Consciousness and intercessory prayer

1/11/2016

Consciousness and intercessory prayer

Many years ago, while working on a case that wasn't moving quickly toward healing, I felt sure that the clarification of one point in metaphysical law held the key to progress: "How does what I am knowing, affirming, praying here, reach and impact the person asking for help through prayer over there?"

I called and asked a colleague, and she replied by asking me two questions: "How many minds are there? How many consciousnesses?"

I said, "Stop. Say no more." (Sometimes over-talking has the effect of burying a point.) Off like a shot, I knew how to pray more effectively...

The rest of this article may be found on the Christian Science Journal website on Christianscience.com. It is retitled as Multiple minds? Or one Mind?

Annette link

1/11/2016 02:43:16 pm

Michelle, I love your posts and I share them often. Your dedication an consecration are an inspiration to us all! This post speaks very much to me, too. Recently a case greatly benefitted from this Bible promise, which I feel now - encouraged by your post - has a more concrete meaning than I ever saw and thought of before: "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you." (John 15: 16).

Michelle

1/11/2016 02:45:16 pm

Lovely, and thank you, Annette.

Nancy T.

1/14/2016 08:43:28 pm

Thank you for that reminder of John 15:16, Annette, and for your well-written, inspiring article, Michelle.

Michelle

1/15/2016 03:46:58 pm

A pleasure! Thanks

grace

1/11/2016 03:34:10 pm

Absolute pure metaphysics perfectly articulated! SO fine, Michelle, thank you.

Michelle

1/11/2016 03:45:07 pm

Pure. I like that - the stuff that heals. Here is pure from Webster's online:
1 a (1) : unmixed with any other matter <pure gold> (2) : free from dust, dirt, or taint <pure springwater> (3) : spotless, stainless b : free from harshness or roughness and being in tune —used of a musical tone c of a vowel : characterized by no appreciable alteration of articulation during utterance

2 a : being thus and no other : sheer, unmitigated <pure folly> b (1) : abstract, theoretical <pure research> (2) : a priori <pure mechanics> c : not directed toward exposition of reality or solution of practical problems <pure literature> d : being nonobjective and to be appraised on formal and technical qualities only <pure form>

3 a (1) : free from what vitiates, weakens, or pollutes (2) : containing nothing that does not properly belong b : free from moral fault or guilt c : marked by chastity : continent d (1) : of pure blood and unmixed ancestry (2) : homozygous in and breeding true for one or more characters e : ritually clean

4 : having exactly the talents or skills needed for a particular role <a pure shooter in basketball>

Michelle

1/11/2016 05:03:55 pm

And thanks for that, Grace! I love "a priori" as a definition of pure.

Joy

1/11/2016 03:54:20 pm

Thank you Michelle, you have made this so clear to me now. I have often struggled with this same problem in the past, but now I will not make the mistake ever again. There is only one Mind and we reflect that mind and that is all there is to it.

Michelle

1/11/2016 04:42:48 pm

Those aha moments are quite special. Thanks, Joy!

Leah Eselgroth Gold

1/11/2016 07:33:05 pm

Thank you Michelle dear for all you share with us in writing in through your lecture work. Your love of and loyalty to Truth is infectious. You inspire us constantly to go and do likewise.

Your message his is a vital one. And I appreciate you sharing the dictionary definition of pure. Here is how Mrs. Eddy used the term, 'a priori'......pg. 467 in S&H: "....We reason imperfectly from effect to cause, when we conclude that matter is the effect of Spirit; but a priori reasoning shows material existence to be enigmatical. Spirit gives the true mental idea. We cannot interpret Spirit, Mind,
through matter."

Know my continued gratitude and support Michelle, and Annette and Joy also.....we learn from each other and are the better for it. God Bless you and Happy New Year.

Michelle

1/13/2016 09:23:23 am

Thanks for digging out that quote, Leah. Reasoning from divine Cause to perfect effect is pure metaphysical method. And it heals!

louise

1/13/2016 05:15:06 am

Thanks, Michelle! very helpful. Thanks for all the work you do in mantaining this sie!

Michelle

1/13/2016 09:23:58 am

And thank you for coming and reading the blog!

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