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.
An old version of this essay proved impossible to edit, so it was scrapped and the above written instead. This old version, below, has some ways, of putting the same ideas into words, nicer than the above version.
Miracles are everything. Everything that happens is a miracle. Believing can be about walking confidently into space from the edge of a mountain; even getting straight to the side of the mountain opposite without walking through the valley. Yet to feel a personal situation is hopeless yet know it’ll be ok...and it is ok: a miracle. Something is too difficult? Do it!...a miracle.
Moving a finger just slightly is a miracle when done by really wanting to do so; miracles have neither scale nor crossover between the ordinary, the too large nor the too-unusual. "Miracle" is a word, not a rule. If one can wave one's hand just by wanting to, one can move anywhere, change everything or do anything. To discuss miracles is to discuss the being of our individuality --- the definition of what we allow ourselves to do.
Volition is real. We may believe we have free will. We have infinite ability tending towards being like dust as driven by the wind.
Personal reality can extend into infinity. We are substantially independent of time's chains of cause-and-effect. Our human three dimensional bodies: collections of multi-dimensional force fields; in an infinite number of dimensions.
Belief in volition knows we change the future. Some consequences of past events are statistically inevitable but all are changeable even after any event. I believe we are somewhat independent from time and three-dimensional space; so we are independent enough to make decisions based on our individuality rather than our material history.
Freedom is independent of three-dimensional spatial history. Freedom separates us from cause-consequence sequences --- otherwise result would be inevitable and volition would be an illusion. We have much independence from our local three-dimensional cause-and-effect system. We occupy time as one large present-time; our place in time is more than a non-existent past, non-existent future and infinitely-small present. We may make whatever we want --- from any and all inevitabilities --- regardless of imposed and perceived logical impossibilities..
Can we argue and truly believe that sequences of causes and effects, if considering relative to every other event in creation, would be seen to form chains of inevitability going back to the beginning of time and ending at the end of time? Randomness is a label for patterns of cause and effect that are influenced by factors unknown. ignored or not understood.
Consider: how can anything really exist? The past might not be real because it could be said to no longer be existing; the future might not be real because it can be said to not yet exist; the present is infinitely small. But what are we know is more than, say "just in our minds": actually our imagination, conscious perception our individual definitions of what is personally real for ourselves --- is the guarantee that at least we as individuals, each, are real. Similarly, allowing this for ourselves, we may believe that other individuals exist; and I believe that, although this reality is beyond our personal perceptions, we may trust: we may trust in having volition; and the power of volition, relative to focus, is infinite.
We perceive a reality that is actually only what our minds tell us about what we remember of past events that, by being in the past, no longer exist: our reality is in our imaginations. The past is no longer real and the future has not yet happened. The present is infinitely small....?..This common viewpoint is nonsense! What basis can there be for believing how anything, that is no longer existing, can cause anything that does not yet exist, excepting that statistically some observations and opinions are reinforced by.....mostly what we want to believe or are trained to believe?
I feel that reality is one big Now; and that we talk about reality as having a past, present and future to distinguish between what is now and not now -- then there is the need for knowing what is being remembered in the imagination vs what is likely to be happening in the future, in our imaginations. Our environmental, psychiatric, fiscal and medical difficulties would be prevented and eased by allowing that the past is to some extent with us forever; that we are in the future already; and that we may accept our being as in Now.
Here's an example of how something logically --- that is, just using words or rote-learned concepts --- can actually be happening: Consider how a car rounds a curved bend, until, on the map, the road is at 90degrees compared with the old direction of the road ..... and the car does this, without loosing speed and without needing almost any extra energy in order to change direction:- According to what would be rote-learned say "concepts of" physics: the car should lose movement energy (inertia) when changing to the new direction. What happens, in fact, is that an infinite number of separate present-time increments can turn a corner and truly logically end up with zero loss of inertial energy....not on their own....theoretically. Consider the analogy of the flexible tires and suspension on cars when a car is turning a corner:- Changes in direction slow the car down only slightly: At 90degrees, there is zero inertial energy components in that direction, initially, in the new direction --- at the start of the corner. An infinite number of increments, each of zero loss mathematically, each redirect the energy from one direction into another. In fact the tires of the car also bounce the energy and it resolves by pushing the car in the new direction using the spring effects, rotating, in the tires. Bouncing the energy, using the flexibility of the tires and the suspension of the car.......Look at it this way, also: take a slight corner, say one that has 90percent of the vector of the original direction:, then reduce by 90%.....so an infinite number of zero decrements has the result of 100% of the energy changing to a direction that initially had zero component of energy in that direction. A mathematician could find huge holes in this argument, mathematically: but the point being made is that, in fact, cars to go around long winding bends, ending up at 90degrees to the original direction....with loss of speed equivalent only to friction in the car and from the environment.
Miracles happen; some as small as somebody moving a finger because they want to, as an individual rather than because the act was caused by events extending to the beginnings of time. Miracles may be accepted as mysteries yet still seen as ordinary, observable phenomena. We may avoid the pose of apology.
end of edit to June 2006.
Being one big now, by having a reality in many dimensions extra to the three we mostly see as the co-ordinates of where we live, pass their infinitely-small existence and energies from not existing in the past to not existing in the future? Considerations of miracles, compared to what is relatively ordinary, must allow that definitions of reality are more nebulous than definitions of what might exist within reality. Mathematics easilydescribes turning a corner yet retaining inertia in a direction that, at the onset of the change of direction, has no energy in that direction. The key to understanding time, space, energy and matter is to use mathematics and science to describe rather than to limit what can be described.
To believe in miracles one may lower one's belief in the strength of ties between past, present and future. One may believe that time and events have inertia, but such inertia and continuity is more a matter of faith or prejudice than theoretical fact. We may loosen the ties between events from a non-existent past, so they effect our now and our future, less, compared to what we want from the viewpoint of past, present and future being somewhat mingled into one big Now. The past has less effect on the future, which is as yet not real, than we need to believe. The past also logically gets reduced to nothing because it has to pass through a present that is infinitely small. The tiniest of individual concentric force-fields, that comprise our physical reality, have perpetuation of oscillation and existence --- not inertia. Whatever causes the perpetuation of individual atomic and subatomic events, say oscillations, is most likely only an analogy of the physical intertia of a moving vehicle that, in time, perpetuates its relative directions of movement.
Minute concentric oscillations, of mutually-exclusive force-fields, combine into patterns to form most of all that is in our present universe. They exclude others, from their particular places, at the same time. They also move in any dimension and follow constraints from being confined by other fields especially field patterns that are larger or stronger than themselves. Their complex movements, between dimensions allow oscillations to form into stable groups; their surroundings are in stable patterns so their own movements and constituents remain stable.
Groups of oscillations have inertia as perpetuations of themselves, over time, with some stability; but such inertia is a fact in time, not actual ownership of energy other than the tendency not to be destroyed nor changed. The tiniest particles, that constitute matter, have only their existence and ability to exclude other exclusion-force fields. Tiny concentric force fields, each occupying a relatively stable set of dimensions, have only slight stability for patterns of changes in space and dimensions; they can be diverted by any presence encountered. When diverted into other dimensions and/or other positions in space, there is no need for the exchange of particles of matter/energy; such energy/matter exchange is responsible for inertia, when three-dimensional stability is maintained. Most of our universe's matter and energy is about combinations of large accumulations of tiny force-fields; that are easy to divert; and are easy to have their apparently-inevitable cycles and patterns changed or apparently created from nothing --- created by emerging from other dimensions. As human beings and in common with all living organisations, we can divert force-fields both within and outside the three main dimensions we perceive. Diversion of force-fields alters their pathways as they pass from past into the future via the present. By getting the timing exact, for diverting the tiniest of force-fields in a collection, all other force-fields in that collection may subsequently follow the alternative path as patterned by the initial diversion; no matter how small that primary diversion may be even if it is the only oscillation changed by our wanting it to change.
Forces of confinement of oscillations allow groups, such as atoms, molecules and universes, to form stable patterns that can be and move as groups spatially and dimensionally in stable patterns. Confining forces may be static; static force-fields do exist. Many other forces similarly are also, like shells, containing and directing complex patterns of oscillations. Such confining forces work like mixes of exoskeleton, internal skeletons, multi-layer shells....
Everything with individuality has knowledge of it's being according to its complexity. Everything with individuality has enough details, in its oscillation/s, to define the whole of creation. Everything is equal. Oscillations of the finer details of creation may be of any size from infinitely large to infinitely small. The definition of life is that the individual is as a numbered percentage of infinity.
We presume we exist; so what else might be true that is also normally considered as beyond reality? Here I do not beg for suspension of belief in reality as we commonly observe it; nor in what is considered to be true; I'm putting forward a basis for believing in a reality that is independent of our observations and our existence in it --- our existence that is independent of our present series of chains of inevitable causes and effects. Our existence is self evident; despite arguments that such events are in fact just in our imaginations despite nether past nor future existing and despite the present being infinitely small; so how can a person actually effect events in our reality, rather than just be subject to an infinite complexity of causes and effects? How can we intrude into the chains that seem to bind our infinite future to our infinite past? The answer lies in presuming also that we also exist in an infinite now; that encompasses past, present and future as one present. Our real, complete and multi-dimensional now places our existence within an infinite variety and number of dimensions and places to be in. By our infinite nature, we can affect events in our present apparently more finite situations.
A conception of being independent of time can allow any reality to exist beyond any number of chains of cause and effect. Independent existence must have a present time wider than infinitely small in reality, not just in imagination. By considering time to be one infinite present one big Now our imaginations can be understood to exist beyond our perceptions; similarly our limitations on our abilities to alter an imaginary future. These limitations also are just according to our perceptions. Miracles are the total reality of present time; miracles are sufficiently independent, of the non-existent past and the non-existent future, to happen just because we, as living beings --- as living binding controlling forcefields --- cause them.
When is being able to decide to walk, and the body gets to another place, called a non-miracle, compared to being able to levitate, to be in the other place anyway, or whatever? I’m talking about doing something, by intent, as if doing or not-doing is something an individual can decide. At what stage, of the size of the event being desired, visualized, intended....as what stage or size is it to be called a miracle instead of ordinary? My contention, firstly, is that there is no dividing line between miracles and non-miracles. We are multi-dimensional spiritual beings able to influence events in our present choice of three perceived dimensions and our time that seems to be linear; being able to influence anything is miraculous enough without needing anything more for so-called miracles to happen. Miracles can be extraordinary, but miracles are ordinary events following patterns or, say, "rules" that are little-known and rarely understood.
On a scale of infinitely small to infinitely large, would the fact of moving/doing something make that much difference whether it be moving one’s finger or moving one’s whole body… or just being somewhere else instantly? Relative to infinity in either direction, any difference, between any two sizes, is zero. How small must a rock be for us to move it by wanting it to move rather than by pushing it? How many molecules are we causing to move in our fingers when we are playing a musical instrument? Are we moving such things by wanting to or are we just supposedly more complex than leaves being blown by the wind? What would the causes of the ability of our "non physical" bodies, souls, spirits, whatever (may we take "non-physical" to mean "multi-dimensional" rather than something separate from our 3D world?) to make things happen in our so-called "physical" body? Somewhere the idea of "sould" and "body" comes in; of a whole person occupying many continuous and co-existing (not contiguous --- continuous) dimensions some of which are "solid" (three dimensional) and the others being in dimensions usually accessed via the imagination or the "mind". I like to think of life being multi-dimensional, where we exist as a whole person, with many aspects to our being of which presently we focus on the reality of only three dimensions plus time --- with other dimensions being perceived as less real, for the time being just part of "mind".
Between non-solid existence in our minds and the relatively solid reality of our bodies, we do believe in enough links to presume we have arbitrary movement of our limbs that we can make decisions that really do effect events so just how big do these changes have to be, to be called miracles? For events changed by us wanting them to change, to be called a miracle depends on the size and surprise values of what we can made happen.
We do tend to limit our possibilities for making miracles happen. We limit our intent. We exclude those possibilities that are outside the most common day-to-day events; according to what is normal or usual in size or scarcity. Perhaps we should consider abundance, levitation, healing, creativity, pleasure and health as miracles we can make happen by wanting to?
Some people believe that spirits, more competent than us, can do miracles for us; but really we can do far more for ourselves than just hoping or begging for help. The creator, I believe, has given us everything we need to use as we wish; and if we don't believe, or instead we think some facility only works by using certain rituals…then that's ok the rituals work up to the point of the strength of our belief because intent determines outcome.
I believe in miracles because I find impossibility in believing otherwise; yet still I also tend to doubt my ability to do things that seem initially to be too large. Possibly, though, regarding the size of any miracle expected to be done, the only argument or doubt I have is how it fits in with other people and creation generally. Getting a mountain to toss itself into the sea is only ok provided one can ignore the idea that another living being, who might be on the side of the mountain that one can’t see, might not want to go for a swim. If people are out of harmony with each other (and the rest of creation) so use their individual intent abilities selfishly, then the general soup of conflicting wants and preferences just cancels into ineffectiveness mixed with random con-incidences. One person wants rain; another wants just an overcast sky to go riding without sunburn; another wants a sunny day for the beach…I believe that Creation includes ways to get each person something special some of the time for example by having the seasons, the weather, and patience. I believe if a person had the motivation to change the weather, the weather would change; but to have such certainty and focus of will implies also having the wisdom to use it, the wisdom to let nature take its course; the wisdom to let consequences follow actions and to let other people have what they want and see it can fit in with what one wants anyway.
People consider that by volition more than randomness, neither a product of causes beyond our control we can do ordinary things. We can play, talk and walk. So really, without explaining the mechanism how something from one set of dimensions often called "imagination' change something within a present-time that really does not exist. How can a "spiritual" (as if there is something not spiritual!) supposedly-imaginary force make something happen that otherwise would not have happened?
Regardless of size, to make a miracle happen needs belief that it can happen. Belief clarifies and adds focus to intent. One may even believe that what one wants has enough events behind it to make it a natural event anyway;. However I needed more than that more than believing that it would have happened anyway or that I just happened, inevitably. I wanted to believe in miracles yet could see too many holes in the arguments that seem to satisfy most people's critical reasoning. So I've found a few unusual, logically-related noises/words/arguments that work for me; so I can believe that miracles happen. I like these ideas; more than just saying that regardless of the size of the miracle a miracle is still a miracle…. I do believe that because we can move our fingers we should be able to move mountains even though we don’t move mountains very often.
There is no scale nor size for any event that defines needing a miracle before it can happen. Everything we do voluntarily and apparently automatically is based on the same system regardless of any scale applied. The ordinary has no changeover point; there's no allegedly-different level where miracles can happen. For causing miracles for causing anything that is not inevitable anyway the key to understanding is to present an explanation of how a small force can change a very big force. The moving diagram is about this.
Thinking in more than three dimensions sounds intimidating; but we actually think in more than 3D naturally. We see three dimensional events, as if in continuous time or just one present-time for each; and at the same time we interpret meanings based on imagination, memories and values that reside in dimensions further away than the first apparently-solid three. To believe in miracles, using my argument, one needs to believe that there may be an infinite number of universes, all in the same space, in different parallel dimensions; an infinite number of places to be. [The infinite number of infinite three-dimensional spaces are all concentric because to be otherwise would imply limits to their bounds.] Allow that all dimensions are joined continuously, and we may say our personalities or individualities exist infinitely while temporarily we tend to perceive as if reality has only three dimensions and linear time.
Our place-to-live extends into many, many other places-to-be, with just the majority of our perception being in 3D. Imagination has reality; that may touch shared realities as real as the three we imagine that we sense the most. Imagination can extend into all the places possible in other sets of dimensions. Imagination and thought open doors to dimensions seen by the whole self; more than just as if from the eyes and our bodily senses.
A useful analogy for reality is liken reality to an infinite hologram with an infinite number of co-ordinates. We perceive only part of reality; as if shining laser-beams from our small number of personal dimensions. We too often view reality as if it has only three dimensions; as if everything else is unreal --- as if most of reality is just imagination. Our view is limited by what we expect to sense. More than the three dimensions we sense with our physical bodies, our individual realities have many dimensions, many places to be. Our personal views of present time can spread beyond any concept of past and future being separate. Past, present and future are within our personal influence; as affectable as we reach back in time and make changes --- even to the "beginning" of logically-infinite time. By raising our imaginations we can travel into the greater body of reality. We need to allow the realness of concepts beyond our human ability to conceive of what can be meant by the word "concept". We need to allow of systems beyond our own logical and human-blinkered-limited minds. The universe has much in it that we do not understand. Relative to what there is to know, our finite quantity of understanding and knowledge is about equal to zero.
Faith is always going to be needed, regardless of how good one person's argument can be towards believing miracles are possible. Faith allows the humility to believe in miracles regardless of not knowing how such impossibilities can happen. Still, all my life I've been finding arguments to back my belief in miracles with "physics" type theories including a "theory of everything" (that one has to be insane to think one has because, after all, isn't this the impossible holy grail --- if someone came up with a workable theory it would be rejected because it could not be based on past failures to find such a theory!).
So how, again, how can a small tiny event, such as one person's wish, make a massive and complex set of events change as if opposed by an equal force? The answer is to catch the large set of forces when they are most vulnerable. Much of what happens in our 3D universe can be described, in energy terms, by concentric force fields excluding each other while swapping their positions in multi-dimensional space; according to their timing and numbers in concert to form stable patterns rather than randomly cancelling each other's effects. There are many moments, in the life of complex oscillations, when they can be almost non-existent in one set of dimensions because of being mostly in other dimensions; and when the sets of dimensions follow stable patterns of occupancy, then the complex oscillations form solids observable in time to change only slowly from moment to moment. The patterns have qualities as if bonded by binding forces, to allow complex oscillations to occupy various positions in repetitive sequences.
On a pool-table with the balls moving around, hitting each other, often a ball can hit another ball and stop still while the one that got hit moves away. Reality has events moving between multiple dimensions multiple places to be. What is really happening in our three main dimensions is actually using lots more than just three dimensions. Atoms, molecules, patterns, particles; all continuously swap places in space and between dimensions; far more than just "spinning in orbit" (as in the two-dimensional diagrams of atoms) or somehow sharing positions and orbits in only three dimensions.
Traditions in physics happened because too few people can visualize in three dimensions; and almost nobody can imagine or construct imaginary events regarding multi-dimensional space. Not enough people think multi-dimensionally for any academic traditions to derive benefit from such thinking; not enough to make such knowledge fashionable. Allowing that disregard is no proof of non-existence, perhaps regard for an infinite number of dimensions might allow explanation and prediction of many presently unknowable ideas.
Miracles become easy to believe in after we agree about multiple dimensions; so let's just admit to an infinite number of possible dimensions and be done with it! Why should the number be limited? Can space be limited if space stops, then what follows? Nothing? But isn't nothing just more space? Present scientific and religious thinking tends to suffer from limitations of not being able to prove the existence of anything outside sensory perception reality. Perception is a function of the imagination triggered by body functions, reactions and memories; perception limits scientific and religious ability to create logical noises in sequences clever enough to describe possible reality as yet not sensed.
The question of miracles is tied in with so many prejudices that cripple most people's ability to work miracles. All that's needed is the belief that we actually do move our bodies and our minds and imaginations are real, and that there is a connection between what we think and what will happen. The difficulty people have with believing in miracles is that production of miracles pushes into the shared area of what is fact and what is sequences of words purporting to be fact or knowledge; and making miracles happen requires focus and clear intent.
If a person walking had to talk through every muscle involved, and double check in imagination every move; using a sequence of arguments and words… if the runner had to check out the logic verbally ….that person would be running very slowly, if at all. If walking is automated yet so difficult for people to first learn so to can working miracles be automated; we don't need to think of what muscles are involved, we just need to presume it is ordinary.
People need take little thought about whether or not to change gears in a car: the car is not getting up the hill despite the accelerator being on the floor; so take the foot off, change gear, press on the other pedal again…and the car gets up the hill ok. To make a miracle happen? For most people, the biggest fear is the fear of failure, the fear that it can't happen, the fear that it isn't one's own birthright making it happen the possibility of failure because the superior spirit isn't inclined to grant the request perhaps has more pressing or more interesting things to do or perhaps the person wanting the miracle isn't worthy? What? Why doubt! Just go for it!
To think in multiple-dimensions, we have to modify our beliefs in the physics-chemistry theories the atoms, electrons and all that. These ancient beliefs are described using methods so dependent on myth that reality has only three dimensions that the descriptions are too often just nonsense supporting other usually more complex nonsense. Our minds can stay stuck dead with impossibilities, if we must only allow three dimensions to exist for that matter, if we limit the number of possible dimensions to anything less than infinite. Theories such as atoms and particles-of-atoms have to stop for example being imagined as moving in orbits. Instead, the theories can be thought of as moving concentrically swapping between many dimensions while being in 3D able to stay all in the same place. Parts of atoms etc can repeatedly disappear-reappear while being in the same place in 3D space. Each logical part of an atom etc is continuously cycling between dimensions lots of dimensions as well as being able to move in various sets of three-dimensional spaces.
When something is changing between alternative dimensions (places-to-be) there’s a moment when it is first emerging into the alternative dimension/s from where it was during the previous tiny fraction of a second. Most events are constantly cycling and shifting in an between dimensions. If we want something to happen, then we only need to make a tiny set of force-fields that fit in with the oscillations of the particles that comprise the event we want to affect. What we make (by intent) then blocks and hits, like an equal-sized pool-table ball, the big event just as its emerging into where we don’t want it to be. The big event then gets diverted to alternative dimensions. The big event happens differently compared to if it had not had the tiny nudge. To control any event of any size, only tiny nudges are needed each at the right moment, each for key details within the big event; for the big event to divert in whole or part, so as to have more, different or less significance in our main three dimensions or in our time.
There are many mutually-cancelling events happening at all times within the infinite number of places we affect. Tiny intent energies can harness these events to produce whatever we envisage; from apparently nothing. Tiny intent, as for moving one personal figure, can control supposedly inevitable forces of any size.
The background of this essay is a pair of concentric spheres. The inside sphere is mostly in another dimension that is outside our main three. The bigger outside sphere is mostly in our 3D space. The concentric spheres are in reality perfectly equal in force; their sizes in 3D are according to their relative 3D presence. These wire-frame-drawn spheres are drawn slightly different shades of cyan/blue; for decoration because they can be both the same other than having different times to be in different dimensions. The spheres represent movement oscillations of these force fields that mutually exclude each other from simultaneous occupancy of dimensions.
This idea about miracles depends on imagining this: put a little force into the right place, at the right time; so there it can divert-repel a big force that is at a near-zero changeover point because at that moment the small force is bigger. With an infinite number of dimensions to choose from, when space gets cramped in any potential destination, then alternatives are preferable. A tiny force may be even more complex than an apparently gigantic force; just get the little oscillations into the right place at the right time and the big force has to go away, or change.
I hope this picture comes out as a moving
picture (it usually does --- but sometimes jams).
The moving picture (hope it’s moving --- it moves in my browser) of this page outlines two zero-to-360 degrees sine-waves draw at right angles to each other.
The coloured disk that changes place represents the wave-form movement changing in time. The moving graph is an analogy of a large event being changed by a very small event. The large event would remain vertical, for example, if not for the tiny magenta (virtually straight line it's so small) event. The magenta slightly-double line (ooks like a base-line for both of the sine-waves) represents an intruding extremely-small sinewave --- the tiny controlling event --- that just happens to zero-cross just ahead of the other two possibilities (that can work either vertically or horizontally, in this illustration).
The path of the orange disk represents movement of this sine-wave (one harmonic) simple oscillation. This oscillation is representative of any one part of billions of cycles-vibrations that may constitute an event that, if changed, would get called a "miracle". The pathway taken by the orange disk (the picture is a moving-animated gif file) shows the disk following the path of the sine-wave, so that when the big sine-wave gets to the zero crossing point, there it has to change from vertical to horizontal or visa versa according to the directions of the tiny magenta "miracle-causing" sine-wave. Balls on a billiard table bounce each other into different directions by being equal in influence in three dimensions; and by occupying a dimension with large presence at the appropriate moments, a tiny ball could divert the tiny (initial) presence of a much large ball. This analogy is drawn in the changing ("moving") graph.
The two sine-waves represent two alternative outcomes for a very, very large event, relative to the little wish-type "I want a miracle" faith-thing event (the tiny blurred sort-of-double magenta base-line). I gave the magenta (almost straight) line a faint double effect rather than it be so small as to be a single line, in order for this line to represent a third sine-wave that has almost no energy relative to either of the other two sine-waves.
So how does one communicate multi-dimensional ideas using diagrams and words in only two dimensions? – I tried. Even a sine-type wave (graph) is an abstract representation of a reality, not the reality itself. I think the answer is patience. I like philosophy, because it ends up being reality, action, movement, solid-objects! sooner or later. So one of my hobbies is occasionally spending a couple of hours and writing an idea down that I like. I really do need to be able to believe that we can do more than our arms-and-legs can do; and I do believe this --- I believe in miracles!
Ask "do you believe in God"? Yes. I believe in God. Among other experiences: Infinite Love, a person; willing to front up as an equal with every part of our individual selves; infinite love seeks to be at one with love rather than domination. So does "God" have a role to play in "miracles"? Well, to fit in without randomizing against countless other half-baked ideas of what is best and what should happen, one might work one's butt off like a surfer trying to catch a wave; and then ride in as if driven by circumstances; the miracle is in being at the right place at the right time....then making things happen anyway.
Thanks for reading this essay.
(David Beale)