Article January 28, 1985 Issue

Are you being manipulated?

WILLIAM MILFORD CORRELL

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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