I am glad to hear you standing your ground on what you really believe. I am pleased to hear your testimony of what God has done for you.With your finger pointing at me, four are pointing back at you. I have been walking with the Lord 45 years, having been snatched out of drugs and Eastern Mysticism among other junk. Your words remind me too much of the non Christian mystics I've encountered. Thanks for your time...but no thanks.
I pointed no fingers specifically at you, although it may have seemed so. Rather I would simply hope people would realize that God works as He works even if we do not always believe or even accept the possibility of someone else's testimony being true. For me not to speak/write sometimes would be to deny my own testimony of what God has done for me and my wife for so many years. We both need to know when to speak or be silent, and if we do speak to be certain that it will be edifying to someone in the things of God.
I meant you no harm or disrespect. My beliefs come primarily from scriptures, which I have read numerous times over the years, and from personal prayer time. Early in my life I was influenced by a number of ministers of the gospel, some of them perhaps not where they should have been. Hopefully the negative occurrences have proved themselves useful in God's purpose.
This perhaps is why God led me years ago in particular to the parable contained in Luke 14:7ff. As a result I strive to regularly go back to the 'lowest room' when I meet with God each day.
Give God the glory!