Jonathan, I have not heard of that before, though it perfectly describes what I'm talking about! I like what the Wikipedia entry has to say about it: "Since meaning is a complex mental construction, subject to conscious and unconscious influence, not every correlation in the grouping of events by meaning needs to have an explanation in terms of cause and effect." I'll be reading up to see what else has been written about this concept. Fascinating!

Also, I really loved the way you phrased the rest of your comment. "The miraculous is continuous" and "brings about phenomena that the ordinary world would consider miraculous"... Sheer poetry.