"Rabbi - what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

"Not long ago Rabbi Gittleson wrote in the Saturday Review: 'We live at a time when knowledge is increasing with frightening rapidity...we must therefore rethink our ideas of God in a context that includes at once the biological discoveries of Darwin, the physical insight of Einstein, the psychological imperatives of Freud and who knows what new comprehension tomorrow.  This does not mean we have outgrown God or are abandoning Him.  Quite the contrary; it is those who insist on constraining God within a conceptual framework that is rapidly becoming meaningless, whom history will adjudge as abandoning Him.'"
-Christian Science Re-Explored (1965), pg. 20 - Margaret Laird

Re-explore

"You are ill: your natural instinct is to be well.  As we shall say many times in this book, you have this desire because Health, Wholeness is the Nature of Being.  In the recognition that if you are sick you are well, the wellness aspect of you will appear.  Sickness and wellness are not really contradictory states of being but are the Reality, Health, simultaneously being and not-being in the man-image. The natural instinct of the seed is to be the flower.  It has this instinct because the flower is its seed.  The self-concept, because the Self or I-ness is its existence, instinctively builds itself up and tears itself down.  As we cease to work against what we call evil or error, and work from the standpoint of the infinitude of Good, we shall find the Good to be the All of all."  - Margaret Laird, Christian Science Re-Explored, pg 6

from "Living Consciously: The Science of Self" -Dorsey/Seegers

"From the works of men who have studied human individuality, notably those of Freud, we have evolved for ourselves the following hypothesis which we have been subjecting to every conceivable test for its particular applicability: Everyone is grieviously ill on acccount of his limited self-appreciation and can become well only by extending the scope of his self-tolerance with self-love.  This hyposthesis passes every test.  It works.  It does not work only where it is not tried.  Its practicality and utility for everyday living is demonstrable in every instance of its application.  It is offered as the chief desideratum of a world constantly troubled by hot, or cold, warfare.  In the opposite direction, efforts at self-ignoration would reverse the life order and are helpfully signalized by inharmonious living, which leads to the misprision of life itself.  In view of its being a common addiction, self-disesteem is rated as being natural or healthy, but as anyone grows a fuller view of his wonderful creative power his life's all-precious worth becomes constantly self-evident."

Meanwhile

As you may see the October Newsletter is soon to be re-named the November newsletter.  Names, just names.  Anyway, if you're chomping at the bit, here's something to chomp on in the meantime.  An old friend e-mailed me and asked if I was teaching.  My first response was koan: "I teach only myself."  Which, of course is verifiable fact.  I do not learn from teaching, but as if teaching confronts me with the necessity to teach myself.  Experience is my only teacher.  But as if teaching asks me questions I may wish to block from my awareness.  So being the product of my own learning, I decided a more amplified response was warranted and so I wrote the expanded response.  You will find it on my website where the October Newsletter was intended to be.

The October Divine Science Today Newsletter is on the way...

... but is not quite ready.  I hope to have it available by the third week in October.  Rob

IMS Newsletter

I was invited by Bruce Manuel, the editor of the Newsletter of the Institute of Metaphysical Science (Oct-Dec 2009) to submit an article on the topic of Truth.  If you don't subscribe to the IMS you will find my article printed on the Divine Science Website in early October.

Pooh!

I'm reading Pooh and The Philosophers by John Tyerman Williams, "in which it is shown that all of Western Philosophy is merely a preamble to Winnie-the-Pooh."  Alfred N. Whitehead said once that the European philosophical tradition "consists in a series of footnotes to Plato."  The Pooh Perplex (1979) by Frederick C. Crew and The Tao of Pooh (1982) by Benjamin Hoff all challenge their readers to bring new meaning to their reading. You will remember that we read, not to discover what the writer is thinking, but what we are thinking.  Are you a stoic?  A rationalist or empiricist?  An existentialist?  You might see yourself in the Pooh stories or someone you know in the characters of Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, or Pooh.  It's a fun, informative read.