Too often when one reads descriptions of Christian Science in the popular press, the only item that receives considerable attention is the speculation that it teaches the power of the human mind to change the physical body and, potentially, to control the whole of human life.
In his poem "The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost recounts how, after looking down two diverging roads, he decided to take "the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference.
Sometimes it might seem tempting to try to mix the unmixable—that is, to sit atop the fence and dip as desired into matter on one side and spiritual being on the other.