Article August 11, 1973 Issue

Real Sensation Is Spiritual

EVELYN M. S. DUCKETT

Christian Science teaches that there is no sensation in matter, but it does not imply that there is no sensation. It shows that true sensation, or feeling, is spiritual, not material. Matter only registers what mistaken or limited thought feels.

Feeling is rightly experienced spiritually in deep satisfaction, harmony, joy, happiness, peace, freedom. Mortal feeling is not really feeling at all. It is the absence of true feeling, a distortion of right feeling into unhealthy, unhappy, painful sensation—or into merely pleasurable sensation, empty and without deep and lasting satisfaction.

Someone might say, however, "Christian Science teaches that there is no sensation in matter. But if a paralyzed person is healed in Christian Science, surely he then experiences sensation in matter!" That is how it seems. But because the individual believed that matter had sensation, he believed that matter could lose sensation. To be healed in Christian Science of such a condition, one needs to learn that matter has no sensation, that real sensation is spiritual and therefore cannot be lost or numbed. And this understanding of true sensation not only heightens one's spiritual sense but produces a return of normal feeling.

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