Article March 9, 2009 Issue

LIVE IN THE LIGHT

Warren Bolon with contributions from Marie Helm

Marie Helm's bicontinental life—she lives half the year in Russia (St. Petersburg) and half in the United States (North Las Vegas, Nevada)—gives her a wide-angle view of the world, with depth of field on field on the troubles that people face in different human cultures. Sentinel senior writer Warren Bolon talked with Marie, a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, about cultural issues related to depression, and about healing it through prayer.

What's behind this belief of a national or cultural tendency toward depression, and how can it be lifted off?

When you look at the Russian people, there is a widely held belief that they do fit that stereotype, and certainly their national history includes dark times that lend themselves to such negative emotions. In their early history there were peasants, and there were the czars and nobles. And later there was the Soviet state. In each case an individual's life was controlled more by other powerful parties than people living in North American cultures are accustomed to.

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