Healing through the Christ-consciousness

Easter seems a good time to share again this awesome healing that followed a "resurrection" of thought. This healing is very recent – in 2001. Philip is Welsh. He was preparing to die but within a few illuminating moments all that changed. From life to death; disease and disability to full health in a few minutes has to be a "resurrection" experience of Christ consciousness!

What I’m posting below is a compilation of Philip’s written and oral testimonies:

As child, Philip had a bone disease that left him with one leg shorter than the other and a curvature of the spine, he suffered regular neck dislocations, but this didn’t stop him from being very active in sports. However, in 1995 he suddenly started losing weight and eventually doctors concluded that he was suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome and could not tolerate certain foods. He also had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. By 1997 he only weighed seven and a half stone (105 pounds or less than 50 kilos), could only eat brown rice and raw grated vegetables, he suffered regular neck dislocations and was bedridden. He was declared permanently, physically handicapped and was not expected to live much longer.

What I find is one of the most remarkable things about this experience is that it didn’t make him bitter and twisted and full of self-pity like it would most people who would say "Why me?" He tells us that though, due to him knowing some "unkind, aggressive people" who called themselves "Christians" he had totally rejected anything to do with religion or the Scriptures. In speaking to him though I have discovered that he looked into many other spiritual and Eastern philosophies, particularly Buddhism and he had always had a great desire to experience the life of a monk. He had applied to a few religious orders but they couldn’t take him because he was so ill.

So, he decided that this was a "golden opportunity" to take the vows of a monk and live as one on his own at home. He began to practice a form of meditation which had started off as an interest, but it became the mainstay of his days. He would "observe the painful sensations but not identify with them" he was able to "remain equanimus" regardless of what sensations were in his body. As a result, he didn’t become depressed, fearful or angry. He would say to himself "This really isn’t my true identity. and I AM going to find the solution to all of this." but, as he admits, he thought he’d find the solution after he died. (He didn’t realise then that the answer is already here – in a book - and that we can experience our true spiritual identity here and now.)

The meditation disciplined his thought and it became more bearable in a way because it gave it a purpose. In his own words: "I devoted my days to spiritual devotional meditations. This gave me strength, deeper and deeper peace - this despite my grave physical condition."

I’ve spoken on these pages before about yielding up the material to the spiritual. It’s incredibly gentle and natural, yet so powerful. Another word is self-immolation – laying down our mortal sense of self. Handing over our human will to God and letting "this (M)ind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" (Philippians 2) I’m guessing in a way that this is the state of thought that Philip had reached and it prepared the way for him to be led right out of the physical pain and suffering into his God-given inheritance of freedom and wholeness! Matter had not given him any answers and he was ready to give it up.

Early in 2001 he saw a poster advertising a local lecture: "It was about a woman I had never heard of - Mary Baker Eddy. I couldn’t understand why the idea of it wouldn’t go away. I had no connection to or interest in this lady. And I had no desire to learn anything about her. Not to mention that the venue of the lecture was hard for me to access as a handicapped person. But the idea still wouldn’t leave me. It kept going round and round in my mind." His inner peace was destroyed. Eddy’s name just kept going round and round in his head – he couldn’t meditate, he couldn’t think. In desperation he decided to go to that talk.

He was exhausted when he reached the venue and in pain and didn‘t much care for what he was hearing. He heard the word Scriptures. "As a young boy, I had felt very uncomfortable with people who were into "The Scriptures." I was hearing the word healing a lot also. I had spent a lot of money on every type of complementary or natural therapy, from acupuncture to zone-therapy (I had tried everything from A to Z) and many in between. I had not come to this lecture for a healing. I was fast losing interest."

And then the lecturer mentioned these words from Science and Health : "God is at once the centre and circumference of being." (pages 203-204). That grabbed his attention! "I immediately thought to myself, "How on earth can God be ‘the centre and circumference of’ this being? This being that is so full of sickness, pain, and deformed bones." "What is that lady talking about?"

He became even angrier the speaker spoke about the truth in Genesis 1 that God made man in His image and likeness and then she quoted "and God saw everything that He had made and behold it was very good." She said that the word God means "good" and that this "good" fills all space. "What was "good" about all that I had suffered for all those years? What was "good" about being registered handicapped at the age of 35? I was enraged!" Philip thought, "and God saw everything that He had made and behold it was very good, except for Philip’s stomach" "and God saw everything that He had made and behold it was very good, except for Philip’s spine, etc." "This lady has no idea of what I’m going through. This lady doesn’t know what she’s talking about."

Philip had been seeing himself as outside of the infinite goodness of God but actually, that’s impossible. He then speaks about his "moment of spiritual consciousness". His mind suddenly went quiet for just a moment – a split second. The pain and discomfort suddenly lessened. He stopped listening to the speaker and just was aware of changes happening in his body – as he described it, like a sharp jagged ice cube suddenly getting soft and round as it dissolved. He started experiencing ease and an almost sensationless body. "The simple ideas of Truth had transformed my painful body into one of almost sensationless ease."

He bought Science & Health as he left the talk and walked home, feeling "carried along by an energy I didn’t own", free of pain and walking like the athlete he had once been, shocked and amazed and "overflowing with joy".

The next morning he woke with his thought filled with the ideas he had heard the previous night. He woke knowing that "God IS the centre and circumference of being". When he discovered that both his legs were the same length (poor chap had one shock after another!) words he did not consciously remember came to him to rely radically on God for his good. Then and there, he removed all the foot plates from his shoes.

The next shock was the thought that he should eat a normal English breakfast. This disturbed him more than anything else, as for years he had only been able to tolerate brown rice and grated raw vegetables, but then the thought came that God had created everything good – VERY GOOD and right on the heels of that thought came another "So Phillip, when God declared everything to be good, He didn’t say everything good except for Philip’s weak stomach." At that all his fear left him and he went to the corner shop and bought all the ingredients he needed for a normal breakfast which he ate with no repercussions at all.

Within four weeks he’d regained all his lost weight. He talks about the "fantastic adventure of discovery’ he has had since he realised that the ideas that had healed him had come from Science & Health and he voraciously started studying Christian Science and also biographies of Mary Baker Eddy to learn where she had got this message from that had had such a remarkable effect on his life. He discovered that "My health, my life, my energy was all established as an idea of God and could never be taken away from me."

"I had attended a Christian Science lecture with no expectations, and I left with no limitations. I was freed for life."

Compiled from the November 2002 Christian Science Radio Sentinel Cassette – No 238, title "A remarkable recovery and the words that started it all." and the August 5th Christian Science Sentinel (I have several copies of this magazine with Philip’s testimony in it– if anyone would like one, just e-mail me your address)

When will mankind awake to know their present ownership of all good....? When will the world waken to the privilege of knowing God, the liberty and glory of His presence. Mary Baker Eddy

This is one of the most wonderful testimonies of healing I’ve ever read and it’s so special, I’ll share a little part:

It was written by the adoptive mother of a little boy called Les. They had been warned before he was born that he was probably disabled and an offer was made to find them a healthy child instead. This was the picture:

"The child was born with multiple handicaps, including unformed vocal chords, a damaged heart, and a serious bone condition. We were also told that he had cerebral palsy. The physicians on the case informed us that there was little that could be done for the child medically and that they knew of no child born with similar difficulties who had lived beyond the age of six or eight months. ………

He also had a blood condition which inhibited coagulation…

As a Christian Scientist I could not accept this verdict."

She tells how step by step every one of the physical conditions was healed. through prayer and the understanding of the child’s innate perfection as the image and likeness of God. Progress was slow until at the age of two they requested permission to discontinue the medical exams he had to have several times a week. In less than three months he was standing upright.

This is the bit about the healing of speech:

"…And we, everyone in the family, talked to him whether he answered or not. We gave him time to answer. And I really feel that he felt that he was in on all our conversations at the table or in the car. He always had his turn. And we could tell by the expression on his face what he was thinking. We just never treated him as though he didn’t talk."

When he was about four, the family came home from holiday and the mother and children decided to have a nap – the father had gone out.

" .. So we were all asleep when a man entered out home. I believe that my younger boy must have seen the shadow of this man on the wall. And he knew it wasn’t his daddy. I’m assuming this, for when I heard this shaky little voice, I saw the shadow of the man and the man in my room. Les was on the floor in the hall looking up at this man who was up tight against my dresser and just inside my door. The back of the man’s head was facing me. So neither Les nor the man knew I had awakened. I heard my son, Les, saying in a shaky voice, "No other gods before you. You don’t belong in here." No, these weren’t the words of the First Commandment, but the power of the First Commandment was in the words. And then he repeated it again in a very firm, strong voice. And the man walked out – never touched anything – walked around the boy and walked out of the house."

The mother tells how she just had to contain her joy. The verse from the Bible had come to her : "Be still and know that I am God." Les went off to get a glass of water and when he came back asked if he could get into bed with her. He said "I didn’t like that dirty man." And I said "Honey you healed that man. he won’t ever go into anybody’s house again, and I don’t think he’ll ever be dirty again. You made him think about God and made him know that somebody cared about him." So he just said "Oh" and went back to sleep."

"Well, I lay there probably ten minutes just being grateful. I would have liked to have taken him up in my arms and danced around the house with him ………" (Spiritual Healing in a Scientific Age by Robert Peel)

Having just mentioned these two experiences briefly on the thread "Mysticism" I thought they deserved to be told in greater depth and included on this thread, so here goes:

I had an awesome experience once, but was unable to talk about it for a very long while. I felt it had been such a special gift from God and wanted to hold it close.

I was 17 and used to suffer from terrible period pains. I passed out at school and they sent me home. I was alone and went to bed, taking my Bible and Science and Health with me, (others might turn to their medicine cabinet, but I always turn to God). However, I was in such pain that I was unable to read or even pray, but the thought came to turn to the 100 pages of healings at the back of Science and Health called Fruitage.
I'd only been reading for a short time (only up to the third testimony) absolutely engrossed in people’s accounts of their healings, that I forgot all about my body until I came across a testimony which quoted from these words of the Apostle Paul:

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (II Cor 5:8)

The healing I’d come to in that chapter was a remarkable one, so I’ll include it. The author had been "…a chronic invalid for a good many years. I had acute bowel trouble, bronchitis, and a number of other troubles. One physician had told me that my lungs were like wet paper, ready to tear at any time…………

I would also like to tell how I was healed of a sprained ankle. The accident occurred in the morning, and all that day and during the night I gave myself Christian Science treatment, as best I could. The next morning it seemed to be no better, being very sore, badly swollen, and much discolored. Feeling that I had done all I could, I decided to stop thinking about it. I took my copy of Science and Health and began reading. Very soon I became so absorbed in the book that I forgot all about my ankle; it went entirely out of my thought, for I had a glimpse of all God's creation as spiritual, and for the time being lost sight of my material selfhood. After two hours I laid the book down and walked into another room. When next I thought of my ankle, I found it was not hurting me. The swelling had gone down, the black and blue appearance had nearly vanished, and it was perfectly well. It was healed while I was "absent from the body" and "present with the Lord." This experience was worth a great deal to me, for it showed me how the healing is done.--C. H., Portland, Ore. (Substance of lungs restored. S&H 603)

Those words "absent from the body" and "present with the Lord." just stood out to me and I then realised that I too, like the writer had become so absorbed in what I was reading that I was also "absent from the body" and "present with the Lord." and then I realised that all pain had gone and I was healed!

The next moment, gently, silently, I lifted out of my body and hovered up on the ceiling, the brightest light I have ever seen shining all around me and the most incredible feeling of warmth, love, joy, harmony and peace I have ever known, just encircling me. The light was so bright – brighter than the sun and there were no shadows and I was also seeing everything clearly without my glasses. Words are inadequate to explain this, but those who have had this experience will understand. Above all, I had this glimpse that what I had learnt for years in theory – that "there is no life, truth intelligence, nor substance in matter, all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation" was true. I felt I was being shown my spiritual selfhood – entirely pure, innocent, perfect, at one with God, which had nothing to do with the "chrysalis" body

After a few minutes, I gently came back into my "body" but had no sensation of weight for at least 2 hours and still felt as if I was walking on air for the next two days. Also, that was the end of all my period problems. I feel it was such a special privilege to have been given this proof of my immortality and spirituality, to learn that right here and now, I am spiritual, not material, that God is my Life and my life is God.

It’s funny, because I was discussing this passage once with a neighbour, a lay minister at a local church, who was adamant that Paul was saying that he wanted to die so that he could experience his eternal and spiritual selfhood, "But you can experience that here and now" I replied and continued, "Heaven is not a locality, it’s a state of thought." He started arguing with me and I just quietly said – "Look, I’ve proved the power behind those words, I’ve had a glimpse of being "absent from my body and present with the Lord" and he couldn’t really say anything more.

The other time I had a similar sensation was following an overnight healing of "Pharaoh’s Curse" (everyone else who went down with it and took their Imodium etc was off work for at least two weeks) We were on a boat going down the Nile and one by one everyone was going down with this bug and finally me, that day. I had felt pretty rough but had still managed to visit most sites. When I went to bed I read Science and Health for quite a bit and had this clear message that I was not guilty. I had not committed any crime that I had to be punished for. Food has no power either harm or heal. I just went to sleep with the words "Not guilty" ringing in my head and woke up well!

That morning, we had arrived at the Valley of the Kings. It was such a hot day that after a visit to Tutankamun’s (sp.?) tomb everyone else in the party retreated to an air-conditioned restaurant for a drink, but I wanted to see three other tombs. I remember that at least one of them was down about 300 steps. Well, the joy and wonder and spiritual uplift of this healing had been with me since I woke healed, and coming up those steps, I actually floated – I was completely weightless again, and though my feet touched each step it was effortless and I was up in moments. Quite, quite a wonderful feeling and sometimes when I would be heaving my suitcase up the steep engineering steps of an aircraft I would wonder why I couldn’t repeat it!!

I see these experiences as proof that we are spiritual, not material, that we don’t have two bodies – one spiritual, the other material, there is only one. The material one is just how it appears to us at the moment. You know, I love to illustrate this with those Magic Eye pictures. On the surface, there’s a puzzling pattern, but if you focus BEYOND the surface, the true image appears. Now, it’s all the same piece of paper – it’s just that it appears different from the changed perception.

I understand that it is proof to me that we can experience all the joy and freedom of "heaven" here and now and that we live and move and have our being in infinite Spirit which we am at one with, like the sunbeam is one with the sun. Just a different perspective.

I just want to share with everyone Mary Baker Eddy’s wonderful description of the revelation of St John on the Isle of Patmos, (see Revelation 21:1-4) which I feel explains what I’m trying to describe far better than I can:

Accompanying this scientific consciousness was another revelation, even the declaration from heaven, supreme harmony, that God, the divine Principle of harmony, is ever with men, and they are His people. Thus man was no longer regarded as a miserable sinner, but as the blessed child of God. Why? Because St. John's corporeal sense of the heavens and earth had vanished, and in place of this false sense was the spiritual sense, the subjective state by which he could see the new heaven and new earth, which involve the spiritual idea and consciousness of reality. This is Scriptural authority for concluding that such a recognition of being is, and has been, possible to men in this present state of existence,--that we can become conscious, here and now, of a cessation of death, sorrow, and pain. This is indeed a foretaste of absolute Christian Science. Take heart, dear sufferer, for this reality of being will surely appear sometime and in some way. There will be no more pain, and all tears will be wiped away. When you read this, remember Jesus' words, "The kingdom of God is within you." This spiritual consciousness is therefore a present possibility. (Science & Health 573)

Love and peace,

Judy

I’ve just come across a favourite article from the Nov 15th 1993 Christian Science Sentinel which has always encouraged and inspired me. Its title is "A grain of Christian Science does wonders".

Injuries often have more dramatic and quicker healings than do diseases, or other conditions, especially chronic. That’s because people grow to identify themselves with their conditions. They talk of "my cancer," "my arthritis," "my depression" etc. They mentally accept that this is part of them, whereas with an injury, because it is so sudden, it’s very clear that it is not part of them, their identity does not include broken or hurt bodies. I have an account on tape of the case where a man’s son (and another soldier) were blown up by a double land-mine. Severe injuries and they were not expected to live. The mother was an experienced Christian Scientist in this case and had been spending at least three hours a day in deep prayer for their country (the former Rhodesia) and she also felt that her love and forgiveness was a big element in this healing – she felt no hatred of the terrorists who had planted the bombs. Following very much the steps in this healing below, both lads were healed within a couple of hours. The doctors were so amazed that they sent them to a military hospital for observation and both boys walked out of the ambulance that had transferred them to the other hospital.

OK let me tell you about this inspiring healing – and I have read and heard several like this. During WWII a woman received a call from a military hospital. Her brother was serving in the Merchant Marine. She was told that her brother had sustained a crushing fall from the highest point of his ship but they wouldn’t say anymore but requested that she come immediately to the hospital.

She was a very new student of Science and Health and had only read through half of the book. As she felt panic rising inside she thought "What does the book say I should do?" The answer that came from her simple understanding of what she had read so far was: "What you don’t take in (into consciousness), you don’t have to get out!" (Here of course, we are talking about the mortal consciousness, which must be exchanged for the Christ consciousness, in order for harmony and healing to be brought to light.)

During the hour’s drive to the hospital, she just held to that thought, "What you don’t take in, you don’t have to get out!". She refused admission to fear. She understood that this was not an exercise of human will, but held instead to a prayerful acceptance of the allness of God’s perfection, the Christ consciousness, which fills all space. This was not a mind-over-matter denial of the material "facts’ but instead, a refusal to even allow them in to disturb the thought and a steadfast yielding to and holding onto the perfection and All-ness of God, good.

When she saw her brother it was a dreadful picture. He was unconscious, he’d fallen feet first and his legs and lower spine were crushed. He was not expected to live.

This is the point at which we have a choice to make. We can either accept the human verdict and suffer its consequences, or we can turn to the divine Mind for our information and insist on the truth of the Allness of God, good, and the inseparability of our relationship to God as HisHer image and likeness, spiritual and perfect.

This woman chose the latter. As her husband drove her to a nearby hotel she just was determined not to dwell on what she had seen that evening. She refused to give evil any power. She didn’t go to bed as she was afraid of being assaulted by the memory and mental picture she’d seen at the hospital, so stayed up all night reading Science & Health, "steadfastly keeping her thought centred on Truth and her brother’s infinite status as a child of the ever-present, infinitely caring Father-Mother God. Regardless of what she had seen and heard, she instinctively knew that man, as the spiritual creation of this all-powerful, loving God, has total exemption from harm of any kind."

She held to these truths all night and in the morning when she returned to the hospital, she found several doctors arguing in her brother’s room and heard one of them say "Who in the world let this man in here, when there’s absolutely nothing wrong with him?" (The hospital was overcrowded and short of beds) Her brother told her that he had to get back to his ship immediately.

"To this day, the thing she remembers most about this incident is watching her brother running to meet his ship and jumping up and down to wave goodbye to her on those VERY SAME LEGS that had been crushed the day before." Needless to say, this woman then became a Christian Science practitioner and devoted the rest of her life to helping others understand and be healed by the Truth that had restored her brother.

Christ Jesus told us: ".. verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting." Matt 17

That’s exactly what that woman was doing – she was praying – affirming the truth; and fasting - refusing to enter into the dream of material existence.

She wasn’t some long-time experienced Christian Scientist; she’s only just started studying the book. There are many accounts where people have only read for a few minutes and were healed. Doesn’t this prove that the healing has nothing to do with our understanding, or even our faith, but with the Truth that is behind the words? Any statement of Truth has behind it all the omnipotence and effectiveness of the WHOLE of Truth, which is God, just like the simplest mathematical statement like 2+2=4 has behind it the whole principle and law of mathematics.

This woman didn’t have much experience and only a beginner’s understanding, "but it was her unwavering and 100% (not 90%) obedience to what she DID know, and her unflagging trust in God, that allowed the restorative laws of Truth to operate so effectively in her situation."

Mary Baker Eddy clarifies this point in Science & Health when she says: "It is not wise to take a halting and half-way position or to expect to work equally with Spirit and matter, Truth and error. There is but one way--namely, God and His idea--which leads to spiritual being. The scientific government of the body must be attained through the divine Mind. It is impossible to gain control over the body in any other way. On this fundamental point, timid conservatism is absolutely inadmissible. Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized." …..

"If the scales are evenly adjusted, the removal of a single weight from either scale gives preponderance to the opposite. Whatever influence you cast on the side of matter, you take away from Mind, which would otherwise outweigh all else. Your belief militates against your health, when it ought to be enlisted on the side of health." (Science and Health p 167)

Another important point that the article brings out is that our understanding doesn’t originate in the human mind. God, divine Mind gives us the exact right thought at the moment we need it. As Paul said, "And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;" (II Cor 3: 4&5) and in Science and Health: "Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts consciousness and leads into all truth." (p 505) We just have to allow it in!

Love and peace,

Judy

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This healing keeps coming to thought, so I feel I’m meant to share it with you all:

All Christian Scientists study a weekly Bible Lesson during the week, which then forms the sermon read out at church on Sundays. I used to have a set of old wartime books – a Bible and Science and Health which were small enough to fit into the breast pocket of a military uniform and were very useful for taking on trips with me. (I used to fly as cabin crew with an international airline.) Unfortunately, I left my books in a hotel in New York and then was off on a trip to the Far East and Australia.

My mother lent me an old leather S&H but didn’t have a spare Bible, or Christian Science Quarterly (the booklet with the citations for the Lesson.) I knew I’d always be able to get a Bible, thanks to the Gideons who put one in each hotel room and while in Delhi, went off to the Christian Science Reading Room (bookshop) there to buy a Quarterly, but it was closed.

The next stop was Hong Kong, where I became very ill. I spent the whole slip in bed, praying as best I could, but feeling overwhelmed with it all. Somehow, it never seemed to occur to me to phone a Christian Science practitioner for help through prayer. Anyway, I managed to get myself onto the aircraft when it was time to leave, but I spent the entire flight down to Sydney in the toilet. The crew were very concerned about me and took me straight to the airline doctor when we landed.

The doctor said I had contracted dysentery while in India and gave me some drugs, which were supposed to help relieve the symptoms. I must admit to feeling very low – I felt as if I was a million miles away from home and what a time to be without my Bible Lessons!

Then I remembered that at every second of every day, there are Christian Scientists praying for the world with that Bible Lesson and that I was included in their prayers. I found that very comforting. I decided I would have my own Bible Lesson and would open the books at random each day. I noticed that the same passages would keep coming to me, either in the books or would come to my thought. Also, the old Science and Health had a weak spine (I thought) and it always opened at page 407 when some old chalk markings of my mother’s highlighted this passage:

In Science, all being is eternal, spiritual, perfect, harmonious in every action. Let the perfect model be present in your thoughts instead of its demoralized opposite. This spiritualization of thought lets in the light, and brings the divine Mind, Life not death, into your consciousness.

Because I was being ill on company time, I felt I should take the drugs the doctor had given me (even though this was completely foreign to me) They did absolutely nothing at all. Over the next two or three days, I continued to become weaker and weaker and more ill, till even a glass of water would pass straight through me and I couldn’t keep down any food at all. My crew had left on their next sector and the hotel hadn’t told anyone I was there. Also, I had put a Do not Disturb notice on my door so no-one came near me or I should think I would have been taken to hospital – I was so dehydrated.

Eventually, I realised I could not continue like this, sitting on the fence. I crawled on my hands and knees out of bed, flushed the drugs down the toilet and sat upright on a chair. Once again, I opened that old Science and Health and, for probably the fiftieth time, it opened to those words on page 407

In Science, all being is eternal, spiritual, perfect, harmonious in every action. Let the perfect model be present in your thoughts instead of its demoralized opposite. This spiritualization of thought lets in the light, and brings the divine Mind, Life not death, into your consciousness.

This time, I let the meaning of those words sink in. I turned right away from the whole mortal picture and put myself in God’s hands – just turned to HimHer as a little child would turn to their parent for comfort. Immediately, I felt a warm joyful glow – I felt so loved. Then, my stomach started rumbling. All energy and strength returned instantaneously and I jumped up – healed!

The hotel was on Bondi Beach and after a shower and washing my hair, I just went for the most memorable walk of my life – I was literally leaping and jumping for joy. I wanted to rush up to everyone I passed and shout "I’ve been healed – I’ve been healed!" Suddenly, I realised I was starving and went to the steakhouse under the hotel and had an enormous mixed grill – with no after-effects whatsoever.

When I returned to London, I had to undergo a thorough medical by the company doctors and they found I was 100% clear.

At the beginning of this thread I've written this:

This Science is not mind-over-matter, positive thinking, not even faith-healing. It is, at its highest, (divine) Mind-healing, which is built on self-surrender and the renunciation of ALL that is unlike God, good. It happens when we let go of the material view of ourselves and yield to pure reality, our true identity as God’s spiritual idea; when we "leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind.." (Science & Health 424)

But the most wonderful thing about the whole healing was the day after – a Sunday, when I went to church and sat there, gobsmacked, as every single passage that had come to me (including the one on page 407) was read out from the desk.

And do you know what else – the next time I wanted that passage on page 407, I opened that old Science and Health but it opened to a different page. I was shocked. After opening to that page, dozens of times, once I had my healing, it never opened to that page again.

Love and peace,

Judy

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