Article October 2, 1978 Issue

Controlling unconscious thoughts

DOROTHY KAPLE

We may at times have had impulses or thoughts that did not express our true feelings. Perhaps we wondered where these thoughts came from or attributed them to some mysterious subconscious level of thought over which we have no control.

If we accept the premise that we are material personalities directed by nerve tissue enclosed in a skull, we are being taken in. We are believing the testimony of the material senses instead of relying on the spiritual facts of God and man. Christian Science explains that man is entirely spiritual, the reflection of God, the reflex image of divine Mind. The only thoughts that man can truly have are God's, because no other real thoughts exist.

Any suggestion that we can be controlled by wrong thoughts or ungovernable impulses comes from a false mentality, from mortal mind. One product of this false mentality is a belief in the libido—the emotional or psychic energy associated with supposed biological urges. Yet mankind can respond to something other than mere biological urges. Where do moral values come from? Where does nobility fit into this picture of materially motivated humankind?

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