[Taraz]

I was asking this very question in a thread a week ago. I never really got an answer that I found satisfactory.

PairTheBoard claimed at the time that it all just gets wrapped up in the reality of the spiritual experience. You hear these things going into the experience so they become incorporated in it.

I think that something similar is probably going on. You hear all these things about God. You have a religious experience. You start believing all these things about God because he "spoke" to you and you have no reason to doubt the claims.

Maybe later you learn that something you heard about God doesn't jive with what you see in the world. Then you go down one of two paths. You either convince yourself that you were told something about God that is incorrect, or you convince yourself that what you see/hear in the world is incorrect. Depending on how hardcore you are in your faith, you could be in a spot where you think that what you heard about God can't be incorrect because he "spoke" to you and he wouldn't have if you were mistaken about who he really was. So then this subjective reality becomes more real than the objective reality because obviously objective reality was "wrong".