Holding a Butterfly—an Experiment in Miracle-making

And companion CD featuring nine meditative experiments from the book led by the author

Table of Contents 

Introduction

Miracles Are…

How to Read this Book

 

1. The Experiment Begins

Imagine that your mind can transcend the boundaries of space and time to join with every other mind that ever has or will read these words, enabling  miracles to come more easily to us all....

 

2. What Did You Just Do?

That minds reading the same words could form a very real and synergistic connection may seem far-fetched but, just as the incredible connectivity and resources that the internet provides was undreamed just short decades ago, the connection of consciousness proposed here may, too, be just a short step away from becoming common-place.

 

3. Miracles Are Natural

A miracle is an event born in unconditional love. It has a healing ripple effect on everyone it touches and seems to defy the laws of the natural world as wonderful results unfold by way of serendipity rather than effort

 

4. Impossible Miracles

You don’t even need to” believe,” just imagine.

 

5. The Science of Miracles

The relatively new science of consciousness is now explaining the mechanics of the miraculous in ways even the most skeptical thinkers are beginning to embrace. Melvin Morse, M.D., the well-known researcher of near-death experiences, goes so far as to suggest that the current debate between “skeptics” and “believers” has become obsolete because it’s based upon old science.

 

6. We Create our Reality

The notion that our very thought affects the physical world around us is a heady concept that tends to gives rise to more questions than answers. Easy to say, but how does this work in practice?

 

7. Our Power Together

Consciousness is a powerful force and when we join in a common intent with other minds, it has an amplifying effect far greater than the sum of the individuals. Things that were difficult to achieve separately suddenly become easy when we join together.

 

8. The Science of Light, Love and God

The existence of a limitless, living, invisible energy field of light and love is not just metaphysical speculation—it’s science.

 

9. Tapping the Field

While scientists have yet to develop technology for tapping this energy field, there is a pathway, accessible to all.

 

10. The Miracle Rose

Watch for roses—and the presence of Divine Grace in your life.

 

11. Bending Time

What if you could expand time to make more of it when you’re running late? Or heal an illness in the past, right at its inception, instead of at its current, more advanced state? Suppose you could condense time and skip steps that lie between where you are now and a desired future outcome, or send a state of mind, such as joy, into the future so it will be there waiting for you?

 

12. What Do You Want?

What is it that you most want? And how often do you even stop to ask yourself this question? Desiring from life isn’t a selfish thing. Desire is a way that inner guidance speaks to us about our path of highest good.

 

13. An Easy Manifesting Exercise

See how easy it is to draw an object to yourself simply through your thoughts.

 

14. Manifesting Your Heart’s Desires

Are you ready, now, to manifest your deepest heart’s desires? You don’t need to be free of doubts; just ready, willing and unattached to the outcome.

 

15. Surrender

Creating miracles, as opposed to simply manifesting what we envision, isn’t an exercise in imposing our intention on the world around us. . The limits of our imagination don’t always stretch wide enough to show us the true path of our highest good. There comes a point when we need to let go, trust in the process of life and give unimagined possibilities a chance to grow.

 

16. Making Each Moment Count

Simply living in the moment as fully and richly as possible is powerfully creative. This is when we experience miraculous coincidences and "lucky" breaks that are difficult to explain in the context of old-paradigm reality.

 

17. Prayer

There’s a growing body of research documenting the powerful connection between prayer and healing but, for all the miraculous stories of prayers answered, there are just as many that don’t get answered, which raises the question, why? What makes prayer work sometimes but not every time? Clearly, there’s an art and science to effective prayer.

 

18. It Didn’t Work!

Still waiting for your miracles and convinced they won’t come? This chapter is for you!

 

19. Cultivating a Miracle Mind

The real work of living a miraculous life begins.

 

20. Mastery and Self-Responsibility

Creating results doesn’t ensure that we’ll find happiness, or that we’re able to produce similar results in every area of life—like the ones that remain painfully stuck no matter what we do. If we want to experience the kind of mastery that enhances quality of life we need to look, not just at our power to manifest occasional, lovely coincidences, but also at our responsibility for the unlovely coincidences of life that we call “circumstances beyond our control.”

 

21. Finding the Gift

Where in your life do you feel most at the mercy of circumstances beyond your control? Shedding light on the unconscious agendas that keep us stuck is a powerful step toward moving beyond “wheel spinning.”

 

22. Paradigm Shifts

What would you give to make something you’ve struggled with, something that seems impossibly difficult, suddenly become astonishingly easy? This isn’t as impossible as it may seem.

 

23. Creating Safety

In spite of the abundant physical evidence that the world is a dangerous place, and cultural pressure to live on the defensive, there’s other compelling evidence that love keeps us safer than does protection.

 

24. Healing a Condition at its Start

Research suggests that not only can healing happen through intention alone, but that intention can actually travel back through time. See for yourself in this powerful healing experiment.

 

25. A Modern Day Miracle-Maker

Real miracle-makers exist. How comfortable are you with being a miracle-maker?

 

26. The Responsibility of Miracles

Imagine that today a power is awakened in you. Not an ordinary power—a miraculous power that singles you out from other people. What would you do?

 

27. Becoming a Miracle Maker

Our experiment enters a new phase. This is where we move from the realm of manifesting miraculous results to making a miraculous difference in the world.

 

28. Shining the Light

One of the most self-serving things we can do is to shine our light outward in some way—to make the world brighter by our presence. What are you willing to do?

 

29. A Return to Our Heart’s Desire

In our next to last experiment, we will return again to our own personal hearts’ desires. This time, however, we’ll approach manifesting work with the recognition that there truly is no difference between one’s own highest good and that of others. As we act in service to our personal well-being, we become more empowered to serve the world and as we serve the world, we naturally attract all that we need to thrive.

 

30. Taking a Quantum Leap

Now is when you need to listen to your intuition and inner guidance. If you’re game—and here is where only the hard core believers need step forward—let’s undertake an experiment that’s never been done. What can you expect from it? Be open to no less than the fulfillment of your dreams. Just don’t expect anything expected. Life may never be the same again!

 

 

 
The perfect parking place shows up every time. A hopelessly lost pet shows up within an hour of a group praying for a miracle. Teeth with cavities grow new gold fillings seconds after a healer prays. The perfect house shows up; job shows up; money shows up; people show up… all through serendipity too remarkable to be “coincidence.”

I don’t “believe” in miracles like these; I see them in my daily life. I would no more say I believe in miracles than say I believe in cars, or planes, or chairs. They’re just a part of life. At the time of this writing, I travel the world conducting healing services and teaching seminars with Dr. Michael Ulm, a faith healer whose practice includes the rare phenomenon of dental fillings turning to shiny, new gold or silver, along with other remarkable manifestations of spontaneous healing.

The miracle of gold fillings appearing, often right before our eyes, may not be necessary for an illness to heal but the phenomenon never fails to delight those who witness it. As one participant put it, “My fillings turning to gold at the healing service felt like a direct communication from God and He was saying "I love you!" I can’t say I fully understand the mystery of dental gold but what I’ve observed about it is that people generally come for healing to alleviate pain and illness but they leave with more: a renewed sense of wonder and an awakened mind—for if teeth can grow gold right before our eyes then, truly, what could be impossible? The miracle isn’t just the absence of pain and dis-ease; it’s the dawning awareness of an unlimited universe.

Michael Ulm and I first experienced this phenomenon from one of the great dental healers of the twentieth century, the late Dr. Willard Fuller, with whom we both had the good fortune to study and, at times, collaborate. Dr. Fuller’s work was known for an extremely high incidence of general healings and also for the phenomenon of spontaneous dental healing: old amalgam fillings turning to shiny gold, silver or other precious materials; crooked teeth straightening; missing teeth growing back and more. It was our mutual association with Dr. Fuller that brought Michael and I together and, over the years, the fillings in my own teeth have gone from the shiny silver I received in my first healing service with Dr. Fuller, to gold through the work I do now with Michael. While there’s no sure curriculum guaranteed to teach our students this art of dental alchemy, Michael and I have seen some of them manifest the phenomenon in their own work: their healing touch resulting in gold fillings that weren’t there before.

What’s interesting about this transmutation of teeth is how difficult it is for people to believe before they see it themselves. Even then, some think it’s a hoax, sometimes not changing their mind until they find new gold in their own mouths. Yet, after attending several group healings where gold and silver appear in mouths all over the room, it becomes strangely common place.

As I shared some of these experiences with my friend Thomas, aptly named because he prides himself on being a true “Doubting Thomas,” he said, if that’s possible, why aren’t lots of people getting rich making gold out of nothing? Why hasn’t this ‘materialization’ been taken over by industry for profit?”

What’s hard to convey to those who doubt is that these miraculous manifestations have no reproducible formula based purely in action. While there may be steps taken and actions performed, they are fueled by the catalyst of consciousness, energy, vibration, state of mind—things unquantifiable and mercurial; things that are hard to force into being through action alone.

For decades, a rash of literature has shown how easy it is to create miraculous health, wealth and happiness by following the simplest of formulas or techniques. Many wonderful books have taught us the value of affirmations and visualization, of practicing meditation and yoga, of positive thinking and prayer. Popular movies like What the Bleep, and The Secret make “the Law of Attraction” look like an easy way to have everything we want. And it really is that easy… except, of course, when it’s not; when no amount of affirmations or visualization techniques will budge life circumstances that feel hopelessly out of our control. Sometimes these techniques backfire comically with results that are literally just what we asked for, as with a woman I once knew who affirmed that, “My next boyfriend is rich!” Her affirmation produced immediate results drawing into her life a new boyfriend who wasn’t wealthy but was named Rich!

While we will address the art of intentional manifestation and spontaneous healing here, miracle-making goes beyond either of these. Too often the practices of spiritual healing or intentional manifestation keep our focus on the presence of dis-ease or lack in our lives. Miracles may include healings and manifestations but they take us beyond our needs, our wants and beyond the limitations of our thinking. They’re such a direct experience of God energy that they change us; they don’t simply produce a result on demand.

For example, several days after attending one of my group experiments, a woman came into a large windfall of money after her sister won the lottery and shared it with her. The money definitely helped the woman progress speedily toward the goals she identified at the group event, but when she recounted the story, she said the real miracle wasn’t the manifested money, it was that her sister shared it with her. The two had a very strained relationship and this gesture produced a totally unexpected healing. Miracles can result in all kinds of lovely manifestations but they’re more than these end products. Miracles are always rooted in love, the love of God that transforms us and makes all things possible.

Calling forth a miracle is a bit like coaxing some beautiful, wild thing out of the woods. When you find you can’t chase it down or catch it, you finally give up hunting and just become still. But merely stopping isn’t enough; the thing won’t come out as long as it senses your agitation. You need to relax…. Then, you look the other way because the creature is shy and won’t appear if it knows you’re waiting for it. So you pretend to simply be enjoying the day with no other agenda. After a while, you actually are enjoying yourself, peaceful and content, the wild thing all but forgotten… when all of a sudden, there it is, magical and magnificent, better than you expected, coming right to you. And it comes just as you’ve stopped trying, stopped expending effort, aren’t even focused on it anymore, so its appearance feels strangely not in your control. Certainly you did things: you wanted it, you set an intention for it, you looked, you waited; but these things by themselves didn’t call the creature forth. It was the point of release, a simple lightness of being and love of life that called the wild miracle.

(Stop for a minute before reading on…. See if you experienced anything as you read this last paragraph. Did you put yourself in the words and picture something wild and beautiful out there watching you as you wait for it? And did you, just for a moment, release the feeling of “hunting” as you imagined the easier experience of simply being present and light? If you did, you’ve already altered your vibration a bit to let something wonderful sneak into your life when you least expect it.)

This book won’t give you a never-fail formula for manifesting miracles because there isn’t one. It will explain some of the science and psychology of miracles—important because many of us will block what we don’t understand. It will also offer stories of real-life miracles because the more common-place they seem, the easier it is to relax, stop stalking the impossible miracle and let them simply appear on their own terms. Most important of all, I’ll walk you through some experiments and playful moments where, together, we can forget what’s impossible long enough to let the miraculous slip through!

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