by David Evans
The Christian Science Monitor reports (April 7, 2008) that 400 drivers in Denver are having gizmos called accelerometers installed in their cars. Why? It’s a test program to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The accelerometers will track driving habits and point out ones that waste gas and lead to greater pollution. The hope is that drivers will change any bad habits when those habits and their effects are exposed.
Great idea. But here’s a greater one: having a Godometer.
A Godometer?
Yep. An accelerometer flags bad driving habits, but a Godometer flags any thoughts we have that aren’t Godlike—thoughts that could have some pretty nasty effects if we indulge them. It checks everything that flows through our consciousness and lets us know if it’s Godlike or not.
It’s an important distinction. As Mary Baker Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 462), “Are thoughts divine or human? That is the important question.” And it’s what the Godometer lets us know. How does it do it? By determining the origin of each thought. Mrs. Eddy puts it this way: “How are veritable ideas to be distinguished from illusions? By learning the origin of each” (Science and Health, p. 88). She then continues, “Ideas are emanations from the divine Mind. Thoughts, proceeding from the brain or from matter, are offshoots of mortal mind; they are mortal material beliefs. Ideas are spiritual, harmonious, and eternal. Beliefs proceed from the so-called material senses . . . .”
