Blue Windows : A Christian Science Childhood

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Summary: Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood
Review: Barbara Wilson's writing style is brilliant. She tells a profound and sad story that is probably more common than we know. I had to laugh when I read the review from the 29 year old man whose life has been improved "ten-fold" by Christian Science. I too was born into the religion. Luckily I had the "presence of mind" (CS Lingo) to insist upon medical care beginning at a young age. I am all for religious/spiritual freedom of expression. But Christian Science is not about freedom of expression. It is about denying the existence of ANYTHING unpleasant. There is nothing scientific about it. It's followers have a strict and paranoid code of secrecy about their beliefs which seeps into their daily lives and affects all relationships. Wilson's book is a must-read for anyone trying to understand a friend of loved one's negative experience with Christian Science.

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Summary: Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood
Review: Barbara Wilson's writing style is brilliant. She tells a profound and sad story that is probably more common than we know. I had to laugh when I read the review from the 29 year old man whose life has been improved "ten-fold" by Christian Science. I too was born into the religion. Luckily I had the "presence of mind" (CS Lingo) to insist upon medical care beginning at a young age. I am all for religious/spiritual freedom of expression. But Christian Science is not about freedom of expression. It is about denying the existence of ANYTHING unpleasant. There is nothing scientific about it. It's followers have a strict and paranoid code of secrecy about their beliefs which seeps into their daily lives and affects all relationships. Wilson's book is a must-read for anyone trying to understand a friend of loved one's negative experience with Christian Science.

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Summary: Christian Science: Complete Science, Theology, and Medicine
Review: Is this book, written by Barbara Wilson, fair and truthful?

If you were having a bad dream, a nightmare, wouldn't you be grateful if someone shook you and tried to waken you from that dream?

For more than a century Christian Science has touched and influenced millions, and when properly understood awakes its students from the illusion of life in matter and its countless disappointments into a more harmonious life.

This logical science has destroyed the illusion of:

Severe burns, broken bones, cancer, consumption; drug and alcohol addictions, rheumatism, blindness, polio, brain tumors, ulcers, asthma, recurring headaches, fevers, anemia, anorexia, insomnia, mental retardation, heart attacks, high blood pressures, sinusitis, paralysis, invalidism, bad effects from accidents, psychosis, schizophrenia, depression, madness, suicidal tendencies, atheism, unemployment, poverty, loneliness, conflict at work and many more.

Millions have been protected, restored to health, reassured, comforted, inspired, changed, sheltered, fed, improved, and transformed.

Mary Baker Eddy writes "Mortal mind is an illusion; as much in our waking moments as in the dreams of sleep... God would not be omnipotent if there were in reality another mind creating or governing man or the universe".

The ideas that originate from the divine Mind, or God, and that are true substance of supply, never run out. This supply of ideas is seen in our experience the appropriate form of health, happiness, food, clothing housing and so forth.

Mary Baker Eddy gives the divine Mind all the credit; the object of this Science is not to heal but to regenerate and purify the character; the healing, and personal improvement is the effect of a higher understanding.

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Summary: It makes you think
Review: My father was raised in a household of three women. His mother and aunt were CS, his grandmother was not. He respected women all his life and at a time (the 50s) when few men did. Long after he abandoned his childhood faith he respected the CS determination, optimism, and power of both sexes to achieve worthwhile goals. Wilson's book helped me understand why he was able to do that.

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Summary: It makes you think
Review: My father was raised in a household of three women. His mother and aunt were CS, his grandmother was not. He respected women all his life and at a time (the 50s) when few men did. Long after he abandoned his childhood faith he respected the CS determination, optimism, and power of both sexes to achieve worthwhile goals. Wilson's book helped me understand why he was able to do that.

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Summary: Reviewer in Japan
Review: Though I understand the authors misunderstanding, that is exactly what it was. Christian Science has improved my life ten-fold and NEVER in my 29 years(I was born in the religion) was their any condemnation if a memeber of the church went to a doctor, it was always a persons choice. It was the authors mother who made the decision she made it is not Christian Science that does this it's the person, not the relegion. Christian Science cannot be blamed for someones misconception of it! Never does the relegion teach one not to mourn, but to try to see the spiritual truth in mourning and to be able to go on living spirtually and truthfully. At least this is what I was taught in my family, who always have been very loving and STOUT Christian Scientists. My parents never told me I was never to go to a doctor. They taught me about prayer and God's healing power and to have great respect in Mary Baker Eddy, but the choice always was mine! Too many people have misconceptions about Christian Science because they don't do a THOUROUGH study of it, they only look at the Surface instead of Diving deep within it MANY facts of TRUTH and SPIRITUALITY. People will state that Mary Baker Eddy wrote this or that, but when I see this it sorrows me to realize they obviously did not read Mary Baker Eddys works enough, one Reviewer says Mary Baker Eddy mentions Happiness 90 times, well in Science&Health alone she actually mentions it 132 times! In all her works and poems she mentions it over a THOUSAND! So I actually was very disappointed in this book that gives a very sorrowful and wrong misconception of Christian Science. I am sorry to say that the death of her mother was not the fault of Christian Science but her faith in it and her misconceptions of it's teachings.