If you have watched any Hollywood movie about the story of Jesus Christ, in typical Hollywood fashion, we always saw Jesus perform miracles with enormous fanfare to the amazement of the crowds watching. Yet, when you read the actual stories in the Gospels, they seem to lack such spectacle. I have thought, meditated and prayed long and hard over both why and how Jesus actually performed miracles, what a miracle really is and why each of us have the ability to perform them, but don’t. This subject area can actually take up volumes in a series of books. But I will try to keep it to a few paragraphs. In order to do so, I have to make several assumptions or, should I say, postulates.
Number one, Jesus was a man. He was as much a human being as each of us. He later in life, through the direct Revelation by the Holy Spirit, became the Christ. This occurred after 40 days and nights alone in the desert. During this time, we are told he wrestled with Satan. I believe that Satan was not an entity. Rather, it represents the Human Mind and all of its belief in separation. Separation is a false belief and a false reality. Of course, this requires a belief on our part, but separation is the original sin. Separation is the original lie. Separation is the biggest illusion from which humans suffer. This is because God, the Creator, the Source of all that is, is perfect. The only things which matter and really exist are His Creations. By extension, His Creations are therefore perfect. We are among those Creations. Therefore, we are perfect.
Because we are His Creation and, as a result, sons and daughters of His, we therefore have access to all that He is. All that He is, is perfect and unconditional love. He is also eternal. All of His Creation is perfect and unconditionally loved and, as a result, eternal. So, we each have the exact same creative power as that of God. The only difference is that we are created and He is the Creator.
Number two. Jesus performed miracles not because he wanted to wow everyone. It was not because He had any power more than we. But because He understood this power. His miracles were, instead, a display of what He knew. And what did He know? He knew the Truth. He knew/knows that each of us are Sons of God. In fact, He told us that when He quoted Psalm 82:6 when He said, “You are all gods and sons of the Most High”. This is not to say we are God. No, God is our Father/Creator and we are His Creation/children. So if the only things which are real are God and us (And when I say us, I do not refer to our Physical bodies, but to the Spirit within each of us), then Jesus was able to look upon every situation and saw, immediately, the Truth. And the truth is that we are perfect, loved and eternal. Everything else is a misuse, or a miscreation of our own because out thinking is flawed and we believe we are separate from God.
I consider the separation the basis of the Garden of Eden story. Because we are created and loved, God gave His creation freedom of choice. There could be no other way, because a perfect, eternal and all-loving God is incapable of making a creation that lives in fear of Him, or in fear of punishment for choosing wrongly. But, this is the God most people believe in. People also believe in scarcity. They believe that there is only so much to go around (hence the basis of all wars). Yet, when we look at the birds, animals and the fish of the sea, we clearly see that each has everything it needs and doesn’t understand or “see” lack in their lives.
I believe that Jesus was showing us, through miracles, who we really are and what we really can do. In other words, what we perceive as miracles were really Jesus, as The Christ, making corrections to the results of flawed, false beliefs. When He looked at people, he saw them through the lens of Absolute Truth. He saw them as the perfect, eternal and loved Creations that they are. He knew this with every fiber of His being. There was not a single shred of a doubt. He knew. We don’t.
Our flawed thinking/beliefs have used the creative power of God, which we each have, to create everything based on fear and scarcity. All sickness, disease, lack and limitation as well as false beliefs that are practiced and believed in, each and every day by nearly everyone, is the result of our belief in separation. As a result, we are living with false creations— which are not real— because we believe we are separate and “not worthy” of God. This unworthiness and belief in separation results in the entire human race experiencing and living in fear.
Now, allow me, if you will, to throw a little quantum physics into this. In fact, it was quantum physics which helped me to understand what really goes on when miracles occur. While mainstream scientists have mostly been Atheistic (or at least say they are to avoid being ridiculed), quantum physicists have said that there is absolute evidence that everything originates from a single source, meaning, everything in existence was created from one single thing. Of course, they do not claim to know what this single thing is or was, but some do say, perhaps, this single thing is God.
Everything in the Universe is composed of Atoms. Atoms are 99.9% empty space. Within this space are also smaller and smaller particles until you reach the absolute pure energy. And this pure energy runs through everything. It is in everything and nothing is separate from it. This energy created the Universe and perhaps far more than that. But the really amazing thing about quantum physics is that the only way to experience anything is through Consciousness. In fact, they have said that Consciousness is all there is. It is the creator and the experiencer. Matter only exists— or takes form from this energy— when it is observed by a Consciousness. And who is a consciousness? Well, you and I are consciousness. Where did this consciousness come from? It came from the only consciousness, which is God.
Jesus had mentally mastered the Truth. He knew that God, the Father and He were one. His prayer before he was arrested was for all of us to know that we are one just as He and the Father are one. It doesn’t take too much of a quantum leap to see that one is the allegorical explanation of the other. You and I live in the Mind of God. As a result, when we think, we use this one Mind as our own. And because we have free will and the same creative power as God, we create countless maladies because we do not understand, much less believe this. Traditional religions have served people very poorly, because they pedestalize their deities and teach separation.
Jesus, when seeing someone in a condition, whether it be sickness, blindness, disability and even death, knew that the person at whom he was looking was none of those things. None exist unless one believes in them. Our belief creates them using God’s creative power. He, instead, saw them for who and what they were; eternal children of God who are perfect because God is perfect. All he had to do was simply state the truth, such as “Get up and walk”, and they did. He called Truth into the minds of those around him and was able to create it because he knew it. He knew it in every fiber of his being.
If you read between the lines and take religion out of it, Jesus was constantly explaining this in simple terms. He said, “As you believe, so shall it be done unto you”. He also told us, “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you’. And let’s not forget when He said in Mark 11:23, “Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it.” For those who read and believe the Bible, this seems to have slipped right by. Here, Jesus is telling us exactly the power we each have. He even said, “Greater things than I shall you do, for I go to the Father”. So, if Jesus said that we could do greater things, why don’t we see these greater things being done every day by people?
We have the exact same power over matter as Jesus did. We can do exactly what He did and more (according to Jesus himself). But because of the belief in separation and unworthiness, we’ve evolved nowhere in 2,000 years. We keep Jesus either on the cross or on a pedestal, completely out of reach for the ordinary person to see themselves in Jesus and to see Jesus in them.
So, how can we perform miracles? It starts with our changing our thinking, removing false beliefs and knowing the Truth. And the good news is that we do not have to do this on our own. We can simply ask Jesus for help and He will help us. The Holy Spirit of God is the manner in which God speaks to His Children. We must completely erase all of the false beliefs which have separated us from God. How long this takes is not something which can be answered by another person. But that is exactly what it takes. You see, if I know— with every fiber of my being— that I can walk on water, I will. And while I’m still working on that one, what I can say is that my mind (or consciousness) has evolved and changed to such a great degree that I can say that I am working toward achieving the Christ Consciousness. If I disappear one day, you’ll know I achieved it (consider this a mild joke). Christ is the Atonement for God’s children. Once we recognize and know this truth, we are at One with God and of God.
If you would like to learn how to perform miracles, I suggest read “A Course in Miracles”. It is available for free on the Internet. It is a collection of three texts and takes about a year to complete. The inner work is on us, as it is we who need to use our consciousness to open up the circuitry for the truth and install it within our Minds like a program is installed in a computer. I have experienced miracles. I won’t explain them, as they are personal to me. But, miracles are real. They happen. They sometimes go unnoticed because they lack Hollywood fanfare, but they DO happen. After all, you are alive, reading these words. Are you and I not a miracle? All God’s creations are miracles. So live and believe that you are!
This was very powerful and provoking (emotionally). And very much needed at this moment. Thank you.