When we try to conceive of ourselves as limited, we intuitively know that this is not correct.Ībout four hundred years ago, we began to realize that the earth is not actually in the center of the universe. It’s the belief that everyone has their own separate mind and that these minds are often in conflict with each other. Mortal mind is the suggestion of a limited and contrasting version of the one, infinite divine Mind. But there’s another, further step beyond the notion of a mortal mind.
In Christian Science terms, we would say this indicates that matter and mortal mind are the same thing. And this has led to the conclusion by many physicists that we cannot separate consciousness, or mind, from what we observe in these quantum measurement experiments. If you set up an experiment to detect something, that’s what you’ll get, but there’s also a conscious interaction of the experimenter with the experiment. In other words, what you can know about an experiment (for example, which path a light ray can take) determines what results you obtain. Quantum physicists are investigating ideas about how consciousness seems to be inextricably tied up with the so-called creation of matter. The mainstream interpretation of these new experiments is that matter doesn’t exist until it is observed. But since that time, experiments have pointed to something even more radical. In 1911, physicist Ernest Rutherford published the results of an experiment where he found that the atom was mostly empty space. Eddy’s statement was radical-clearly over a hundred years ahead of its time.Īnd this is where modern science is beginning to approach the ideas in the opening sentence of “the scientific statement of being.”
Nowadays, what physicists have been discovering about the insubstantiality of matter has been coming closer to “the scientific statement of being.” So Mrs. Laurance Doyle: Well, what’s so amazing about this statement is that Mary Baker Eddy made it in the Victorian era of science, when matter was considered substantial and objective and real. So, Laurance, what does it mean to you, both as an individual practicing Christian Scientist and an astrophysicist?
“The scientific statement of being” is fundamental to Christian Scientists. The following is an edited summary of their conversations. Next, she talked with Brian Kissock, a Christian Science practitioner and teacher. Laurance Doyle, who is an astrophysicist at the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Recently on the Journal podcast Record of Truth, Christian Science teacher Deborah Huebsch asked two scientific thinkers to share their insights on “the scientific statement of being.” First, she spoke with Dr. Therefore man is not material he is spiritual” ( p. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is immortal Truth matter is mortal error. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy poses the question, “What is the scientific statement of being?” and provides this answer: “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.
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