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Following the example set by the question-and-answer columns in the earlyJournals, when Mary Baker Eddy was Editor, this column will respond to general queries from Journal readers with responses from Journal readers. You’ll find information at the end of the column about how to submit questions.

Since we seem to have a material body, how is the "dematerialization" of thought accomplished?

From the February 2011 issue of The Christian Science Journal


In Science and Health Mary Baker Eddy says, referring to eyes and ears, “that only through dematerialization and spiritualization of thought can these faculties be conceived of as immortal” ( p. 211 ).