Many would like to escape what they call "reality." And this is understandable. Repression, hunger, sickness, sheer dissatisfaction, can seem all-pervasive, unbudging realities.
Of course, we can't escape reality. But perhaps we don't have to. It could be that we need a clearer concept of what reality actually is. Christian Science proposes that reality isn't the bizarre conglomeration of good and evil it appears to be; that its essential elements, contrary to appearances, are nonmaterial.
Christ Jesus' healings, his resurrection and ultimate ascension, make this point forcefully, though we often miss the immense significance of these events. Through his works Jesus proved that reality isn't, in the final analysis, physical; that man isn't trapped in physicality or victimized by suffering. Jesus' view of existence, far transcending human perception, was unquestionably spiritual.
