Editorial May 6, 1972 Issue

No Tampering with Real Mind

Alan A. Aylwin

At present both physiologists and psychologists are deeply interested in the prospect of mind and mood manipulation through artificial means such as chemistry, psychosurgery, and electrical stimulation of the brain.

There is little doubt that in most instances efforts in this direction are well-meaning. They are intended to free mankind from various mental limitations and psychic traumas. But the potential for tyranny and criminal misuse is very apparent, and this in itself should give us pause.

A Christian Scientist would view this whole subject with deep mistrust, not because he doubts the integrity of the experimenters, but because he has a view of man basically different from theirs. Actual experience in the realm of spiritual healing has taught the student of this Science that man is much more than a brain-controlled physical organism. Health has been restored and character regenerated by rejecting a material sense of mind and man and recognizing real selfhood to be wholly spiritual.

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