Article October 25, 1975 Issue

Letters to the Press

From Christian Science Committees on Publication

James H. Lawrence

Maine Times

Maine Times
Augusta, Maine

The writer of your series on psychics connected with Maine quite logically begins with Phineas P. Quimby, who was the granddaddy of so much psychic healing in this country. But she has unfortunately missed the vital distinction between Quimby's use of mental suggestion and the Christian Science emphasis on God (divine Mind with a capital M) as the source of man's being.

One is a psychic or psychological technique; the other is a reliance on God through prayer and Christian commitment. It's easy enough to confuse the two on the basis of a few common terms, in the same way that some people confuse astrology and astronomy. Quimby was one episode in Mary Baker Eddy's search for the basis of Jesus' healings, but she ended up at the opposite pole from the Portland healer in regard to his view of the human mind and his use of "psychic energy."

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