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Where Science and Miracles Meet
- A miracle isn’t the intercession of some higher power in violation of the laws of nature. A miracle is simply something that is impossible in an old story but possible in a new one. A miracle is an invitation into a new story that says come over here – here’s a bigger reality. Miracles happen with more frequency as the old story cracks.
from Presentation to Uplift Festival, 12.14.2014 by Charles Eisenstein
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The very word ‘miracle’ itself, and for that matter the words ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’, are in fact symptomatic of a very different range of possible worldviews from those which were open to Galilean villagers in the first century.
from Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God by N. T. Wright
- An easy way into all this spooky shit , for instance, is to consider that for every metaphysical impossibility there is a concretely explainable possibility that exists in the observable physical world. These are less causations than correlations, confluences, or synchronicities . After all, things which were previously considered to be "magical" w... See more
from It's Called "Woo" Because It's Fun by Sadalsuud
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think of miracle as the marveling attribution to divine power of events in our world we cannot fathom.
from Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century by Dale B. Martin
- this piece is about belief magic, which Merriam-Webster defines as “the use of means (such as charms or spells) believed to have supernatural power over natural forces” and especially how belief magic is represented in culture. After all, culture, from films to books to art, has always shaped society, just as we shape it.
from Magic, belief systems + web3 by Medium
Keely Adler added
We as North Americans do not believe in magic. We are, however, entertained by it. Anything magical is operatively impossible by definition, and the impossible is many things—scary, in that it can seem powerful because we don’t know how something is done; child-like, in that it has the patently made-up elements of a fairy story or a fable or a nigh
... See morefrom Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility by poetrynw.org
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Revelation unites you directly with God. Miracles unite you directly with your brother. Neither emanates from consciousness, but both are experienced there. Consciousness is the state that induces action, though it does not inspire it. You are free to believe what you choose, and what you do attests to what you believe.
from A Course in Miracles by Dr. Helen Schucman
Claudia Dawson added
- People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
from The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh
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