There's a need for mankind to find a new way of looking at things. Here is a crisp expression of this: "When emerging crises first beset a society, there are calls to do a better job of following the ways of tradition. Large-scale tinkering with the system almost always follows. If this does not work, breakthroughs in basic approaches must next be sought. But making such breakthroughs inevitably involves a reexamination, and often a restructuring, of fundamental assumptions and mental maps that underlie conventional wisdom." The New York Times, December 16, 1974
Christian Science gives—is—a whole new way of looking at things, a basic way of restructuring common assumptions about man and existence. It's a spiritual way. This is its mode of healing, the basis of its regeneration. At base, what we suffer from is an incomplete, inadequate, or wrong way of perceiving. How can we look at things in the right way? By being informed by the Science of reality, or divine metaphysics.
Christian Science, resting on the demonstrable metaphysical truth that infinite Life is the only origin of being, and that man is Life's self-expression, gives the right way of looking at things. "Mortals must look beyond fading, finite forms," Mrs. Eddy advises us, "if they would gain the true sense of things. Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm of Mind?"Science and Health, p. 264
