Article March 8, 2010 Issue

I HAD TO KNOW WHAT REALLY HEALS

BY THOMAS CURRY

I became interested in Christian Science, and took Primary class instruction because I had an uncontrolled appetite to find out what heals. At the time, I was not seeking any healing for myself, or a loved one. I was not a member of any Christian Science church, and I had no family or friends who were members either. In fact, I was a doctoral student studying to be a licensed psychotherapist.

As I began to study the wonders of the human mind in my doctoral program, and its effects on physical and mental health, I learned that the human mind can do so-called miracles, defy theories of medicine and physical science, and so I directed my scholarly pursuits to discover how the mind heals. However, in order to do this, I knew I had to look outside the proverbial box. Orthodox neurosciences and modern medical models were too physically deterministic.

Therefore, I pointed my thought into Eastern and Western mysticism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Hindu Tantra. I learned, and witnessed, remarkable things about the power of one's mind. But I also knew my search was not over. In the above philosophies, the human mind could be trained to do the incredible, but these approaches were still too limited for any real practical application to health. Eventually, my intellectual appetites brought me to an author who claimed to heal any sickness, physical or mental, through the power of divine Mind, or God. This completely piqued my interest, and, thus, I was introduced to Mary Baker Eddy.

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