"How should I interpret this event?"

Uh. It rained?

Meanwhile these references thoroughly debunk all of the naive self-serving magical thinking of the usual Christian suspects.

The Christian Idol
http://www.aboutadidam.org/articles/secret_identity/idol.html

Saint Jesus of Galilee as a sacrifice
http://www.aboutadidam.org/articles/secret_identity/sacrifice.html

The Forgotten Spiritual Esotericism of Saint Jesus of Galilee
http://www.beezone.com/AdiDa/up/forgottenesotericismjesus.html

Related essays:
http://www.beezone.com/da_publications/christian.html

References on Esoteric Christianity as distinct from the "official" institutional version
http://www.beezone.com/esoteric_christianity.htm
An essay on the relation of exoteric institutional Christian-ISM and Esoteric Spiritual Religion
http://www.dabase.org/up-1-5.htm

Daffy Duck,

<<Meanwhile these references thoroughly debunk all of the naive self-serving magical thinking of the usual Christian suspects.>>

Instead of dumping your presuppositions on us, how about addressing a couple of the issues I raised in this article.

Your post was nothing more than avoidance of the nature of Jesus' resurrection.

ttbn,

In the article about the nature of Jesus' resurrection, I asked, ""How should I interpret this event?"

Your unintelligent and diversionary answer was: <<Uh. It rained?>>

Is this the level of interaction you maintain on OLO or do you have an anti-Christian bias that reaches into your inner being?

Are you ready for an intelligent conversation?

It is common for saints and Yogis to enter the state of Samadhi, or total absorption in God.

Samdahi is a different state of being, sometimes referred to as "super-consciousness", also sometimes called "the 4th" state ("turiya", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turiya) to distinguish it from waking, dreaming and sleeping. In Samadhi, all contact with the world is lost, there are no thoughts and no external signs of life are present, such as movements, reflexes, heart-beat, breathing or brain-waves.

Some refer to Samadhi as "suspended animation". This state can normally last for up to 21 days, then one either regains ordinary consciousness or leaves the body altogether.

The ressurection accounts in the New Testament give us good reasons to believe that Jesus was in Samadhi, united with His Father in Heaven, when his body was taken off the cross and placed in the tomb because he was mistaken for being dead.

A Catholic view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEs3es9WyIg