The first paragraph of this section has an account of a case of dropsy which required tapping.Mary Baker Eddy worked with this patient by attenuating the medication then changing over to a placebo. The patient improved even though no medication entered her body. But the patient didn't know the pills were placebos. So it was a mental drugging of a kind, not physical.
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In metaphysics, matter disappears from the remedy entirely, and Mind takes its rightful and supreme place.I've been thinking a lot about how matter is the dream which isn't really there. The five senses are powerful and hypnotic. I want those five senses in waking life as much as dream life. But are they real? I've also been thinking about the idea of a thing recently. If I didn't have sight, how would I perceive my existence. I don't mean on a physical level but on a spiritual level. How would I perceive any ideas? What would an existence of all the ideas be like?
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...Life is continuous and harmonious.Harmony is a funny idea. It's easily hidden under the seeming details of life: the little judgements, and thoughts in my own mind. I've been standing porter at the door more actively lately.
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