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F r e e m u s i c d o w n l o a d s f o r C e r t i f i e d m e m b e r s : w w w. a b m p . c o m / g o / c e r t i f i e d c e n t r a l 101 Perhaps you have your own miracle stories to tell. They stick in the brain (probably because we're still in shock). Most miracles are stupendous. The world is constructed from the less splashy acts of beauty and grace. Examples from my own practice include the gentleman whose slight decrease in pain returned him to basketball workouts, a woman who remembered it was OK to smile, and the child who discovered he was likable. We're diligent about noticing the grand, impressive miracles, the ones that lead to the belief that God has personally acquiesced to our wishes. When these occur, it's easy to forget that pronounced swings of fate are usually preceded by thousands of tiny changes. Besides which, huge miracles often overshadow the more common wonders that happen everywhere and all the time. Great or small, for our purposes, I like the definition of a miracle offered by theologian C. S. Lewis: "A retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." 2 In other words, all miracles are bigger than life but they are usually clothed in everyday cloth. Because all miracles reflect the goodness in the universe, the most infinitesimal is as powerful and important as the most gargantuan. It's a matter of perspective. My oldest son Michael once made a comment that underscores this point. When he was six, Michael came with me to visit a hospice client. It was my client's birthday, and we brought cake and balloons. The client, whom I'll call James, was only 21 and a hair's breadth away from death. Although he hoped for a miracle, James died a couple of days after our visit. When I told Michael what had occurred, Michael reflected that James had received his miracle. "What do you mean?" I asked him. "Well, mommy, he got a new birthday, right after his old one." Miracles really are a matter of perspective. THE VARIABLE OF PERCEPTION Perspective is a key word in subtle energy science, which is the study of spiritual or psychic energy. Energy is information that moves. In my interpretation, classical physics seeks to understand energy that is physical or measurable, and macroscopic in nature; and quantum physics explores the frontier of subtle energy, which is immeasurable or less measurable energy, and considered microscopic. For an event to be considered miraculous in classical physics, it must appear to bend, if not break, natural law. These miracles have to be huge and, paradoxically, unexplainable to merit the label. But under the quantum microscope, miracles happen every day. In fact, everything in the world is made of a miracle. The issue is whether or not we pay attention. In classical physics, an object or event is either real or not. It is here or not. In quantum physics, the term virtual particles is assigned to the tiny units that build concrete reality. According to Richard Bartlett, DC, ND, the creator of the consciousness-building program called Matrix Energetics, virtual particles don't exist until they do. 3 They show up out of seemingly nowhere and turn into material particles when we want them to or think they will. The observer, who I've also called the dreamer, makes the difference. Everything in the world is made of a miracle. The issue is whether or not we pay attention.