What are the principles of Science of Mind (religious science)?
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The Science of Mind takes the best of truth wherever it finds it; it assimilates the common thread that runs through virtually all spiritual (religious) teaching (The Golden Rule); it seeks to discover the unity within all living things, and all teachings.  The Science of Mind is open to change, to growth, to expansion of its principles, that there is one Life, that Life is God, that Life is perfect, and that Life is our life, now.\n\nReligious Science (United Church of Religious Science/Religious Science International), was founded by Ernest Holmes, author of The Science of Mind; Holmes spent all his life in seeking and finding the innate oneness he knew lay within all teaching.  He envisioned and sensed, and communed, with the one Mind, the one Life, that he felt was everywhere present, in and through and as, all life.  One of his most famous declarations is: "There is a Power in the Universe greater than you are, and you can use It."\n\nType "The Science of Mind" in your SEARCH box...you'll see the official website.\n\nReligious Science International actually is a result of a split in the organization; an occurance that Holmes regretted deeply.
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Christian Science holds beliefs along those lines.\nThis is a quote from the link I provided: \n\n"I am God's reflection. Like an image in a mirror, I can only express God's qualities, such as harmony and health. \n\nGod does not cause pain; therefore, pain has no cause and no reality. "
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it depends on your own metaphysics\n\ngods and devils are on explanation into the unknown.\n\nscience is another\n\nperhaps, today's science will be consider ignorant in the future\n\nperhaps, religion is yesterday's science
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You can't. And if you try, you just get confused and irritate people. The bible in not a science book and science books are not religious texts. Science is about mass and energy, religion is about truth and love.
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I shall explain this with the utmost precision.  It is my scientific specialty (as an advanced student of linguistics, media analysis, and religion).\n\nThe ideals of religion are supposed to be laws, right?  Laws that you can't break.  Laws that everyone is supposed to follow.  But if all it takes to make you a follower is to believe, and all it takes to not be a follower is to disbelieve, then this is not the rule of law.\n\nSo the reason why religion and obedience have split is because the invention of the concepts of "accuracy" or "reality" came after the scientific revolution, many hundreds of years after the invention of the major religions we still practice today.  By that time, those who were inclined to be noble and honest (and law-abiding, I might add) had converted their energies to the search for secular truth in science, and abandoned religion, for its inability to be precise.  This allowed for much better tools, taller buildings, faster vehicles, etc.\n\nNevertheless, a large number of people who are totally scientifically inept are still very interested in religion for its emotional and social appeals, which science does not take very good care of.\n\nSo now you have a sharp contrast between those who care about the truth, and those who care about emotions and being social.  \n\nScary, isn't it?  \n\nBut there is hope.  New analysts are being born every day who are starting to understand and address this problem, just as you have boldly asked about it.  There will surely be solutions in your lifetime.  You will not have to choose between the truth and your emotions forever.\n\nGREAT QUESTION!
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both----\nreligion is most important soul wise......\n\nand science is important to keep us lving on earth...physically.
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proofs of God:\n\ncreation\n\n\nconscience
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A basic principle of many beliefs is that the way we lead our lives on earth determines what will become of us in the afterlife. For example, within the Hindu religion, if you have led a good productive life of giving, you will be rewarded with reincarnation into a higher caste. This is incentive to "strive" to learn as much as they can during their present life in order to earn passage into their next life. \n\nMy beliefs? Perhaps they are a bit simpler. Perhaps my explanation will not be so glorified. But I would like to think that after I die, my knowledge lives on........in my kids. I don't think there is a thing I know that I don't pass on to them. Why? well we are three girls that do so love to talk.....incessantly. :) So yeah.....we constantly are passing knowledge to one another. They are my incentive to strive to learn so much. As an adult, but moreso as a parent, you feel a responsibility to find the answers for your children. They don't expect us to know everything and by the time they are teenagers they actually regress into believing we know nothing. But we feel responsible to be a resource to them regardless. After my death, I fully expect that I will keep living within my kids. Oh sure......my body will be rotting away somewhere or my ashes spread out on the dashboard of a boat somewhere in the carribean. And no, I don't expect my "soul" will be floating from one daughter to the next being their guardian angel. But all that I've taught them......all that we've shared......they will be living it. They will keep me alive by sharing what they learned from me with others. They too will then strive to learn more to share with their children. \n\nI would love to think that our knowledge forms a ball of energy that feeds the world........but poppycock. We die. We're dead. The knowledge we have must live on thru those we have touched. so lesson learned here? If you want to live forever.......touch someone's life today.
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It should be a matter of science but many people do not want to look at scientific proof, they want to look at the Bible or other religious book.\n\nSeveral elements can be distinguished in morality:\n\n"Do unto others" as you would like them to do to you, as a means to getting them to treat you that way--in other words, hoping that they will reciprocate.\nTreat people who are special to you--relatives, friends, members of the same group or nation--as you would like to be treated, but not merely as a means to getting them to treat you that way.\nTreat every human being (and perhaps other animals too) as you would like to be treated, even when they are not likely to reciprocate, even if they are not likely to retaliate if you treat them badly. (This is sometimes called "universalistic" morality, in contrast with "tribal" morality.)\nDarwin's theory will explain (1) easily enough. That sort of behaviour is conducive to the survival, welfare and reproduction of those who engage in it. However, this is only the lowest level of morality; perhaps it isn't morality at all but enlightened self-interest.\n\nDarwin himself puts most emphasis on (2). A tribe whose members treat one another well will prevail in competition with other tribes, or will do well in adverse natural circumstances, and will therefore gradually predominate among the human species. The difficulty, however, is to understand why individuals disposed to give consideration to the wishes of other members of the group are not removed by natural selection. To be constrained by the interests of others, even of friends and other members of the tribe, will in some circumstances burden the individual and reduce his or her chances of surviving and propagating.
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psychoendoneuroimmunology (PENI), provides both the concepts and the mechanisms for studying and explaining mind-body relationships. The brain is the body's first line of defense against illness, and the mind is the functioning of the brain. PENI incorporates ideas, belief systems, hopes, and desires as well as biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy. As we change our thoughts, we are changing our brain and thus our biology and our body. Belief systems set a baseline for the brain upon which other variables will act and have their effects.
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At the very core of my faith yes, there are absolutes.\n\nBut faith is an anchor to secure us in a troubled world.\n\nIt should co-exist with science, and yet prevent science from becoming a religion unto itself, because science knows little, and new hypotheses and theories are invented daily.  \n\nPerhaps religion and science should be a system of checks-and-balances, to advance the civilization without falling away from God.\n\nPersonally, I am a Seeker.\n\n\nNamaste.
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I wrote an Essay to define "What is Truth?" and "Why did God create man?" In order to do that, I had to define the terms you are seeking: the ability to store knowledge, process it, and act on it. Only the first two or three pages relate directly to your question, but I think you will be interested in the entirety of it.\n\nEssay\nWe must distinguish between “knowing” and having information. “Knowing” is having direct experience of reality, while “being informed,” is having definitions, descriptions, names and narratives. Knowing vs. being informed are direct antagonists of each other. Knowing is a process that begins in the visual processing of the right side of the brain and culminates in the unification of reality and the two brain hemispheres, while becoming informed takes place in the left side of the brain and culminates in the total separation of reality and the two hemispheres of the brain.\n\nThe left side of the brain breaks up the world into finite components and time sequences, and the other, the right side of the brain, focuses on the unity of things in the world. The left hemisphere is the intellectual, syllogistic logical faculty that we measure through IQ tests, which excels in communicating finite concrete ideas, in addition to the definitions and descriptions that makes up the technological processes (chemistry, mathematics).\n\nBut not everything in the world fits neatly into definitions, descriptions and linear logic. Therein lies the problem with predominantly left-brained people, and Western civilization in general, who try to use this faculty to communicate all realities. This problem is compounded by the ingrained belief of most people that information is knowledge. And worse when we try to understand ourselves.\n\n“Know thyself,” they say. But what is real? What is the truth? \n\nWe perceive the world through our faculty of consciousness, i.e., we perceive thoughts, feelings, physical forces and objects through our consciousness. But consciousness exists apart from the things we are conscious of. We are aware of thoughts and feelings, but these were not generated “consciously.” Neither is consciousness an entity (as is usually taught).\n\nWe are also taught that “will” is a separate entity, but it is not, neither separate nor an entity. Consciousness and the will are opposite polarities (passive and active) of the same function. They are not really separate. They\nare two parts of the same thing, so I shall heretofore refer to them as “consciousness/will,” or simply “C/W.” As two parts of the same thing, they act in concert together. But the will also exists apart from the functions it sanctions, initiates, selects, controls, or suppresses.\n\nWe have verbal and graphic thoughts, but we also have a “thought generator, that throws thoughts into the sphere of consciousness, but functions outside and independent of the will. This is the mind.\n\nWe also have feelings, emotions and sensations, but also a “feelings generator” (incorrectly labeled as our soul). The generator of thoughts, emotions, and sensations is one and the same. But we have no perception of its existence and activity. Something (this thing) is working outside our sphere of consciousness that is guiding our physiological, mental, sensual, and emotional functions. This hidden, subconscious, or unconscious agent is called the spirit, the psyche, or soul.\n\nMost people describe themselves with their habitual pattern of thought and emotional responses to events. And too, most people identify themselves as the thought generator (their minds) and its contents (their beliefs).\n\nThis misunderstanding is responsible for the impossibility to “Know thyself.” I have already described a hidden aspect of our selves which we share with God. Our soul or spirit is intended to be shared by God, and carries a designed and specific function. \n\nThe consciousness/will, or C/W, are the indicator
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Hello there. Funny you mention this because, as a boy, the first truly inspiring text I read was the Tao Te Ching. I still find myself reading it, at least in part, once a week. This text is so simple yet profound it put me on a path to seek out even more esoteric knowledge. I have also studied the writings of Confucius, the Vedic texts  of India, Buddhism,  Zen, Shinto, Suffic Islam, etc. All in all, the Tao really opened my eyes to a deeper understanding of things. I can read about Quantum Mechanics and sub-atomic physics and find the spiritual parallels within the science. I wish more westerners could be exposed to this. My email is viewable in profile.
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Principles of the Wiccan Belief:\n\n1. We practice rites to attune ourselves with the natural rhythm of life forces marked by the phases of the Moon and the seasonal Quarters and Cross Quarters.\n\n2. We recognize that our intelligence gives us a unique responsibility towards our environment. We seek to live in harmony with Nature, in ecological balance offering fulfillment to life and consciousness within an evolutionary concept.\n\n3. We acknowledge a depth of power far greater than that apparent to the average person. Because it is far greater than ordinary it is sometimes called "supernatural", but we see it as lying within that which is naturally potential to all.\n\n4. We conceive of the Creative Power in the universe as manifesting through polarity-as masculine and feminine-and that this same Creative Power lies in all people, and functions through the interaction of the masculine and feminine. We value neither above the other, knowing each to be supportive of the other. We value sex as pleasure, as the symbol and embodiment of life, and as one of the sources of energies used in magickal practice and religious worship. 2\n\n5. We recognize both outer and inner, or psychological, worlds -- sometimes known as the Spiritual World, the Collective Unconscious, Inner Planes, etc. -- and we see in the interaction of these two dimensions the basis for paranormal phenomena and magickal exercises. We neglect neither dimension for the other, seeing both as necessary for our fulfillment.\n\n6. We do not recognize any authoritarian hierarchy, but do honor those who teach, respect those who share their greater knowledge and wisdom, and acknowledge those who have courageously given of themselves in leadership.\n\n7. We see religion, magick and wisdom-in-living as being united in the way one views the world and lives within it -- a world view and philosophy of life which we identify as Witchcraft, the Wiccan Way.\n\n8. Calling oneself "Witch" does not make a Witch -- but neither does heredity itself, nor the collecting of titles, degrees and initiations. A Witch seeks to control the forces within her/himself that make life possible in order to live wisely and well without harm to others and in harmony with Nature. 3\n\n9. We believe in the affirmation and fulfillment of life in a continuation of evolution and development of consciousness, that gives meaning to the Universe we know, and our personal role within it.\n\n10. Our only animosity towards Christianity, or toward any other religion or philosophy of life, is to the extent that its institutions have claimed to be "the only way," and have sought to deny freedom to others and to suppress other ways of religious practice and belief.\n\n11. As American Witches, we are not threatened by debates on the history of the Craft, the origins of various terms, the origins of various aspects of different traditions. We are concerned with our present and our future.\n\n12. We do not accept the concept of absolute evil, nor do we worship any entity known as "Satan" or "the Devil", as defined by Christian tradition. 4 We do not seek power through the suffering of others, nor do we accept that personal benefit can be derived only by denial to another.\n\n13. We believe that we should seek within Nature that which is contributory to our health and well-being.\n\nIf you want to meet other witches try putting a profile on Witchvox.com  they also have a page about different magickal traditions.  \n\nFeel free to contact me if you need more info,  I have been Wiccan for 8 years.
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Brainwashing and Mind Control in Religious Cults and Elsewhere\nhttp://www.apologeticsindex.org/b09.html\n\nthis resource for finding out oddetys of beliefs in different groups.\nyou might find some info there to help you in your quest.\nI do know the catholics have nothing on the Jehovas Witness when it comes to accusations of ministers abusing younger members...they have many sex abuse scandles and there are yahoo groups specific to many faiths that are for ex members who seek understanding from others who also see thru the stuff and nonsense.
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Have you heard of Occam's razor?\nIt says that to explain a framework, entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.\n\nFurthermore, when multiple competing theories have equal predictive powers, the principle recommends selecting those that introduce the fewest assumptions and postulate the fewest hypothetical entities.\n\nNow, let's say God created heaven and earth. We introduce another element into the framework - God, that brings with it a whole new range of questions like Who created God, when did he start existing, what before him.\n\nThis doesn't simplify the argument, but makes it more complex. So, explain it with the least set of assumptions, being everything based on scientific principles which are all explained by mathematics.\n\nHope this is a logical and respectful argument.
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Morals and Dogma is online - all 861 pages:\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/index.htm