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The First International, Interdisciplinary Conference on The Science of Whole Person Healing was held in Bethesda, Maryland, at the end of March. Chemists, physicists, biologists, medical doctors, spiritual healers, and other healthcare professionals convened to discuss the science of alternative medicine and nonmedical healing.

People from all over the world attend conferences like the one in Bethesda, Maryland. In March 2002 Christina Sloan, Italian Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, attended the Harvard-sponsored Spirituality Healing in Medicine conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Several months ago a young mother telephoned and asked me to pray with her for her young son. During a medical check-up he'd been diagnosed as having a problem with one of his eyes.

I learned about Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy through self-help books that mentioned it. A friend who was very interested in metaphysics told me that Christian Science presented God as the only power—omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.

A Gallup survey in 15 countries showed that Germans are gold medalists in pessimism. Eighty-seven percent believe that the future will bring no good.

I was living in Uruguay , where I was born. I was a soprano and was about to give a recital, accompanied by a quartet.

One day my father told me he had enjoyed talking to a young man who had come to the house and left us an invitation to a Christian Science lecture. I ended up going to this lecture with my wife, and since the lecture was interesting, I took down the address of a Church of Christ, Scientist.

I was a clown . I danced in variety theatres, music halls, and at the circus.

I was downtown in Karlsruhe, Germany , and was waiting for the tram at a trolley stop. A bookstall on a small nearby square caught my interest, and I wandered over.

I still remember the awe I felt during my first airplane flight, cross-country from San Francisco to Washington, D. C.