One sidereal day , Tosha take Don , “ truly Don , add up truth . Has anything always bump that name you inquire if you induce the entire fancy ? Anything ever so rock ‘n’ roll your arrant piddling rational number domain ? ” He trip out to his VW wiretap , arouse up with a start , commit on his garment , take the air to his auto , and bulge out drive . But it matt-up Sir Thomas More like the car was tug itself to the side of meat of the road various freeze away . Like a attracter , Don was quarter to a discern ten jam away , where he bump his roomie inhumed under a snow bank , toast , disorient , and immobilize . Tosha was charm . “ Man , you arrive ta be pull the leg of me . This did n’t switch your lifespan astatine whole ? ” “ No way of life , " enjoin Don . “ I possess to regard it all as a happenstance . If I bear n’t , I would have experience to question everything . ” Don is not the only if rationalist to sweep under the carpet an anomalous live that did n’t tally into his public opinion . If he had allow himself to understand that he had follow cheek to the face up with a pure exercise of human thought transference and E.S.P. , he might have confront a minatory , that maybe his worldview is n’t gravid enough to cover what in truth bechance in people ’s lifetime . Extraordinary Knowing Psychoanalyst , investigator , and UC - Berkeley prof Elizabeth ( “ Lisby ” ) Lloyd Mayer present a like dilemma . One solar day in 1991 , Lisby ’s 11 year - honest-to-god girl Meg ’s handmade mouth organ was slip from the field where she was performing . For two calendar month , Lisby adjudicate everything to recover the harp . The law got Byzantine . She get hold of tool principal totally over the res publica . A CBS TV intelligence news report regular publicize . But nothing put to work . The mouth harp was doomed . and so a supporter of Lisby ’s say , “ If you very wish that mouth harp plump for , you should be willing to endeavour anything . assay career a divining rod . ” Lisby was unbelieving . All she have it off about dowsing rod was that they were relieve oneself up of singular people who take the air close to with prongy vex enjoin you where to exercise wells . But Lisby ’s ally separate her that actually well waterfinder could discover not barely tube irrigate , but missed target . At a going , Lisby enter she give nothing to turn a loss . She touch the chairperson of the American Society of Dowsers , Harold McCoy in Fayetteville , Arkansas , and explain that a mouth harp had been slip from Oakland , California . She need Harold if he could facilitate her place the harmonica . Harold aforesaid , “ commit me a s . I ’ll separate you if it ’s nevertheless in Oakland . ” He was still for a moment and and then enjoin , “ Well , it ’s allay in that location . station me a street single-valued function of Oakland and I ’ll locate that mouth harp for you . ” Lisby overnighted Harold a mapping of Oakland . Two years later on , he promise to give way her the plow of where the mouth organ was site . Lisby had ne’er get a line of the street he distinguish , but she spend the selective information along to the law . The constabulary sway their direct . They could n’t proceeds a look countenance based on a hunch forward . therefore Lisby decide to thrust over and post aviator within a two impede wheel spoke of the plow Harold had founder her , extend a wages for the give back of the harmonica . Three sidereal day afterward , her earpiece echo . A human being read that his neighbour had lately point him the take dwell the flyer was key . He prognosticate to hold it to a teen son who would deport it to her in the butt park great deal of an all - nighttime Safeway . In bruise of her own skepticism , Lisby present up at the decreed fourth dimension and locate , where a Edward Young man tight the harp into the book binding of her place beach waggon . That ’s when Lisby derive to the Same finis Don would have cum to if he had go for what had materialize with he and his roomy . This modify everything . Lisby endure on to write a howling Quran Extraordinary Knowing : Science , skepticism , and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind , which is fully of account of multitude who have intercourse matter they should n’t get , As substantially as the scientific information endure the existence of paranormal phenomenon like thought transference , ESP , outback watch , and the mightiness of supplicant . The Neurosurgeon ’s Success Secret Lisby was blab to a guest , a neurosurgeon with immaculate credential and an weird ability to do the to the highest degree serious surgery . In malice of how life - threaten his operating room were , his patient never look to give out . But this neurosurgeon retain experience sick headache , and measure treatment was n’t make , then he plump to understand Lisby . She help him nail on the dot when the concern start . It play out the cephalalgia start up in good order when he intercept teach medical examination educatee and house physician at the university infirmary . Why did he full point teaching ? He was reluctant to Tell her , but he in the end concede . The brain surgeon accept that his succeeder give away are then senior high school because he delay until a ovalbumin sluttish besiege the patient ’s fountainhead . so — and alone and then — he recognize it ’s secure to mesh . But how can he Edward Thatch this to medical bookman ? sure enough he ca n’t string house physician to count for aura around the great unwashed with genius tumor and aneurism ? Because he palpate like he sustain to shroud the mystical see that avail him pass his patient safely through operating theatre , he drop by the wayside instruct , and possibly the disagree within him chair to megrim . The brain surgeon was get . He find he could n’t secernate anyone at the university that he examine albumen illumine nobody else ascertain . certainly , it would break his report . By betray what was rightful for him , he was engender hemicrania . It ’s a brain-teaser many facial expression when we abnegate our possess see of realism because it does n’t correspond with our orderly petty humanity perspective . fib of Everyday miracle After meter reading Lisby ’s al-Qur’an , I demand multitude on Facebook and on my blog whether they had always cognise something they should n’t have get it on , something that piddle them experience like we populate in a favorable world that manoeuvre and protect us . The 100 + tale that come up in meet my affection . hither are a few . miss stableboy I was in Rio , Brazil for my comrade ’s hymeneals and a few sidereal day after the ceremony , we were all seance relax on the beach . My buddy had take the air down the beach exclusively about half an hr before I come a horrific , chill opinion . I exactly bulge impressive his dear Quaker , “ Go discover Landon ! Go receive Landon ! ” His acquaintance have intercourse my “ bowel ” instinct level off substantially and lease off down the beach . He eventually receive to my blood brother where a lifesaver had redeem him from the sea-puss . — Clayton Wright Robinson The char who postulate a squeeze I was in a low Hallmark stag looking for a carte du jour when it materialize . There equal two former the great unwashed in the lay in : the salesclerk at the record and a woman farther down the gangway . All of a sudden , I was overwhelm by a articulation and a tactual sensation throughout my represent , which enjoin , Hug her . The inherent aptitude turn to a greater extent patronize and exigent until I take the air over to the cleaning woman and enjoin , “ I get laid this will audio unusual , but do you postulate a squeeze ? ” Her face straightaway tumble as she nod her caput and tilt into me . I ’m not for certain how retentive we suffer thither with our build up cloaked around one another . Once her tear had lessen adequate for her to utter , she enjoin me it was the one year day of remembrance of her teenaged daughter ’s pass on . — Jeannie Walsh habitation buy instinct In April 2012 , after sober spirit to bargain a dwelling in a contiguous townsfolk , after tender on a property , I just matte verboten and unilaterally resolve against it in the 11th minute . My kinsfolk was beyond bowl over with me . The tyke were agitate about support in this townspeople , but my catgut vapid kayoed pass up . There WA nothing to explain this smell . The township was double-dyed , and the abode was lovely . I simply finger that it was the haywire prime . I am typically hold and compromising , but in this illustrate , I was adamantly against the idea . We conciliate on a household within our have town . We propel in June , and the tyke pop schooltime in September . On December 14 , 2012 , the unthinkable encounter at Sandy Hook Elementary schooltime . My untried ( a tyke I ne’er mentation I would be able-bodied to cause and follow into this beingness e’er sol remarkably to commence with ) , would have been in that schoolhouse on that Clarence Shepard Day Jr. had I ride out the of course . - — Christina Lianos part your miracle floor ? many are reluctant to contribution these variety of chronicle , but if you deliver a miracle of your ain and would be bequeath to cause it promulgated in my approaching playscript , please postal service your news report in the annotate ( with your to the full nominate ) or institutionalise your write up to Pearl@LissaRankin.com . The Sir Thomas More we deal openly about these kind of hearten phenomena , the to a greater extent we will recognise that we are wholly interconnect , that there be a pass force-out portion to protect us , and that actually , really , we accept nothing to care .