Existence of Miracles Prayer - Provoking Miracles

There is always the miracle of circumstance. An ex-Californian working in the Oklahoma City Federal Building feels a rumble: used to earthquakes he instinctively dives under his desk. In that particular office, of fourteen other employees, he becomes the sole survivor of the infamous April '95 terrorist bombing.

Then there is the miracle of prayed-for reversal. The entire country is aware of the California teenager who needed a bone marrow transplant to fight a growing cancer, how her parents conceived another child just to supply the genetic match, and now, five years later, she is alive and considered in permanent remission. This was a triumph of family and science - but it was not the miracle. The miracle was in the waiting. During the fifteen-month period from the time the cancer was diagnosed, the pregnancy started and the newborn sibling old enough to draw bone marrow, the family prayed to beat the odds. Miraculously, for no known scientific reason, the teenager's cancer did not climb past the point of no return while she waited on the life-saving efforts of her family.

There is the miracle of survival and direct communication. Journali

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ormance, not on the underlying concept of prayer and miracle as part of cosmic reality. As civilization assimilated religious experience into its organization of society, ritual/prayer lost its "means testing" apparatus. An established priest-class of overlords was not about to let itself be replaced for failure to perform miracles. In the Western tradition, Egypt and the Mesopotamian civilizations calcified ritual into political forms of expression. Greeks devolved their God-force into humanlike beings with the whims and weaknesses of their earthly counterparts. The Romans - proclaimed the likes of Nero and Caligula to be "gods." Only the Judaic culture attempted to retain the primal connection with religious experience. Time and again the Old Testament recounts a solitary prophet rebelling against the organized politico-religious entity. Kings, pharisees and imported priesthoods were denounced for leading worship whose rituals bore hollow relationship to communication with the God-force. This scenario was reenacted in the East as well. In the 4th Century B.C., Sidhartha Gautama quietly led a similar rebellion against the Brahmanic baroqueness of the Vedic tradition. The pre-liturgical Buddhism he founded pulled a
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