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Science and Christian Healing.
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If we adopted formalism as a method for exploring the works of the pioneers, as this is indeed done in many respects, we wouldn't learn anything significant. We would recognize established formulas which would appear outdated, seeing that the modern elite has enthroned 'better' sounding formulas of mythological idealisms. By this shallow approach, the great reservoir of the treasures of the human soul, is lost. This shallow approach, is totally useless for exploring scientific Christian healing. In fact it is worse than useless. It is counter-productive and dangerous. We couldn't learn much about mathematics, for instance, by looking at Einstein's most exotic application of it as it applies to the innermost realm of physics. We need to discover the principles he had discovered and had explored mathematically, and more than this, we need to discover the process of discovery by which the principles were brought to light. We need to discover the spiritual processes involved in order to make the achievement of the ages our own. Only, then, can we move beyond them. Learning by formula is dangerous and entropic in that it begins with elitism rather than principle, and decays towards dictatorship and irrationality.
Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, may be the only scientist in history who has outlined a scientific structure that appears to be specifically provided as a basis for continued creative discoveries of underlying fundamental principles and their application to the human dimension. This structure addresses a vast range for investigation and discovery, which inherently defeats elitism that adds nothing to human development. Mary Baker Eddy's structure demands exploration, reason, and discovery. Without these, it has no meaning. Indeed, this structure has been rejected as meaningless by the very church and its field for whose benefit it may have been designed, but which has become deeply grounded in formalism.
Laws without formula.
Metaphysics cannot be reduced to the application of form and formula. People may get some use out of the formalism of applying multiplication tables, without fully understanding the laws that these tables represent. Here, form and formula afford some utility. Except in this case, form and formula, merely extend processes that are already commonly dealt with. Scientific, Christian, metaphysics on the other hand, is an unfamiliar universe that is totally opposite to common perception. There are no formal experiments possible that would have any meaning. There exists no empirical data to measure spiritual fact. Nor can mathematical modeling be applied to aid our work in defining Truth as Christ Jesus understood it. Metaphysical healing is a none-linear process that deals with reflections unfolding in consciousness - reflections of Truth. Metaphysical healing is not something of which one can say, I am 10% there, or I am 70% there. One can only discover Truth and realize, that in respect to a particular issue when a clear perception is reached and demonstrated in healing, one is there, completely. Based on these demonstrated processes new discoveries are made.
None-linear processes are natural in life. We experience them when suddenly an idea dawns and the world becomes transformed by it. None-linear processes are quite common in nature, too. We recognize them deep inside an atom, for instance, when so-called particles suddenly disappear and reappear in different orbital paths without having had an in between state of existence that is in line with their initial and final points. They simply switch states in a none-linear transition. Our perception of time, which is really irrelevant in respect to fundamental principles or Truth, stands between our present status as human beings and that which Christ Jesus had demonstrated as fundamental to man. This apparent gulf can be bridged in a non-linear geometry of thinking which recognizes the achievements of the past as demonstrations of reality and as examples of the nature and the fundamental capability of man.
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