Margaret Krym

Most people, when they think about Christian Science, the first thing that comes to their mind is: “They don’t go to doctors.” So there’s the whole thought that those parents might be withholding care for their children. 

Well, in my situation growing up as a child, if the need presented, my parents always took me to a doctor. When traveling to Japan, there were a whole array of shots that were required, and I remember having a million shots to go overseas on a military transport. So rather than fighting the system, my parents chose to acquiesce and to accept that no harm could come from that, either. 

There are Christian Science parents who don’t choose to do that—and that, in the eyes of the public, is a difficult thing to understand. But in my case that was not the case. And even when my children were growing up, I took them to the medical community if there was a need. But on the other side of that, I have to say that I rarely had need. So, you know: what comes first: the chicken or the egg? Who knows? 

Many faiths accept the fact that humans are spiritual, but we would say that that should be demonstrable. We should be able to use that information and that understanding to alter our experience, to have dominion. Many times I have seen things change. If we held onto the rigidity of matter being substantial and being the building blocks of creation, if we're held onto that kind of rigid thinking, these things would seem impossible. That’s really the essence of what we call healing in Christian Science—it is seeing the fluidness of matter; being open to the possibility of what some would call miracles; seeing the coincidence of God and man, joined together in life experience. 

Matter becomes something more fluid, less substantial, more changeable as thought changes, as consciousness becomes more aligned with a holier thought. And that kind of transformation of matter gives man enhanced ability to have dominion over himself, over his world, over his reality. That, I think, is a point of demarcation that sets Christian Science in a different dimension.