I’d say my experiences with G-d were closer to how Daas Yochid describes it than how you’re describing it here. It felt qualitatively different than the connection I might have with a fictional character; it felt about as real as anything can feel. In retrospect, I think in some some sense my mind created a tulpa of G-d, and I only realized that after reading about competing religions, and how practitioners of them described their own spiritual experiences. It gradually became clear that the feeling of “this is a true experience” has little to do with how close to reality the spiritual experience actually is (unless I wanted to say that the Christians and Zoroastrians and everyone else were somehow also correct).
I’d say my experiences with G-d were closer to how Daas Yochid describes it than how you’re describing it here. It felt qualitatively different than the connection I might have with a fictional character; it felt about as real as anything can feel. In retrospect, I think in some some sense my mind created a tulpa of G-d, and I only realized that after reading about competing religions, and how practitioners of them described their own spiritual experiences. It gradually became clear that the feeling of “this is a true experience” has little to do with how close to reality the spiritual experience actually is (unless I wanted to say that the Christians and Zoroastrians and everyone else were somehow also correct).