Article March 14, 1983 Issue

Mind, memory, memorials

BARBARA CORBETT MYERS

"Do you remember?" "Where is it?" "What records shall we keep?" "Am I ready for the exam?" Questions of memory come up daily. How well we cope will be determined by the answers we accept to deeper questions, such as: "Which creates—Mind or matter?" "Upon what do I rely for intelligence—God, or a brain?"

Christian Science shows Mind to be God and explains that man may be described as the spiritual idea or expression of this divine, all-inclusive intelligence. In Science, man does not originate or exist apart from the Mind conceiving him.

On this basis, the useful faculty called memory may be considered—quite apart from its usual connotation—a function of Mind, ever present and active. This divorces memory from the physiological theories that impute thought to chemical or electrical stimuli and frees consciousness to respond to divine Spirit.

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