Professor Miller repeated those words of Christ as he explained, with clarity, the human capability to possess psychic powers. Other subjects he is quite knowledgeable in include reincarnation, meditation, Intelligent Design, the Vatican’s view of extraterrestrials, and spirits. Oh yeah, and of course, business.

Miller is Assistant Professor of Business Administration here at Dana College. He has a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s of Science in Counseling from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His interests and ability to reach out to people do not stop there, however.

“He challenges people to think on their own,” said Tregan Albers, both student and friend of Professor Miller’s.

“He brings up topics of inquiry to…analyze but leaves it up to the individual” agreed Tiffany Smith, another student.

Professor Miller believes in the connection of spirituality and business. He was in the air force for 20 years and discovered the power of meditation while serving in the Vietnam War. Miller said that with meditation it is possible to access the lower brain levels, lower levels of consciousness. Theoretically, when one learns how to control his or her brain frequencies through meditation it is then possible to access information about the soul. This is a topic of curiosity to many. During interim, Miller offers a spirituality class that is sort of an “introduction to meditation and an introduction for people to communicate with their higher self… and pay attention to their dreams,” as Albers described it.

The mixture of spirituality and business “could possibly be a big thing in the future,’ Albers said. “I think it would’ve benefited our nation a lot more, when you look at the current situation that we’re in, as our world seems to spiral out of control, if people would’ve taken more to heart a tolerance of other cultures and religions. All those things come from spirituality.” Influential to Miller is a book called “There is a River,” about Edgar Cayce. Albers said the book was very eye-opening. Cayce would go into trances and diagnose people’s illnesses, whom he had never met before, with alarming accuracy. The treatments that he outlined were surprisingly successful.

“You need to check with your inner self,” Miller said, in regard to powers of the mind. Authentic healers such as Cayce are believed to be doing the Lord’s work, however there are plenty of fake healers who know the language and just get caught up egotistically, simply trying to make money.

“The soul has a planned path but the ego has free will to decide not to follow it,” Miller said. Finding meaning in life and direction might be challenging, but Miller seems to reach at least some of his students on some levels. The amazing and still incompletely understood abilities of the mind, such as telepathy, are interesting subjects of research. The existence of such things certainly have appeared to be proven under laboratory conditions. Thinking about these things is encouraged by Miller.

When asked about beliefs in things such as the afterlife and even life outside this earth, Miller deduced, logically, that around 12 million people have claimed to have near death experiences where they describe angelic beings. Many of them were told to go back, ‘it’s not your time.’ Are we to believe that they’re all wrong? Similarly, even though much information about “aliens” is anecdotal, is it logical to think that the multitudes of people that describe nearly identical experiences -despite having never met each other- are all hallucinating? These are the sorts of questions Miller might challenge students to think about, just to think outside of the box.

Deep topics such as fate and Biblical interpretation are things that Miller’s students find themselves contemplating. He seems to provide an environment that has the potential to stimulate highly intellectual thought processing.

One of the reasons Miller came to Dana is because here students aren’t just numbers; At Dana one can nurture the whole person, and he attempts to do just that. Albers pointed out that, whereas younger generations might be more susceptible to having some sort of ‘psychic ability,’ they seem at the same time to be more and more disinterested in God and religion. Having belief or faith in something is undeniably valuable. Albers and Smith, as well as others, believe that it is best when people look both objectively and subjectively at things and interpret for themselves what is true. This inquisitive strategy gets people thinking on a higher level, not just accepting or denying what is told to them. Miller emphasizes trying to look at the whole picture, not just one piece.

The most important things in life might be summarized to truth, knowledge, and love - as those are the things Miller said you can take with you in the transition from life to beyond. This sort of world view seems to be one that is positive and fascinating. Science seems to meet philosophy, religion, and of course, business in Miller’s classes. One quote he is particularly fond of that seems to be kind of empowering and representative of his line of thinking is “Let the mind that is in the Christ be in you.”

That, as many things life might confront us with, is thought provoking and interpretation is left for the individual to decipher.