How I Found Christian Science May 7, 2012 Issue

'I had found what I was searching for'

Kaśka Michaëlis—Watford, England, UK

Natasha Helena Karabulut

I discovered Christian Science about eight years ago, at a time when I was suffering from a chronic fatigue syndrome called myalgic encephalomyelitis. I had been diagnosed with this condition about ten years previously, after a bout with ordinary flu. I was usually able to get out of bed and attend to simple things, but I had periods when I was in the depths of despair. Over the years I had tried every possible treatment and meandered through all the alternative healing paths I knew about, trying to reduce the symptoms. But nothing was making a difference. Having exhausted all possible routes, I felt that I had reached the end.

In desperation I turned to the Bible and all the spiritual books from every creed that I had collected over the years. I was searching for answers that would lift me up as, deep within, I knew there must be a way of turning my life around. One day I read a passage in one of my books that convinced me that healing was a real possibility. It talked about pain and weakness as mental phenomena that could be healed by understanding oneself as whole.

When I came across this idea, I felt as if I were touching the hem of Jesus’ robe. I sensed that there was a deep truth hidden in it. I thought of a story I had once heard of the Temple of the Golden Buddha in Bangkok, Thailand. A long time ago the Buddhist monastery held a statue of Buddha made of pure gold, ten feet high. When the country was invaded by a foreign army, the monks decided to disguise the statue to make it look like ordinary stone. They covered the whole statue in gray clay, and when the army passed the monastery they took no notice of it.

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