Do US theists accept the claims of the Declaration Independence?

I'd say no. This is actually a question I've been thinking about lately. Is there a difference between subjective warrant (inner experience) and objective warrant?

The latter is public and accessible while the former is by its very nature private. But does that privacy negate the epistemic value of experience? In your case, given your general intellectual honesty, a null hypothesis exists: namely that the experience is self-generated.

Alas, that doesn't really solve the problem. For if you did truly have an epiphany how would it differ from what you created for yourself? Does the indistinguishability of the two tell you anything concrete?

It lays bare the problem of linking perception to reality itself, doesn't it? There is also something else I've been wondering about. How much influence does our self-perception play in the way we interpret experience?

I hope you'll forgive me for asking, but is it possible that you are so heavily invested in being rational (meaning empirical) that a wider reality is inaccessible to you? The universe is not completely rational. You know that as well as I do.

Yet we both insist on forcing it into some sort of conceptual box. There are good reasons for doing so. It keeps us grounded.

It keeps us more or less sane. But it also keeps us from soaring.

Be careful not to confuse your individual mind with Universal Mind. It's all the same stuff but with a huge difference in degree. The universe of relative reality dwells in Universal Mind.

It is NOT independent of (Universal) Mind. But again, don't confuse individual mind with Mind. Your indicated experience indicates a slight awareness of Mind.

Some people have experience like this and claim it to involve God. It really doesn't matter what you call it, as long as your name for it doesn't insinuate a truckload of experience independent baggage into your belief about your actual experience. TQRP.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.