FNE & 10 Second Miracles

I suppose that I am as interested and excited about life now, as I have never been. I have had two, that I know of 10 Second Miracles, in my life. One was in a doctoral level workshop with a Jungian Psychologist who gave us a Jungian teaching and immediately challenged this very teaching. It would take too much time to describe, but I was the only one in this advanced class who voiced and exposed the challenge, and I was attacked (verbally by many others), who said that this professor would not try to trick us like that. In my journaling I asked her about it and she confirmed that I was dead on. That was in the summer of 1988. The second 10 Second Miracle was first experience of integrated thinking. It so happened that it was about my spirituality and the ability to relate a concrete physical experience to an metaphorical impression. I had spinal meningitis and nearly died late Dec in 1988. After that event, I could do what then was my Clinical Pastoral Education Supervisor called theological reflection, but I now know to be integrated thinking. I saw the physical manifestation of having my spinal fluid full of puss and the incredible pain of that crushing, no way to describe illness, as a symbol of the cracked foundation (I had a crack in the base of my skull at the ethmoid sinuses) of my spiritual life, which was sick and full of puss; dying. This started me on a new way of thinking, and I have had small experiences of maybe 2,3 or 5 second miracles kind of routinely. I am a very different chaplain, and can assist person easily, almost without effort, to come to clear focus about their lives. I am currently a mental health professional; a chaplain working with the terminally ill and their families. I suppose that I have created many values for patients and families at and in the agonizing moments of their losses.

I have begun see the world now, even more differently, and am sensing how hopeless I have been as I see and hear others say the same things I have said in the past. I have begun to look around and know that I do not belong in this current society of hatred, violence,and despair. Yet, I am here, and I am wanting to know the best way to countermand what I am hearing, and what I have actively promulgated in the past. I have spoken this fatalistic theology, but in a modified way, sense I knew at a deep level that it is wrong (basic christian doctrine). This is certainly part of the anticivilization within which I am stuck. However, I feel as a alien now, even in my own family. I wish to reach out and to wake them up, yet I have just been through the last painful steps of actually letting go that false life. So, I plan to continue studying and learning and wait for the moment, which we be a 10 Second Miracle, to let these teachings out. I am sure you will guide me to some degree from your experience and I will need to chat with someone about all of this. However, I have taken a fresh breath, and am so grateful to you, Mark, and the greater Society. I love this focusing.

Also, I believe that I have several FNEs, and do not know if that is practical. I do enjoy and love to help people. I am a pastoral counselor and have integrated several disciplines of the human sciences into my counseling, and have built a bridge between these disciplines with the earthly ministry of Christ. I know no that I do not know the whole of Christ’s ministry, but he did have a inner circle himself, and it is rather easy to see, now that I have been studying Neothink, Jesus’ actual purpose. This has helped me more than I can say, because I could never see myself rejecting Jesus, totally, because there was always something in some of his words, that capture my imagination. So, I know that one thing that I have done on Friday nights is counseling, psychotherapy, and formal debriefings for emergency services – police, fire departments, and EMS stations. Some of this was totally volunteer. I am passionate about blessing and assisting others, and it gives me great satisfaction.

A second FNE is that of the arts: acting, singing, guitar, painting, public speaking ( I am a very persuasive speaker), and song and poem writing. Even this is 6 or 7 FNEs.

I thought that this was a problem, but I loves these, and now see that I can have more than one, and keep myself occupied, and does this not represent several streams of income?

I ordered the “Your Wish Is Your Command CD Series” and am looking forward to what is next.

The Neothink principles are seeping into my head and psyche, and I am enjoying looking forward, now, and that may be a 10 Second Miracle in itself.

Thank you from the bottom and top of my heart – Charles Murray