Can you believe what’s going on in the world? Damaged oceans, constant earthquakes, floods, financial ruin, the preposterous Arizona immigration law, and the most unbelievable phenomenon of all: Sarah Palin? I never could have predicted this magnitude of implausibility. It’s simply incredible. But belief is obviously not a predictor of truth. I truly can’t believe it all, yet it’s still happening.

Belief often doesn’t correspond with reality, contrary to the pop-new-age oversimplification that, “You can create anything if only you believe.” Believing something doesn’t make it true. “Earth is 6,000 years old,” because some folks are certain of it… really? And disbelief doesn’t make it false. “Human activity does not cause climate change,” if enough people insist it doesn’t… right?

This lack of correspondence between belief and reality doesn’t only apply to disasters and things going all to hell. Amazing improvements, fortuitous coincidences, sudden enlightenments and seemingly miraculous healings are also sharply on the rise, even thought they’re equally hard to believe. But that doesn’t mean they’re not happening, despite nay-saying skeptics. Don’t automatically believe the doubters – their ancestors were probably flat-earthers or Inquisitors.

I see miracles every single day. From instant healings to life transformations, the constant flow of astonishing yet unexplained phenomena is getting yawningly commonplace. When I stop to think about it, I can hardly believe it. But it’s happening, nonetheless.

Everything’s intensifying. We’re constantly adjusting to ever-increasing negativity. So let’s stretch our minds equally in the other direction, and allow that astonishing things are happening in the realm of the miraculous, in biological, technological, mental and spiritual evolution. And you don’t even have to believe. Regardless of your disbelief, miracles happen anyway.

Elma Mayer teaches people how to activate their innate healing ability.