No doubt, people have experiences that they find to be crystal clear to them, and attribute them to some cause. The problem is that each person's experiences are private, and first-person. We know that in groups, people can be convinced that they have witnessed things, which we know to be false, take the case of illusionists who perform acts on stage, which are designed to deceive. In such cases, surely many audience members are looking for how the trick is done, but can't spot it. I would be looking out for it, but I'd be tricked, and not know HOW.

One aspect of such trickery is to set people up to expect certain things, and people who have a religious background are apt to interpret things in the light of what they think is possible, and to have such interpretations reinforced or accepted by other like minded people.

So while people have experiences, whether clear or vaguely "mystical", they may be interpreting the experience incorrectly. As a person who does not have such experiences, who is skeptical, (asks for good evidence), and so is cut off from the experience itself, what I will say is there has been an experience by another person, they have interpreted the experience a certain way, but they may be wrong about what the experience really was, or what its true explanation may be.

Of course I have experiences of my own, but as a sceptic, I will not jump to conclusions, and have never had reasons to believe that anything I've experienced lends credibility to belief in any gods, or in the supernatural. Could I be wrong? Well no, because all I'm saying is I'm not convinced, and that is true, (I'm not [yet] convinced). I am not saying that the supernatural or a god do not exist, simply that I have not had any good reason to think they do. If I get the good, convincing evidence I require, I might change my mind, but until then - NOT. As such, I am an atheist.

I'm not in a position to test another person, or peoples', private experience(s) in any way, and all I have is what I'm told by the person, or others who report what the person said they experienced, and what it meant to them. If the explanation expects me to accept something that I have no good reason to believe is possible, (like the so-called supernatural), then I'm not going to accept the explanation. If I could test the explanation, then I would, and might draw conclusions that agree with or don't agree with what the subject thought they experienced, and what its explanation was.

Many people who are not Christians also experience 'supernatural events' . Do we assume their religion is proven by those events?

I've experienced a few intriguing things over the years, but the truth is they are almost certainly a product of my mind, not some other entity. And, indeed, if there are entities we cannot see they are much more likely an exotic life form rather than someone who runs the whole universe, but is intensely interested in who we mate with.

[I have a cousin who started out as an engineer but became an evangelical preacher. I started in a rather fundamentalist family, but gave up on that decades ago.

If the events do not contravign the natural laws of our universe, they are possible. Don't forget reason though...which the religious, always do.