Unfortunately, I have an inbred cynicism that makes religious experience particularly tricky for me. I reflexively wonder whether it's really God I'm feeling or something I'm just imagining or inventing. Maybe what I need is a religious experience as potent as Paul's. God granted Paul a tour of what ancient Jewish cosmology labelled the third heaven: the place where God Almighty dwells. In the lectionary passage, Paul refers to another man making this heavenly journey, but most scholars believe that Paul is describing himself. He just doesn't want to brag about it.