South County residents are invited to a free lecture on Sunday
at Gilroy’s First Church of Christ, Scientist (283 Fifth St.) at
2:30pm. The title of the talk is
”
How Christ Heals Resistant Problems,
”
and free childcare will be available.
South County residents are invited to a free lecture on Sunday at Gilroy’s First Church of Christ, Scientist (283 Fifth St.) at 2:30pm. The title of the talk is “How Christ Heals Resistant Problems,” and free childcare will be available.
Words are powerful; they shape thinking and change lives. Through them people influence one another. But some people wonder if unspoken words – thoughts – have the same kind of power and influence.
Many studies have been conducted attempting to answer this question. A few years ago, the Los Angeles Times reported on an experiment dealing with chronic back pain.
When the spouse of a patient was in the patient’s room and was very concerned about the spouse’s discomfort, pain increased three fold. But when the spouse was pleasantly diverting and not focused on the loved one’s comfort, the pain did not increase. One researcher commented, “The psychological environment in which you live can influence the experience of the pain.”
In Sunday’s talk about how Christ heals resistant problems, Rob Gilbert will explore with the audience how an understanding of our spiritual nature heals and how this system of healing can be used by anyone.
Gilbert will also explain the spiritual resources available in “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” written by Mary Baker Eddy. People will learn “how to discern their mental environment and how to detect and remove influences that may be affecting their health, not just in the present, but how to be free of those mental impressions made long ago that seem to have already shaped their lives in limiting ways.”
Gilbert has been a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science for many years. He holds a Master of Theology degree from Boston University where he majored in Biblical Studies. While serving as a chaplain in the U.S. Army, he had a variety of assignments including military prisons, hospitals and a tour of duty in Vietnam. He worked with clergy from many faith traditions before retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
For nine years he worked with state and federal legislators concerning laws affecting spiritual healing. He has also co-produced educational videos for nursing schools and hospitals dealing with spirituality in nursing care.
Gilbert has spoken to a variety of medical audiences about the practice of spiritual healing, to college classes about alternative healing, to high school classes about comparative religions, and to inmates in jails and prisons.
In addition, Gilbert has worked at the world headquarters of Christian Science in Boston while “overseeing the interface between spiritual healing and medicine” and briefly edited The Christian Science Journal. He lives with his wife in Upland.
