In the "
let go and let god"
node,
Morgon77 comments,
"The whole idea of having a close personal relationship with God is rather new (within the last hundred years or so in terms of emphasis) but highly significant."
My own studies indicate that the history of religion is full of mystics, saints, boddhisattvas, and tzaddiks who left behind detailed accounts of their subjective experiences of close personal relationships with God.