Non-Christian Miracles

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So I've been researching modern-day miracle claims lately, mostly sticking with miraculous healings but that's more due to them tending to have better documentation/study than anything else so I haven't been excluding them from study. I have gone about this because I've heard over and over from atheists/agnostics/skeptics that "There are miracle claims from every religion!" and "If a Christian healing is proof of Christianity, then an Islamic healing is proof of Islam!". But I haven't been able to find any claims of miraculous healing (or miracles in general) outside of Christianity, much less ones that pass the D.O.U.B.T.S. filter (A stringent set of criteria that helps weed out really weak claims so that I, and other investigators, are not inundated with "Jesus healed my sunburn!" or "I went blind but was healed before I got to the doctor!" or anything from Benny Hinn. See here for a description of the filter).

After a few hours of searching the only non-christian, modern miracle claim I have been able to find is the 1995 Ganesha Drinking Milk Miracle, where spoonfuls of milk put up to the mouths of idols of the Hindu god Ganesha appeared to disappear (this has been fully explained by capillary action and can be recreated on any stone statue).

And so I come to you my friends: are you aware of any non-Christian miracle claims?

When you dig deeper into these alleged "miracles", you will find some kind of magician's trick being staged for gullible people.

This guy is famous for his "miracles" which are just as "convincing" as Christian miracles:

No problem, here's one contemporary semi-Buddhist miracle man: https://philpapers.org/rec/CHEMAN-2

Mainstream Buddhist sects have somewhat ambivalent explanations for the miracles, and the same goes for some other religious traditions, which might explain issues with finding them.

Druze kids claim they remember their previous life, and they form bonds with "previous families".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_v2Pb9 ... RODUCTIONS

This video was filmed in the 90s I think.

Interesting question. I was gonna mention that Hindu cow milk thing, but you beat me to that.

There are rock paintings, and actual accounts, of the prechristian Pagan tribes of Europe, gathering to engage in ecstatic dances, and being possessed by spirits that (to me at least) resemble how modern American Christian Pentacostals worship their one God.

Hard to think of other examples. Islam "works" as a piece of religious machinery much the same way that its cousins Judiasm and Christianity "work". So you would think that Islam would have saints and miracles of the same kind but I am not aware of much of that sorta thing in Islam AFTER the founder was take up to heaven on a white horse. An Afghan refugee guy told me there was a story about a huge tower built in his country by one guy...gathering rocks...that would count as a Muslim miracle.

But when you venture into Eastern religions, Paganism, and animism, its starts to blur where religion ends and where magic begins because the divide between what we Westerners consider to be "religion" and "nonreligion" may not be the same.

In the Thirteenth century the Mongol conquerors of mainland Asia attempted two amphibious invasions of Japan. HUGE invasions. In both invasions the Japanese kept them at bay on the beaches...until...the Mongol fleets got wiped out by Typhoons. The Typhoons that drowned the invaders on both occasions were considered divine intervention to save Japan and thus were dubbed "divine wind" or "kami kazi" (hence the term for the 20th century suicide pilots 800 years later). So those naturally occurring typhoons might count as a "Shinto miracle".

Many miracles have been attributed to Menachem Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. More where this came from:

There are ancient monuments in Celtic Europe, that have inscriptions along the lines of 'Biggus Dickus erects this statue in fulfillment of a vow for the healing of his wife Cavernious Vag...' (the last bit tragically broken off, so we'll never know her full name).
The point being, they accepted the reality of miraculous healings.

Miracles are a part of the Christian tradition, that's why there are many claims of miracles within Christianity.

Jesus performed many miracles according to scripture and saints have to have performed miracles in order to be declared saints. It's as simple as that: there are miracles claimed within Christianity because people are specifically looking for them.

Of course there are no actual miracles.

From what I have seen and read spanning decades the non Christian healing/miracles do not last. If you want your healing to be permanent then you need to go to Jesus Christ for it.

i find this difficult to write about, for an example RIP Caron Keating. She went everywhere looking for healing and trying so many alternative things. Some had a temporary effect, nothing was permanent. It was a sad story and may her soul rest in peace. That is just one example for you of what I am writing about.