Most intense experience with The Force?

I wondered because we all have our own individual experiences with what people might call the Force or spiritual energy or magic but I wanted to ask the Jedi here. Were there times you send sense the Force in someone, and know what kind of energy they gave or felt the Force flow through you during training or meditation. I would like to hear any experiences

I had a pretty intense ego death once, but it didn't last too long. Felt more connected to the Force by a lot since then though. Can't really describe what it was like other than saying it was like an ego death, haha.

The Force is in all things, as such I find it more a possible state of perpetual awareness than a thing to be experienced in the kind of heightened "pockets" your post suggests to me. Training doesn't heighten my connection with the Force; just my awareness of that connection.

I guess my first realisation of the fundamental similarity of all existence as a kid was an intense experience... reading some Vedic text or other and stepping outside into my garden Wih. New awareness the flowers, the trees, the birds, the sun and the sky were all manifestations of the same great "all" as me. That was powerful stuff.

Since then life has been an oscillation between involvement in my life and rememberance of the underlying unity of all around me.

For me "the Force" is just a reminder that we're all woven into each other's lives. Like Stu said, there are moments where I'm more aware of those connections and it makes me giddy, but it's just a psychological thing, like when someone you have a crush on is talking to you. My brains aren't actually melting out of my ears because you smell nice, it's just thousands of years of evolution telling me to pay attention.

And that happens to me way too often xD

... this breath, then this one, then this one ...

... realising that I'm awake ... realising that I'm not ...

... listening to the wind, the trains in the nearby freight-yard, the birds or aeroplanes soaring over ...

... a star-scape paling into sunrise, an orange-rosâtre, purple twilight sliding westward revealing night ...

... and the understanding that the "I" understanding the rest of it is just another thought ; the same "I"diot thought that all the other "I's" are having and have had here for three thousand million years ...

... being before becoming a 'been' ...

... and even that

For me, the Force is not magick in the occult sense. Magick, to give a bare bones definition, might best be described as a metaphysical exertion of will (someone more knowledgeable and/or practiced feel free to offer a better definition). The Force is a metaphysical connection of all life in the universe.

Therefore, I would say the most intense experience I've had with the Force would be the time I heard a cat howling and, despite my hatred of cats, I felt compelled to try and find out if there was something I could do to help the creature. In that moment, my connection and recognition of that connection through Force to the cat was stronger than my hatred for cats. None of my prior bad experiences with cats mattered. I heard a cat who sounded like it was suffering, I could not let the cat continue to suffer.

I aspire to have more moments like that one, hopefully with people, wherein my connection to them through the Force overrides any hatred or fear I have of them.

Well, since we don't know what we mean by the Force (nobody could yet explain what they even mean by it themselves, let alone what we collectively understand it to be), nor whether it exists (again, what ever that means), nor whether it can in principle or in practice affect things, we are left with experiences, profound though some of them may be. We can never get from what ever it is that we experienced to "therefore I was touched by the Force."
So I'm not saying that none of us had any experiences with it, or indeed anything else, but those of us who had (or believe they had) will - chances are - be utterly unable to link it to what ever "The Force" is.

I used to go to a Pentacostal sekt , they asked me this question relating to the holy Spirit and they got up on stage and they shared these magnificent and almost orgasmic like experiences , i never got that enthousiastic , untill i was on the highway with Yasmin and i felt a third person in the car and out of instinct stepped on the breaks, 2 deers ran in front of my car and escaped in the woods again , i never told anyone , i am telling you now , never ask me that again I find a lot of brushes with the Force too personal to share , untill i think someone can learn something from it , its not like we need to compare notes now do we ?

Gisteron wrote: Well, since we don't know what we mean by the Force (nobody could yet explain what they even mean by it themselves, let alone what we collectively understand it to be).

Jamie Stick wrote: The Force is a metaphysical connection of all life in the universe.

Please try harder. Making posts telling everyone how awful their posts are because they didn't approach it from a philosophical standpoint is insultingly small-minded, especially if it isn't true.

Gisteron wrote: Well, since we don't know what we mean by the Force (nobody could yet explain what they even mean by it themselves, let alone what we collectively understand it to be), nor whether it exists (again, what ever that means)

I've very clearly said what it is to me multiple times in the last five months, one of them is above, several are in my journal. The point of not clearly defining it is that it is different for everyone. Mine doesn't match yours, yours doesn't match his, but we agree, like in a 12 step program, that it is our "power greater than ourselves". I'm not sure why that isn't clear. If recovering alcoholics can carry on with nebulous ideas of higher powers to help their healing, why can't we use it for philosophical pondering?