hi, have you ever witnessed a miracle? I feel like I have but not sure if it’s just psychosis!
Yes! I think this counts.
When I was hospitalized, they wanted to keep me for a long time, and I wouldn’t have graduated if they did. I was very upset and no one was listening to what I was saying at all. Everyone just disregarded my ideas at the hospital. I was okay to go back; I just had an episode and needed some intervention. I didn’t want to stay there for 30 days!
All of a sudden a psychologist came in. She was tall, kind, and looked a lot like an older version of my best friend. I told her my request, and how if they didn’t let me out, I would be held back a year and all my dreams crushed. How it would be pointless after that to even go back.
She signed to let me out. I was out of there in one hour. I got out of there and will be graduating soon.
I wonder if that was a miracle of sorts. She was the only one who treated me like a human and the only one who listened to me. I feel like it wasn’t a coincidence that that it was planned somehow.
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I overdosed when I was 19, and it should have killed me, and what I experienced was that I did die and then came back, it was a very intense experience. In the emergency room they did blood tests and whatnot expecting to find organ damage, but there was none. The doctor seemed uncomfortable and baffled. So I figure either it was a miracle, or I hallucinated taking all the pills in the first place.
I don’t know if they’re miracles, but I’ve seen a lot of things I have to question if they’re real. Sometimes I find myself thinking - “Wow! Did I just see that?”
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How much proof for the existence of a higher power do you need.
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I find it intriguing but also don’t want to be narcissistic at the same time. What point was there in saving me and sending me back, when so many millions die all the time and are not saved at all? I would feel like believing that I was rescued by a higher power is like a grandiose delusion and it would make me feel foolish and arrogant. So Idunno.
Save from what?
My overdose when I was 19.
When I turn to the higher power for an answer I get it. Sometimes it’s not the answer I expected but its an answer. I saw people change direction like something changed their heart. I done stuff in my madness which deserved pain but I experienced happieness. I like to choose the path of an unbeliever and be ignorant. But there are things in life it only for you to know and you can’t proof it to anyoneelse.
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As an active and knowledgeable Native American, i have seen many things i cannot realy explain with science. Im not saying this is “the way to go” or preaching anythink like that. These are just things that i’ve seen.
One of the first miricals i saw was when an old aunt of mine had breast cancer. They finally gave her a due date and she wanted to have a sweat lodge ceremony for the occasion. She made it through the ceremony fine (we were all mindful not to overwork her). Then at the end of the ceremony we all went inside the house then all of the sudden sje started vomiting in the sink what looked like oversized slugs. Her next appointment a week later 60 percent of her cancer was gone.
Another time was much the same situation, exept iy was a man who wanted to have a teepee ceremony. At about half way through the ceremony. He was getting sort of loopy and sick from the peyote (once again not preaching a cure or anything. Just telling a story). After a short time of this her started to vomit and ■■■■ all over himself violently. Then he calmed down. Fast. Almost serene. My grandpa walked him around the fire four times and took him to the hospital to find 40 percent of his cancer was gone. He lived with my granpa for a few month after that with every check him getting better until, eventually he was cancer free.
Both these people met with eachother years later, got married and now live very happy, healthy life in maui, studying marine biology.
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I have a cousin who had a life change after a sweat lodge experience and swears by it, refers to her story as “spider medicine” I’m going through an experience I can’t talk about without being regarded as at the very least “unusual” You mention Peyote, but am well familiar with psychedelics and have a deep understanding of these and their relationship with the self and our world around us, not that drugs are necessarily the answer, I’m not preaching that either, hell it’s been over a decade since I purtook of such things.
I don’t know where you are, and don’t wish to know, but am interested in such practices and ways of healing and coming to understanding. I’m just alone and pretty much very weary of reaching out to strangers and I don’t know I wouldn’t shut down going out into unfamiliar territory on my own. I’m just interested, not necessarily in the peyote, as I’ve been there, but the practices and beliefs/healing methods of native culture. The only people I knew who could have hooked me up either put a knife in my back or knew me as one who’s been slandered and conspired against, the former having been a friend at one point.
And yes, I have.
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I have an unusual belief, and that is that I was given supernatural help while in hospital. As it helped in the end, that’s a bit of a miracle for me. I don’t have many unusual beliefs, but that’s one of them.
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i am a bit of a miracle, i should never have been born, i was a mistake because my mums coil was faulty
I think the fact that I got to age 33 before any professional identified the fact that I am Autistic is a miracle; as is the fact that I managed to survive this long without the associated interventions and support.
From 1986-1990 I was heavily in to smoking crack, in fact I was addicted to it. I also drank a lot and smoked pot occasionally. My life was unmanagable. I tried to quit smoking crack multiple times but I couldn’t, the addiction was stronger than my will power.
In 1990 I was put in a short-term crisis home. I managed to stay away from crack while I was there but I still drank. One day I was walking down the street with a friend I had made there. We ran into a former resident who we both knew and he said, “Hey, want to get some beer?”
We said “sure” so we walked to 7-11 and got a few six-packs and went to drink in this parking lot behind some cars. We were drinking and talking but something hit me while I had a beer in my hand. I announced to my friends, “This is the last beer I will ever drink”. I finished the beer and set down the bottle and walked home.
That was 1990. I joined AA and I haven’t drank any alcohol since that day or done any illegal drugs.
This is my miracle.
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I Do NOT suggest anyone do this but…
i walked in a basement with 2 feet of water and an electrical surge protecter strip under the water.
i felt the need to take the surge protecter out of the water because there were my brothers children in the house and i was afraid it would catch fire.
idk. i could be foolish and not understand the dynamics of surge protectors under water but im amazed when i think of it honestly.
i think God mayve kept me alive for a purpose
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I once ordered a Domino’s pizza to be delivered to my home.
When it arrived…It wasn’t cold!!!
I couldn’t believe it.
I got approved for ssi on the first try with no help at all from anyone
Well feel free to ask me any questions. I wouldn’t be able to tell you where to find it or specific people, but i could always talk about the culture.
I’ve been around peyote and other ceremonies my whole life. It’s just my culture. I was born around it. And i cant emphasise enough that environment is everything. I never do it outside the ceremony and I’m very judgmental about the people who run it. I’m very careful around who i bring around peyote because there always seems to be a disconnect with it and people who aren’t totally surrounded by the culture all the time. I only ever brought one person from outside to our teepee and thats because she let me teach her about it for months before hand.
That said, people put ALOT of time and respect into these ceremonies. It’s not just a bunch of hippies singing songs in a circle or some self proclaimed shaman in some back room.
I think im getting carried away with the whole peyote subject, but its sort of a pet peeve of mine when i here about people who just assume it’s some sort of hippy hallucinogen.
Im sorry if i seem harsh. Im sorry your experiences with peyote was so harsh. You seem like you learned from you mistake and like i said, feel free to ask any questions. My grndpa always said if someone wants to know it’s sort of my duty to tell them and make sure they don’t have any misconceptions and make any mistakes.
P.S. i know sweat lodge and other cerimonies too. I just got a little carried away with the whole peyote thing.
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Every single person here who is living on their own or functioning well even with a bit of help is a miracle. Do you folks realize how we would have been treated a century ago? Even half a century ago? I am so SO grateful for what modern medicine has given me. Yes, absolutely, I believe in miracles.
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