Great interest in the future is being generated by the urgency and depth of many of mankind's present problems. What will the future look like? it's asked. How will people live? What can be done to make life in the coming decades more satisfying than today? How should people live? What social and economic conditions should we aim to bring about? How can technology be best directed? We can disembark from the time-train apparently carrying us forward, more or less helplessly, into a future of mixed good and evil. We can see that time-train as a delusion.
A well-charted future can be developed only as we become more aware of the spiritual realities of the present. Plans for the year 2000 based on mistaken, limited notions of divine Truth's creation and purposes today must be inadequate.
The right viewpoint is indicated in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "The ancient prophets gained their foresight from a spiritual, incorporeal standpoint, not by foreshadowing evil and mistaking fact for fiction,—predicting the future from a groundwork of corporeality and human belief." And further: "It is the prerogative of the ever-present, divine Mind, and of thought which is in rapport with this Mind, to know the past, the present, and the future." Science and Health, p. 84;
