Testimony of Healing June 16, 1997 Issue

For many years, well over a decade, I had nightmares in which...

Mary Alice Rose

For many years, well over a decade, I had nightmares in which someone or a group of people was chasing me and usually trying to kill me. I had these vivid dreams at least several times a week. They were exhausting, but not particularly disturbing to me most of the time.

But one day I realized that these dreams were an imposition on my thinking. I recognized that many of these images were widely accepted in society, and that some people saw fear, brutality, and hatred as expected aspects of life. I started to realize that I did not need to accept this lie about God's children and that I should claim my freedom from these dreams. About this same time, I had another nightmare, and this one was especially troubling. Then I decided that these dreams simply had to go.

In retrospect, I marvel that I didn't take a stand for Truth sooner. I now see that I had been fooled into believing that these dreams were somehow part of my thinking. I was believing the lie that says man is prone to violent thoughts and that one can be victimized or terrorized. I was fooled for quite a long time. But now I began in earnest to separate these erroneous images from my identity as the image of God, who is all good and harmonious. Science and Health states, "The harmony and immortality of man are intact" (p. 521). So man's consciousness, which is derived solely from God, divine Mind, infinite Love, cannot be invaded by evil. I recognized this to be true for all mankind. I also recognized that there is no subconsciousness—no consciousness separate from divine Mind—that Mind, God, is ever conscious and always in control, and is always productive and loving.

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