Are miracles real?

[arthra]

I think it's an interesting topic to consider "miracles"... I've met people who say they've witnessed miracles and at a certain level I think I can accept that miracles can occur...

An extraordinary event that can't be explained by our everyday way of thinking and experience could be a definition of a "miracle".

When people are pushed beyond their limits and their usual coping mechanisms are exhausted, "miracles" can sometimes occur.

The miraculous I think also can be an attitude...a expectation to be open to the unprogrammed and unexpected event.

The miracles recorded in scriptures are along the line of divine intervention in human affairs... but unless someone was there, how can anyone be certain that a miracle occurred? And even if you were "there" and would testify to a miracle... Who would believe you anyway? That's a little pessimistic but true about today's skeptical attitudes... Better to "button up" to it and use discretion who you relate your personal miracles to...otherwise you'll be castigated and attacked.

I also think the miraculous conveys a message that is often overlooked... We think of the event itself without probing very far into it's ultimate meaning or greater significance.

- Art

[mirrorinthefog]

There may be some merit to miracles, ones for which there are no apparent explanations that we are able to prove on way or another actually took place. However, just because we can't see the answer to how something happened doesn't mean the answer's not there. Conversely, just because we may eventually see how a 'miracle' was able to work precisely at the right place and time doesn't make it any less incredible.

[Sacredstar]

Dear All

Yes miracles are real and I have personally witnessed and been involved in at least two both related to healing.

Distant healing yes this is also scientifically proven now, as well as the power of prayer. Remote viewing work has been used by the CIA/FBI for some years, although I call it remote scanning when carrying out this work.

Love beyond measure

Sacredstar

[murphy]

Interesting topic. I think it’s important when dealing with this topic to confine the words into the context from which they come. Miracle is synonymous with miraculous act. Miraculous act is synonymous with any act or form out of the ordinary. With this said, a subsistence culture that relies entirely on agriculture views a direct correlation between food production and miraculous acts. Being raised evangelical, I always felt there was this strange line to walk between looking for miracles and expecting miracles in times of need, but not pushing or forcing God, and waiting as though it may never actually happen. Some people I know view every act as a miracle, I am a bit more skeptical. For anyone with any amount of belief in any form of God, simply believing in God should make the idea of miracles an easy concept to believe. Think about it: harmony in nature, a self sufficient planet, a creation that is able to conceptualize God... these are all miracle if we wish to view them that way.

[I, Brian]

Hi Murphy, and welcome to CR.

[Sacredstar]

Bruce Lipton's latest announcement

Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles

His new book 'The Biology of Belief'

A groundbreaking work in the field of New Biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor (University of Wisconsin) and research scientist (Stanford University School of Medicine). His experiments, examining in great detail the molecular mechanisms by which cells process information, have revealed that genes do not in fact control our behavior, instead, genes are turned on and off by influences outside the cell. These influences include our perceptions and beliefs. He shows that our beliefs‹true or false, positive or negative‹affect genetic activity and actually alter our genetic code. Dr. Lipton's profoundly hopeful work, being hailed as one of the major breakthroughs in the New Sciences, shows how we can retrain our consciousness to create healthy beliefs, and by doing so create a profoundly positive effect on our bodies and our lives.

www.brucelipton.com

I am looking forward to reading his work on miracles.

Love beyond measure

Sacredstar