No, not in any way. Just suggesting there is ‘something’ uncommon, uncanny, unusual, that seems to be taking place behind the scenes. Persons who have that ‘third eye’ and are now aware they can see with it. Call this whatever, the awakening of a new sense of perception. Prayer, praying is very personal. Where, when, how often, how intense, silently or loudly varies individually. When prayers are answered one wants to inform all who will listen. Prayers at times can be answered in ways we fail to see and though we are unaware, prayers have indeed been answered when the result is at last known. It is as though we are being taught to think beyond the logical, the common, and follow the process to view the end result. The road to the destination is of as much value/reward as the destination itself. We are but children who are constantly being taught.
| Hey V K. Very good analysis -- and I hear you that when we talk about prayers and the future, we have moved somewhat beyond the rational and into another mode of perception. One guy who thought a lot about thinking was Emerson, trained as a Protestant minister, went to divinity schook and ultimately spent most of his life lecturing and being a poetic philosopher. Here's a passage that I think is related to our topic:
Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work. Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes, -- all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon, and make a good poise and a straight course impossible. You must elect your work; you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest. Only so, can that amount of vital force accumulate, which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs. One of the high anecdotes of the world is the reply of Newton to the inquiry, "how he had been able to achieve his discoveries?" -- "By always intending my mind."
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