CONTRARY TO APPEARANCES, and startling as it may seem, we're not material beings and we were never born—we have always existed and always will. That's what Christian Science practitioner and teacher VICTOR WESTBERG realized at a young age, long before Christian Science crossed his path. Mr. Westberg now understands even more fully that one's true identity isn't mortal, physical, a mind/matter partnership. Who you really are is 100 percent spiritual. And he has learned that embracing this deep life-principle lifts you out of the fog of materiality and empowers you to honor Jesus' command, "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils." Matt. 10:8.
After completing combat missions as a pilot for the US Navy during the Korean War, Vic, as he is affectionately known, started a wholesale toy distribution company in California. But he resigned from the business world in 1970 to devote himself to the full-time public practice of Christian Science. And in a variety of capacities, he has been helping others ever since. He was a prison chaplain for ten years on the California Institutional Committee, an advisor to Christian Science organizations for university students in the San Francisco Bay area, and co-founder of Twelveacres, a Christian Science school and home for the mentally disabled. He has served as Committee on Publication for Northern California, Manager of the Committees on Publication for The Mother Church, President of the Board of Education, and a trustee of The Christian Science Publishing Society. He is currently a member of The Christian Science Board of Directors.
We talked together recently in the sun-filled garden room of The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity.
