{"id":196,"date":"2016-01-11T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/?p=196"},"modified":"2016-01-11T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:38:07","slug":"mark-twain-and-randall-sullivan-miracle-detectives-exploring-the-supernatural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/2016\/01\/11\/mark-twain-and-randall-sullivan-miracle-detectives-exploring-the-supernatural\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain and Randall Sullivan &#8211; Miracle Detectives Exploring the Supernatural"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><strong><em><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/616\/2016\/01\/TwainJoan1905_skybox2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-485 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/616\/2016\/01\/TwainJoan1905_skybox2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"TwainJoan1905_skybox2\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\"><\/a>By Stephen Ryan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is no blemish in that rounded and beautiful character. Joan of Arc was deeply religious, and believed that she had daily speech with angels; that she saw them face to face, and that they counselled her, comforted and heartened her, and brought commands to her direct from God\u201d<strong> \u2013\u00a0 Mark Twain<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is no single word I discovered that so instantly could produce a rapturous smile a derisive snort or an uncomfortable silence in the Vatican as \u201cMedjugorje\u201d What fascinated me\u00a0 was that those that extolled Medjugorje as a place of sacred virtue of unparalleled power all had made pilgrimages to experience the village first hand while those who scoffed knew only what they had read or heard. The priests inclined to to dismiss reports of miracles at Medjugorje (first as an insult to their intelligence and second as an embarrassment to the church) all seemed curiously muted.\u201d\u00a0<strong> -Randall Sullivan<br>\n<\/strong><\/em><br>\nFrom time to time people ask me how I got started with MysticPost.com. Over time I have come to the conclusion that my websites\u2019s current manifestation \u2013 its heart and soul \u2013\u00a0 started with a letter. The letter was to \u00a0Randall Sullivan, the acclaimed investigative journalist, former writer for Rolling Stone Magazine and best selling author.<\/p>\n<p>What I remember most about the short crumpled letter I sent off to Mr. Sullivan was licking the stamp.\u00a0 Putting my tongue to sticky paper was definitely old school, but the publisher informed me it was the only way I could contact the author and I was determined to thank him for his magnificent book <a href=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=ministryvalue-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B0015T6GAI&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cThe Miracle Detective\u201d<\/a> \u2013 a book that has changed many lives \u2013 including mine.\u00a0 It is a book that changes the way we look at faith and religion, no matter what confession one worships.<\/p>\n<p>What Randall Sullivan\u2019s book taught me is that religion is far more than a set of rules \u2013\u00a0it is about the other side. It\u2019s about \u201cLife after this life\u201d. \u00a0The essence of religion, by definition, is about the supernatural \u2013 it is about God \u2013 a force not of this earth \u2013 but this most rudimentary fact seems to have been abandoned by the faithful of all creeds. This development forced Pope John Paul II to lament shortly \u00a0before his death that: \u00a0\u201cToday we have lost the sense of the supernatural\u201d\u00a0Pope Francis recently said \u201cWithout mysticism, religion is just philosophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The supernatural deepens our faith in a beautiful and mysterious way and without it we are left with nothing but a set of bureaucratic rules and regulations.\u00a0 We are left handing out coins to toll booth collectors hoping to avoid accidents on our way to our certain death.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Sullivan\u2019s book seemed to pull me out of that spiritual ditch and put me on path towards something bigger and outside of myself. His book put me on a path towards eternity, perhaps even back home. Happily, the\u00a0 path\u2019s foundation is firmly constructed out of reason \u2013 no need to fear losing one\u2019s core scientific sensibilities or free will. \u00a0Sullivan\u2019s book powerfully attaches \u201creason\u201d \u2013 to the wonderful world of miracles, mysteries, and\u00a0the Catholic faith.\u00a0\u00a0 In his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=ministryvalue-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B0015T6GAI&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cMira<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/static.oprah.com\/images\/own\/2011\/miracledetectives\/101\/20110105-detectives-conclusion-2-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"im\">cle Detective\u201d,<\/a>\u00a0 the tangible essence of the supernatural is revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Randall Sullivan, the former agnostic, raised by atheists, the Ivy Leaguer, the writer for The Rolling Stone Magazine basically grabs you by the throat\u00a0 and \u00a0asks you to take his journey and then at the end of the voyage he dares you to call him crazy. But you can\u2019t.\u00a0 You are left with only two conclusion \u2013 either God exists \u2013 or scientists and atheists still have got some serious explaining to do. \u00a0The book unlike anything ever written puts the burden back on the folks who think science and logic have all the answers.<\/p>\n<p>My letter to Randall Sullivan had dual purposes, first, as I said, I wanted to thank him for his work on Miracle Detective but I also wanted to share with him an anecdote about Mark Twain that for some reason I felt certain he would find interesting \u2013 perhaps even comforting.\u00a0 You see, Mark Twain like Randall Sullivan also wrote a book about miracles and apparitions and both men toiled for years writing their books about young simple people \u2013 Catholics \u2013 Catholics whose lives were defined by visions from heaven. Something told me Mr. Sullivan would enjoy knowing all this and I was pretty sure that it would be news to him as well.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Twain spent over twelve years working on his book \u2013 Randall Sullivan eight. Twain spent much of the time in France researching and investigating a Catholic visionary that by the time he put his pen down and had finished his work he had reached the conclusion that the historical figure he had written about had lived <strong>THE most remarkable and extraordinary\u00a0 life of all time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Twain\u00a0writes:\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cShe is the wonder of the ages. Taking into account, as I have suggested before, all the circumstances \u2014 her origin, youth, sex, illiteracy, early environment, and the obstructing conditions under which she exploited her high gifts and made her conquests in the field and before the courts that tried her for her life, \u2014 she is easily and by far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cmost extraordinary person the human race has ever produced\u201d\u00a0 this simple young\u00a0 peasant girl who saw angels in\u00a0 heaven was named Joan of Arc and the\u00a0 book by Mark Twain\u00a0is called \u201cPersonal Recollections of Joan of Arc\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edward Wagenknecht in his biography , \u201cMark Twain: The Man and His Work\u201d said of Mark Twain\u2019s labor:\u00a0 \u201cIt is an extraordinary (and baffling) literary phenomenon that Mark Twain, who was not disposed to see God at work in the melancholy affairs of men, should have been so galvanized by the life and achievement of this young woman that he devoted years of his life to this book about her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another little secret\u00a0 about Mark Twain that book critics and Twain historians like to dismiss is that the\u00a0 book was also closest to his heart. Mark Twain wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like this book best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none.\u201d<br>\nBut it is in Mark Twain\u2019s remarkable essay where we see in his own words his special relationship and love he had for Joan of Arc and\u00a0 it is there where we see his eye popping astonishment in Joan\u2019s incredible prophesies that were a result of her apparitions and visions.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is no blemish in that rounded and beautiful character.She was deeply religious, and believed that she had daily speech with angels; that she saw them face to face, and that they counselled her, comforted and heartened her, and brought commands to her direct from God. She had a childlike faith in the heavenly origin of her apparitions and her Voices, and not any threat of any form of death was able to frighten it out of her loyal heart. She was a beautiful and simple and lovable character.\u00a0 Her history has still another feature which sets her apart and leaves her without fellow or competitor: there have been many uninspired prophets, but she was the only one who ever ventured the daring detail of naming, along with a foretold event, the event\u2019s precise nature, the special time-limit within which it would occur, and the place \u2014 and scored fulfilment.At Vaucouleurs she said she must go to the King and be made his general, and break the English power, and crown her sovereign \u2014 \u201cat Rheims.\u201d It all happened. It was all to happen \u201cnext year\u201d \u2014 and it did. She foretold her first wound and its character and date a month in advance, and the prophecy was recorded in a public record-book three weeks in advance. She repeated it the morning of the date named, and it was fulfilled before night.\u00a0 At Tours she foretold the limit of her military career \u2014 saying it would end in one year from the time of its utterance \u2014 and she was right. She foretold her martyrdom \u2014 using that word, and naming a time three months away \u2014 and again she was right.\u00a0 At a time when France seemed hopelessly and permanently in the hands of the English she twice asserted in her prison before her judges that within seven years the English would meet with a mightier disaster than had been the fall of Orleans: it happened within five \u2014 the fall of Paris. Other prophecies of hers came true, both as to the event named and the time-limit prescribed.\u00a0\u2026 Asked at her trial why it was her standard (The standard depicts the Virgin Mary and two angels)\u00a0 that had a place at the crowning of the King in the Cathedral of Rheims rather than the standards of the other captains, she uttered that touching speech,<strong>\u201cIt had borne the burden, it had earned the honor\u201d \u2014 a phrase which fell from her lips without premeditation, yet whose moving beauty and simple grace it would bankrupt the arts of language to surpass.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt had borne the burden, it had earned the honor\u201d \u2013 words that would \u201cBankrupt the arts of language to surpass\u201d\u00a0 so says Mark Twain of the little peasant girl who loved the Virgin Mary and who saw apparitions and visions of angels and saints from heaven. Mark Twain was also fully aware that\u00a0 Joan of Arc was exceptionally pious.\u00a0 She required\u00a0 her soldiers to take the Sacraments of Confession and Communion regularly and she would have her men of her army gather around for daily prayer and devotion. Mark Twain\u00a0 knew all this.\u00a0 He also understood\u00a0 that she believed\u00a0 all that she\u00a0 accomplished was possible only through God\u2019s intervention and to the dismay of most of so many Mark Twain does not quibble with any of her testimony.<\/p>\n<p>As Mark Twain writes \u201cShe is the Wonder of Ages.\u201d<br>\nAfter\u00a0 dropping\u00a0 my letter in the mailbox, to my surprise, about a month later Randall Sullivan e-mailed me back:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks for your letter regarding my book, The Miracle Detective. I was simultaneously stirred and chagrined by what you wrote about Mark Twain and his Joan of Arc book. I have to admit that I was among those who did not know that Twain had authored such a book, let alone that he considered it his most important work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From that point forward it seems that I have immersed myself into the mysteries of faith and the supernatural and with the help of some incredible people. I have \u00a0tried to reveal the realities of the supernatural and the mysterious and how they both impact our lives and our faith each day.<\/p>\n<p>By the way the stamp on my thank you note \u2013 the crumpled short letter to Sullivan \u2013\u00a0 I am pretty sure to this day is the last postage stamp I ever licked.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephen Ryan \u201cThere is no blemish in that rounded and beautiful character. 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