Cheers, have you read about the miracle of Lanciano?

Very interesting Don, I was hoping you'd enter the discussion, as I remembered your scholarship in the area.  If you have the time, I do think many on this board would be interested in your description on how several saints have been noted to have OOBE.  It would be indeed a bridge between conservative religion and the New Age thought.

I am not familiar with the stories of healing miracles from many other religions, but I believe that we can find evidence of reports of healings in other religions such as Hinduism, and Buddhism.  Clearly, the faithful visit Hindu shrines, and shrines of other faiths in the hopes of these miracles occurring. 

All of it seems consistent to me in implying that it is our faith and connection to the subconscious template we all have inside that matters in terms of miraculous healings.  By coupling faith and conviction with thought, we are accessing a divine pathway.

The concept of the power of thought, oversimplified in the book The Secret, can be applied to healing through faith.  But what selfish or self-interested people don't understand is that there are consequences to actions (an equal and opposite reaction for every action - and karma is a real phenomenon).  Thus, people manage to succeed in coupling thought to intent in one area of their lives (such as earning material wealth), but fail to be happy, and may suffer (multiple divorces, estranged family members, etc.) because love is not the underlying principle behind their thought and action.

I highly recommend people joining a prayer group with others, with the sole intention of healing others in need.  I have participated in this, and do so when I can.  I have been the recipient of the healing, and had a wonderful group of people help me out at a point in my life where I was in need.  It was humbling, but also awe inspiring for me to truly see that real life situations could change for the better, by what in my opinion was the changing probabilities in the real world due to the power of thought and prayer.


Matthew

What about the miracles of Lourdes?

And the Mary appiritions at Fatima, Guadeloupe etc?

And the miracle of Blessed Alexandrina, does this not show Catholicism is the only true religion? 

Jdee,

There are many documented miraculous healings in different cultures and religions.  The article I mentioned referenced miraculous healings
In
Judaism, yet you can find information on healing shrines of different religions all over the world.  Does that mean that Judaism or Hinuism is the only "true" religion?

The ability to heal with intention is central to Buddhist teachings. All of these religions, and the New Age thinkers back to Swedenborg proclaimed as a central tenet of the Universal Law that thought is causitive...thought creates reality. So healing through prayer, or intention, or meditation is completely in accordance with this basic understanding of reality. Miracles are visible examples, but there are so many more happening all around us all the time.

I believe it is a mistake to conclude that because miracles occur for one denomination of a religion, this means that that denomination is the paradigm that represents the highest truth. Perhaps each demonination and each religion has miracles for the benefit of the members of each group.

If a group doesn't seek miracles as a form of affirmation, they might be less likely to occur.



jdee190 wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2011 at 4:56am:

So miracles do not equal truth?

There is a catholic saint who said only 3 of 60000 catholics make it to heaven. The rest go to hell.

What kind of God is that?

There are Street Preachers who say virtually no gets to Heaven. Should I believe them? I think not. A saint is still a human being given to exaggeration at times.