Spiritual Malpractice

Spiritual Malpractice is a radio talk show with the title Mental Dependency is Spiritual Malpractice.

Spiritual Malpractice

Hostess Lisa Winton and Swami Jayananda will talk about what it takes to experience the benefits of Spiritual identity instead of mental/material belief. Listen as they discuss why there may be such a desperate lack of Spiritual demonstration in the world today. In this show they will explore the deeper teachings of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy to facilitate the operations of Divine Law in human experience.  Welcome to the Voice of Yoga; we are talking consciousness! Join the Kriya Yoga Spiritual Advance to get the Light in your Soul and experience Spiritual freedom.

Notes:

1. I am still being inspired by the work of Gilbert Carpenter, Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps, chapter 20. To set the table we are going to use the soundbite played in the July 22, 2024 show Pitfalls of Humanizing the Christ. It is very important to understand what Mary Baker Eddy meant when she said, “follow me only as I follow Christ” to begin to comprehend what she means by malpractice. Play Soundbite with Microsoft Voice.
2. The idea of mental dependency means still using the mortal mind. Working with the mind which can’t bring forth the Divine image but thinks it is doing wonderful work. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Key question to ask is– am I receiving Divine Revelation or am I being influenced by the mortal mind? Mary Baker Eddy could let students and followers know the origins of their guidance as Gilbert tells us in chapter 20,
   “It must be recognized, that Mrs. Eddy’s gauge of whether her thought was handled by animal magnetism, differed from that of many of her students, for they measured the extent to which error was influencing them by how they felt: depressed, sick, in pain, or discouraged. Such was not Mrs. Eddy’s standard. She gauged her freedom from mortal belief solely by the clarity of her spiritual thought, by whether she could think of God intelligently, by how real and how near He seemed to her.
   This is a most important metaphysical point for the advanced student, because the mistake of using one’s feelings as a gauge, as to whether one is handled by animal magnetism is that, in a mental state of exhilaration without an ache or a pain, man may be further from God, than when he is depressed or is suffering. When he feels badly, he is out of tune with God, to be sure, but he is struggling to get back. But, when he is in a state of mental exhilaration, he may be out of tune with God, and in tune with that with which he should not be; yet, because he feels well and happy, he is not driven to make the struggle to throw off the domination of the enemy of God.” As we say, no longer judging by good and bad but instead differentiating between the unreal and the Real, the impermanent from the Permanent. Mortal sense gets for motivation therefore it forgets and Spirit is for giving therefore it forgives not Spiritual malpractice.
3. The collective purpose of incarnation is to glorify the Divine Self, to realize the Truth, the Creator is running a perfect universe everywhere always and there is no mental/material sense of life. We do this by being conscious of the Divine Creation and revealing the operations of Divine Mind in human experience by being a faithful witness to this Truth. Consciousness is experience and Divine Truth in consciousness resolves things into thoughts and exchanges the objects of sense with the Divine Idea. What is commonly known as the miracle to mortal sense. So, in essence, unless you are healing the sick, reforming the sinner, raising the dead, preaching the gospel– you may understand you are not conscious of Divine Truth. Because this is what Jesus means when he said, bearing fruit.
4. Looking into the how to– we read more of chapter 20, “Did our Master wield a mighty divine power and law, or did the divine power or law wield the Master? This is a more significant question than might appear at first reading. In Science and Health, on page 119, we read that man “is but the humble servant of the restful Mind, though it seems otherwise to finite sense.” Surely, the divine law was the master of Jesus, and not Jesus the master of divine law. Hence, he is called Master, because he, above all men, was the humble instrument of Principle, and allowed this divine Principle to master him completely.
   This same truth pertains to our Leader, and represents the great lesson which she inculcated on her students. To illustrate how complete was her yielding to the mastery of divine Love, she said to Lida Fitzpatrick, a student in the home, on March 17, 1907, “I used to say before going before an audience, Now dear God, here I am, use me; I am absent from the body and present with Thee in consciousness. Love uses me in its own good way. I would lift myself right out of the material sense of self and audience, and let God use me.”
   This self-immolation of our Leader must be understood, before God’s use of her can be rightly perceived.”
5. This next point is about the telegram Mrs. Eddy sent to Mr. Johnson where she instructs him to “hold fire on your leader.” Gilbert Carpenter wrote, “
   “I must repeat, that in this telegram, Mrs. Eddy had no intention of accusing Mr. Johnson of malpracticing on her intentionally. She wanted him to appreciate that, although he was absent from her, he was, at the same time, sending his thought back to her, seeking help, and that this process of mental dependence upon her might cause her to go through the same experience of anxiety, as if she had been in New York personally, burdened with the same problem. Hence, if, in being absent from her in body, he should still be present with her in thought, that would not spare her one bit. Furthermore, to spare her was part of his responsibility.
   This represents a difficult point in Mrs. Eddy’s history because, if these splendid workers looked within their hearts to detect evidence of malpracticing on their Leader, they would have found only love; but if it was a love that leaned, a love that constantly depended on Mrs. Eddy’s demonstration, rather than on their own, then it constituted a malpractice that Mrs. Eddy needed to rebuke, for the sake of their spiritual growth, as well as her own freedom.”