Article July 25, 2005 Issue

WHAT MATTERS is what you think

Warren Bolon with contributions from JEAN HEBENSTREIT

JEAN HEBENSTREIT practices and teaches Christian Science healing from her home base in Kansas City, Missouri. She has served her Church in many ways, including as a member of The Christian Science Board of Directors. The Sentinel's Warren Bolon recently talked with Mrs. Hebenstreit about prayer-based protection from negative mental influences.

You've explained to me before, Jean, that if we feel we're under attack, or affected by someone else's thoughts, that we're really dealing with the content of our own thinking.

Yes, that's where one deals with any negative mental influence. In a brief sentence, Mary Baker Eddy covers it all in the Christian Science textbook: "In reality there is no mortal mind, and consequently no transference of mortal thought and willpower" (Science and Health, p. 103). What another fellow thinks determines his experience. What I think determines mine. If I think his thought affects me, that's my own thought operating. All that really affects anyone is his own thinking. That's what we're responsible for.

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