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Science and Christian Healing.
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The same revolutionary advance, however, cannot be found in regard to the processes that mankind's periods of renaissance has once represented. Here development has stopped. Instead of increasing prosperity, we face an accelerating economic collapse. Instead of enjoying increased stability and peace, the world's nations are being ravaged by evermore dreadful wars. Instead of developing their inherent potential, the leading nations of the world are set on a course of destroying evermore of the vital infrastructures they have created for themselves in the past. Instead of responding to the increasing number of deadly diseases, and the older diseases that are becoming drug-resistant, mankind is shutting down its research facilities and health care centers. Instead of focusing on the universal right to life that had once been deemed absolute, the modern focus has been shifted onto the right to die early. Indeed, the universality of the right to life has become increasingly subjected to economic, racial, and ideological factors.
Without knowing it, mankind has dug itself a deep pit and climbed into it and called the journey progress. In order the reverse this 'progress' of degeneration, an exploration of the principle of scientific, spiritual healing, and its historic effect, should prove useful.
The first step that is required for this exploration, that opens the door to the exploration itself, involves some mental gymnastics in overcoming the credibility gap that mankind has created for itself against virtually all types of spiritual issues. Nothing is more vital than a good measure of success in this step, because it here, were the door to mankind's advanced development has been closed the tightest. Virtually every vital aspect of mankind's existence on this planet, including the creation of its food, its housing, its energy for transportation, its production, its clothing, its culture, its economies, is founded in processes that have a purely spiritual foundation. Without the processes of the human intellect and the principles they represent, 99.9% of humanity could not physically exist. Out of its own resources, the natural world of the planet had once supported a human population of app. 1/5000th of the present population. This society, living at a very primitive level of subsistence, had remained relatively stable in terms of population numbers for nearly 800,000 years until the dawn of intelligence and the unfolding of spiritual factors. Once this occurred, man's development potential became realized.
Because this phase shift occurred in the most distant past, it is impossible to determine which factors developed first. Evidence suggests that the entire range of spiritual qualities that have become the hallmark of human civilization, may have developed simultaneously, of which intelligence is but one aspect. Early cave paintings and sculptures in stone coincide with the emergence of a technological civilization. All three cultural aspects developed together. The emergence of useful technologies apparent made living easier and provided time for creativity in art, enjoyment in dance, and further exploration. Here, we have the beginning of science.
Empiricism versus infinity oriented perception.
In modern centuries, however, progress has been turned backwards. People have stopped looking beyond the limits. At first, there were great contests between empiricist thinking and the embrace of infinity in discovery and development. But soon, empiricism took over, or was artificially promoted to take over.
The contest between these two conflicting systems has already been addressed in Volume 1a, in respect to the principles of economy, and in Volume 1b, in respect to the principles of justice. In these two books of Volume 1 the contest between the two systems was explored within the context of down to earth, concrete issues, such as economy and justice. But the contest doesn't end here. At the higher level of scientific discovery lies the domain of Christ-healing. The term refers to the type of healing that Christ Jesus had practiced, that Christianity had practiced after him during the first century, and that which has been practiced since 1866 after the discovery of Christian Science.
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