Editorial April 27, 1974 Issue

Get Rid of Obsessive Mental Pictures

Geoffrey J. Barratt

Sometimes after we have seen material evidence of disease, crime, or accident, a disturbing picture may seem to lodge in our thought. We may feel drawn to look at the picture, to become obsessed by it. The understanding in Christian Science both of real consciousness and of the delusive nature of the physical senses can help us be rid of the barnacle-like, mental scenes.

Though it seems an outside actuality has entered through the senses and delineated itself on thought (like a panorama which through a camera lens is recorded on a film), the discord pictured lingeringly on our thought is actually a mental image in the first instance.

Permitting an erroneous mental image to obsess us breaks, in effect, the second commandment stating that we should not worship graven images. We can get rid of disturbing images, which seem to be etched on our thought, by understanding that true consciousness includes spiritual ideas rather than material pictures.

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