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Surely no one would choose to be brainwashed if he or she knew what was happening. Yet many unsuspecting people have fallen prey to groups using mental manipulation to gain control over them.

The robin's song was loud and clear as the sunlight poured into my bedroom early one Sunday morning. As I lay relaxing in the beauty of the new day, I suddenly remembered, with some foreboding, that I was to substitute again in Sunday School for a class of nine- and ten-year-old girls.

We are not actually helpless pawns in economic systems that are often in disarray, with supply and demand unstable and out of balance. Such systems do not depict reality.

Having had the opportunity of traveling in many countries, I have attended Christian Science services in churches, societies, and groups on most of the continents. I was surprised to see that, generally speaking, the smaller groups seemed the ones that expressed a higher sense of church.

Once we begin to see God as He really is—as Spirit, the All-in-all, the one creator—and man as the idea—the reflection—of God, at one with God, we read the Bible with an enlightened point of view. We read it expecting to learn more about the kingdom of God.

At times it appears that the anti-Christ is a real and active power influencing editors of the popular press to misrepresent and criticize the truth Christ Jesus taught. As Christian Scientists, when we read newspapers and magazines, we need to be alert to our duty to acknowledge one God, Spirit, and one eternal Christ, Truth, and to deny power and reality to the supposititious mind that would attack the truth.

When wildlife conservationists capture water buffaloes, they can actually keep them corralled with walls of burlap. The animals could easily barge through the barriers, but because they can't see through them they believe they are solid.

Before I began to investigate Christian Science, I thought all metaphysics was some farfetched abstract theory in the clouds of human intellectual reasoning, which extraordinary people and unscientific scholars used as an escape route from the world of reality. I also thought that in its religious aspects, metaphysics was the same as occult mysticism, available only to initiates and hermits.

For highway driving, my car has a useful attachment called cruise control. By activating this control I can cause the car to operate at a constant speed.

I awoke one morning with the following statement of Mrs. Eddy's strongly before me: "To impersonalize scientifically the material sense of existence—rather than cling to personality—is the lesson of to-day.