atheism and miracles

Materialism, rationalism, and atheism need not be anti-spiritualism. If one has gone deep into one’s own mind and psych, and probed to find out the truth of the matter, one may come to one’s own conclusion about the existence or not of a superior intelligence that runs the phenomena of life and existence. No body can find fault with such a person for concluding that there is no spirit or God. All the same every human being must feel within himself that there is a super-conscious intelligence behind the phenomena of this universe, and his life in it. How can this most complicated and wonderful system that we see around us occur without a most powerful energy with equally powerful intelligence? My own mind is proof enough for me. If anybody feels it and behave otherwise his mind must be defective or underdeveloped. One is free not to call this extraordinary energy, power or intelligence by any particular name because the names have all been misused for ages and has different connotations and meanings for different persons.
But a problem can arise when we attribute miraculous powers to the Reality and believe that it grants boons on prayer out of turn, cures incurable diseases, and materializes things unnatural from empty space if you placate it enough.
I think therefore that it is not the existence of an Ultimate Truth that is under question or dispute, but the existence of a God in the shape of a human being, stone, or otherwise who grants boons. Such a divinity with miraculous powers may be non-existent.
Finding out the nature and possibilities of an ultimate reality is the finding out of the secret of nature itself. Why should anybody object to the attempt to find out something, why object to the search itself saying or concluding that it is not necessary because there is nothing to find out? This is where I differ with the atheists.
Spiritual pursuit is a subjective probing. Objection to the probing is stupid in the sense that by denying the probing one is discarding half the knowledge, that is, the knowledge one may gather from an intuitive mind, the knowledge that may come from the unused ‘right brain’.
Well, all said and done, I know that I have a will as part of my mind, my little intelligence. This will can change or create things. The extent to which changes can be effected by it may be very small. But it is there. Similarly, the highly superior intelligence in the universe must have a highly superior intelligence that has the power to make extraordinary changes. Power to bring about miraculous changes cannot be ruled out although whether it actually does so or not is another matter. Belief in miracles cannot be therefore said to be altogether illogical or unreasonable, or impossible. But no miracle is governed by reason.