Category: fear

An active practice

April 19, 2012 | 5 comments

Some potential full-time practitioners of Christian Science have feared going into the practice because no patients or few patients were calling them for treatment. In error, they let mortal mind calculate their financial prospects accordingly, and conclude that they cannot

Where does your thought take up residence?

March 28, 2012 | 7 comments

I was listening to a stranger articulate all the ugly outcomes he saw happening in the world today. The economy was horrible, there were no jobs to be had, politicians were unresponsive, ignorant and self-serving, foreign countries were on the

The dry bites of mortal mind

March 7, 2012 | 6 comments

While taking a quick run through the Australian Museum of Natural Science, mostly because I wanted to see the display of dinosaur skeletons on the third level, I side-stepped into an exhibit on poisonous reptiles in Australia. The below panel

That pesky fly!

March 2, 2012 | 14 comments

This past Tuesday, I flew from Gold Coast to Sydney, rented a car, and drove north 80 kms to Gosford for a lecture that evening. I was greeted by an earnest little band of Christian Science workers setting up for their

The pain went away

March 2, 2012 | 2 comments

Two-thirds of the way through a lecture I was giving Thursday evening, a woman in the audience was quite restless. I wasn’t sure what all the commotion was about, as I was concentrating on delivering my message, but after a