It's a technical title, Alysia. I occasionally have a marriage or whtever to do. It's fun. I think all our roots are there, in point of fact. But my work remains formally defined as clinical hypno-analysis and regression. The rest is just a convenient technicality.

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Alan,

Your previous post is total nonsense.  One of the standard lessons in CS is titled "Eternal Punishment" and the lesson teaches that there is no such thing.

CS stresses individualism and freedom.  There are no exclusive requirements, but a common desire to know God better as individuals and do a better job of healing.

CS was one of the first organizations to implement term limits and mandatory rotation in office for elected offices to prevent individuals from exercising undue effect on others and entrenching themselves in power.

The goal of a Christian Scientist is to demonstrate healing of all discordant situations through the application of Divine Love.

REI

REI,

I have negotiated and healed myself around the most appalling health problems during my life, without the need of a CS practitioner.

I take umbrage at the terms you used to reflect my posts such as: "absolute nonsense" and "you cannot comprehend". I never dialogue Absolute Nonsense and comprehend fully all you have posted, "tone down your rhetoric", we are supposed to be friends on this forum. I am entitled to believe what I believe. My universe has long been expanded in ways my friend,in separate ways, that you do not comprehend. As for CS I saw tasted and rejected as false.

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Alan,

I can't remember the last time I heard the word umbrage. 

Umbrage and disdain are words not often heard among the Christian Scientists I associate with.

However, I am grateful that you have been able to heal yourself of the most appalling health problems. 

John 18:38
Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.

I was looking through a CS Journal yesterday and an article commented that MBE never required that students be members of the CS Church to attend the twelve day class on Spiritual Healing that she set up. 

Advanced Practitioners are appointed as teachers, and conduct classes on healing.  They choose their own students, which then become members of the teacher's association.  The annual meeting of my association is one of the high points of my year.  Teachers are noted in the Journal by the initials CSB following their names.

MBE had hoped that the other churches would incorporate her discoveries into their practice, but they were instead met with umbrage and disdain. 

She set up her church to provide a place for her students to meet.  You don't have to be a Christian Scientist to be healed by it, and there is no expectation that you will become one after you are healed, although many do.  When I went back to the Methodist Church I had attended as a young person during a visit to my home town, I was amazed at how empty of meaning the service seemed. 

I usually spend my Sunday mornings listening to sermons by some favorite local pastors on the radio in Vincennes Indiana.  Then I listen to the weekly CS Sentinel Radio broadcast and go to the church to practice for the service which I help conduct as Second Reader.

A listing of Sentinel Radio stations and times is here:  http://www.spirituality.com/sentinelradio/index.jhtml

If you are ever in Vincennes on a Sunday Alan, you are welcome to attend our services.  We will not take umbrage and you will not be treated with disdain.

John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Science and Health (the textbook) and the King James Bible are online in searchable form here:  http://www.spirituality.com/dt/toc_sh.jhtml ;  It is a handy place to find quotations to copy and paste from.

As I said in an earlier post, I didn't get the meaning of most of the textbook the first time I read it.  CS really needs to be experienced to be understood.  After my original healing I went back to the textbook and still didn't get a lot out of it, but as time has passed I see more and more in it.

I happened across the paperback copy I used during my class and reread some of the highlighted parts yesterday.  I randomly opened it to find a selection that had a lot of meaning for something I was thinking about.

John 15:12
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

PUL for all, all the time.

REI

Dave,

What is liits?  The best healings are usually associated with some physical ailment, but the people on this site may already be far healthier than most.

REI

Thanks Dave. 

I have spent my life in the electronics and programming area where everything is an acronym.

I am one of the few AFAIK among Christian Scientists in this afterlife area.  I have passed the site to several other CS'ers and two seem to have some interest but not at the level I do.

A Practitioner might be personally interested in afterlife exploration but their focus is on healing in this earthly experience.  I heard of one who would work on the deceased but she was the exception.

They are working people who spend their days responding to those who call on them for help with problems in the here and now.

It was physical healing that got the CS movement going.

REI

AFAIK is As Far As I Know.

I must have missed the reference to the Rees book. 

The only book I think I mentioned was Peel's book on Spiritual Healing In A Scientific Age.

I would be interested in your take on my new thread.

Thanks