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Are you being manipulated?
How often do you come to your own conclusions without any influence from others? Are you really doing your own thinking and making your decisions free from interference? In our society today we're constantly being conditioned, influenced, almost bombarded, by the immense, sometimes subtle, influence of unethical advertising.
Little has been widely proposed as an effective remedy for this problem. But an understanding of God as the divine Mind— the one controlling and motivating power, revealed in Christian Science—offers a real remedy for such subversive influences as propaganda that, perhaps unwittingly, promotes disease by promoting material remedies for disease. Through prayer—a realization of the presence and power of God as the one Mind—we have a sure release from mental manipulation.
Much of what humanity experiences as disease is the result of false education, aggressive suggestion, contagious thought influences, often spread abroad under the guise of doing good. Mrs. Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, says in Science and Health, "It breaks the dream of disease to understand that sickness is formed by the human mind, not by matter nor by the divine Mind." Science and Health, p. 396.
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January 28, 1985 issue
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"As dear children"
STEPHEN GOTTSCHALK
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Are you being manipulated?
WILLIAM MILFORD CORRELL
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Ask Him for help
DARREN NELSON
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Starting over: there is a way
GREGORY JAMES RYBAK
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Night thoughts
BARBARA BLECH DUNBAR
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Safe in Spirit
BARBARA-JEAN STINSON
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Healing the troubled mind
CAROLYN B. SWAN
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Choosing God
Tracy Williams Cheney
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People who feel desperate can be helped by...
Name withheld
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Once I was unwell during exam time at the Middle School I...
BINAIFERR WADIA with contributions from ADI J. WADIA
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God has richly blessed our family with many healings since my...
ADELAIDE TOBER ROSENTHAL with contributions from FREDERICK WARREN ROSENTHAL