Whoa, sounds like some scary serious stuff (the medical) but at least there were plenty of people and other sentient beings that cared.

Sorry Rain but I merged your topic to this one. I think it would be better if all personal experiences will be placed on a single topic. Again, thank you for sharing and sorry for not always being around.

Ha! Caught him it was my kid. He's really quiet when he wants to be. Didn't hear him get out of bed and he kept doing things to trick me. Little devil. Gotta love the little guy.

So he's playing tricks on you? XD

Yes.

XD lil tanuki in training i guess then?

My past experience was when I was 17 years old. At that time my uncle whom I loved dearly had passed away, and my heart and my soul was reeling over it. Over the next few months everytime I meditated, I sensed something different about me, something that in some odd way didn't seem... "human". Initially I got scared, as one friend of mine, who was very knowledgable about spirits and other deities, told me that I had a mysterious energy inside me. I usually did the Kuji-ho meditation and at one point in time, a friend from another school told me to meditate with a seal he had shown me. I did what he said, and that's when something else, happened; something I never was prepared for. I found myself in a strange structure, it looked like I was in a shrine as I saw Shishi and Ni-oh statues through out the hall. As I walked through I saw five statues, each of one of the Divine Guardians; Seiryu the Guardian of the East, Suzaku of the South, Byakko of the West, and Genbu of the North. But then I stopped in front of a massive statue of a golden dragon. Its amythest eyes had a lazuline hue, and its mouth was closed. As I drew near the statue, the eyes began to glow, and soon the mouth opened a pearl with the character for spirit, 神 (kami) appeared on the pearl. The next thing I knew, I was greeted by a woman. She had black diamond eyes, her hair was glowing a whitish gold, she had crimson marks on her face and in her hair, and she had on a red and goldish white outfit with a red celestial robe. She was wearing a gold crown of sorts in her hair, and she had wings of gold. I was shocked at her sudden appearance and fell down. She knelt down and put her hand gently on my face. "Don't be afraid of me" she said, "I am Amaterasu Omikami, Princess of the Sun and ruler of the Kami." The fact that it was a goddess, or more accurately, a sacred entity, made me even more surprised. I asked "Why am I here? Why did an important spirit like you come to me??" She smiled and answered "Because it was you who have called for me..." Before I could ask what she meant, she brought me into a chamber. I was astonished, for I saw not only the Christ in person, but other figures of different religions; Buddha, Yu-Huang the Jade Emperor of Taoism, Shiva of Hindu, and five other major spirit lords. Christ looked at me and said "I've been waiting for you, my child." I was awestruck and bowed to him. He asked me why I was brought before Him, and I told Him I didn't know. Princess Amaterasu smiled and said "You are here because it's what you wanted", then He said it was time I knew the truth, and so he knodded to Amaterasu. the Sun Princess planted her lips onto my own and I felt warm inside, literally. The next thing I realized, the me that looked like my body crumbled away, revealing someone entirely different. Then Amaterasu called me "Kusanagi Hiei". I looked at her and said "who..?" Buddha said "That is your true name." But then Lord Christ walks over to me and gave me an outfit, which to my surprise resembled a Ninja. "But you are also known by another name," at first I misinterpreted what he called me, but soon I learned he called me "Kohryu" pointing to the dragon statue, and the pearl was gone! Amaterasu smiled saying that that pearl was my soul, and the symbol in it was proof of the covenant between her, Christ, and myself. From that moment on, my life would never be the same.

Now, I'm wondering about the different religions and beliefs. I believe that there's something that connects all of them to each other but I don't know what is it.

Each religion is connected to the other. Except Satanism, that one is connected to the Netherrealm; the home of the lost souls who have shuffled off this mortal coil.

Please do not mix satanism with devil worship. Most satanists are basically atheists who have a somewhat different philosophy to life. Its about power to oneself, not to Satan or Lucifer or any of the denizens of hell or any of the other more dangerous realms. Self-gained godhood. Rising above all higher powers and being the master of your own destiny. Granted most satanists that I know that practice magic dont exactly go for healing and goodwill for all sort of spells. Neither do I. Doesnt mean that either me or them or their religion have any more connection to any "Netherrealm" than for example Lutherian chistianity or religion taoism. Unless they are for some reason sought after in particular and that practice is in no way limited to satanism of any type. Indeed there has been rumours of quite high ranking clergymen using the grimorum verum among other such volumes. Devil worshippers on the other hand can surprisingly often (accidentally in my opinion) summon up genuine demons and forge connections to troublesome places. Idiots making peoples lives harder. The next one I find even thinking of sacrificing a cat is getting a thorough beating. I bet 20 € that neither the cat sacrifice thing nor the unsanitary blood drinking wasnt very common before the mass hysteria and the "educational" videos. P.S: Forgive me my ranting and lazyness but I just have no inclination to seperate the various types of satanism from each other, just from devil worship. Also I may have strayed from the subject a little.