A miracle contains the gift of grace, for it is given and received as one. And thus it illustrates the laws of truth the world does not obey, because it fails entirely to understand its ways. A miracle inverts perception which was upside down before, thus it ends the strange distortions that were manifest.
ACIM: Workbook: Part II: Chapter 13: 2:1-3
It is said that when a yogi reaches true samadhi they may attain extraordinary powers called Siddhis.They may be able to manifest things out of the air, be in two places at once, read minds etc. Siddhis may be seen as false displays of a woo-woo impossibility to a materialistic scientist; and they may be perceived as miracles to another more open bystander witnessing the use of such a power. To a true yogi, however, they are not parlor tricks or miracles. They are simply considered natural by products of advanced states of consciousness. They are the expression of normal capabilities of consciousness that the majority of the population have yet to tap into.
These powers are not miracles, Michael Singer tells us in the below linked podcast. They could and should be normal to our human experience. They are possibilities we could all tap into when we fall back into that higher state of consciousness we are. He reminds us that our minds are conduits for extraordinary power. Thoughts are manifestations of that power. Our minds, he tells us, can pick up high frequency energy that scientists have yet to develop the scientific tools to measure. Our thoughts are amazing examples of this energy and power.
You have the ability to create an object (thought)on a higher frequency plane that cannot be measured by any scientific instrument.
Thought is such a high frequency occurence that takes us out of the limits of physicality. It is actually the vibrating wavelets on which everything in our universe is created, is it not? Every tech advance, every medical cure, every beautiful creation started where? In the field of the mind. Where do all these inspirational thoughts originate? They must come from one high frequency Source...the field of infinite possibility?
Even when we have yet to awaken fully as the true yogi's have, we still experience this what I call "miracle of the mind". I am always writing here about my "kooky coincidences"; how I may be thinking about something only to discover how someone much more advanced and evolved than I am is thinking about or addressing the very same thing at the same time. Singer reminds us that we are picking up thoughts all the time and doing kooky things with our thoughts. We all have this thinking ability. It is not a strange super power. It is supposed to be normal.
A Miracle?
Singer keeps saying it isn't a miracle. The "normal" power of our minds is simply not experienced yet when we are in these less than evolved states nor is measured yet in the scientific world.
Everything is a miracle until you understand it. We just have not developed yet the instruments to measure it scientifically.
I agree to some extent but then I ask what is a miracle? According to ACIM, A miracle inverts perception that was upside down before.
A miracle then is just a new way of seeing...a correction of wrong perception. Could it be that what the advanced yogi experiences in samadhi is actually the "right" perception? Is it that they are finally immersed in the "laws of Truth" that most of us do not yet obey? The miracle is not woo-woo unreality. The miracle is just real perception of truth. The Yogi, through their advanced practice, has inverted a perception that was upside down and are now truly experiencing what is. The unlimited potential is what is real. Most of us are seeing through a distorted and mixed up view...staring forward and down, as Singer says, at something which keeps us from experiencing who we are and realizing what we are capable of.
Enlightenment is simply a tapping into what is real, what is true. It is not so much something you do, he says, but something you stop doing.
What do we need to stop doing?
We need to stop staring down in front of us at the horror show of a mess we made with these amazing creative minds. We have spent our energy building stories and feeding those stories of "little me drama". They were so compelling that this amazing, infinite, and all powerful consciousness got lost in the virtual reality of this story. We forgot who we are. We are the yogi who is experiencing Samadhi, Sat chit Ananda, and possibly Siddhis. We just don't know it because our attention is on the story...so much so we identify with it.
Remove your attention from the story and what happens? You fall back into what and who you really are. Then you too may see that what you deemed as impossible in your upside down perception is actually more than possible when that perception is righted. We eliminate the strange distortions that were manifest for the truth of our unlimited nature.
All is well.
ACIM https://acim.org/acim/workbook/what-is-a-miracle/en/s/764
Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe/ Sounds True ( May 24, 2025) Beyond the Mind: Escaping the VR of Thought and Emotion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5s4zc7Yuz4&list=PLyOuAoSmZkKoESr2acNWwhznusbBkKXsT&index=2
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