Healing through the Christ-consciousness

I was just thinking of those words from Science and Health that came to the woman above:

Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy.(S&H p 476)

The root of the word “behold” is “keep” How many of us keep (hold on to) mental images of certain people, certain types and label them, not as God’s own likeness, pure and holy but as something much, much lower - sinning mortal man! I guess we’re all guilty of that from time to time - I certainly am. But Jesus’ viewpoint was from ultimate reality, divine understanding (Science). He literally saw with God's eyes and this not only healed the sick, but reformed the sinner and raised the dead.

It struck me that if a little grubby urchin could be transformed by one individual changing her perception of him, from the material evidence to the spiritual fact, then this would also work for those who we fear and perhaps hate, those who are called terrorists, murderers, rapists, with all the etceteras we can give. That is the ultimate prayer for peace, goodness and harmony. Perceiving the perfect man to be present right where our material senses are screaming the opposite. In that way, we would help free that person to realise the spiritual, holy and pure idea of God that they already are.

Here is a link to an article on www.spirituality.com describing how effective this correct identification with reality works equally well with dogs: [url]Good Dog![/url]

Love and peace,

Judy

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Christian Science saved my life!

This may seem like a very strong statement but it is absolutely true.
You see, when something wonderful absolutely changes your life you can't help but want to share. If just one person reads my post and sees that you can be freed from a label put upon you, then that's great.
I didn't always believe in God. I believed in a God who was angry, who sent pain and suffering in order to teach us a lesson. How wonderful it was to learn of God as Love.

Before I found out about Christian Science, I was at a very high pressure boarding school where I strived constantly for perfection. I study music and there is a constant demand to be even better. I was also studying for my A-Levels and I found that I couldn't cope.

I developed an eating disorder (Bulimia) and I lost dramatic amounts of weight. Every time I saw my doctor, he increased my strong doses of anti-depressants. I was constantly tired also because I took at least 30 laxatives every day but took them at a certain time of the day so that they would work at night so that nobody could suspect at college. I went to a special eating disorders clinic and had counselling for about six months. All I remember is being told that I would never ever recover, but I could learn to control it.

Let me tell you, when you go to a clinic for help and you hear that you will never get rid of this awful disease it really makes you question whether life is worth living. Things got worse and I had very little will to live, the only thing that really kept me going was my family, friends and music.

One weekend I was staying at a friend's house. She didn't know anything of my problems although I suspect she had noticed I had lost weight. I was exhausted and went to bed but she popped in to say goodnight. We started talking and I told her that I needed help and that I just didn't know what to do anymore.

I had known my friend for about 3 years, we had never spoken about religion although I knew she went to Church but I didn't know which one.
That night, she explained that she was a student of Christian Science and explained about the Church and Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science.
She told me all the wonderful truths of Christian Science and how I was God's perfect child, created in the image and likeness of God.
Imagine how I felt, having always been striving for "perfection" and finding out that I already was God's perfect child. I cannot describe the feeling I got as my friend discussed Christian Science with me.

Before she left for the night, she read a verse from a hymn by Rosa M. Turner (from the Christian Science Hymnal)
O dreamer, leave thy dreams for joyful waking,
O captive, rise and sing, for thou art free;
The Christ is here, all dreams of error breaking,
Unloosing bonds of all captivity.

My friend then left the room. I lay there feeling as if my body was absolutely weightless. I then fell into the best sleep I had had in months. When I awoke the next morning, I knew I had been completely healed. Everything I had been feeling just dropped away. I went downstairs and ate a big breakfast and enjoyed every mouthful. I then took all my medication and laxatives and flushed them down the toilet.

I was still under medical care and I was still an outpatient at the eating disorders clinic. I returned to the eating disorders clinic and stayed for all of 5 minutes. It was totally clear to them that I no longer needed to be there and that there had been a complete transformation in me. The doctor also was surprised at the complete change that taken place literally overnight.

I wasn't a religious person until I had such an over whelming demonstration of Divine Love, I was desperate to find out more and how it happened to me.
All I can say is that I'm not sure I would be here today had I not discovered what was really true about me. Every single day I am grateful for what I know, and I rejoice in the fact that I can demonstrate Christian Science an

I've added the ending to Rachel's last paragraph. She's in the middle of getting engaged and I would think that HP is the last thing on her mind, However, all long posts lost their ending in the transfer progress to this new website.

So here is how the post above should have ended:

Original: Jersey

I wasn't a religious person until I had such an over whelming demonstration of Divine Love, I was desperate to find out more and how it happened to me.
All I can say is that I'm not sure I would be here today had I not discovered what was really true about me. Every single day I am grateful for what I know, and I rejoice in the fact that I can demonstrate Christian Science and that it is available for absolutely everyone.
Rachel
xx

Thank you Rachel for sharing your life-changing experience with all of us. 🙂

I’ve just been re-reading a really wonderful healing (actually two as both husband and wife were blessed) from the Christian Science Sentinel of Jan 26 2004, in the article “The power of knowing your own heart” by Annette Kreutziger-Herr and her husband Klaus. It’s a wonderful article, sharing how she sees prayer as embracing all mankind, because we are all children of the one Parent, linked to one another by love. That we can only know ourselves when we know others in their actual spiritual identity. I really can’t do justice to it here. Well, towards the end of the article, she describes how, from about her early teens onwards, she had suffered from a heart problem and how fearful she was about it. One day however, it was her husband she was concerned about - he had a high fever and was delirious and very fearful. He asked her to pray for him.

What I found particularly interesting reading this, is where Klaus talks of the process of gathering. in order to find a permanent solution to any health challenge. Now, I’ve spoken much on this thread about yielding up our mortal thinking and then letting “that Mind be in us which was also in Christ Jesus” but I’d never thought of gathering - I was intrigued. He shares this passage from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy:

To be immortal, we must forsake the mortal sense of things, turn from the lie of false belief to Truth, and gather the facts of being from the divine Mind. The body improves under thesame regimen which spiritualizes the thought; and if health is not made manifest under this regimen, this
proves that fear is governing the body. (p 370)

Back to Annette. She writes:

“I prayed to see his spiritual nature and to see through the fear as a driving force in my husband’s or my thinking. Those divine qualities that I knew were his - goodness, life, strength, health, peace - I realized also had to be expressed everywhere, in everyone, because God, their source, was not confined to one place. I saw that my husband’s identity and individuality were entirely in his spiritual nature.

My prayers went deeper and deeper into spiritual realms, and at one point it felt as though I had touched something unexplainably tangible - as if my thought had touched Spirit, as the hand touches a pen. My husband opened his eyes and said “Thank you, dear.” That moment was one of the holiest I have experienced so far: Not only was Klaus healed, I, too had been changed. Later on that day, while lying in bed, I thought about this healing, and I realized that the truths I had prayed with for my husband were true for me as well - were universal. Mentally, I could walk into that dark corner in which fear of a heart condition had held me, and untie the ropes. I was free.”

The physical symptoms that had come and gone for decades never returned. Now let’s hear from Klaus:

“The experience that Annette has recounted shines for me as a lucid example of how simple it is to heal through prayer, when we understand the process is always the one thing anyone can do - to gather the facts of being from Mind, from God, by humbly asking and finding. My wife did just that in order to help me that day, when I was in dire need. In her prayer she began to gather right spiritual facts about me, and discarded whatever concepts could not have come from God.

.....All her anxieties over the years were proved to be powerless to resist the clear light that came with the spiritual facts she gathered in prayer on my behalf. To tell you the truth, remembering this moment gives me goose bumps even today.

.....Christian Science is logical, and the logical effect of seeking is finding. My wife found “(her) own in another’s good” (S&H p 518). It was the goodness of God’s child that she found. In unity with Him there is no separation.”

Love and peace,

Judy

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Well, this one isn't a physical healing, but it certainly was a healing of disbelief in God!! It was on the "old" HP and it's so awe-some I just wanted to make sure that everyone had a chance to read it here too. This account was carried in a South African – Natal - newspaper. Don’t actually have the name of the paper as my photo-copy only has the date part which was Feb 27 1994. It was in the "On Faith" section.

OK. Well, there’s this guy Ross Armstrong and recently he says "God and I hadn’t had a very good relationship….. In fact, a few weeks before, I had prayed asking that if God really was alive that he should prove it to me in some way so that I would know for sure that He is for real"

(Obviously Ross didn’t know about God’s sense of humour. Uh Oh! )

Late one night in Jan 87 he was driving home (which was a remote farm) and was caught in a ferocious storm caused by the typhoon Demmoina. He had to cross a river over a bridge but saw that it was covered with water. He had forded it before in this condition so he set off slowly. Ross was halfway across the bridge when the front part of the car dropped down and he realised that part of the bridge had been washed away. He tried to reverse backwards but the wheels spun and slowly the car edged forwards until it was hurtling down the river.

"Tossed like clothes in a tumbledrier, it smashed against unseen objects in the turbulent water. Rocks. Trees. Sheer terror took hold of me."

His electric windows were up and inoperable. He tried in vain to smash the glass and to open the buckled door, then a huge rock smashed the windscreen and made a hole the size of a tennis ball and water started pouring in and filling the car. On top of that Ross knew that about 100 yards away was a waterfall…..

He didn’t want to die and started begging for forgiveness for his sins and pleading to be saved. Then his prayer changed. "There was suddenly a lot that I wanted to say to Him. For the first time in my life I really began to speak to God with an urgency and a sincerity that I had never known before."

"I wasn’t just uttering prayers. It was like I was talking to someone who was really listening. After about 30 seconds of deep prayer, the terror of the moment faded and an incredible peace came over me."

"The Bible speaks of the "peace of God which passes all understanding." I knew in that moment, I really knew what peace was. I became quiet in my soul. All panic left me. All fear disappeared."

"Then I had an amazing experience. I was lifted bodily like a babe in arms. I felt the sensation of going through the closed and crumpled door of the car and out into the swirling waters. Once in the water, joy burst forth from me and I shouted in my freedom and excitement."

"There was no sensation of struggling against the flooded river adrift with trees. I was carried across the raging current of a river in full flood and on to the soggy bank."

Dazed, he realised that he was on the bank of the river on his neighbour’s farm. he managed to get to a sugarcane loading building where he knew there was a radio and eventually summoned help.

The next day, when the water had subsided, the AA came to retrieve the car out of the river. It looked as if a giant hand had crushed it. The man in charge of the operation, fearing the horrible sight inside tried to get Ross’s father to go home and not to look, but when he assured him that his son was safe and well, he looked at him in disbelief.

"Together they walked over to the wreck, the man tugged at the door handles. They were jammed tight. There wasn’t a window open. Only a tiny hole in the windscreen, the size of a tennis ball….."

A year later Ross met an old friend whom he hadn’t seen for a long time.

"I had a strange dream about you a year ago," he told Ross.

"I remember it because it was so vivid and it made such an impression on me. You were involved in a motor accident of sorts which would have been fatal but for an angel who picked you up and carried you to safety."

This healing demonstrates how our state of thought is objectified in our life and how a change from mortal thinking and belief, to the reality of the Christ consciousness can bring dramatic results!

Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health:

There is no inherent power in matter; for all that is material is a material, human, mortal thought, always governing itself erroneously. (S&H 282)

This woman’s home was in the desert in the south-western United States. She had been having many problems in her life at the time. One hot evening, while doing the dishes, she saw in horror a bobcat approaching her children who were in a plastic swimming pool outside.

She grabbed a small handgun intending to shoot it into the air to scare the bobcat away. The gun exploded in her hand.

Neighbours ran over and called a doctor to come to the house while she wrapped her hand in a towel and phoned a Christian Science practitioner (healer) who then started to pray for her. The doctor arrived and took her to the local hospital where he cut away metal fragments, nerves, tendon and flesh. After cleaning and bandaging it he recommended a trip to a major city hospital for reconstructive surgery, or he warned, she would have limited use of the hand and even with surgery would probably never regain the feeling in it.

She reminded him that she had just started to study Christian Science and he knew of the overnight healing of asthma of one of her children – in fact, one of his own children had been healed through Christian Science – so he was willing to take her home instead and leave the matter to God.

After her neighbours had put her children to bed, she picked up the first book of Mary Baker Eddy’s she saw and it opened to page 356 where her eyes fell on these words:
The pent-up elements of mortal mind need no terrible detonation to free them. (Miscellaneous Writings)

"At that moment it was quite clear to me that the explosion of the gun in my hand was a graphic metaphor for the state of my life at that time. Both the bobcat and the gun seemed to illustrate the fear and chaos in my life, and I knew it must stop."

She read on:
Envy, rivalry, hate need no temporary indulgence that they be destroyed through suffering; they should be stifled from lack of air and freedom.

"I put down the book, Then I finished the dishes with one hand and went to bed and slept all night free from pain. When I woke in the morning I removed the bandages and found that my hand was absolutely normal. There were no marks or scars, no sign that anything had ever happened to me.

This experience changed my life forever." (From the French Herald of Christian Science March 1989)