Laura and Rob Craig make their home in Woodland, Colorado. Rob, a teacher of metaphysical science, no longer refers to himself as a "minister". Although he was active as an ordained Presbyterian minister for 20 years and was later ordained as a Divine Science minister in 1996, he considers the words "minister" and "ordained" as obsolete symbols for the God-idea. Rob's interest in pursuing his research in modern scientific metaphysics tends to lead him out of organizations that "have killed the idea that created them." Having previously led a Joel S. Goldsmith study group, as well as practicing Jungian psycotherapy, he worked with Fr. Thomas Keating and Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. as a member of the national faculty teaching Centering Prayer, an updated form of Christian meditation. He was responsible for training teachers to lead introductory workshops and retreats on meditation and traveled around the country in his capacity as a teacher.
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"I will show you a better way." 1 Corintians 13
Searching for light and understanding beyond traditional Western mysticism and its basis in the philosophical dualism of Plato, he attended The Colorado Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Boulder, Colorado in order to broaden his views. Today the school is incorporated in The Naropa University of Buddhist Studies.
Letting intuitive insight lead, he found himself studying the works of Margaret Laird, a Christian Science teacher and practitioner. Through her writings he was introduced to the circle in which his core thinking now travels.
Works by Hubert Benoit, M.D. (Zen), J.J. Vander Leeuw (Spiritualism), Lillian DeWaters (New Thought) and John M. Dorsey, M.D. (Freudian psychology), Rob considers landmark teachings in moving away from the old dualism still presented and represented by the world religions to “unite with the one Mind" and "there gather the facts of being”. He believes that today, more than meditation, open reading and the open discussion of ideas is the modern practical way out of the personal concept into one’s Self. It is Open Mind, Open Heart Today.
Joel S. Goldsmith said that his spiritual journey took him out of metaphysics into mysticism and Lillian DeWaters says much the same. Little did Joel and Lillian know that they would lead Rob the opposite way, in leading him to return again and again to Margaret Laird. Rob’s journey has been out of mysticism and into Divine Science Today.
"Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony."
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, 424:5
"To be immortal, we must forsake the mortal sense of things, turn from the lie of false belief to Truth, and gather the facts of being from the divine Mind."
-Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, 369:30
"Consciousness of the meaning of being a life is breath to the mind." John M. Dorsey
“So conditioned for us is the word “GOD” by association with a Being out there that Tillich warns us that to make the necessary transposition, ‘you must forget everything traditional that you have learned about God, perhaps even the word itself.”
Bishop James A. T. Robinson
, HONEST TO GOD
"All that is happening to me is happening in Mind as me. “I consciously am” is the Science of Self – the Self of all Selfhood... “I consciously am” is most important in the practice of Christian Science. It means that God and Man are two words for one Mind, one Life, one Truth, one Love,"
