Many people as years pass go through a period of great stress and strain when incidents and mistakes in the past come vividly and forcibly to thought. In some instances, these memories point the accusing finger of mockery and scorn at the sufferer, and the experience amounts to a form of mental torture.
Some schools of thought believe that such incidents with their accusing memories lie buried in what they call the subconscious mind. But Christian Science accepts the Bible teaching that God is Love and shows that man, made in His image and likeness, cannot be conscious of a seeming existence apart from Him.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes under the marginal heading "Dictation of error" (p. 409), "The belief, that the unconscious substratum of mortal mind, termed the body, suffers and reports disease independently of this so-called conscious mind, is the error which prevents mortals from knowing how to govern their bodies."
