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Is the stuff of life material or spiritual?
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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November 24, 1997 issue
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TO OUR READERS
The Editors
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Is the stuff of life material or spiritual?
Geoffrey J. Barratt
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Where am I?
Donald L. Shipman
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Breaking through the thoughts behind pain
Joyce E. Batchelder
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Lessons from a mountain climb
Michael B. Thorneloe
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"Heaven is where the cooks are French ..."
Cornelia Schacht
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Focusing on the Bible
Edward W. Little
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Thanksgiving's feast—and fast
Lynn Gray Jackson
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Gratitude
Marjorie Scott Eichelberger
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You can be a peacemaker
Amy K. Anderson
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God's sure supply
Carole Gardner Dykema
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Ready to take the lead
Russ Gerber
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During the birth of our first child, I had torn severely
Kerry Helen Jenkins
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I remember one of my first healings in Christian Science
María del Carmen Feijóo de Mata
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About a year and a half ago I noticed that each time I combed...
June B. Cunningham