Parapsychology & Miracles
Within this framework some parapsychological phenomena may occur, even miraculous events.
- Miracles are those normal sequences of the discrete-degree processes, just happening more quickly than usual.
However, the world does not usually work like this:
- all processes at all degrees are conditional on the previous events in those degrees, so arbitrary miracles do not occur.
- the prior degrees are just those processes which constitute peoples thoughts and lives, so all operations are to some extent the result of conscious decisions.
- Swedenborg tells us that nowadays, miracles are deliberately kept from our public view, so as not to force rational thought (would not then be free),
- They occur still in many interior degrees, but ‘external miracles’ only now occur when they can be interpreted in many ways.
- We are supposed to freely and rationally understand the (possible) operation of God in the world.