Continuing on with lessons learned about MAM from the story I shared yesterday, anytime an opinion, belief, conviction, feeling, impression, or hint appears in your thought that denies the effectiveness of prayer, the healing power of Christian Science or the immediate love and care of God for you, MAM is at work.
It can come in so many different forms. For instance:
My prayers aren’t good enough.
I don’t have enough understanding to be healed.
Christian Science is not as effective today as it was 100 years ago.
God has abandoned me.
Medicine is a lot easier route to take.
Some problems are too hard to heal.
Some disease is incurable.
I can’t do this anymore.
I’m so discouraged. I feel so hopeless.
There is nothing more I can do.
Disease is real.
God isn’t hearing me.
I can try all I want, but it won’t do any good.
All of these are lies of the Liar, and they must not be believed.
“Be wise as serpents,” Jesus taught. The above is all serpent-testimony, designed to discourage and stop the spiritually minded individual from advancing and claiming success with God.
Be wiser than the serpent! Learn to distinguish between truths that come from God and lies that come from mortal mind. You will be much safer, healthier and more successful in your prayers for it.
Thanks for these two posts on MAM. I needed it this morning – I got angry listening to MAM about losing something… wouldn’t you know it when prayer started I found it in the first place I looked? So silly to get angry at something so minor. I knew it but got angry anyway, which made the day turn miserable for those few minutes. Lesson here is to stop getting angry for all the wrong reasons. Get angry at MAM; not just to be angry.
Thanks for inspiring me to re-read Mrs. Eddy’s chapter on “Animal Magnetism Unmasked” in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. I also re-read pages 390-393, where we are given specific ways to refute MAM. Your two articles have re-energized me to be more alert and handle more quickly MAM’s suggestions. Thank you, Evan.
What a refreshing way to express a more foreboding subject we often ponder over. Just want to recognize it more quickly daily.
I went to sleep peacefully with spiritual thoughts of God but work up in the middle of the night feeling so bad that I could hardly relate to CS. I felt like something had taken over my thinking and being. It was from outside of my own thought but coming for acceptance. MAM. Wonder if the CS movement is facing direct attacks against it and its members, in an effort to eliminate CS?
To above,
Whenever what you describe happens, it is correct to identify it as MAM at work. But don’t stop there! The next step is to undo its claims. Know that MAM has no influence over your thinking and being. God reigns supreme causing only good things to happen to you. And there is no space of place for evil of any kind. The negative effect will stop and go away. It is never real or true to begin with.