November/December 2002
Feature Articles
Holistic Health Q & A
by Dr. Carol Anne Bates
The role of the liver in Oriental Medicine.
The connection between the liver and depression. How acupuncture can help.
What is... the Organic Movement?
by Robert Roman
Final part of a three-part article
detailing the author's personal experiences and the growth of the organic
movement.
UnCommon Sense!
by David Findlay
Iraq?
Articles on the theme "Miracles"
A State of Consciousness
by Rev. Susan R. Griffin
The real "reality" in which
miracles are part of everyday experience.
A Personal Course in Miracles
by Lisa Raphael
Miracles and the Big Picture. Co-creating
with the Creation.
Are Miracles Miraculous?
by Charles Larsen
A psychotherapist's attempt to define
the word "miracle."
An Everyday Experience
by Rev. LeRoy Zemke
The realm of miracles and how to get
there.
A Miracle?
by Dave Hunt
The "miraculous" effect of
changes in perception.
What Happened?
by Dr. Audrey Craft Davis
A first-hand account of two miraculous
events.
The Miracle of Life
by AnneMarie Dyer
Letting go of a personal perspective
and opening one's eyes to the miraculous possibilities of life.
Sharing the Miracle
by Rev. Pat Cross
Some personal miracles and some reflections
on the nature of miracles.
A State of Consciousness
by Rev. Susan R. Griffin
On the topic of Miracles, my first thought was: There are no such things!
Now that I have gotten your attention and probably raised a few heckles at the same time, please allow me to explain.
The degree to which any occurrence seems to be miraculous is based on the perspective and the understanding of the observer, and the degree to which he or she has evolved spiritually the degree to which the individual considers him or herself separate and apart from God and All-That-Is. To the man, Jesus, even the raising of the dead did not qualify as a miracle, because in his state of consciousness the perspective of the Christ death does not exist, is not a reality. Life is eternal, and, in his recognition and awareness of this fact as a state of being, Lazarus came forth. The blind were made to see and the lame to walk in his awareness that the life and power that creates all things, that is All-That-Is, is perfect and, therefore, imperfection, blindness, lameness, dis-ease of any kind is neither a reality nor a possibility, and has no power over us unless we give it power. We may accept the belief that imperfection is true for us as human beings and, as a result, hold ourselves in bondage to it but it is not the Truth-of-Us.
As Jesus, the Christ, as well as great spiritual leaders of all faiths have tried to teach us many times and in many different ways, the Truth of us is the Truth-of-All-Things, God, the One-True-Being that is the essence and substance of all things.
When speaking to us of his "miracles," Jesus stated that "even greater things shall ye do."
"Yeh, right!" I can hear your mind saying (I know mine does). "I can see it now! Greater things than raising the dead? I believe that? Not!"
But suspend that thought for a moment and trust that Jesus was actually telling the truth. Imagine that at some point in the evolution of the spirit that we could allow the essence of our being, the Life Force that animates us, to live our lives and work through us uninhibited and unlimited by our human beliefs.
Where would we be if someone had not suspended the belief that the world was flat, or that only birds could fly? When Ben Franklin hung that key on his kite, the miracle of modern-day electronic technology began.
The modern-day avatar, Sathya Sai Baba, who has since early childhood performed such miracles as materializing objects out of thin air, once said of this ability, "This is not the big deal. The big deal is how easy it is to do."
From a man who has healed the sick, raised the dead, been seen simultaneously in more than one place and who with only an 8th grade education speaks every language in the world, Sai Baba stresses, "Do not exaggerate the importance of my powers and miracles; the most significant power is my love. All the ostensible miracles are only droplets of that Ocean of Love. Do not be dazzled by the droplets. Recognize the ocean and come to dip yourselves therein."
In his book God at the Speed of Light, The Melding of Science and Spirituality, T. Lee Baumann, M.D. points out that through modern scientific experiments, physicists are actually proving that light has a consciousness, and that "everything exists in a natural waveform until observed. At this moment, the state of the entity changes into what we recognize as 'reality.'" In other words, "if, as quantum theory suggests, the world only exists because it is being observed, then it is also true that the world only changes because it is not being observed all of the time." This actually implies that there must be something outside the Universe to observe the Universe and thereby cause it to actually exist!
The attributes that religion has always attributed to God omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence science has always attributed to atoms, or particles of energy; that everything is made up of them, that they can never be created nor destroyed. Now they have a consciousness and can become solid matter only when observed by something "all seeing."
Scientists are also currently finding flaws in the Darwinian Theory of Evolution that actually support the creation descriptions depicted in Genesis.
Well, well! Science actually taking a step toward not only admitting to, but also proving, the existence of God! Now there's a miracle!
Rev. Susan R Griffin is a counselor, teacher of Christian Mysticism, Spiritual Energetics and Perception as well as the founder of Naturals for Animals in St. Petersburg, FL. (727) 327-2356 or (727) 856-0172.
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