“What some folks call impossible, is just stuff they haven’t seen before.”
-Chris Nielsen in the movie What Dreams May Come
Another variation of Charles Dicken’s “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” could be: It was a time of the most cutting edge of human development and technology, it was a time of primitive obstinance and stunted growth.
We have cell phones that can answer just about any factual question you could ever ask. We have satellites allowing us to speak in real time with someone on the other side of the world. We can use lasers to correct vision, we replace vital organs somewhat routinely, and all sorts of other procedures that have granted decades more to bodies on the verge of death. Yet, when it comes to the subject of miracles, how many hundreds of millions of us have not left the thinking of the second century?
Speaking just in the context of Christianity, it has been taught throughout the ages that miracles were reserved for Jesus only—the one and only Son of God. I have personally encountered many people who were raised to believe that if anyone claims to have communicated with God or Spirit, or claim any kind of psychic powers or mediumship, or perform healings outside of religion—if someone dares to say a miracle ever occurred outside of Jesus, well, then it must be of the devil. If there is a devil, then that kind of thinking is one of his greatest ruses… ‘leave people disempowered forever thinking that only Jesus could perform great works, aka miracles.’
Yet Jesus says in John 14:12, “Whoever believes in me, the works that I do shall they do also; and greater works than these shall they do, because I go unto my Father.” But, we think, he didn’t really mean it…he was just being nice, he was the Messiah. In Mark 11:24 he says, “So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” Jesus empowered individuals as to their unlimited spiritual potential. Yet how often is it declared somehow blasphemous any time someone publicly proclaims to do what Jesus said?
As we move further in our development we come to realize that there is a science to spirituality. Quantum physics more and more shows us that the mind—our thoughts—directly influence reality. Numerous experiments have showed that the probability of outcomes is influenced by the observer of the experiment. Is light comprised of waves or particles? Both, it seems, depending on how you look at it.
I don’t remember a time in my life where the Law of Attraction had become such a mainstream accepted understanding as it is today. But when enough people accept that truth and have seen it put into practice and with actual fruits of results, there is no stopping it. I believe if we should survive many more hundreds of years on this earth, our minds, thoughts, and beliefs will be more of an integral part of health, healing, and well-being than any kind of medicine is today. Our lives will be designed and manifested by our thoughts, fueled by our emotions and states.
We are so enraptured with our religious beliefs that we can get stuck thinking that it somehow is saying Jesus was ordinary and not special if we can in fact perform (allow) miracles. But that is a fallacy; it doesn’t take one iota away from who Jesus was on earth to accept and realize our own potential. That is what Jesus taught people to do! “Seek and you will find. Ask and it will be given.” He didn’t say, “Seek me and nothing else.” Nor did he say, “No need to ask because all the answers have already been given to you.”
Miracles are our birthright. What’s more is they are effortless. Manifesting a penny to be found is no different to the universe than us receiving a million dollars. As A Course in Miracles puts it, “There is no order of difficulty in miracles.” And I have seen this line of wisdom in many different understandings or spiritual texts, and in texts on the Law of Attraction. There is no difference between the speed of a paper cut healing, or the speed of deep cut to the bone healing. Only our perceptions and beliefs create a disparity there. This too has been shown and documented countless times.
Who knows—perhaps one day in the far future there will be so many people walking on water that it will become commonplace. We will realize that Jesus was a living example of self/God realization on earth…showing us the way two or three thousand years before his time. We will know that we are all made of the same stuff. “Christ” may become more common a word to refer to the light within us all—our light—the light of God within us, with no religiosity intended. Remember some of his parting words: “On that day [his leaving the earth] you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you” (John 14:20).
Believe in miracles. Ask to see a miracle, and God will oblige, the universe will oblige. Do not fear, just believe.