Article March 28, 1988 Issue

Up, up, and away!

We don't have to be tethered by illness or fear. Divine Spirit can free us.

Helen May Mundell

To me one of the most glorious sights on earth is a multihued hot-air balloon lifting from the ground and floating effortlessly upward in a cerulean sky.

To a primitive person with no knowledge of physics, the balloon's rising would probably appear magical. Similarly, healing through spiritual means alone often seems unbelievable to modern-day individuals, steeped in the beliefs that life is mortal, that man is a combination of material biological processes and thought, and that God is a distant power.

But like the rising of a hot-air balloon above the earth, the rising of thought can lift us above these beliefs; and when it does, we make way for healing. In the case of the balloon, the owner prepares for the ascent by first stretching the balloon flat on the ground. Then, with a compressor, he blows in air heated by a propane torch. The hot air, which is lighter than the colder air outside the balloon, rises, gently lifting the balloon off the ground. But it doesn't soar until the pilot orders the ground crew to loose the tethers holding it to earth. Then the balloon floats up, up, and away—free from constraint.

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