Some hidden methods of influencing thought and stimulating action are now being brought to the attention of the public by the press. These include experiments in subliminal projection, an advertising medium designed to influence individuals unconsciously and thus persuade them to purchase certain products. Upon learning of such subtle attempts to control human thought, the writer recognized more clearly than ever before the necessity of protecting herself from the belief that she was susceptible to influences apparently outside her knowledge or control.
How can one protect himself from the dangers which appear to beset human experience, from the suggestions of impending accident, injury, or fatality, of symptoms of allergies and diseases, and from the illusive allurement of sensualism and immorality? Christian Science shows one how to handle animal magnetism, or the aggressive suggestions of the carnal mind, as the Apostle Paul termed the false, material mentality.
Through Science one learns to nullify these suggestions by knowing the truth of being: that there is but one Mind, God, and that man, made in His likeness, can cognize only that which comes from this divine source. Man cannot be the mortal victim of untoward circumstances, since he is actually the spiritual idea of God, susceptible only to the beneficent influence of divine Mind. As one sees this clearly, he can demonstrate the immunity it implies.
