I believe in miracles because otherwise I would have to believe in total predetermination. I prefer to believe all life has free will.
Why does so much of what happens seem predictable? Because so much of creation is in harmony with every such part getting exactly what it wants, where it wants and how it wants. All that is not in harmony randomizes its free will so much as to not have any effect outside its own confines.
An ocean wave is surfed by waiting for the wave, swimming quickly enough to fit in with where it’s going, then riding it….without getting dumped...Then one waits for another wave to ride to shore. Perfect fitting in gives more than just being propelled to the shoreline: the wave allows for skimming sideways along it all the time making sure of fitting in, keeping in time, being at the right place at the right time, by wanting to.
Some think that all desires are produced by prior events, so actions as a result of volition are only the results of predetermined chains of events going back to the beginnings of time. Randomness is contended, by some, to be impossible. For them, belief in absolute inevitability is made easier by thinking that apparent randomness, although mathematically proven to be random by definition, is still the result of observing events that in themselves are not random and that have unbroken chains of cause-effect…back to the beginning of time. Randomness is a definition; and if one was all-knowing, then all events would be completely predictable. I’m saying that only the summary of everything that exists – say the One God – is the only person who knows Everything; and I believe God allows individuals to choose what happens from an infinity of possibilities.
So an essay about miracles includes a definition of God? For here, put aside limiting God to some “concept” of say “a god”. Consider God as a person: a person of infinite Love. Infinite love by definition regards every part of self as equal to the whole self. Every part of God is a known, numbered member of the whole. Part of the definition of all that exists is for this to be one aspect of God. God can front to each of us as an equal, as a mirror image; warts and all; with unconditional love.
Creation is infinite. Allow that Creation is multi-dimensional; that Creation is large enough for each numbered part of God to have its own unique set of dimensions – at least three to have top, bottom, left and right… From each of our unique sets of dimensions we venture into the greater reality, independently, able to change chains of events going back to the beginning of time and inevitable until the end of time…but changed, forever, because we can step in and make the changes happen. Intent causes events to happen that otherwise would just remain dormant within the infinite holographic multidimensional store of possibilities. We have existed forever. Every part of the multi-dimensional hologram can reproduce the whole and we are each such a part. Our individuality is the light that shines on the hologram to produce unique realities according to our intentions that have no beginnings and no ends. Time, for reality, is only Now. Past, present and future, for cause-effect purposes, are all the same.
The myth, of causes-and-effects, is to mistake situations, which are eternal, as being transients, that did not happen. Taking a supposed say “logical” view of cause and effect, one might describe a cause as having happened in the past, so it no longer exists. The effect is going to happen in the future, so it does not exist. The present, so, would be by definition infinitely small – so the present can not actually exist. So to consider something as having been caused….by what? By what magic other than what seems to be happening all the time, can anything actually exist except in the imaginations of our memories? We think of “now” because we can remember a past – a past that no longer exists. We think of a “future” because we can predict what it will contain…up to a point…but that future never actually exists. So, with a “now” that is infinitely small, does anything exist other than in our imaginations? So, say “logically”, to think that something actually causes something else, is to presume some ties between something that does not exist and something that does not exist via something that can not exist – there is actually no real possibility of anything being actually “caused” by anything else – except in our imaginations, our perceptions, our dreams, memories…our actual Being – which can be whatever we want it to be.
Aside from the need to justify belief in miracles, using words and ideas, there are many other mechanisms to shore up the concept of belief in miracles.
Consider the logic of scale: atoms, molecules, particles; purely theoretical constructs, models and concepts using words the meanings of which relate logically to each other, to give a basis of a mathematically accurate view of reality as we sense it. People may actually get inside a single atom, by spiritually imagining doing so; and to describe an atom, the pictures may be as visualizations, analogies, visual and auditory impressions – sensory impressions, the products of individual experience and the person’s abilities to communicate with other people. The description has to be separated from the reality, for the smallest parts of our 3D reality to be described at all. In reality, atoms can be any size from infinitely small to very large, long before they can be detected, as individuals, by any means known to people. What people see, when they see particles, is confirmation, at least enough to support their belief systems, of logical relationships between theoretical events and theoretical models to describe those events. How many actual atoms does it take for an experimenter to know that one has changed – perhaps one, perhaps a trillion? Does that make the atom real just in the form it is described in.
Consider that if even an atom could be a whole universe? The time scale, for that atom, would make one second equal to the whole of known time, at least, would it not, approximately….? A person may be breathing in collections of universes, each of which is experiencing trillions of years, on their time scale, during the inhalation. A spirit being may change scale – to encompass universes on scales that would make each of the atoms, inside each atom of our universe, each equal to our universe…indefinitely to infinitely small…And the same spirit may breath such scales up to universes the size of infinitely large. Scale is one way of having multiple dimensions all in the same space.
Consider time. We know the speed of light only according to the local clock. If time seems to flow in equal quantities, to us, the knowledge does allow that, on a different scale, our time might be a billion years as equal to a second, on another scale… Of countless analogies to illustrate the fact of Creation being multi-dimensional, the concept is best left as a concept. So by each having independent individuality, by being unique, we are independent of chains of cause and effect.
We do allow some intelligence to predict enough from the apparent “past” into the imagined “future” so as to have a “now” that seems to be longer than infinitely small. The intelligence is our imaginations. Our imaginations are the windows to the reality of our being; the shared multi-dimensional reality. Our 3D solid world is within infinity just three dimensions where isolating islands of force fields push each other out of the way and compromise, in patterns, to form all that our perceptions call energy and matter. We come from a greater reality formed in concert with the whole of reality all of which is alive and has consciousness. Our individuality is mostly running on automatic because we are each mostly a product of where we choose to experience life, for the moment. We, as infinite beings sharing an infinite Creation, in harmony, may decide that we want something to happen; for the whole of Creation to fit in with us, as we do with the whole of Creation. We are all part of the same person.
Refer to the diagram below. It shows two time-domain graphs of a sine-wave from zero to 360degrees – one revolution from minimum, to maximum….through to minimum. The sine-waves are pictures in 2D as if at right-angles to each other, in 3D, to represent two different outcomes for the same event – it can either be vertical or horizontal. Say the vertical event represents what might seem as an inevitability; but the little magenta line, passing through zero, is also a sinewave – too small to see. When something on the vertical time-line is crossing zero, it can be deflected as easily as a billiard-ball being deflected by a grain of sand. The function is independent of relative size. A tiny event can deflect a gigantic event by meeting the larger event at a vulnerable tiny part of its existence. The dual-sine-wave picture represents events in more than three dimensions. Our 3D reality depends on more than three dimensions. Events are formed by force-fields mutually sharing space so that the patterns are the reality. The force-fields – the exclusion-force fields – that lend tangibility to patterns, can be excluded, diverted, by other patterns that intrude enough to divert the tangibility, deflating the reality of the original patterns. The vulnerability points, in the diagram, are represented as being at the zero-crossing points where the large wave is smaller than the tiny wave that is representing will and intent; however the actual points of vulnerability, for timing purposes for the tiny “intent” wave (magenta) could equally be represented as being at the peaks of the large wave.
The speed of movement in a wave is greatest at the zero-crossing points; so at the peaks, the wave is stationary – so actually more vulnerable there….logically, for illustration purposes….one might say? Actually, there is no inertia in nature except by the intentions of living beings to maintain creation as having tangible, communicable say “reality” to be observed mutually rather than as if purely in one’s “imagination”. As people we experience the greater reality by using our imaginations. The illustration, of how a tiny “force” – say the intent of one human being – can affect anything of any size, implies that reality is more than a sine-wave; that tangible reality is an infinite number of sinusoidal oscillations, just to maintain one universe. The whole of our universe could be described as one multi-dimensional waveform with a nearly-infinite number of harmonics with frequencies from infinitely slow, per second, to infinitely fast, per second….and that would be less than one atom, in one concept of one part of the whole of Creation.
(David Beale 4:40PM 1st October 2007 unedited)
copyright David G Beale Kalamunda Western Australia 1995-2007.