I’ve written about some of the out-of-the-ordinary things that happen to me. A man who died when his car crashed into my house sent me a message that he wanted a mass said for him in Spanish. I bumped into someone in a haunted building and said Excuse me, not realizing at first that it was a ghost. I once saw angels around a woman at the post office.
What extraordinary things have happened in your life? Did you become pregnant after doctors told you it was impossible? Did cancer miraculously disappear? Maybe you somehow survived an accident that should have killed you.
Or perhaps you’ve seen angels. Or clearly heard the voice of a grandparent who’s dead. Or suddenly, just like that, knew where to find a lost pet.
No matter who you are, I’ll bet something amazing has happened to you even if was finding twenty bucks when you desperately needed it. It would be foolish to dismiss these extraordinary events simply because they are extraordinary and one of a kind.
We can be reluctant to tell others about these crazy things because we fear skepticism. But philosopher and consciousness researcher John Beloff said, “Skepticism is not necessarily a badge of tough-mindedness; it may equally be a sign of intellectual cowardice.”
There’s an old saying in medicine about people’s stories. “If you don’t like a story, you call it an anecdote. If you like it, you call it a case history.”
Which is your wild story—anecdote or case history?
Don’t give in to intellectual cowardice. Believe that the mystical is all around us. Choose to believe that the magic is real. Tell me your extraordinary story. I’ll listen without a drop of skepticism.