In a 1961 Los Angeles Seminar Mrs. Laird said: “Realization is the function of Truth as understanding.” This direct presence of Mind in action as realization or understanding constitutes man. God’s self-knowledge is man! The fundamental...
I recall participating in a fabulous IMS teleconference, in which we studied Practice Not Profession by Margaret Laird, in its entirety, over five sessions. On page 47 of that paper, Mrs. Laird writes, “No individual has a mind that can hate.” That...
What is this thing called “practice” that we, as Metaphysical Scientists, are supposed to do? Practice what? I always thought to practice was to do over and over until I got it right. If perfection is all there is, what’s to practice? Is there any...
I first came across the term “unlived life” in Margaret Laird’s 1956 Laird Letters, and have seldom, if ever, seen her use it elsewhere. Like much of her writing, that curious word juxtaposition reeled me in: What is an “unlived life?” I...
Socrates was sitting in the Athens marketplace, 399 B.C., asking the younger generation “Is excellence still possible?” The older generation was too busy for nonsense. The context for his question was their magnificent Greek culture collapsing around them....
I understand the point. The Absolute is the relative. OK. Let us read Margaret Laird: "Many years ago I was…
As a true student of Science, attempting to use it as a pill will always be "maybe so, maybe not"…
Great comment! When Laird took calls as a practitioner, she didn't see the problems as those of another. It was…
What's about your "chronic condition"? I un derstand Christian Science is not a "healing method". Any real change in self-living…
Wow. Surrendering to the idea that EVERYTHING is in consciousness … that there is NOTHING external to Mind (essentially MY…