Editorial March 10, 1980 Issue

Feeling the energies of Spirit

GEOFFREY J. BARRATT

It's not a great while since the long-resisting barrier of a mile run in less than four minutes was broken through—actually, it was in 1954. The barrier was partly a mental one. Since then, this record has been successively broken. The current time, recently set by Sebastian Coe, stands at three minutes and forty-nine seconds. These record-topplings could not have been achieved if they had not been admitted to be possible.

Mary Baker Eddy's comment on a different kind of physical feat is relevant: "Had Blondin believed it impossible to walk the rope over Niagara's abyss of waters, he could never have done it. His belief that he could do it gave his thought-forces, called muscles, their flexibility and power which the unscientific might attribute to a lubricating oil. His fear must have disappeared before his power of putting resolve into action could appear."^{Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 199;}

There is a spiritually scientific way, rather than a humanly psychological or physiological way, to improve across the board our everyday performance. We can grow in the understanding that the divine energies, expressions of the omnipotence of Spirit, give life and being to man and the universe. They can never stop or be stopped. Because these energies are as infinite and as ever present as God, we can have access to them. If we understand muscles as thought-forces, our sense of muscles becomes less physical. Then, as we accept the potency of the divine energies, muscles can evidence more of true energy, which is inexhaustible.

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