"we are living in exponential times"

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This video clip delightfully captures facts and figures about the "exponential times" we live in. While watching it a few times, I had to ask, from a spiritual standpoint, What is changing? and
What is changeless?

In a nutshell, what changes are the forms and means of those things that are changeless. Like, how we worship may change, but that we worship doesn't. How we communicate changes, but the fact that we communicate doesn't.

Ideas that transcend time are lasting, and I find lots of these ideas in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, who has written her book based on the Bible. Here are some of those ideas.

God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis.

Academics of the right sort are requisite. Observation, invention, study, and original thought are expansive and should promote the growth of mortal mind out of itself, out of all that is mortal.

Spiritual causation is the one question to be considered, for more than all others spiritual causation relates to human progress. The age seems ready to approach this subject, to ponder somewhat the supremacy of Spirit, and at least to touch the hem of Truth's garment.

Progress takes off human shackles. The finite must yield to the infinite.

Evidences of progress and of spiritualization greet us on every hand. Drug-systems are quitting their hold on matter and so letting in matter's higher stratum, mortal
mind. Homoeopathy, a step in degrees advance of allopathy, is doing this. Matter is going out of medicine; and mortal mind, of a higher attenuation than the drug, is governing the pellet.

Advancing to a higher plane of action, thought rises from the material sense to the
spiritual, from the scholastic to the inspirational, and from the mortal to the immortal. All things are created spiritually. Mind, not matter, is the creator. Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and Mother of the universe, including man.

Science reveals only one Mind, and this one shining by its own light and governing
the universe, including man, in perfect harmony. This Mind forms ideas, its own images, subdivides and radiates their borrowed light, intelligence, and so explains the Scripture phrase, "whose seed is in itself." Thus God's ideas "multiply and replenish the earth." The divine Mind supports the sublimity, magnitude, and infinitude of spiritual creation.

Divine Love blesses its own ideas, and causes them to multiply,--to manifest His power.

And from Mary Baker Eddy's other writings:

This age is reaching out towards the perfect Principle of things; is pushing towards perfection in art, invention, and manufacture. Why, then, should religion be stereotyped, and we not obtain a more perfect and practical Christianity? It will never do to be behind the times in things most essential, which proceed from the standard of right that regulates human destiny.

Human skill but foreshadows what is next to appear as its divine origin. Proportionately as we part with material systems and theories, personal doctrines and dogmas, meekly to ascend the hill of Science, shall we reach the maximum of perfection in all things. Miscellaneous Writings p. 232

(From an interview with Mary Baker Eddy) "But the pursuit of modern material inventions?""Oh, we cannot oppose them. They all tend to newer, finer, more etherealized ways of living. They seek the finer essences. ..... We use them, we make them our figures of speech. They are preparing the way for us." from The First Church of Christ Scientist and Miscellany, p. 35

technology, entertainment and design

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Another thing I love about Christian Science: its ideas always seem to be at the cutting edge of so many different fields - from organizational leadership to healthcare to many different fields of science and more. Mary Baker Eddy has an article on Christian Science in her book Miscellaneous Writings. She makes this point:

This age is reaching out towards the perfect Principle of things; is pushing towards perfection in art, invention, and manufacture. Why, then, should religion be stereotyped, and we not obtain a more perfect and practical Christianity?

It will never do to be behind the times in things most essential, which proceed from the standard of right that regulates human destiny. Human skill but foreshadows what is next to appear as its divine origin.

Proportionately as we part with material systems and theories, personal doctrines and dogmas, meekly to ascend the hill of Science, shall we reach the maximum of perfection in all things.

I picked up this website today which seems to illustrate this "reaching out towards the perfect Principle of things." The site is called TED.com which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, and is a collection of inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers.

Click onto it and enjoy! And let me know what talks you find edgy and innovative.






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Something to think about: foundation for progress

Spiritual resource to share: invention and innovation

This picture was taken in September, 1956 of a 5 MB Hard drive weighing over 2,000 lbs.





In 1901, in an interview with the New York Herald, Mary Baker Eddy was asked about what she felt about modern material inventions. Her response is written in the book, The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany ( p. 345)

"Oh, we cannot oppose them. They all tend to newer, finer, more etherealized ways of living. They seek the finer essences. "

Looking back at the history of inventions, it seems that innovation and invention have grown most rapidly since the mid 1800's. (Check it out for yourself and see what you think.) For whatever reason, these inventions are leading us to "newer and more etherealized ways of living." If the picture above taken in 1956 can be compared to a 5MB of hard drive today, doesn't that make you think of what another 50 years will bring?

In another one of MBEddy's writings, she says "This age is reaching out toward the perfect principle of things; is pushing toward perfection in art, invention and manufacture."

This is the age in which we live. And as we feel this push, I feel great hope for the innate innovative nature of mankind ( simply a reflection of an infinite brilliant God, no doubt!) to continue to come up with startling and new ways to benefit our earth, and all mankind.

Thx to Sandi J. for the photo

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