Much is heard today concerning the power of positive thinking. As the phrase is used in common parlance, the power inherent in positive human thinking refers to the comfort afforded by unworried thought and the tendency to bodily health associated with the avoidance of negative concepts.
Nobody would dispute that healthy thoughts are preferable to thoughts of disease and that thoughts of confidence are better than enervating uncertainty. But all mortal thoughts germinate from the changing evidence of the material senses and therefore pertain to one state or another of mortal belief. At best, then, "positive" human thinking attempts to establish harmony in one's experience by giving preference to an existence of sweet daydreams over a life of nightmares. But Christian Science has come to this age to startle mankind from its dream beliefs altogether and to establish harmony upon an unshakable basis.
Christian Science explains that the root of one's problems is his enslavement to the five corporeal senses. By relying upon these senses for testimony of reality one is led into error instead of Truth and becomes the dupe of fiction instead of its rightful master.
