"There is not a spot where God is not." Nothing exists that is not God because everything emanates from God. We introduce the idea of the immanent and transcendent aspects of God. We explain the nature of ultimate reality. We explain the terms Omniscience, Omnipotence and Omnipresence. Behind the multiplicity of appearance is the oneness of God. Everything proceeds from this One Source. And therefore everything that exists has the same nature as this One Source. This is not a new idea. It is as old as the early Greek philosophers. Aristotle tells us that within each object, including humanity, is the fundamental "stuff" of the universe. This fundamental stuff is built into each object by God. Within each object is the end or goal of that object. Aristotle states that "the true nature of anything is the highest it can become." Meister Eckhart, the 14th century mystic states it another way. "Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds grow into nut trees, and man grows into God." We believe in the unity of all life. Behind the multiplicity of appearance is the Oneness of God.

2. Spiritual Beings. We are not just human beings, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

We are awakening to our spiritual magnificence. We are not just human beings, we are spiritual beings having a human experience. What is true in the universal is true in the individual. Our essence is the same as the essence of God. We distinguish between personality and divine individuality. We describe the different names for God according to the different religions. We show why we are the essence of God but not allness of God. We are spiritual citizens of a divine universe. Our nature must be the nature of God because we are made out of God stuff.

The appearance of any negative condition in our life is the product of error thinking. Error thinking is thinking from a faulty premise. The faulty premise is that we are limited, mortal human beings, who are born of the earth, who struggle through life and who return to dust in the end. The truth is that we are unlimited spiritual beings, we are born of the Living Spirit of God. we are the immortal, conscious choosers of our life.

3. Creative Process. We learn to speak our positive word into the Law of Mind and co-create our reality according to our thinking.

We explain the creative process though the Metaphysical Trinity. The three aspects of the Universe are Spirit, Law and Body. God contemplates Itself and creates the physical universe through some inner action upon Itself. God is Spirit, God is Law, God is Body.

You and I are emanations of God. Because we are made in the image and likeness of God, we must have the same creative abilities of God., so we can and do create our own little universe by our own contemplation. We are Spirit, we are Law, we are Body. Our nature is the nature of God.

We explain how Spirit speaks Its Word into the Law of Mind and how manifestation occurs. We explain how we, as individuals, speak our word into the same Law of Mind and co-create our reality. The Mind of God is primary and causative, while the manifestations of that Mind is secondary and resultant. Therefore, all manifestation is the product of thought. All manifestation, including the physical universe, is relative because it changes when the thought behind it changes. Every condition that we experience in our life is the product of relative thought resulting from our limited consciousness. By becoming more aware, by changing the way we think, we can change the conditions in our life. Thoughts are things. Things are thick thought.

4. Evolution. Life evolves from simple consciousness to self-consciousness to cosmic consciousness. We continue to grow in our awareness.

The entire universe is evolving in time and space. Life is evolving from simple consciousness to self-consciousness to cosmic consciousness. The self- conscious person, the one called human being (homo sapien) is one phase of that evolution and is moving towards a new species, (homo noeticus.) The word "sapiens" comes from the Latin and it means both to taste and to be wise. It is a perfect word because it explains the human method of attaining wisdom: we taste the world, we experience life through the sensations of our body, we think about our "tastings" and form beliefs and judgments. We become wise about the world. The word "noeticus" comes from the Greek and it connotes a knowing without the process of reasoning; a spontaneous and intuitive knowing of the truth of things, an embodiment of truth. Just as a baby must go through a touching and tasting phase to apprehend aspects of reality, humans must go through the sapiens phase. But that phase is not who we are. We are not simply the tasters or the wise ones. We are the "knowers". We are spiritual beings. We are individualizations of the One God. We believe in spiritual evolution. The entire Universe is evolving and growing and we are evolving from human self-conscious individuals into God-centered people.

5. Prayer. We teach a scientific method of prayer based on five specific steps. We call this method Spiritual Mind Treatment.

We explain the nature of prayer and the nature of a specific form of prayer called Spiritual Mind Treatment. We discuss the steps of treatment. We distinguish between prayer, meditation, visualization, affirmation and treatment.

6. Love and Law. All is Love and yet all is Law. We commune with the Presence of Love and command the impersonal Law.

We learn how to directly experience the Love of God. We explore the nature of Law and how it works on the material, mental and mystical level. We explain the seven spiritual laws. There are material laws that apply to our relationship with nature. There are mental laws that apply to the creative power of our thoughts and there are mystical-spiritual laws that apply to our relationship with the Divine. We choose to learn and live from the laws of the universe.

7. Abundance. We learn the principles of prosperity which allow us to flow with the flow of the universe.

We live in an abundant universe. We explain the power of giving and receiving and the nature of tithing.

8. Healing. We embody the essence of wholeness and know that any condition can be healed.

We explain the nature of disease and how disease manifests through lack of awareness. Healing is natural. We are in essence, perfect, whole and complete. In truth, there is nothing to heal, we need only reveal our perfection. When we come into the full realization of our inner wisdom, our inner love and our inner power, healing and wholeness manifest throughout our entire body, mind, emotions and affairs. We believe in healing. Through positive prayer any condition can be healed.

9. Immortality. We teach the journey of the immortal soul. Our life here is but a parenthesis in eternity.

We are immortal spiritual beings. Our life on this planet is but a "parenthesis in eternity" and although we may make a transition from this physical life, our life never ends but continues to unfold. We are immortal spiritual beings.

10. Mysticism. We are at heart a mystical teaching revealing the mystery of life through the direct experience of God.

We distinguish between the mental and the mystical. We point out the difference between the psychic and the mystic. We explain cosmic consciousness. We explain why the Science of Mind is ultimately a mystical teaching and why spiritual mind treatment is based on mysticism. We live our lives from a sense of the mystical.

Change Your Thinking

Introduction

Your decision to take Science of Mind classes is a decision to commit to a process, a process of embodiment. This process takes dedication, discipline, and devotion. Become dedicated to the principles of the Science of Mind in your every day life. Have the discipline to "keep on keeping on" until these principles have been embodied by your conscious and subjective mind, and become devoted to continually "practice the Presence of God."

This is a teaching that is meant to be practiced. Remember, Dr. Holmes said, " Inspiration without application is hallucination." This teaching will never work for you unless you allow it to work through you. In order for that to occur, you must be willing to go through all the steps:

1. Openness

You must be open and receptive to the teaching. You must be willing to explore with an inquiring mind, and with an attitude of awe and wonder.

2. Understanding

You must be willing to take the time to study and understand the teaching. This means carefully reading the lessons, studying the Textbook and completing all of the exercises.

3. Belief

You must make this teaching personal. You must be willing to challenge the teaching. You must state your belief with clarity and with purpose. You must be able to clearly write what you believe. If there is something in the teaching you do not believe, you must be willing to confront it, to analyze it until you are very clear. Science of Mind is "open at the top." It does not ask you to believe everything. But it does ask you to be honest and know what you believe. This teaching is always open to new insights and inspirations. This means it is always reformulating itself to present the clearest teaching possible. As long as your belief is clear, logically consistent, personally embodied and pragmatically applicable, it will work for you. This teaching will never work until you personalize it for yourself.

4. Embodiment

You have a conscious mind, which is Spirit in you. You have a subconscious mind, which is the creative medium in you. Stored in this creative medium are all of your sub- conscious beliefs. You may consciously accept a new belief but until there is agreement with your subconscious mind, there cannot be embodiment. Without embodiment, pre-existing subjective beliefs can still control your life. You must be willing to root out all those negative beliefs about yourself and the world that are inconsistent with the goodness of God and the goodness of you. This is a process that takes time and this is what it means to "work the teaching." The teaching works if you work it.

5. Action

You must become an actor in the faith. You must be willing to apply this teaching to your day-to-day activities, moment by moment. Act as though it is so, and it will be so. Know that God is able, God is willing, but you must be receptive.

That is why at the end of each lesson, we ask you to write down your beliefs in your own words. This teaching is to be worked. It is to be used every day in your life. You cannot use it until it becomes personal to you. You must be willing to go through the process of embodiment and action.

Science of Mind is not to be confused with any kind of indoctrination. This teaching is "open at the top", and the student is always encouraged to intellectually challenge any concepts stated in the textbook. Science of Mind is a spiritual practice of both the head and the heart. It is not a religion of creed or dogma. It is a way of life. We wish that you enter this experience with dedication, discipline, devotion, and an attitude of expectancy. You are about to embark on a journey and it is a journey of discovering purpose and meaning in your life and your relationship with "the greatest power in the universe."

Purpose of Science of Mind

There are many purposes of the teaching, each depending on the disposition and inclination of the student. One purpose is to become a spiritual scientist, to become an expert in using the Law of Mind to establish heath, prosperity, love and creative self-expression in your life. The ultimate purpose of this teaching is transformation. There are two aspects to the teaching: Love and Law. By embodiment of these two aspects, you consciously experience the Love of God and you deliberately direct the Law of God.

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