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Divine Science Today are words that have meaning only in the context of modern scientific metaphysics. The Divine Science Way Research Center is a gathering of individuals interested in being Divine Science Today. The spiritual meanings of words are discoveries (insights) made within oneself, even if it appears as coming from reading, study and discussion. Metaphysics, the science of the nature of Reality or Being, went "scientific" with the evolving of a scientific psychology adequate to be called “a spiritual psychology" or "Science of Self." As psychology grew itself out of the old philosophy of Mind and the old Scholastic theology of God vs. man vs. nature, it gained freedom to observe, challenge and experiment by defining all the old dogmas as theories or views of Reality or Truth instead of as Truth Itself. Scientific metaphysics, the psychology of Spirit, began as a spiritual healing movement rising out of 19th century American Protestantism with its motto: "Nothing is absolute, but The Absolute." Starting with the goal of bringing health, wealth and happiness into every human life through the "power of right thinking" (sanity) was demonstrated to effect physical health. In the context of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the challenge to metaphysical research then was to find and keep a place for the word "God” in human thought in the face of materialism, humanism, and Darwinism. Today, the context is new and the challenge to a spiritual psychology is growing the understanding of the now well-established, well-verified and individually ascertainable fact that "being is Spirit", or “the entire being is found in Mind.” (Mary Baker Eddy) more...

Rob Craig, M. Div., leads Seminars in Divine Science Today. more...

The Divine Science Way is a gathering of individuals who define Divine Science for themselves by being the individual divinity of humanity or true humanhood. For us this means embracing a scientific approach to existence and in so doing rejecting all dualistic, "God"-thought-systems. The old theology cannot update itself since it is a "Flat Earth" view of Reality. New views are progressive because they are successive and identify Infinity as the nature of Being. We believe that pre-scientific metaphysics is obsolete. This is the Science Age and only a Scientific Monism can satisfy the human hunger for Truth. There is a Reason for it.

The references listed in our reading list and other materials of authors and teachers are not our personal teachers. They represent the ideas which drive our lives. Through long searching we have discerned the clearest articulators of contemporary metaphysical science speaking to our present understanding -- to Today. Only our own unfolding understanding provides the key to new insights which open us to more new understanding. Hearing the Voice of God, Spirit or Truth today confronts the one who is ready and willing to accept it within and as his very own Self as a Principle to live and not a person to follow.

The Research Center has found the language of the Bible, Mary Baker Eddy in its paraphrase by Margaret Laird, the best language available for the identity of the Adorable One –God/Man/Universe. It uses the Bible, the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, Margaret Laird and Dr. John M. Dorsey in its research. Dr. Dorsey has written extensively in the fields of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, neuro-physiology, and education. With Dr. Walter Seegers, a physiologist, he is co-author of LIVING CONSCIOUSLY: THE SCIENCE OF SELF. This book is particularly informative in the light of Mrs. Eddy’s statement that “the preventative and curative arts belong emphatically to Christian Science (discernment of spiritual facts) as would be seen if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood.”

Just reading through the two Glossaries is informative and challenging.

For Divine Science Today, the works of Mrs. Margaret Laird and Dr. John M. Dorsey, M.D., studied together, offer a very challenging vision of true Selfhood, a challenge to original thinking.

Dr. Dorsey: “There comes a time in human history when a person is able to recognize his/her divinity in all things from considering a stone as something inactive, to recognizing that the atoms that constitute the stone are constantly alive. I have Mary Baker Eddy in mind as able to do this. She tried to help herself with different doctors but she could not get the kind of Self-help she needed. So she got into the whole principle of mental functioning (psychology) and it looks by all accounts that she repressed all other kinds of living such as the medical man was practicing. I would have to say I do not know whether that occurred or not. The fact that her followers do it (a follower is a disguised leader) has nothing to do with Mary Baker Eddy. What the followers or disciples of Mrs. Eddy said about her had nothing to do with her. If you can get hold of the original text of Mary Baker Eddy, you will find more modern psychoanalysis in her writings in appreciation of subjectivity than in any psychiatric textbook available today. Her recognition of subjectivity is voiced, ‘The entire being is found in Mind,’ but you will also be up against the barrier of words. However, there is so much of the Spirit in her writings, the words make little difference

“I attribute nothing to Mary Baker Eddy but my own Self-living. The subject of Self-divinity is inexhaustible. I was researching the Science of psychology of Self long before I ever heard of Mary Baker Eddy. Therefore, the observation I make of her writings is understandable to me. You may say, ‘I can’t use those words.’ Well, I couldn’t either until I worked hard at it. I really got on the track when I discovered all that I read in her writings was Self-knowledge, and what accrued from that reading was the fact that I could not avoid appreciating my greatness.

“Until I read myself in Mary Baker Eddy, I did not know what Self-consciousness was. I thought there was some other kind of consciousness that could be conscious of someone else, but that it impossible. It is my somebody else that I am living. This was a difficult step for me to take. You ask the question, “What prompted you to take that step?” I was unhappy and self-deprived. I was ambitious and I was hurting myself until the opportunity appeared to take that step. I listened to my living of my fellowman who had take the step and found that it worked.” (Dr. Dorsey found the confirmation of his life work when he “grew” one or two Christian Scientists in his world who interpreted and demonstrated that living the God-Nature Self-consciously is God “doing” the living.)

“In my church living I had heard over and over the importance of Soul, but I never heard that everything I lived was my Soul (my sense of being Spirit). I had heard that the Kingdom of God is within you, but never heard that everything is the Kingdom of God, even things that I was accustomed to thing of as the kingdom of evil. The Kingdom of God that I was not understanding, is the kingdom of evil. I heard all the therapeutic statements about Love, but the whole story was not heard until I learned that Love is Spirit with Soul for seeing, hearing, feeling. All ‘other’ feelings I may believe I have are Love that has been inhibited (covered up)

“The one thing needed in my whole educational life is the admission that all education is learning about myself. There is nothing more wonderful and exhilarating than learning that I am individual Soul (God) capable of creating my own world in my own image and likeness. I have the making of divinity within me and am in constant consultation with myself. In other words, from childhood I was adorably helping myself through efforts to make my life seem worth living.” (Laird Letter Sept./Oct. 1980, Vol. 26 no. 5)

Mrs. Laird: In the1970’s after many years in the study and practice of C. S, I came to the time Mary Baker Eddy speaks of when “interpreting the Word in the new tongue whereby the sick are healed, naturally evokes new paraphrase from the world of letters.” At this time I wrote a book entitled Christian Science Re-Explored. This book presents the mental steps taken in my experience as Truth, active in/as consciousness, demanded a change in religious concepts. As my focus change from the old-time religion of dualism, I became a Christian Scientist naturally without will or effort. (1981, 4th Quarter, No. 5)

The logical, incontrovertible fact of Infinity precludes the possibility of two existences with one subservient, submissive, and deferential to another. The Christian theology notion of a great and good God remote from His Self-Expression is obliterated in the Science. Mind is our individual and collective selfhood. This is the true humanhood that is now and here, and appears now and here. There is nothing but Truth for Truth to identify with. Get the practitioner and the patient out of the way and permit Truth to function. This is the pure Science.

A few years ago I gave a Seminar in Washington, D. C., with the text, “All consciousness is Mind, God, an infinite and not a finite consciousness.” Two incidents made the Seminar a momentous one. I had not talked very long when I realized the three women down front were listening with such understanding that my imagination took off beyond the words I had prepared. The second incident came after the morning session. A woman in the audience said, I see you have been reading Living Consciously: The Science of Self. “No, I have never heard of it.” She said it was written by two M.D.s – a Dr. Dorsey, Dean of the Psychiatry Department at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michiigan and a Dr. Seegers, Dean of the Physiology Department. That afternoon she brought me a, copy of the book co-authored by these two eminent physicians, and I was thrilled to find the coincidence of the human and divine expressed in their language. This reading resulted in sending a copy of the first edition of Christian Science Re-Explored to Dr. Dorsey. The book brought enthusiastic letters from both men, with the comment: “Your phrase ‘conscious of’ implies a dualism the rest of your book rejects. How could consciousness be conscious of something ‘other’ if consciousness is all there is?” The exchange of these books brought a close association with Dr. Dorsey, resulting in his writing the introduction to the second edition of Christian Science Re-Explored. (Laird Letter Sept./Oct. 1980)