No Separation

In the 1866 Mary Baker Eddy founded a religious group called First Church of Christ Scientists or more commonly called, Christian Science. Eddy was so clear that the her interpretations were absolute that Christian Science still today only use her text, 'Science and Health with Keys to the Scriptures'. Her belief in healing prayer was so strong that she mandated practicing Christian Scientists could not work with physicians or apply medical practice to an illness. When faced with a health challenge members are directed toward a trained Christian Science Practictioner who provides prayer support for the healing.

Now a century later, people are having difficulty believing prayer is the only method of healing. The New York Times reported last week the church is now opening itself to the use of medicine to accompany prayer. Faced with declining membership and several losing legal battles where medical procedures were denied to children something needed to shift.

I see it this way- When you look at the seen (the visible world) and the unseen there is no separation. While our power of observation works well at the macro level we are aware of a greater knowing that is harder to describe or apply linearly to the areas that are unseen.  The nature of Science has been to reveal and predict the behavior of the unseen. And the beauty of the Infinite is that when you think you understand it all, there is more unseen to understand. As the Universe creates humans, it creates them as perfection. That means perfect health is by design. When there is disharmony in the mind, or dis-ease, the body takes on the illness.  Thus prayer that is used to reset an individual's knowing of their own physical perfection is powerful. It is healing. And the medical procedures, the drugs that help the cells come back to health are also part of the Universe in operation. They could not have been created without human research and experimentation. Taking a pill does not take away from using healing prayer, there is a continuum of the seen and the unseen. There is no separation between the seen and the unseen.