Article October 24, 2011 Issue

‘Fright Walk’ and a lesson in healing

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Christian Science teaches that God is everywhere and is good—yet it’s often difficult to go through our days actually feeling that good is everywhere. Looking at the evening news, it certainly doesn’t seem like that’s the case.

Illusions can put us under the impression that evil is in control. A bad dream is one example of the power of a convincing illusion. In a dream the picture can be not only scary, but hopeless: we may feel engulfed by a momentum that drives us off a cliff, into the arms of a beast, or into the unkindness of another. Whatever the plot, the sense of being enveloped by something bad and near an “end” often causes us to wake up. Deep down, we know that the images and feelings add up to a false experience.

I recently happened upon a vivid illustration of how some illusions fool us into thinking they are real, and will cause us harm. And afterward, I had the opportunity to put this insight into practice.

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