A healing experience I recently had brought to mind an especially interesting passage in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. It reads, “Until the advancing age admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better for Christian Scientists to leave surgery and the adjustment of broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while the mental healer confines himself chiefly to mental reconstruction and to the prevention of inflammation” (p. 401).
On a hot summer day in late June, I was helping my stepson unload a truck full of his belongings into storage. While I guided a dolly loaded with boxes down the truck ramp, my feet got tangled, and that’s all I remember.
I regained consciousness a short time later and found that I was bleeding from a cut where my head had hit the pavement. My stepson is not a Christian Scientist, nor is the manager of the storage facility, who expressed much concern. Returning to full consciousness took a few minutes, during which I asked confused questions about where I was and what was happening.
