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Kastlefeer
In a society that grants 'religion' a free pass, common liberty and then held above the average citizen in a tax free status I find the notion that it's buyer beware providing for the average citizen to be a cavalier attitude. As you see the slow decay on the wall between church and state, or rather the rapid toppeling of that wall in the case of the US where in Cincinati there's a 27million dollar monument to stupidity in the Creation Museum, evangelists running law schools, republican presidential candidates denying evolution, dobson advising the president on Iran, Oprah peddling 'the secret' as some sort of salvation ... well how does the average consumer taken up in the spirit of the day respond. Buyer beware as a response is the catchism of a government and media that has not done it's duty.
You have every right to believe that.
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As to magical thinking lets chew on a bit of sage advice from Holmes.
pg 234 from the Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes, a chapter devoted to the idea of Physical Perfection
False Growths (Tumors, Cancer, Gallstones)
We must think of the subjective state of our thought as our atmosphere in the Universal Mind, for we cannot separate ourselves from the Universe. There is but One Mind and we are in It. We are in It as intelligence. It accepts our thought and acts upon It. Destructive emotions, desires or ideas, unless neutralized, will grow into some bodily condition, and may produce disease. Disease without thought could not manifest, no matter what the disease may be. We are surrounded by a Receptive Intelligence, which receives the impress of our thoughts and acts upon it.
If the thought of false growths can be erased, the manifestation can be healed. Declare: "Every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." The Heavenly Father is the Reality of man and is Eternal Presence and Perfection. Dissolve the of idea of false growths by knowing that there is nothing for them to feed upon. Erase the belief, in your own mentality, and you will remove it from the mentality of the patient, and thereby project healing power to his body.
In treating cancers and tumors, there should be a harmonizing of the consciousness that will cleanse the blood. Declare: "Dive Love within me, removes from my consciousness every thought unlike God (Good). In my physical body there is only room for perfection, because that thought which is sustaining and nourishing my body is aware only of perfection, nothing can come into being except from the One Creative Mind, and nothing can flourish unless there is something to nourish it. Accordingly, I know that my thought does not sustain any false growths, either consciously or unconsciously originated.
"The depression, the misunderstanding, the maladjustment, the frustration which may have taken place in my life, is now eradicated. God is the One Causation back of all manifestation, and there could not be cause for a development of any kind contrary or superflous to the divine order. Therefore, there cannot remain within my body anything which does not express perfection. God-Life, in and through me, forever cleanses, heals, and renews every organ, and every atom in my body, after the pattern of perfection."
False mental causes are removed by a freshness of thought, sustained by an affirmative outlook of faith and trust in the perfection of life. The only accretion which takes place in the body is that produced by the activity of Perfect Principle, and what the body cannot use is passed freely on.
We have learned that there is only One Substance, out of which everything is made ... cabbages and kings, hands and houses, money and men ... consequently, any wrong condition in the human body is made from exaxtly the same substance from which the most perfect form is created. The pure and perfect light of Spirit dissipates and dispels every discordant form, for those things which are not implanted by Divine Spirit have no law to support them.
Whether it be cancer, fibroid tumor, a wen, a cyst, or gallstones, the practitioner must know that the Spirit indwelling his patient is perfectly and completely manifested, and that every shadow of erroneous conclusion is wiped out. False growth is neither person, place nor thing: it has no life to sustain it, cannot take root in Truth; it has no validity, no substance and no power, and cannot be fed nor nurtured by Truth.
That's a great book. The above process does not describe magical thinking; it describes spiritual mind treatment, which must be done to an exhaustive and intense degree over a long time to work. In addition, Holmes did not, nor does the USRS, advocate forgoing standard medical treatment. The Spiritual Mind Treatment is recommended to be done in addition to medical treatment.
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This book was copyrighted in 1938, and the passage i quote from i expect to be removed perhaps in futility but I think this kind of appeal to wishful thiking, childlike omnipotence in supposedly understanding the vast workings of reality and recommending it in turn as a way to treat disease as something that should have vanished as soon as it appeared. Oh but here it is 2007, Oprah and the Republicans and the general public have dissapointed me greatly.
You speak, in my opinion, from a standpoint of misapprehension.
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These groups won't go away, things are laizez faire or buyer beware simply because cults and magical thinking go in and out of style endlessly.
It's not "buyer beware" if no one is selling anything USRS does not constrain anyone. It does not revolve around a personality. It is not a cult.
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I will not stop criticizing it, I will never endorse it, those who do do not garner my respect.
Perhaps they're not trying to.
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I do not refer to it with respect to my mother or brother, church members or anyone who asks. I'm to be afforded that at least, my freedom of expression.
Indeed.
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This new agey trash thinking, book sales campaigns in tow, affinity leveraging, are twisting my sanity fairly hard. It's hard to accept the baseness that permeates a even a small amount of the populace. Even for one second thinking that anyone believes this crap is startling to me.
That is a subjective judgment. The fact remains that the United Church of Religious Science is not a cult.