Whatever may be discordant in our experience has a mental basis. This is because thought is objectified in experience. Whatever discord we're facing is essentially a form of mesmerism. Not necessarily the kind of mesmerism that one observes when a piper spellbinds a cobra, but rather the mesmerism that results from being so preoccupied with matter and its complaints that God, Spirit, seems far away or hidden.
The mesmerist knows that if he were to suggest to a volunteer that there was water on the table and that it would quench the volunteer's thirst, the person would drink it, and it would seem to quench his thirst, even if there was nothing in the glass but air. But anyone else in the audience would understand what was really going on.
The Christianly scientific practitioner knows that the patient needs to be awakened from a false sense—a deception of thought—no matter what its physical form. The practitioner also knows that to awaken the patient he must spiritually understand what is really going on—the truth of being, the reality of Spirit, God, and His perfect spiritual creation, man. And he knows that once the patient is awake to the facts of man's being, the patient is healed.
