The Science of Miracles

By Rod Martin, Jr

“With a certainty that startled even me, I knew that I had tapped into the source code of the physical universe itself.”—The Science of Miracles, ch.3

What is a miracle? It is an action that either bends or breaks the laws of physical reality.

Using scientific method, researcher Rod Martin, Jr. discovered a method for creating miracles at-will. Over the course of several decades, he studied and refined this method, polishing it into what he calls “Creational Mechanics.”

He also discovered that the same method had been available all along in ancient religious texts like the Bible. All it took was the proper interpretation—being able to see the words with spiritual eyes.

This book tells how science can be improved so that it can study spiritual phenomena. It also details the journey of discovery that led Martin from childhood dreams of flight to the startling triple miracle on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles that changed his life forever.

Within this book, you learn the key ingredients and mindset required to perform miracles. Warning: This is not for the selfish or greedy. As the founder of Christianity informed us, we need to give up such childish ways.

Replication is a key element in science and it is also a key part of The Science of Miracles. Martin teaches by example and also leads you through a series of personal experiences which helped him to understand what he was looking at. He also details many of the problems people face with things like prayer and the Law of Attraction. And he offers solid solutions based on experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tharsis Highlands
• Release date: Jan 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370909988

Rod Martin, Jr

Rod Martin, Jr. was born in West Texas, United States. He has been a Hollywood artist, a software engineer with a degree summa cum laude, a writer, web designer and a college professor.Rod Martin's interests have ranged from astronomy to ancient history, physics to geology, and graphics arts to motion pictures.He has studied comparative religion, worked as a lay minister and spiritual counselor, and taught ethics in college.While doing graphic arts in Hollywood, he also studied electronic engineering. In 1983, as Carl Martin, he published his first novel, "Touch the Stars: Emergence," co-authored by John Dalmas (Tor Books, NY). He continues to write science fiction under that pen name.Later, switching careers to computers and information technology, Mr. Martin worked for Control Data, Ceridian Payroll, Bank of America, Global Database Marketing and IPRO Tech. He also created "Stars in the NeighborHood" 3D astronomy space software.He currently resides in the Philippines with his wife, Juvy. He has taught information technology, mathematics and professional ethics at Benedicto College, in Cebu. He continues to teach online and to write books and blogs.

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The Science of Miracles

How Scientific Method Can Be Applied to Spiritual Phenomena

Rod Martin, Jr.

Is humanity mature enough yet for miracles?

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father" (John 14:12, KJV).

Dedicated to my loving wife, Juvy

Smashwords Edition

July 2019

Published by Tharsis Highlands Publishing

Copyright 2018, 2019 Rod Martin, Jr.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof in any form.

Acknowledgements

Cover photography by Juvy Martin. Cover design by Rod Martin, Jr.

Changes

2019:0723—Added Glossary introduced in print edition.

2019:0714—Minor changes for added clarity. Plus, added source for Chapter 6’s section on The Rainmaker Principle.

2019:0424—Largely minor changes in wording to achieve a smoother read. One correction was made in two location, fixing the attribution to Christ the statement about childish things. This is now correctly attributed to the Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus).

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Contents

Introduction: Oil and Water

Chapter 1: Wrong Paradigm

Chapter 2: Early Tests and Coincidence

Chapter 3: Breakthrough Clues

Chapter 4: Replication

Chapter 5: Miracle on Wilshire Boulevard

Chapter 6: Forgiveness and Understanding

Chapter 7: Science and Spirituality

Appendix

Steps in Creational Mechanics

List of Potential Barriers

Possible Preparations

Variables Involved

Glossary

Recommended Reading

About the Author

Other Works

Connect

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Introduction: Oil and Water

It was late one summer afternoon in 1977, Los Angeles, when the miracle stood before me much as the parted sea had stood before Moses so many ages ago. In seconds, three lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic had become two. On either side were two walls of cars, leaving an empty center lane for as far as the eye could see—two miles down to the next bend in Wilshire Boulevard. I had asked for this and it had been delivered. Right here, in broad daylight, in the modern age. And now, my soul felt naked to the power of creation. Suddenly, I knew that the Age of Miracles had never ended.

If you don’t believe in science, this book is not for you.

What does science have to do with miracles? Until now, not much. But the logic and critical thinking that helps science work can also be brought to bear on spiritual topics.

This book explores the nature of both science and miracles and reveals how miracles work. This slender volume also explores the things that prevent miracles from working, including one potent barrier currently found in science.

A common belief holds that certain things do not mix. As you will see, science and spirituality, as a pair, do not belong to that club. They are entirely compatible, because both fields involve a quest for some measure of understanding.

Science is a method of investigation and discovery. Miracles are a rare phenomena that bend or break the laws of physical reality. Normally, science is used to investigate and discover the nature of physical law. It’s worth repeating, the logic and critical thinking applied by researchers in the laboratory can also be applied to scrutinize spiritual experiences.

While science normally studies the realm of continuity, spiritual phenomena remain decidedly discontinuous in nature. What do these terms mean—continuity and discontinuity? An analog clock is continuous—its second hand sweeping through every position on the dial in one uninterrupted flow. The fact that gravity works here much the same as it does in Moscow, Tokyo or on the Moon, is yet another dimension of continuity. Continuity makes nature predictable; thus, science is possible. A digital clock jumps from one number to the next, skipping all intervening real numbers. Digital time may say 4:23 one moment and 4:24 the next, but may never represent 4:23:59.99999999999999999. Digital is discontinuous. In nature, space is continuous and movement of an object in space passes through an infinite number of positions toward its destination. Time is also continuous. If there were no continuity, there would be no predictability and thus no science.

Spiritual action includes inspiration, epiphany, creation, miracles, awareness without physical connection and other phenomena, all of which break with the continuity of physical reality. Moses raised his hands and the sea parted. Jesus walked on water, and when he was done with the storm, it stopped. These are examples of spiritual discontinuity. This is control without atomic energy or some other physical process. Such experiences remain predictable, however, because they are the result of conscious intention. That predictability makes spiritual phenomena subject to the scrutiny of science.

This book attempts to document the discoveries which were made by applying logic, scientific method and critical thinking to a series of spiritual hypotheses and events. In many cases, the investigation and analysis came after an anecdotal occurrence. Some investigations, however, were the result of careful and premeditated tests of a hypothesis.

In each case, the intention was to learn more about the nature of spiritual phenomena in general, and in the case of miracles, the cause-and-effect relationships of conscious self to the resulting outcome.

Science’s Compatibility Issue

Science is not entirely without flaws, and scientists even more so. This may come as a surprise to many scientists and lay fans of science, but the reasoning will become painfully obvious in short order. This is a topic which needs to be addressed and handled before we can delve into the specifics of spiritual experiences. We will look at this issue in the first chapter.

In the chapters which follow, we will examine the key experiences which helped to shape my worldview on this subject. These were the building blocks of my laboratory. As with all breakthroughs of the past, this work was not done in a vacuum. A great deal of prior work had been done by others. Without their wisdom and accomplishments, this work would not have been possible.

Replication is a key part of scientific research. One form of miracle has been repeated dozens of times. Even the instances of failure have been instructive, guiding the research to a more refined understanding of the critical ingredients required in any miracle.

The difficulty in reporting on this research has involved the lack of adequate language to describe the spiritual landscape. Fully half of your author’s 67 years has been spent finding the right way of talking about the research and the effects being investigated.

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Chapter 1 — Wrong Paradigm

Science is a pretty handy tool, but it’s not perfect. One of the biggest flaws in science has prevented it from being used on spiritual phenomena with any large degree of success. That flaw is easy enough to fix, if an individual researcher has the strength of will to overcome their own ego and tradition.

Scientific method asks us not to be biased in our investigations. Ironically, the very paradigm used by science to conduct all its research is itself heavily biased. Some scientists will likely never admit to this or they may remain blind to this built-in bias. But the nature of this bias is easy enough to understand.

When a young scientist graduates university, they’re usually full of hope and enthusiasm. Their youthful inexperience frequently leads them to jump to the easiest conclusions in their research. If they’ve been properly trained, they know to counter that positive bias with the potent negative bias of skepticism.

Skepticism is defined as: "A doubting or questioning attitude or state of mind, and A methodology based on an assumption of doubt with the aim of acquiring approximate or relative certainty" (thefreedictionary.com).

See the word doubt? That’s the negative bias.

When used only to counter the positive bias of enthusiasm, skepticism serves science well, when investigating physical occurrences and forces.

But scientists are only human, with human frailties. They have egos that sometimes become bruised. And, with egos, scientists sometimes become attached to tradition and dogma, forgetting how to use skepticism properly.

And skepticism has a dark side, too, full of subjective attitude. Two of the most popular misuses of skepticism I call unsupported dismissiveness and self-indulgent ridicule.

The first of these Dark Side misuses of skepticism rejects ideas without proper investigation—argumentum ad lapidem (appeal to the stone). Frequently, the dismissal includes at least one additional logical fallacy.

The second is more mean-spirited, and makes use of ad hominem logical fallacies. But both of these Dark Side misuses do not help in the pursuit of knowledge. All too often, they hinder it.

Examples of the ‘Dark Side’ of Science’s Misguided Standard