Editorial May 19, 1973 Issue

Productive Ideas— Present and Available

Alan A. Aylwin

Have you ever been bereft of needed ideas with a deadline staring you in the face? Most of us have at one time or another.

Perhaps the main trouble is that we are thinking of ourselves as personal innovators or inventors. Our mind becomes a blank because we are relying on a limited, personal sense of intelligence, a brain-centered mind that occasionally serves us well, but quite often lets us down. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy warns, "Every concept which seems to begin with the brain begins falsely." And she adds, "Divine Mind is the only cause or Principle of existence."^{Science and Health, p. 262;}

Christian Science reveals that God, divine Mind, is the source of real thought. It shows us that man is the reflected image or expression of this all-knowing Mind, as the Bible implies, and that by understanding and claiming this relationship we can become conscious of the ideas we need when we need them. In other words, when we are humble enough to surrender a personal sense of mind, and acknowledge our total dependence on God as our only consciousness, we are on our way to a sure and certain sense that inspiration and originality are always at hand.

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