Complete surrender to God, not petition but dissolution
Intense prayer, surrender to God, or devotional practice appears in roughly one in ten accounts, particularly in theistic and Christian contexts. The common thread isn't ordinary prayer but complete surrender — not petition but dissolution.
Several accounts describe crying out at the end of their rope — a total giving up — and something responding. Whether framed as God, grace, or simply an opening, what arrived was consistently described as more than what was asked for.
I was in the fetal position sitting on the floor crying hysterically praying to a god I didn't believe in please help me — and at that point there was a surrender and at that point there was an opening.
Satan, you might have won this battle, but you will never win this war. God is my father, Jesus is my savior, and I am a warrior, and I will tear your heart out with my teeth through your neck if you don't get away from me right now.
And as a matter of fact, my husband at the time -- very grounded, very 3D, very, you go to church on Christmas, maybe, you know, he's like, are you having a love affair?
And she said not to have faith in any person, that it's all God; take the good and leave the bad, and things like that, of that nature.
Experience types that appear most often in accounts with this trigger.
Other triggers that co-occur most frequently in the same accounts.