Religious experiences in themselves are not necessarily delusions (though some are), but what follows wrt thoughts about such religious experience may certainly be so. Reality is forever on the other side of thought! The concept of, or thought about, realty or any aspect of reality is not that reality, reality is real, concepts and thoughts about it are only mental representations of the real. When I understood that, I was able to put my religious experience down to being real, but that any ideas as to why it happened is speculative and so not to get ahead of the unfolding development of my life in the context of the bigger picture. Iow, I am not the messiah until I am...