IS DISEASE REAL, OR APPARENT?

In dealing with the reality or unreality of disease, the first thing to be established in the mind is the sense in which we are to use the word “reality.”

If we can accept the definition of the word “real” in its philosophic sense as that which is insusceptible of discord and decay, dissolution or disintegration, we will have a sense of reality which admits only that which is perfect and permanent. According to Plato’s idea, the real is the ideal, of which the materialist’s real is a more or less imperfect representation to the sense. The real, as we know it through the senses, is in a constant state of change, but, as science reveals it, it is “the same, yesterday, today, and forever.”

As the word “real” is susceptible of so many meanings, so is the word “apparent.”

ONE for all and all for ONE

There is only ONE
God is ALL in ALL, ONE.
You are stuck in the middle of a kaleidoscope projecting images as it goes round and round and round.
“Be still and know that I am God” – Ps46:10

You seek answers through counseling, books, seminars, church, prayer, psychology or any other self-help-process.
You wait in anticipation of the “other side” where life is wondrous.

You are in Heaven (GOD) NOW.

Christ IS the Light that saves you from a world of thought (the dream of unreality, cinematographic pictures, the script) that is your True Identity.

“IAM THE WAY”
“I AM” the way.

"There is nothing but God."
~ Frederick L. Rawson

The absolute truth is, that there is but One Being in the universe, and that one is God; that man is nothing of himself, separate from God; that it is a delusion, a false belief, that there is any separation that is real.~ Annie Rix Militz

There is only God; all seeming else is a lie.~ H. Emilie Cady

You are because I am.
~ Brother Mandus

"We live in God and know it not."
~ Charles Brodie Patterson

“Since God is health and God is omnipresent, what is there to be healed?” There is only one condition to be healed--our misconceptions.
~NONA BROOKS

My happiness is within me.
~ Fannie Brooks James

All care, anxiety and fear vanished, and I felt that I was cradled in Divine Love
~Henry Thomas Hamblin

God isn't up there. He exists inside each one of us, and it's up to us to seek the divine within.
~ Eric Butterworth

"Human life is a dream and a journey in a strange land"
~Marcus Aurelius

"Matter, motion, and force, are not the reality, but the symbols of reality"
~ Herbert Spencer

The Twilight Club

The Twilight Club was a venerable tradition of ethical activism originally founded in the late 1870’s as a “learned circle” of visionary thinkers from diverse disciplines. Inspired by the British philosopher Herbert Spencer, the founding members included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, Edwin Markham, and several others. Their stated purpose was that of ethical and cultural renewal of their world.

The single most famous European intellectual in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.

Herbert Spencer (1820 –1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.
Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. He was "an enthusiastic exponent of evolution" and even "wrote about evolution before Darwin did."
During his lifetime he achieved tremendous authority, mainly in English-speaking academia.

"The only other English philosopher to have achieved anything like such widespread popularity was Bertrand Russell, and that was in the 20th century."

Spencer was

"the single most famous European intellectual in the closing decades of the nineteenth century"

but his influence declined sharply after 1900.
Spencer is best known for coining the concept "survival of the fittest", which he did in Principles of Biology (1864), after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
While most philosophers fail to achieve much of a following outside the academy of their professional peers, by the 1870s and 1880s Spencer had achieved an unparalleled popularity, as the sheer volume of his sales indicate. He was probably the first, and possibly the only, philosopher in history to sell over a million copies of his works during his own lifetime. In the United States, where pirated editions were still commonplace, his authorized publisher, Appleton, sold 368,755 copies between 1860 and 1903. This figure did not differ much from his sales in his native Britain, and once editions in the rest of the world are added in the figure of a million copies seems like a conservative estimate. As William James remarked, Spencer

"enlarged the imagination, and set free the speculative mind of countless doctors, engineers, and lawyers, of many physicists and chemists, and of thoughtful laymen generally."

Poet's Code of Ethics

In the later decades of the 19th Century, the British philosopher, Herbert Spencer, took an honest look at world trends and predicted that civilization was on a downward trend, for culture, beauty and ethical practices were neglected in society. He believed that politicians were not likely or able to change the trends. If there was to be a change, how would it come about? He believed the poets, visionary thinkers and artists of the world would have the solution. In Britain he inspired men such as Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Darwin to consider the problem. In America, his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Howard Bridge, Richard Watson Gilder, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walt Whitman, Edwin Markham, Henry Holt, John Burroughs, Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie took up the question. These men, searching for a way in which to change the negative direction of society to positive action, formed a gathering, calling themselves the Twilight Club, because they met at twilight—not simply the twilight of the day, but, as they saw the situation, they were meeting at the evening twilight of the 19th Century and the morning twilight of the 20th Century—at the twilight of civilization, unless the downward trend could be stopped.

Mentors.

After the war years, Thomas J. Watson, head of International Business Machines, became inspired by the ideals of the ethical movement organized by Herbert Spencer, wanting the business world to practice these principles.
On visiting NCR, he met John J. Range and asked him for a job. Determined to join the company, he repeatedly called on Range until, after a number of abortive attempts, he finally was hired in November, 1896, as sales apprentice to Range.
Watson attributes his success to the close guidance of his branch manager at NCR, John J. Range. It was Range who taught Watson about his business and management style. Watson thrived under Range's watchful eye and even earned a promotion.
Led by John Patterson, NCR was then one of the leading selling organizations, and John J. Range, its Buffalo branch manager, became almost a father figure for Watson and was a model for his sales and management style. Certainly in later years, in a 1952 interview, he claimed he learned more from Range than anyone else. But at first, he was a poor salesman, until Range took him personally in hand. Then he became the most successful salesman in the East, earning US$100 per week.