This chapter outlines key principles for those who wish to facilitate miracles. It emphasizes understanding the role of perception, the importance of recognizing errors without judgment, and the need to focus on healing the mind rather than the body. Miracle workers are reminded to prioritize clarity and connection, ensuring their actions align with the goal of healing and restoration.
Special Principles of Miracle Workers: The Miracle and Time
Imagine pausing a video game and skipping directly to the next level. That’s how a miracle works—it transcends the usual "rules" of time and space, bypassing lower-level concerns to address the core issue.
When a miracle occurs, it doesn’t operate within the typical patterns of time and space. Instead, it creates an out-of-pattern moment, removing the need to focus on small, everyday worries or obstacles. These concerns, like background noise, fade away because the miracle realigns everything with its purpose.
Here’s the best part: when you perform a miracle, adjustments in time and space are handled for you. Think of it like handing over the logistics to an expert coordinator, allowing you to focus purely on the act of healing and connection. This allows the miracle to unfold seamlessly, without being bound by the usual constraints of the physical world.
Special Principles of Miracle Workers: Understanding Creation vs. Making
Imagine the difference between planting a tree and building a paper tree. The planted tree grows naturally from a seed—it’s "created." The paper tree, while carefully crafted, is "made" and lacks the vitality of the real thing.
Healing relies on understanding this distinction: creation refers to what is natural, eternal, and true, while making involves constructing something temporary or artificial. Misunderstanding this difference leads to confusion about where healing is needed and how it can occur.
When you focus on healing, it’s not about "fixing" what’s made but restoring awareness of what’s already created and whole. This shift in perception corrects errors and clears the way for genuine healing by aligning with what is real and enduring, rather than what is temporary and constructed.
Special Principles of Miracle Workers: Staying Clear on Mindedness
Imagine someone spilling a drink. You can either help clean it up or stand there blaming them for the mess. Choosing to help is an example of right-mindedness—focused on healing and resolution. Criticizing or responding with frustration is wrong-mindedness—focused on the problem instead of the solution.
Healing begins with the clarity of right-mindedness. This means responding to errors, whether yours or someone else’s, with the intent to restore balance and peace. Wrong-mindedness, on the other hand, focuses on judgment or blame, which only deepens the sense of imbalance.
Whenever you encounter a mistake or misstep, your response should come from a place of wanting to heal. This keeps your perspective clear and ensures that your actions align with the goal of resolution rather than reinforcing the error. It’s about focusing on solutions, not problems.
Special Principles of Miracle Workers: Affirming Truth Through Miracles
Imagine a teacher calmly correcting a wrong answer on a test while encouraging the student’s potential. That’s what a miracle does—it denies the error (the wrong answer) and affirms the truth (the student’s ability to learn).
The miracle works by focusing on right-mindedness, which is the only perspective that creates meaningful change. Right-mindedness acknowledges the truth and clears away errors without judgment, leading to real and lasting healing.
Anything that doesn’t have a real effect—like focusing on the error itself—has no real existence. It’s like trying to build a house on empty space; there’s no foundation, so nothing substantial can result. This emptiness often leads to projection, where the mind assigns blame or meaning to things outside itself, further perpetuating confusion.
A miracle breaks this cycle by firmly grounding in truth. It corrects the error not by dwelling on it but by redirecting focus to what’s real and unchanging, creating a space for clarity and healing.
Special Principles of Miracle Workers: Miracles and the Power of Adjustment
Imagine adjusting the lens on a camera to bring a blurry image into sharp focus. That’s what a miracle does—it fine-tunes perception, aligning it with truth to make healing possible.
This adjustment is essential because healing can’t be fully understood until the mind is seeing clearly. For example, forgiveness without correction is like putting a bandage on a wound without cleaning it. It may look like progress, but it leaves the underlying issue unresolved.
True forgiveness involves more than just letting go—it includes a shift in perception that corrects the error. Without this correction, forgiveness risks becoming judgmental, as if saying, "You were wrong, but I’ll overlook it." Real forgiveness sees beyond the error entirely, creating space for genuine healing and understanding.
The miracle’s power lies in making this adjustment possible, paving the way for perception to align with clarity, correction, and ultimately, healing.
Special Principles of Miracle Workers: Forgiveness as Pure Correction
Think of miracle-minded forgiveness like erasing a chalkboard—it clears away mistakes without judging what was written before. This type of forgiveness focuses solely on correction, with no element of judgment or evaluation.
When forgiveness is truly healing, it doesn’t dwell on the specifics of the error or its outcome. For example, the phrase “for they know not what they do” doesn’t critique the action—it simply acknowledges the need for healing and clarity. It shifts attention from the mistake to the solution, appealing for the mind’s restoration to right-mindedness.
The outcome of the error becomes irrelevant because the focus isn’t on the error itself but on aligning the mind with truth. This kind of forgiveness creates space for healing by bypassing judgment and emphasizing correction, leading to lasting peace and understanding.
Special Principles of Miracle Workers: Unity in Time and Timelessness
Imagine two people working together to solve a puzzle—they need to be of one mind, sharing focus and intent, to complete it. This idea of unity, “Be of one mind,” prepares for deeper understanding and clarity. It represents a timeless connection, beyond the constraints of the physical world.
The phrase “Do this in remembrance of me” is a call for collaboration among miracle workers, but it operates within the concept of time. To remember is to bring something from the past into the present, bridging moments in time to create connection and continuity.
The two concepts—unity and remembrance—exist on different levels:
- Timelessness is the state of pure coexistence, where nothing separates or divides.
- Time, directed for healing purposes, allows for cooperation and meaningful action within the world.
In time, we exist in relationship with each other, creating opportunities for healing and growth. In timelessness, those connections dissolve into a state of pure unity, where all distinctions fade, leaving only coexistence. Both perspectives work together to support the miracle worker’s purpose.
Special Principles of Miracle Workers: Being Truly Helpful
Imagine being a guide on a hike, knowing you don’t need to chart the path yourself because you trust the map you’ve been given. That’s the mindset of a miracle worker—focused on being helpful without the burden of figuring out every detail.
In any situation where healing or assistance is needed, you can adopt this approach:
- "I am here only to be truly helpful." Your role isn’t to solve everything but to offer genuine support.
- "I do not have to worry about what to say or do." Trust that guidance will come naturally when you’re aligned with the purpose of helping.
- "I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal." Healing is a shared process. As you help others, you also clear away your own doubts and fears.
This attitude of trust and presence creates a powerful space for healing. By focusing on being helpful and trusting in guidance, you align yourself with the clarity needed to facilitate miracles. Healing becomes less about control and more about allowing a natural process of restoration to unfold—for both yourself and others.