The fun thing about magick and miracles is that the results can never be repeated...isn't it so?
So we the readers can't tell if this all happened in Pincho's mind or in reality.
Because we were not there.
Welcome to what I call
Gray-file items.
I note that talking about one's gray file items much leads people to think you are a flake.
I also note on my own gray-file items...that they become far more ambiguous as I look at them critically, based strictly on data, and not what I "felt" I did.
If you remove one's feelings and alterations of perception both noted and
potential what do you see happening in the real world? That's what you need to ask yourself.
Regarding Pincho's two young incidents:
During crises it's very common to report a slowed sense of time. For instance...police have reported seeing their shell casings sail lazily by during firefights. My deceased car that someone whacked into...when the girl hit it seemed like it took
forever for my front end to crumple. I had time to think "Damn....
there goes the frame... somebody just
totaled my car again.... "
Two, cognitive distortions and memory errors are common enough...not saying it did not happen, but maybe it did not happen in the way Pincho remembers it happening.
I personally don't totally trust my memory of events for more than 2 years.
When I was 12 and having a crisis of faith I remember asking for a sign...if there was ANY God out there, send me a specified sign.
I remember opening my eyes to the sign I requested.
Am I remembering rightly? I honestly do not know. I
think I am. Maybe it was a coincidence. Maybe I wanted to believe in a deity so much I created the sign telekinetically (I showed it to my mom, so if it was not merely a vivid dream, I wasn't hallucinating). Maybe I somehow knew the sign was going to happen and happened to have my crisis of faith right there.
See? more possibilities. Gray-file stuff.
It appears to be somehow synchronous. Is it?
If so HOW is it connected???
I don't know.
You don't know...
You
think it's (your) God
because you are going to put all the gray-file stuff under the heading of "miracle." Because you are prejudiced to think it so.
You would not consider any other explanations, would you?
That would be...unChristian if you did, now, would it not?