Is it possible to scientifically explain a spiritual occurrence? I’m not sure where this thought came from, perhaps I was reading something.  Right now, I’m not sure what I was reading at the time.  (A few moments have passed) OKAY!  Now I remember!  I was studying EFT and TFT, which are Emotional Freedom Technique and Thought Field Therapy.  EFT and TFT are alternative energy medicines like therapeutic touch, acupuncture, Reiki, etc.  Then I had to work my recollection to answer, “What made me want to study that?”  Well, yesterday I had starting reading an article on “Breaking the Psychologically Attachment to Illness.”  Oh how so many of us need to detach ourselves from ourselves and BE made whole.  SELAH!

All this week, I’ve been studying on thoughts and words and their importance to create, produce, activate, heal, etc.  At one point, the thought arose that this is just mindless.  Then I remembered that I took careful attention at how unfailing my midnight thoughts came to me as I BEgin to dose off.  Reliable was Psalm 3:3 as I laid me down to sleep:  “But thou, O LORD, art a Shield FOR me; MY Glory, and The Lifter Up of mine head.”  This song took its place to awareness.  As I measured this encouragement, my midday intercession sprung up in me, i.e., the LORD is MY naw-tsar’ (my protector, my shield).

Bringing the two thoughts together was like healing water to my bones.  I could literally feel my bones being strengthened by flowing water.  It made me giggle for a few seconds; I knew it was the Holy Spirit afresh.  This morning, when I opened my eyes, Psalm 3:3-4 awakened with me.  I started to pray MY protection a 70×70 mile radius; that wherever I am, I AM shields me.  The LORD sustained me!  Everything is perfectly complete.  SELAH!

Nonetheless, I kept reading and studying EFT and TFT and came upon the faith of the First Church of Christ, Scientist based in Boston, MA.  Not the cult, Church of Scientology!  That’s an entirely different army, with compounds ALL over this world, which, by the way, is opposed to abortion but PROMOTES homosexual oral and anal penetrative sex as a form of birth control.  I thought I was reading a Bourne Ultimatum script perusing information about this organization.

Anyways, back to the First Church of Christ, Scientist.  I learned that the requirements to BE a member of this organization, per the by-laws, are that you pray daily and study the bible.  You must subscribe to the organization’s periodicals IF YOU CAN AFFORD to, and pay an annual tax to the church of nothing less than $1.00.  There are the basic requirements to BE a member.  I personally like the idea that they have Reading Rooms at each sanctuary location that are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!  Isn’t that awesome?  It’s comparable to a library.  How many of the ministry organizations in your neighborhood are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC on days besides the days they’ve calendared service?

In addition, I was captured by the answer that explains the question, “What is a Christian Science?” in particularly this answer:

“Christian Scientists come from all walks of life and are happy to talk about their faith when asked, but we don’t proselytize. For us, a life well lived is the best example of our beliefs.”

A life well lived is THE BEST example of our beliefs!  This statement caused me to pause and ponder about what I see in other religious organizations.  Do they too BElieve, unto living, that “a life well lived is THE BEST example?”  Due to the fact that we all have tendency to yield to the great rhetoric of what we are accustomed to, when all things are considered, we systematically neglect knowing our neighbors who may actually have an acuter depth of spiritual insight.

This is a legitimate thought, and very likely a reliable truth, that if you think the religious organization that you belong to is THE ONLY organization that knows God (Creator, Love, Light, Spirit, and Truth) you are very likely under the influence of a persuasive deception.  As many of us are aware, Massachusetts is the breeding ground for witchcraft.  Sadly, witchcraft is practiced EVERYWHERE; even so, over the many altars that we fellowship in weekly.  There is no slight here, just the unsullied truth.

So then, I take it upon myself to start reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

“There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.  All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.  Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error.  Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.  Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness.  Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual” (Eddy, Mary Baker (1910) Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468). 

I love this quote of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, from the New York Herald, 1 May 1901,

“Where vaccination is compulsory, let your children be vaccinated and see that your MIND is in such a state that BY YOUR PRAYERS vaccination will do the children no harm.  So long as Christian Scientists obey the laws, I do not suppose their mental reservations will be thought to matter much.”  

For some reason or another, all of this brought back to my attention, in an affirming manner, that what I’ve been saying for quite some time now is great truth.  And that is, we need to BEcome our spirit selves in this realm, as this is our true self.  We need to unBEcome who we are and BEcome who we were created.  When we start living from this place (spiritually minded, taking on the attributes of Our Image, the Mind of Christ), then we will start experiencing life and peace on earth AS IT IS in heaven.  I wholly BElieve John 6:63 (KJV),

“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I SPEAK unto you, they ARE SPIRIT, and they ARE LIFE.

As I read more from the pages of this text, I thought I was reading my mind on paper.  So many things I hear in my spirit, I’ve heard them again in this book.  I thus recognize that these thoughts, which are coming to conscious, are arriving BEcause there are disciplines that I need to study.  There are matters that I need to learn; there is wisdom to gain; and, there is understanding to get.

I study on…

© 2015 Angela M. Smith