Article June 20, 2016 Issue

Participation not required

Jan Klesse

A line from a thought-provoking article in the Christian Science Sentinel got my attention. The author said that there was no point in participating in a dream.

He explained that although circumstances often appeared to be evil and harmful, he could choose instead to see the truth that God was seeing, and this had a healing effect in his life. I began to think deeply about how challenges in life can be met and mastered when we become conscious of spiritual truth.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, it’s made clear that existence in matter is a dream: “Mortal existence is a dream of pain and pleasure in matter, a dream of sin, sickness, and death; and it is like the dream we have in sleep, in which every one recognizes his condition to be wholly a state of mind” (p. 188). And on page 218, “When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will be unknown, and the mortal dream will forever cease.”