"The founder and leader of the church, Mary Baker Eddy, taught that disease
was unreal"
Ah, beware dogmatic extremists!
I can recall when I lived in Mentmore Towers in the mid 80s (British TMHQ),
there was a word sometimes used for those few chaps who refused any form of
medical treatment – strainers. Bless them! One friend of mine was told by a
doctor that if he didn’t receive treatment he would die. Thank goodness he
consented!
When I was in the ISCON I remember a friend of mine dying because someone told
him to fast even though his diet was already poor.
I practice and benefit from the TM Sidhi form of meditation. I washed the
saucepans at night in a restaurant near the TM Academy I lived in in order to
pay for the Sidhi course. However, I am also one who appreciates the following
gentle call to meditation to those in days gone by.
Taken from a lovely little book entitled: "Christ in You" by an unknown spirit
messenger published in 1919 and still in print today.
http://www.christianspiritualism.org/download/ChristInYou-including-bible-quotes.pdf
CHRIST THE LIFE
THE voice of spirit is far-reaching. It is the expression of omnipresence, and
is both near and far. It knows nothing of space, but for the present we must
deal with beginnings. Perhaps it would be as well to help you at your present
stage of unfoldment. It is absolutely necessary that you should have times of
quiet,(1) that you should come out from the business of life for a part of each
day. If you were to wait in silence, holding the attitude of growth and steady
development, thinking above all else of the kingdom of God — your condition
should not be one of strain or of blank nothingness, avoid both these extremes
— the result would be of the highest value to yourself and to all around you.
Hold in your heart, the true place of understanding, a stillness which is
alive, like the heart of the rose. The God powers within you would assert
themselves; crooked things would become straight, rough places plain. All
smallness and discord quietly but surely would drop away and have no longer any
power. To spirit, stagnation is impossible. The creative energy is constant
activity within. All outside energy is waste and hindrance. As you quietly(2)
wait upon God, the breath of life renews each particle of the body by its
silent, orderly activity.
1 Matt. xiv. 23.
And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself
to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.
Mark i. 35.
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and
went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
Mark vi. 31, 46.
And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a
while.”
And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray.
2 Job xxxiii. 4.
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
