Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-11-18

the cures they effect are as wonderful
as those of Mrs. Eddy's cult.
Now may it not be that the cures eff
fected by all of the above means
and indeed by the medical profession
generally-belong to one class and are
the result of psychological conditions
or operations? No curative virtue re-
sides in the shin bone of a long dead
saint or a splinter of the true cross.
Few patent medicines have any medi-
cinai virtue, and not many physicians
will guarantee that their prescrip-
lions will always have a beneficial eff
feet The Christian Scientist will tell
you that God alone effects the cure
in their cases. Yet it is preposterous
to suppose that the Deity is induced
to produce some physical change in
the body through the prayers of the
sufferer or the healer, which He would
not have done had He not been so
duplicated.
Quackenbush and others on psychic
phenomena their theory of the dual
consciousness of man offers a ready
and reasonable explanation of all
these cures and also of mind readings,
hypnotism and so-called spiritualis-
tic manifestations. This theory is
that man has a double mentality One
is the conscious mind which receives
the sensory mpressions-with which
we think, reason and are conscious
of the material world around us. The
other is the sub-conscious mind which
controls the vital functions, is the
seat of memory and the primary in
is the one which is active
when the conscious mind is uncon-
scious as in sleep, or in a hypnotic
state, or in a so-called spiritualistic
trance. 1t does not act through the
senses of the body, it is able to re-
ceive impressions from the sub-con-
scious mind of others and acts indie.
pendent of the conscious mind. Any
one who has seen hypnotic expert
ments knows that person under hyp-
motto influence is when his con-
scious mind is dormant and the sub
conscious mind, Is the active one
knows that the patient accepts any
suggestions of the operator as au-
lucrative. He will believe that cold
water is hot, that food is poisonous,
that a nausious dose Is pleasant, and
the physical organisms will respond
faithfully to these impressions. The
mind of the mind reader
and the spiritualist medium reads the
minds of the audience
and learns facts that the conscious
mind has long forgotten and thus
seems to be aided by supernatural
power.
And thus the mind of the Christian
Science healer impresses upon the
mind of his patient that
disease has no reality, that God is
not the author of sickness, that his
body is perfect. This is impressed
more firmly by reading the bible and
Science and Health" until finally the
physical organisms respond to this be-
lief and a cure is effected, and this
often without faith on the part of the
conscious mind.
The same explanation covers other
wonderful cures. The faith and be-
lief of the sub-conscious mind in the
holy relics in the physician or the
reacts on the physical body
and produces those changes which
are desired and expected.
The Christian Scientist denies
most strongly that hypnotism has any
thing to do with his cures. The
spiritualist is also urn in his belief
that it is the spirits of dead friends
who send them their communications,
while the man who has left his
crutches at the shrine of the Lady