Article March 1, 1975 ISSUE

Waking Up

FRED P. STAEDEL, SR.

This mortal existence is only a dream. The thought behind such a statement sounds radical and difficult for most people to accept. Why? Because this mortal existence seems so very real.

Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health, "Mortal existence is a dream; mortal existence has no real entity, but saith 'It is I.'" Science and Health, p. 250; She calls the dream we have in sleep "the sleeping dream," and the dream while awake, "the waking" one. And she makes this point: "In both the waking and the sleeping dream, the dreamer thinks that his body is material and the suffering is in that body." ibid., p. 188;

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