As people arrived from all around the globe, the Christian Science Plaza filled with thousands of people—reading, talking, milling about as large, happy groups at conferences usually do. It was a symphony of color and movement. Some had come because they were members. Others were drawn here through their interest in spiritual healing, in Mary Baker Eddy, and in the Library that bears her name.
The anticipation was a tangible force. One felt—as my British friends would put it—that one was on the threshold of a totally new mental environment. And that wasn't just an abstract feeling. It was evidenced first by the wide-openness of the meeting itself. Visitors of any background were welcomed—not to be evangelized, but to rejoice in the life of an extraordinary thinker, writer, and spiritual healer, Mary Baker Eddy.
Spiritual healing is demanding a changed mental environment—one that shifts thought from a purely material outlook on health to an acceptance of the mind/body connection to a growing understanding of the impress of Spirit's allness on human lives.
