Sociologists and other experts assert that we live in an era of intensive change. And they warn that the pace of change is likely to speed up. The stresses of quickening change are often thought to cause mental, physical, and social breakdowns. Industrialization, accompanied by urbanization, is blurring traditional patterns of living. Many stabilizing family customs are being abandoned, and in many cases novel undesirable attitudes are moving into the vacuum.
But the bad effects of change can be neutralized in our experience by our gaining a more spiritual understanding of God, man, and life. Spiritually scientific truths are helping many to be undisturbed in the face of continuing change. Moreover, these truths themselves produce change and adjustments on the human scene, the ultimate effect of which will be seen to be totally good.
The underlying facts of existence are spiritual rather than material. Man is not a social mortal buffeted by unfamiliar conditions he is ill equipped to control. He has a spiritual identity only, and it reflects the unchanging nature of universal Truth, God. Nothing is more stabilizing and consoling when we're surrounded by evidences of bad change than to realize that man's progress is entirely spiritual. He is the manifestation of Mind.
