Article November 24, 1997 Issue

Is the stuff of life material or spiritual?

Geoffrey J. Barratt

In an everyday sense, matter seems very real, very "there." It seems to be a concrete, kickable certainty, and that's that. But is it?

There is a great aid open to us to help determine what is real, and what's not: Christian Science. Here is a pause-giving take on the situation by its Discoverer, Mary Baker Eddy: "Everything is as real as you make it, and no more so. What you see, hear, feel, is a mode of consciousness, and can have no other reality than the sense you entertain of it" (Unity of Good, p. 8).

What difference can this point of view effect in our life? Developing spiritual, scientific understanding, and progressing in its demonstration, we can make matter less and less real to us. This has important consequences.

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