Article November 17, 1980 Issue

No-fault healing

PETER HOLLINSHEAD SELBY

What we read and hear today about no-fault insurance and even no-fault divorce may encourage us to shift gears and consider a genuine scientific concept of "no fault"—no-fault healing.

By this I don't mean we should fail to accept responsibility for our mistakes but that we can, and should, stop validating error by defining it as a real cause. We can refuse to respond to mortal mind's urging that we discover some reason for sickness, sin, sorrow, suffering, in our own or others' experience. Why should we succumb to the temptation to try to identify—and subtly justify—a cause for a condition that, in reality, never existed in the first place? We can dig in our mental heels and adamantly reject error's insistence that some one or some thing is to blame for an illusion.

What a marvelous example of this we have in the way Christ Jesus worked! One instance in particular stands out: the healing of the blind man sent to wash in the pool of Siloam. The Bible tells us: "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."^{John 9:1-3;}

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