"the great monotheistic faiths are founded on miracle stories."
In bland's view, miracle stories are symbolic, parables, metaphorical, poetry. They are products of the human imagination. Not figments, mind you, but products, creations in the positive sense. They are illustrative of what Jung would call "psychic events", core experiences of the individual human heart that must be expressed, and can only be expressed, figuratively.
Personally bland is not a believer in exceptional miracles, only common everyday ones.
Bland does feel, however, that if everything we see and experience around us as living beings in our lifetime is purely and simply and solely the result of blind, random, stupid chance...then that indeed would qualify as a miracle. |
