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     Miracles are  commonly  regarded  as presumed  events
which  involve a violation of known laws of nature;  e.g.,
walking on water,  rising from the dead,  levitating  into
the sky.  When so regarded, modern man is likely to regard
miracles   as  impossible---and  so  as  the  figment   of
imagination  and fantasy.  Scientists are under compulsion
to  regard  such miracles  with suspicion,   and  so  seek
explanations  through  analysis  in  terms  of  cause  and
effect.  Such is demanded by their state of consciousness.
The nature of their reality is dependent upon their states
of  consciousness  of  people  and  upon  their  ways   of
participating in reality.   For these reasons miracles are
not real to them.

     Some  people are aware of the essential uncertainties
of  life.    They may be in a state of consciousness  such
that  they  seek  that  which they know  not,   except  as
something which transcends imagination and fantasy and  so
is apparently essentially impossible. It is their state of
consciousness in which the event is so impossible as to be
beyond regarding as a real possibility:  To be freed of  a
collusion in which one is a participant victim---is beyond
imagination;   because  it  is  terrifying.   To transcend
unexamined  assumptions  and  lead a life  free  of  their
implications may  be beyond imagination.   To  be accepted
without first  meeting  conditions of acceptability may be
unimaginable,  and threatening.   To perceive nature as an
expression of orderly process and at the same time be full
of hope and meaning---may be unimaginable  for  persons in
certain states of consciousness.

     Miracles are  events  within  which  that  which  was
unimaginable  as  becoming  real---invades  the  state  of
consciousness of the self, and presents itself as real and
helpful.  The transformed self points to the reality which
was regarded as impossible, and declares it to be real and
meaningful.   Even  in retrospect it may  transcend  human
understanding,   although  from within the new  states  of
consciousness  there  may be mutual understanding  of  the
event.   The dominant focus is likely to be upon the  hope
and  meaning generated by the event,  rather than upon any
analysis of the event.  This  is  likely to  frustrate the
desires   of  observer  technocrats---who  would  like  to
analyze  miracles  into  elements  outside the context  of
human   relationships.   Such  is  one  of  the  essential
mysteries of life.  All real living is in meeting.

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