied and hassled, for example, is Thor (or maybe Tyr) telling me to do something about it. Maybe the overall sensations that don't quite fit the space or time I am in are not just my consciousness shifting outside myself briefly. Bearing this in mind, I find that perhaps I am closer to something than I thought I was. If you see what I mean...?