The Law of Miracles

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Quantum physics states that our material world is actually variable fields or frequencies of energy. All energy is ultimately reducible to light. In other words, we live in a light-wave universe. A miracle is a manifestation of light energy, an amplification of light in our minds beyond its habitual intensity or brightness. Thoughts imbued with the light of wisdom and love produce miracles. When we aspire to truth and live in harmony with the law of love, seeking to avoid harming others and actively seeking to do good, we enter the dimension of the miraculous.

What this means to us practically is that we can produce our own miracles at will once we understand the principles involved, and learn to apply the universal laws of manifestation and harmony. It works like this. Our minds – our thoughts and emotions – make an impression on the surrounding subtle ethers in which we live, move, and have our being. Our consciousness conditions the vibrational fields of subtle matter or light in which we find ourselves. Our thoughts make an impact on the field around us. The vibrations set in motion by our thinking and feeling attract to us conditions that are in harmony with what we are always producing in our own minds. By the law of affinity or attraction, we magnetize circumstances to us that are in direct accord with the nature of our thoughts and feelings. As we understand this and begin to live and act from a state of positive, life-affirming thoughts and intention, we draw miracles into our field. We enter the dimension of the miraculous.

We can think of it using the metaphor of a movie projector. The light of our consciousness is projected onto the “screen” or field in which we live. Our thoughts and emotions are the content that we project onto the screen. In this way, our inner states of consciousness are projected onto the landscape of our daily experience through a natural process of time. We really do create our own reality.

Put another way, our personal energy field or aura, is the template for or experience. Our inner world is projected onto our outer environment and crystallizes into material circumstances. For this reason, it is true to say that our lives are self-created and our experiences are self-bestowed. Self-responsibility is the beginning of personal life mastery. Each of us, in our own way, rearrange the omnipresent light waves in the image of our thinking. 

I once knew a man who experienced a miracle performed by a great yogi that saved his life. My friend Lloyd passed away many years ago, but when he was ninety, he told me this story. As a young man living in California he would often attend the Sunday talks and services at the Self Realization Fellowship in Encinitas. The famed yogi saint Paramahansa Yogananda would often preside over the Sunday service, and it was on one of these occasions that the miracle occurred. 

After the service, as Lloyd and his four friends were getting into their car to leave, the long-haired swami in orange robes, who was usually smiling and radiantly happy after a service, approached their car with a serious look on his face. He told them exactly how to arrange themselves in the car, then bade farewell. A little perplexed by the yogi’s words, they set out on their return trip, traveling scenic Highway One that hugs the Pacific coastline. Minutes later, an oncoming car skidded across the lane into the path of their car. The driver of Lloyd’s vehicle swerved to avoid a collision and came perilously close to plunging over the cliff to the rocky beach far below. In that frightening moment, they all saw Yogananda appear on the hood of the car, a serious expression on his face. The driver was able to stabilize the car and regain control of the vehicle whereupon the vision of the yogi vanished. 

Stunned and grateful, they all agreed they had been saved from calamity by the saintly swami, who had seen clairvoyantly the accident beforehand and had intervened on their behalf to prevent tragedy. Though the particulars of the miracle elude us, apparently Yogananda wanted to know exactly how they were seated in the car so he could project himself in his subtle body, and through some mysterious mechanism of the spirit, prevent the driver from plunging over the cliff. 

Applying the law of miracles, Yogananda used his knowledge of our light-wave universe to influence material substance with the power of his God-attuned spirit. Though we may not possess the astonishing abilities demonstrated by the great yogi-saint, each of us in our own way can apply the principles of conscious living to begin creating conditions that work to the advantage of ourselves and those we love. By thinking rightly, we can begin to create our own miracles.

The habitual thoughts and feelings in our personal energy field become the instrument through which we crystallize our fondest dreams into material reality and thereby live a happy and fulfilled life. – Emory Michael