As far as I can tell, the direct evidence of Mary Baker Eddy being a "prophet" of God and having the ability to heal is relatively weak; however, that doesn't rule out indirect evidence and there are still at least two or three reasons why skeptics might be interested in this anyway. One is that even if she's not a "prophet" from God she somehow managed to convince an enormous number of people that she is, despite the weak evidence.
There's also the possibility that there may be some indirect evidence that might make the weak claims surrounding Mary Baker evidence seem stronger, including a pattern of behavior of unusual phenomena surrounding other mystics or religious events including Mormons, the alleged "Miracle Of The Sun" in Fatima Portugal and Padre Pio's Stigmata along with a long list of other historical mystics or events that had an enormous impact on development of religion and control of governments, Crusades, Inquisitions and much more.
Skeptics are right to doubt many aspects of these religions, and their interpretations of alleged messages from God; however, a close look at many of them any indicate a major unsolved mystery of some sort, even if there's little or no chance that many of these religious followers interpret it properly.
But even if skeptics aren't willing to take this seriously or sort through an enormous volume of research on various subjects, Christian Science has provided some research opportunities into the effectiveness into medicine by comparing the health of various religions, so even if there's noting to it, from a religious point of view it did provide scientific research opportunities as indicated in the following except from a skeptic showing that lack of medical treatment hasn't improved the average life expectancy, but made it worse:
Martin Gardner "The Healing Revelations Of Mary Baker Eddy" 1993 p.217-8
There remains, sadly, a remnant of true believers who refuse to see physicians. This has taken a grim toll. The Journal of the American Medical Association (September 22, 1989) reported on a study of 5,558 Christian Scientists as compared to a control group of 29,858 non-Scientists. The death rate among the Christian Scientists from cancer was double the national average, and 6 percent of them died from causes considered preventable by doctors. The non-Scientists, on the average, lived four years longer than Christian Scientists if they were women, and two years longer if they were men. Male Christian Scientists are more likely to seek medical help than female believers. Similar studies have shown that Seventh-day Adventists, on the average, live nine years longer than non-Adventists.
Ellen White, the Adventist prophetess who in some many ways resembled Mrs. Eddy, was originally opposed to mainline medicine. Over the decades, however, her followers, while retaining that church's emphasis on vegetarianism and opposition to alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee, and spicy foods, have warmly embraced modern medicine. Some of the best hospitals in America are Adventist owned and operated. It is impossible to imagine the Christian Science church founding and operating a hospital. Even Pentecostal faith-healer Oral Roberts combined prayer with orthodox surgery and medicine in his Tulsa hospital. Additional Excerpts Scroll down more than half way after Gillian Gill "Mary Baker Eddy"
There remains, sadly, a remnant of true believers who refuse to see physicians. This has taken a grim toll. The Journal of the American Medical Association (September 22, 1989) reported on a study of 5,558 Christian Scientists as compared to a control group of 29,858 non-Scientists. The death rate among the Christian Scientists from cancer was double the national average, and 6 percent of them died from causes considered preventable by doctors. The non-Scientists, on the average, lived four years longer than Christian Scientists if they were women, and two years longer if they were men. Male Christian Scientists are more likely to seek medical help than female believers. Similar studies have shown that Seventh-day Adventists, on the average, live nine years longer than non-Adventists.
Ellen White, the Adventist prophetess who in some many ways resembled Mrs. Eddy, was originally opposed to mainline medicine. Over the decades, however, her followers, while retaining that church's emphasis on vegetarianism and opposition to alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee, and spicy foods, have warmly embraced modern medicine. Some of the best hospitals in America are Adventist owned and operated. It is impossible to imagine the Christian Science church founding and operating a hospital. Even Pentecostal faith-healer Oral Roberts combined prayer with orthodox surgery and medicine in his Tulsa hospital. Additional Excerpts Scroll down more than half way after Gillian Gill "Mary Baker Eddy"
Ellen White and Mary Baker Eddy are only a couple of dozens if not hundreds of relatively obscure religious leaders from the nineteenth century that few people pay attention to or take seriously; but, a much larger portion of the public took one or another of these alleged prophets seriously during the nineteenth century, and throughout history there have been many others that have led mass movements, most of which have almost certainly been forgotten, although there are records of them scattered throughout obscure locations.
Some of them have stronger evidence of a major unsolved mysteries of some sort that might be a result of an influence from an unknown advanced intelligence of some sort, which they usually interpret as "God," although they rarely support the beliefs surrounding the mystics, and it's difficult if not impossible to figure out what the objective of "God," assuming he exists might be. Helena Blavatsky had alleged revelations from, what she referred to as "Masters," who she represented "God," and hundreds of alleged letters from them, Padre Pio had Stigmata, Edgar Cayce had an enormous number of well documented readings that have been preserved to this day, and many more; however, the evidence is almost always vague, and even if there is a legitimate unsolved mystery surrounding many of these mystics it's difficult to tell what it means, and skeptics routinely debate the legitimacy around in circles so that it's virtually impossible to come to hard conclusions.
A close look at many of these alleged mystics seems to indicate that there are often incredibly obvious blunders from both the believers and the skeptics, indicating that there might be a third or fourth explanation that they may not have figured out yet; and perhaps, that many people who don't acknowledge these blunders aren't acting in good faith to figure it out.
However, one thing that I would have to agree with is that when skeptics claim that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence; and when it comes to extraordinary evidence to prove that an unknown advanced intelligence of some sort, whether you call it "God" or "Ancient Aliens," that evidence might exist in the form of ancient megaliths. I went into this more in 107 Wonders of the Ancient World where I explained that ancient civilizations moved millions of massive megaliths long distances including hundreds over a hundred tons, despite experiments that failed to replicate this ability with ancient technology. The vast majority of these experiments were under ten tons, which were partly successful, although it took a great effort and in a few cases they began cheating even before they tried megaliths that were larger than ten tons. they also tried a handful between ten and forty tons that involved cheating and still only moved the megaliths short distances at best, having an enormous amount of problems with broke ropes etc. they didn't even try moving anything bigger.
This should raise major doubts about the official explanation for how these megaliths were moved, yet instead of discussing it or considering other possibilities mainstream academics ignore it or allow skeptics to debate it using distraction or manipulation tactics to confuse the issue. The only ones taking this seriously are people like the Ancient aliens researchers on the History channel or other similar show; but they often make so many blunders themselves that I have doubts about whether they're trying to do a good job either.
If there has been an unknown advance intelligence of some sort that religious people have come to know as "God" then he could have and would have opened up an honest line of communication with his followers so there wouldn't be any doubt about his existence or motives, if they were as benevolent as religious people claim. Without that honest line of communication it may be reasonable to assume that either he doesn't exist, and there has to be another explanation for these unsolved mysteries, or he has an undisclosed motive.
The evidence of the ancient megaliths, along with the other unsolved mysteries that I'm aware of, isn't conclusive to prove for certain what that undisclosed motive is; but it is strong enough to justify developing some reasonable theories that might explain it based on the evidence available, which is scattered throughout many sources. therefore it would be advisable to remember where the line between theory and proven fact is, and I'm not claiming this is a proven fact.
Additional evidence to support this hypothesis, includes a long history of UFO research, although much of it isn't presented to the majority of the public in a credible manner; and, Philip Corso who claimed that he shared technology retrieved from alien crafts at Roswell and other corporations in a best selling book in 1997 "The Day After Roswell." This has been followed up by claims from numerous people either supporting it, including Paul Hellyer or denouncing it; which shows that either there's something to it, or there's a massive conspiracy to convince people there's aliens visiting us including the Television show which is presented in a manner that few would find credible. Both the skeptics and believers make so many obvious blunders that it's hard to completely rule this out, and I suspect there blunders are so big that they would have easily caught them if they weren't doing it intentionally. This leads me to consider the possibility that the disclosure might be part of the cover-up; since, they might be releasing some accurate information in such an unreliable manner that few rational people would believe it, unless they carefully check the facts.
If there is something to this then it's virtually guaranteed that this technology would impact many advanced discoveries for the past seventy years, including medical advancements which have been much more impressive than anything ever developed in history. I went into this more Researching Poor, Slaves, Prisoners, To Benefit Ruling Class With Alien Technology? and Spectacular Heart Transplant for Sophia But at What Cost where I reviewed some advances in medical technology and stories about using prisoners for research subjects, often from traditional scientific sources.
Since religion is full of an enormous number of alleged healing claims, including from Christian Scientists which have a much larger volume of them, it might be reasonable to speculate that this might be part of what they might be trying to accomplish. If it's Ancient aliens that have come her from hundreds if not thousands of light years away this might be the type or research they might be interested in. Furthermore there are hundreds of research hospitals being run by religious organizations around the world, although their activities may be mostly secular. This includes a hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy that was inspired by Padre Pio, one of the most famous mystics; and Edgar Cayce attempted to create his own hospital, allegedly as a result of one of his readings but instead inspired the Association of Research and Enlightenment, or ARE. Both these mystics and many others have a large number of alleged miracle cures attributable to them, although they've rarely been subject to rational scientific scrutiny except to debunk them, yet even with all the debunking I can't completely rule out the possibility that some of them have some truth to it.
However, as I said the evidence for something unexplained surrounding Mary Baker Eddy, is relatively weak compared to other mystics that developed a large following, including Helena Blavatsky, who also established her Theosophy Society around the same time, but it faded away in most of the world while Christian Science still has a fairly steady following. there are some claims that might indicate evidence of an unsolved mystery of some sort, especially for those that want to believe, including the long list of alleged healing in the of Fruitage chapter which was added in the last edition of "Science and Health," after the Church attracted a large following. This was allegedly the result of hundreds of letters from followers around the country sending letters claiming to have been cured miraculously by her teachings, often without even meeting her.
However since this is controlled by the church and not subject to peer review it should be viewed skeptically. My best guess is that they didn't completely fake it; however, these letter were originally published in one of her newspapers, and many of her followers may have wanted fame that might have come from getting their letters published, although they might have believed, at least to some degree, that they experienced a miracle cure, whether they did or not.
Gillian Gill wrote a somewhat impartial biography that seems to be more credible than most, but she doesn't provide compelling evidence to support the claim that they're miracle cures; however she does describe a rapid growth of the Church which is hard to believe without something unusual going on, and she also argues that Mary Baker Eddy is as credible a leader of religion as many others; as indicated in the following excerpt:
Gillian Gill "Mary Baker Eddy" 1998
By 1882 Christian Science had moved out of Lynn and penetrated the Greater Boston area, but it was still barely a blip on the cultural radar of the nation as a whole. Numbering its adherents in the dozens rather than the hundreds, the movement had defined itself as the new kind of Christianity, not just an alternative healing system, but it was still more noted for controversy, sensation, and schism than for faith, hope and charity. Its self-proclaimed leader and founder, Mary Baker Eddy, had perhaps managed to live down her reputation as the notorious divorced Dr./Mrs. Mary Glover (formerly Patterson), but she was still regarded by the press and the public as a quotable crackpot rather than a religious leader. Had Mrs. Eddy in 1882, like her husband, succumbed to physical illness or mental arsenic, she and Christian Science would have sunk into oblivion, meriting not so much as a footnote in the history of nineteenth-century American religious cults.
Yet a bare six years after Gilbert Eddy's death Christian Science had a membership numbering in the thousands and had moved through the Midwest and into California and Oregon, its startling progress signaled by the vigor with which it was being denounced by the clergy, the medical profession, and the press. By 1900 Christian Science churches had sprung up in most American cities, their size, elegance, and freedom from red ink proclaiming the promise of the new sect and the power of its leader. By 1905 Mrs. Eddy, whom respectable Lynn had once snubbed and thrown stones at, was regarded with reverence bordering on adoration by men and women all over the land and in several other countries and was widely hailed in the American press as the most powerful woman in the United States. Science and Health, of which Daniel Spofford had barely managed to sell one thousand copies by 1877, had become a best seller, guaranteeing a nice income for its author, publisher, and printer. .....
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.... Yet the fact of Mrs. Eddy's meteoric rise is indisputable, the whys and hows of it are hotly debated. This debate centers on religion, on the importance of religious faith to Mrs. Eddy personally, and on the value of her religious theory and practice.
Given that Mrs. Eddy is famous because she founded a new religious sect, it is interesting that non-Christian science commentators ... though divided on many issues, are united in insisting that God played no part in the Eddy phenomenon. These critics disagree about the existence and nature of God and what management strategies He may pursue with His human creation, but all agree that it is impossible to account for Mrs. Eddy's career in her own terms -- that is, to view her life as a special testimony to the eternal, unchanging, omnipresent power of God, as elucidated in Science and Health. The nonreligious refuse to see the hand of God in human affairs in general and in Christian Science in particular. The religious refuse specifically and indignantly to acknowledge even the possibility that God might have chosen Mary Baker Eddy as His instrument.
I confess that this religio-secular consensus on Mrs. Eddy had considerable appeal for me when I began this project. Like Edwin Dakin or Martin Gardner, I am generally loathe to invoke the hand of God whenever something surprising occurs in my biographical subject's life. I confess to sympathizing with those who ... consider Mrs. Eddy to be deluded. .... But by the time I had researched and written my account of Mrs. Eddy's first sixty years, I had become convinced that the emphasis on purely non-religious factors was self-defeating, and that Mrs. Eddy's critics were too blinded by their own prejudices to offer any useful or illuminating account of her. Not one of the non-religious explanations in itself (she was crazy, she cared only for power and money, she was a shameless huckster, she was bad) begins to account for the phenomenon of Mrs. Eddy. When applied all at once, as they commonly are, they form not the links in a strong chain of logic but a number of disparate objects perilously kept in the air by second rate jugglers.
According to our personal metaphysical systems, we may variously consider the visions and voices so consistently met with in religious history as messages from God, as delusions, or as manifestations of God through delusions, but we can agree that these "Tolle, Lege" experiences are dramatically effective motivators and instruments of change in human affairs. What matters, from both a historical and biographical viewpoint, is whether the vision changes the person's life and activates him or her to achieve piratical things which, on the scale of activity would be placed between difficult and impossible. Complete article
By 1882 Christian Science had moved out of Lynn and penetrated the Greater Boston area, but it was still barely a blip on the cultural radar of the nation as a whole. Numbering its adherents in the dozens rather than the hundreds, the movement had defined itself as the new kind of Christianity, not just an alternative healing system, but it was still more noted for controversy, sensation, and schism than for faith, hope and charity. Its self-proclaimed leader and founder, Mary Baker Eddy, had perhaps managed to live down her reputation as the notorious divorced Dr./Mrs. Mary Glover (formerly Patterson), but she was still regarded by the press and the public as a quotable crackpot rather than a religious leader. Had Mrs. Eddy in 1882, like her husband, succumbed to physical illness or mental arsenic, she and Christian Science would have sunk into oblivion, meriting not so much as a footnote in the history of nineteenth-century American religious cults.
Yet a bare six years after Gilbert Eddy's death Christian Science had a membership numbering in the thousands and had moved through the Midwest and into California and Oregon, its startling progress signaled by the vigor with which it was being denounced by the clergy, the medical profession, and the press. By 1900 Christian Science churches had sprung up in most American cities, their size, elegance, and freedom from red ink proclaiming the promise of the new sect and the power of its leader. By 1905 Mrs. Eddy, whom respectable Lynn had once snubbed and thrown stones at, was regarded with reverence bordering on adoration by men and women all over the land and in several other countries and was widely hailed in the American press as the most powerful woman in the United States. Science and Health, of which Daniel Spofford had barely managed to sell one thousand copies by 1877, had become a best seller, guaranteeing a nice income for its author, publisher, and printer. .....
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.... Yet the fact of Mrs. Eddy's meteoric rise is indisputable, the whys and hows of it are hotly debated. This debate centers on religion, on the importance of religious faith to Mrs. Eddy personally, and on the value of her religious theory and practice.
Given that Mrs. Eddy is famous because she founded a new religious sect, it is interesting that non-Christian science commentators ... though divided on many issues, are united in insisting that God played no part in the Eddy phenomenon. These critics disagree about the existence and nature of God and what management strategies He may pursue with His human creation, but all agree that it is impossible to account for Mrs. Eddy's career in her own terms -- that is, to view her life as a special testimony to the eternal, unchanging, omnipresent power of God, as elucidated in Science and Health. The nonreligious refuse to see the hand of God in human affairs in general and in Christian Science in particular. The religious refuse specifically and indignantly to acknowledge even the possibility that God might have chosen Mary Baker Eddy as His instrument.
I confess that this religio-secular consensus on Mrs. Eddy had considerable appeal for me when I began this project. Like Edwin Dakin or Martin Gardner, I am generally loathe to invoke the hand of God whenever something surprising occurs in my biographical subject's life. I confess to sympathizing with those who ... consider Mrs. Eddy to be deluded. .... But by the time I had researched and written my account of Mrs. Eddy's first sixty years, I had become convinced that the emphasis on purely non-religious factors was self-defeating, and that Mrs. Eddy's critics were too blinded by their own prejudices to offer any useful or illuminating account of her. Not one of the non-religious explanations in itself (she was crazy, she cared only for power and money, she was a shameless huckster, she was bad) begins to account for the phenomenon of Mrs. Eddy. When applied all at once, as they commonly are, they form not the links in a strong chain of logic but a number of disparate objects perilously kept in the air by second rate jugglers.
According to our personal metaphysical systems, we may variously consider the visions and voices so consistently met with in religious history as messages from God, as delusions, or as manifestations of God through delusions, but we can agree that these "Tolle, Lege" experiences are dramatically effective motivators and instruments of change in human affairs. What matters, from both a historical and biographical viewpoint, is whether the vision changes the person's life and activates him or her to achieve piratical things which, on the scale of activity would be placed between difficult and impossible. Complete article
There have, of course, been many other religions that started in a relatively short periods of time and grew very fast, this is routinely explained away by skeptics as a result of charismatic speakers; however, some of them, like Blavatsky, Joseph Smith, Padre Pio, Edgar Cayce, can't be explained away quite so easily when looking closely at the record, and many historians including Gillian Gill agree that there is something unusual going on although they often hesitate to attribute it to "God."
Many of these other alleged mystics establish a pattern of behavior that is often partially repeated over and over again including Religious trances or ecstasies. Edgar Cayce was among the most famous for these, but Padre Pio, Lucia dos Santos and her two cousins, and many others also went these trances, and in many cases there were an enormous number of witnesses, including hundreds if not thousands that saw Cayce's trances and dozens that were near Lucia dos Santos and her cousins when they went into trances on the thirteenth of each month from June to October of 1917 in Fatima Portugal, and presumably on May thirteenth of that year as well; however, there were no witnesses of that event. In the case of Lucia dos Santos and her two cousins it was accompanied by what may be the largest UFO sighting in history with somewhere between 30,000 and 70,000 witnesses with the largest estimate going up to 100,000, although that estimate is probably not the most reliable one. A search through the history of many religions will also turn up many more examples, which are hard to completely dismiss, although most so-called skeptics attempt to do just that, if they can't avoid discussing them at all.
If this is a result of some unknown intelligence, whether you call it "God," "ancient aliens," or something else then it might provide indirect evidence to trances by Mary Baker Eddy or Calvin Frye, her loyal servant who both allegedly went into trances or had seizures, which seem similar to trances. This included one of the most compelling examples of alleged healing or bringing people back from the dead as described in the following excerpt from Gillian Gill along with a similar description of the same story and alleged resurrection of a small child by Martin Gardner:
Gillian Gill "Mary Baker Eddy" 1998 p.400-1
Death might not be sufficient excuse for not doing one's duty if you were as indispensable as Calvin Frye. Several members of the household recount in their memoirs how on several different occasions Mrs. Eddy brought Frye back from the dead. George Kinter, a secretary, gives the most detailed and dramatic account of the healing he witnessed in 1905. One night Mrs. Eddy rang repeatedly for Frye, and when other members of the staff came running to his room, they found Frye stiff, cold, and apparently lifeless in his chair:
By this time Mrs. Eddy had rung for Laura Sargent, who arrived to find her already out of bed and advancing in her nightdress toward Calvin's room, regardless of the icy cold of the house. Paying no slightest attention to Kinter's and Mrs. Sargent's protests, Mrs. Eddy bent over the sitting figure and began at once to make "loud audible declarations" of truth.
For more than an hour she continued to call on Frye in one way or another to "wake up and be the man God made!" Mrs. Sargent meanwhile had wrung the maid, who brought a double blanket in which they wrapped Mrs. Eddy, while Kinter with an aching back supported her in the half-stooping position in which she bent over Frye's inert form, completely oblivious to what they were doing for her or of anything except the need to rouse him. At last he moved slightly and began to murmur. They could pick out broken phrases: "Don't call me back ... Let me go. ... I am so tired." To which Mrs. Eddy replied that she would indeed continue to call him back from the dream-state in which he had been -- that he loved life and its activities too well to fall asleep, that he was freed from the thralldom of hypnotism and alive to God, his Saviour from sin and death.
The relationship between Mary Baker Eddy and Calvin Frye is strange and mysterious, but when we seek to understand it, these scenes of healing must be given great weight. The extraordinary lapses into a deathlike state that Calvin Frye was reportedly susceptible to were clearly related to the unremitting stresses of his life with Mrs. Eddy, and we may indeed wonder why on earth he put up with it all. On the other hand, for people who lived on such a pitch of religious intensity as Frye and Mrs. Eddy did, their occasional ability to enact two of the great gospel miracles -- the raising of Lazarus and of Jairus's daughter -- created a bond whose peculiar strength is hard to overestimate.
Even the most devoted of Mrs. Eddy's staff admitted freely and emotionally that what made their service to her hardest was her anger, the fury of her rebukes, the storm of criticism and reproach and invective that might fall upon their heads at any time, the unpredictability and suddenness of her determination that Malicious Animal Magnetism was ruling at Pleasant View.
Gillian Gill "Mary Baker Eddy" 1998 p.667-9 FN 31,32
31. Both during Mrs. Eddy's lifetime and since, the Church has claimed that Mrs.Eddy's healing included several instances when she raised people from the dead. The chapter Tomlinson devotes to Mrs. Eddy's healings details some of these. The emblem that appears on many Christian Science authorized publications shows a cross embraced by a crown, the whole surrounded by the words "Heal the Sick * Raise the Dead * Cleans the Lepers * Cast Out Demons."
32. Peel summarizing a section from the unpublished reminiscences of George Kinter (Authority, pp. 245-46). Tomlinson in his published reminiscences and Ada Still in her unpublished reminiscences give accounts of Mrs. Eddy calling Frye back from the dead. I find the case of Calvin Frye's various resurections fascinating but am somewhat at a loss as to how to interpret them. There were a number of eyewitnesses to all the healings, and there is no reason to doubt their bona fides, but of course, no one present had any medical training, and their collective judgement that Frye was dead is unsubstantiable. Frye may have some form of epilepsy, or more probably, some kind of hysterical catatonia. As I have pointed out, for many years Mrs. Eddy had been refusing to see patients, and her Pleasant View household was carefully constructed to eliminate anyone with a chronic physical disorder. The healings of Calvin Frye thus take on an extraordinary significance because of the stage in Mrs. Eddy's life at which they occurred, and because they were witnessed and later attested to by so many people. In her view of Christian Scientists, they prove conclusively that, at the height of her powers, Mrs. Eddy could raise a person from the dead.
Martin Gardner "The Healing Revelations Of Mary Baker Eddy" 1993 p.76-7
.... Sue Harper Mims, in her essay "An Intimate Portrait of Our Leader's Final Class" (In We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Second Series, published by the church in 1950), recalls Mrs. Eddy telling a class that on three occasions she had raised the dead. "I could not help thinking of Jesus," Mims writes, "first raising the little maid, then the young man, then Lazarus."
Mrs. Eddy provided details of only one instance. After a child died and the doctor had left, the mother sent for Mrs. Eddy. Mrs. Eddy asked to be alone with the corpse. She took the lifeless body in her arms. According to Mims, when the mother returned, the child ran across the floor to meet her. Irving C. Tomlinson repeats this story in Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy (1945, p. 57).
There are said to be other accounts of Mrs. Eddy reviving dead bodies -- accounts given in documents owned by Mother Church but not published for obvious reasons. Adam Dickey, in Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy (1925), describes an occasion on which Mrs. Eddy seemed to bring back to life her loyal servant Calvin Frye. Frye had passed out from some sort of seizure, and appeared to be either dead or dying.
Never shall I forget the picture that was before us in that small bedroom, the light shining on the half-scared faces of the workers, and our Leader's intense determination to keep Mr. Frye with her. I had heard of similar occasions when rumors had reached the workers in the field that at different times our Leader had restored prominent students to life after experiences of this kind, but of this incident I was an eye-witness and from the very first my attention was not diverted for one second from what was going on, and I am simply relating the event exactly as it occurred. (p.40) Complete article
Death might not be sufficient excuse for not doing one's duty if you were as indispensable as Calvin Frye. Several members of the household recount in their memoirs how on several different occasions Mrs. Eddy brought Frye back from the dead. George Kinter, a secretary, gives the most detailed and dramatic account of the healing he witnessed in 1905. One night Mrs. Eddy rang repeatedly for Frye, and when other members of the staff came running to his room, they found Frye stiff, cold, and apparently lifeless in his chair:
By this time Mrs. Eddy had rung for Laura Sargent, who arrived to find her already out of bed and advancing in her nightdress toward Calvin's room, regardless of the icy cold of the house. Paying no slightest attention to Kinter's and Mrs. Sargent's protests, Mrs. Eddy bent over the sitting figure and began at once to make "loud audible declarations" of truth.
For more than an hour she continued to call on Frye in one way or another to "wake up and be the man God made!" Mrs. Sargent meanwhile had wrung the maid, who brought a double blanket in which they wrapped Mrs. Eddy, while Kinter with an aching back supported her in the half-stooping position in which she bent over Frye's inert form, completely oblivious to what they were doing for her or of anything except the need to rouse him. At last he moved slightly and began to murmur. They could pick out broken phrases: "Don't call me back ... Let me go. ... I am so tired." To which Mrs. Eddy replied that she would indeed continue to call him back from the dream-state in which he had been -- that he loved life and its activities too well to fall asleep, that he was freed from the thralldom of hypnotism and alive to God, his Saviour from sin and death.
The relationship between Mary Baker Eddy and Calvin Frye is strange and mysterious, but when we seek to understand it, these scenes of healing must be given great weight. The extraordinary lapses into a deathlike state that Calvin Frye was reportedly susceptible to were clearly related to the unremitting stresses of his life with Mrs. Eddy, and we may indeed wonder why on earth he put up with it all. On the other hand, for people who lived on such a pitch of religious intensity as Frye and Mrs. Eddy did, their occasional ability to enact two of the great gospel miracles -- the raising of Lazarus and of Jairus's daughter -- created a bond whose peculiar strength is hard to overestimate.
Even the most devoted of Mrs. Eddy's staff admitted freely and emotionally that what made their service to her hardest was her anger, the fury of her rebukes, the storm of criticism and reproach and invective that might fall upon their heads at any time, the unpredictability and suddenness of her determination that Malicious Animal Magnetism was ruling at Pleasant View.
Gillian Gill "Mary Baker Eddy" 1998 p.667-9 FN 31,32
31. Both during Mrs. Eddy's lifetime and since, the Church has claimed that Mrs.Eddy's healing included several instances when she raised people from the dead. The chapter Tomlinson devotes to Mrs. Eddy's healings details some of these. The emblem that appears on many Christian Science authorized publications shows a cross embraced by a crown, the whole surrounded by the words "Heal the Sick * Raise the Dead * Cleans the Lepers * Cast Out Demons."
32. Peel summarizing a section from the unpublished reminiscences of George Kinter (Authority, pp. 245-46). Tomlinson in his published reminiscences and Ada Still in her unpublished reminiscences give accounts of Mrs. Eddy calling Frye back from the dead. I find the case of Calvin Frye's various resurections fascinating but am somewhat at a loss as to how to interpret them. There were a number of eyewitnesses to all the healings, and there is no reason to doubt their bona fides, but of course, no one present had any medical training, and their collective judgement that Frye was dead is unsubstantiable. Frye may have some form of epilepsy, or more probably, some kind of hysterical catatonia. As I have pointed out, for many years Mrs. Eddy had been refusing to see patients, and her Pleasant View household was carefully constructed to eliminate anyone with a chronic physical disorder. The healings of Calvin Frye thus take on an extraordinary significance because of the stage in Mrs. Eddy's life at which they occurred, and because they were witnessed and later attested to by so many people. In her view of Christian Scientists, they prove conclusively that, at the height of her powers, Mrs. Eddy could raise a person from the dead.
Martin Gardner "The Healing Revelations Of Mary Baker Eddy" 1993 p.76-7
.... Sue Harper Mims, in her essay "An Intimate Portrait of Our Leader's Final Class" (In We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Second Series, published by the church in 1950), recalls Mrs. Eddy telling a class that on three occasions she had raised the dead. "I could not help thinking of Jesus," Mims writes, "first raising the little maid, then the young man, then Lazarus."
Mrs. Eddy provided details of only one instance. After a child died and the doctor had left, the mother sent for Mrs. Eddy. Mrs. Eddy asked to be alone with the corpse. She took the lifeless body in her arms. According to Mims, when the mother returned, the child ran across the floor to meet her. Irving C. Tomlinson repeats this story in Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy (1945, p. 57).
There are said to be other accounts of Mrs. Eddy reviving dead bodies -- accounts given in documents owned by Mother Church but not published for obvious reasons. Adam Dickey, in Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy (1925), describes an occasion on which Mrs. Eddy seemed to bring back to life her loyal servant Calvin Frye. Frye had passed out from some sort of seizure, and appeared to be either dead or dying.
Never shall I forget the picture that was before us in that small bedroom, the light shining on the half-scared faces of the workers, and our Leader's intense determination to keep Mr. Frye with her. I had heard of similar occasions when rumors had reached the workers in the field that at different times our Leader had restored prominent students to life after experiences of this kind, but of this incident I was an eye-witness and from the very first my attention was not diverted for one second from what was going on, and I am simply relating the event exactly as it occurred. (p.40) Complete article
The story about the child allegedly being resurrected doesn't appear to have been told to a wide audience until it was published in books thirty-five to forty years after Mary Baker Eddy died, so unless there is additional corroborating evidence, this would have little credibility; however the story about the alleged resurrection of Calvin Frye was told by numerous sources, so it appears more credible. However the only witnesses are other followers of the faith, as is often the case for alleged religious miracles, and both Gillian Gill and Martin Gardner are skeptical of these claims and may attribute it to epilepsy or some other medical condition.
There are also stories of Mary Baker Eddy going into trances to contact the spiritual world which both Gill and Gardner site. Gillian Gill has doubts about many previous biographers of Mary Baker Eddy, including their claims that she went into trances. she later denounced spiritualism, which may be somewhat common among alleged mystics; Helena Blavatsky also participated in mystical experiences, and denounced others that she considered fakes. It may be easy to dismiss them all as a bunch of garbage, but mixed in with this garbage might be small pieces of the truth or some things that can't be fully explained.
Martin Gardner describes some of Mary Baker Eddy's alleged efforts to contact the spiritual world, or to fake it citing Georgine Milmine, Sibyl Wilbur and Fleta Springer in the following excerpt:
Martin Gardner "The Healing Revelations Of Mary Baker Eddy" 1993 p.22-5
That Mrs. Eddy both believed in spiritualism and practiced mediumship there is no longer the slightest doubt. (Gillian Gill would disagree) During her seances rappings occurred, and spirits of the departed came and went. While in a trance, Mrs. Eddy's voice would change to the voice of the person behind the veil. Mrs. Richard Hazeltine, a spiritualist who lived in Lynn, signed an affidavit in which she described one of Mrs. Eddy's seances in 1866:
My husband, Richard Hazeltine, and I went to the circle at Mrs. Clark's and saw Mrs. Glover[7] pass into the trance state, and heard her communicate by word of mouth messages received from the spirit world, or what she said and we believed were messages from the spirit world. I cannot forget certain peculiar features of these sittings of Mrs. Glover's. Mrs. Glover told us, as we were gathered there, that, because of her superior spiritual quality, and because of the purity of her life, she could only be controlled in the spirit world by one of the Apostles and by Jesus Christ. When she went into the trance state and gave her communications to members of the circle, these communications were said by Mrs. Glover to come, through her as a medium, from the spirit of one of the Apostles or of Jesus Christ. (Milmine p.118) ......
Sibyl Wilbur, in her authorized hagiography of Mrs. Eddy, had the audacity to call these trances and automatic writings an "admirable though harmless hoax" designed by Mrs. Eddy to convince Mrs. Crosby that her belief in spiritualism was nonsense! Mrs. Crosby was furious when she read this. She fired off the following letter to the Waterville Morning Sentinel (Maine) (Feb. 16,1907):
At the time mentioned ... I knew nothing whatever of spiritualism, I had never seen, or sought to know anything about it; and I have no reason to believe that Mrs. Patterson had. When she commenced to go into those trances I did not in the least understand what it meant until the power that controlled her, explained the condition and purpose of it. Her messages to me were and are prima faci[e] evidence that they never came from her own consciousness.
However much she may since have acted the part charlatan ... I shall defend her from such aspersions at the time when her ambition for money and power had not been kindled; when she was a devoted and humble follower of Dr. P.P. Quimby ... aspiring only to follow in the footsteps of her teacher in humility of spirit. I am sure she was too honest then, too much of a lady to use the identity of an honored brother whose memory I think she revered, to attempt to practise a wicked fraud upon one who trusted her, for no purpose except to deceive.
My intimacy with her for years warrants this defense. That she was far from saintship no one know better than I. (Fleta Springer, "According to the Flesh: A Biography of Mary Baker Eddy 1930 pp. 125-6) Additional excerpts
That Mrs. Eddy both believed in spiritualism and practiced mediumship there is no longer the slightest doubt. (Gillian Gill would disagree) During her seances rappings occurred, and spirits of the departed came and went. While in a trance, Mrs. Eddy's voice would change to the voice of the person behind the veil. Mrs. Richard Hazeltine, a spiritualist who lived in Lynn, signed an affidavit in which she described one of Mrs. Eddy's seances in 1866:
My husband, Richard Hazeltine, and I went to the circle at Mrs. Clark's and saw Mrs. Glover[7] pass into the trance state, and heard her communicate by word of mouth messages received from the spirit world, or what she said and we believed were messages from the spirit world. I cannot forget certain peculiar features of these sittings of Mrs. Glover's. Mrs. Glover told us, as we were gathered there, that, because of her superior spiritual quality, and because of the purity of her life, she could only be controlled in the spirit world by one of the Apostles and by Jesus Christ. When she went into the trance state and gave her communications to members of the circle, these communications were said by Mrs. Glover to come, through her as a medium, from the spirit of one of the Apostles or of Jesus Christ. (Milmine p.118) ......
Sibyl Wilbur, in her authorized hagiography of Mrs. Eddy, had the audacity to call these trances and automatic writings an "admirable though harmless hoax" designed by Mrs. Eddy to convince Mrs. Crosby that her belief in spiritualism was nonsense! Mrs. Crosby was furious when she read this. She fired off the following letter to the Waterville Morning Sentinel (Maine) (Feb. 16,1907):
At the time mentioned ... I knew nothing whatever of spiritualism, I had never seen, or sought to know anything about it; and I have no reason to believe that Mrs. Patterson had. When she commenced to go into those trances I did not in the least understand what it meant until the power that controlled her, explained the condition and purpose of it. Her messages to me were and are prima faci[e] evidence that they never came from her own consciousness.
However much she may since have acted the part charlatan ... I shall defend her from such aspersions at the time when her ambition for money and power had not been kindled; when she was a devoted and humble follower of Dr. P.P. Quimby ... aspiring only to follow in the footsteps of her teacher in humility of spirit. I am sure she was too honest then, too much of a lady to use the identity of an honored brother whose memory I think she revered, to attempt to practise a wicked fraud upon one who trusted her, for no purpose except to deceive.
My intimacy with her for years warrants this defense. That she was far from saintship no one know better than I. (Fleta Springer, "According to the Flesh: A Biography of Mary Baker Eddy 1930 pp. 125-6) Additional excerpts
Several of Mary Baker Eddy's critics attributed her work to Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, her teacher or in some cases to Andrew Jackson Davis, who was a well known mystic or spiritualist from that time, although he's almost forgotten by most people now. The irony of this is that some of these critics seem to be debunking Mary Baker Eddy but attributing her alleged mystical healing or spiritual ablities to either Quimby or Davis, which is especially ironic for Martin Gardner who appears to be skeptical of all alleged mysticism. According to Gillian Gill, Georgine Milmine attributes many of her writings or beliefs to Andrew Jackson Davis; however Gill considers this highly biased, since Milmine ignores Davis's fall into disgrace and the fact that according to his hypnotist Mr. Lyon's and scribe Mr. Fishbough "he was incapable of writing a correctly spelled and punctuated sentence," which many people also claimed that Mary Baker Eddy also had terrible spelling and punctuation skills.
However, regardless of how credible he was, he appears to have made some surprisingly accurate predictions.
In his book "The Penetralia" he described numerous advances in technology that didn't take place until decades later as shown in the following excerpts published in 1856:
Andrew Jackson Davis, 1826-1910: The Penetralia; being harmonial answers to important questions. (Boston, B. Marsh, 1856)
It will “cost” far less to save fifty human beings from crime than it now costs to punish ten without improving them. P. 223
Atmospheric improvements will come within the area and dominion of man’s inventions. A harmonious relation between the planet and the sun will not accomplish it. Climatological reforms will be brought about by human investigations and systematic industry. The investigations of Humboldt and those of Lieutenant Maury, are helps, whereby many shipmasters have been enabled to navigate the sea with unusual safety. Certain currents of wind may be anticipated. These researches show that the atmosphere is regulated by certain fixed laws, which, when understood, come within man’s immediate use. Meriam, on the heights of Brooklyn, is calculating the circles of cold and heat. He is showing that the changes of the atmosphere may be calculated, as eclipses are; and mapped out, as men put down the weeks and months of the year. The different aerial phenomena are to be classified under fixed Laws. Through the instrumentality of machinery, man will control aerial currents, and produce the state of climate and temperature which will augment the soil’s productiveness. By arrangements of electricity and magnetism, he may prevent extreme heat or cold; also, drouths and disastrous storms. Man’s power is limited by nothing save infinity and omnipotence. If man can comprehend the laws of the atmosphere, his knowledge foreshadows the ability to control the phenomena. Laws which govern the propagation and existence of human beings, once enveloped in mystery, are now within man’s control. Having ascertained these laws, the children of men will soon improve before as well after birth, and will feel themselves one day but “little lower than the angels.”
Will the principle of Use bring agricultural improvements?
Yes; progress in agriculture will come upon the world. But too many agriculturists, like men in the churches, have worn the thinking-caps of their forefathers. However, as such minds increase in spiritual knowledge, there will be agricultural improvements. Farmers will be able to double, treble, and quadruple the crops of their fields; and, by machinery, to store up every season two or three times the quantity they now do, and with much less trouble to either head or hand. Just in proportion as population increases the demand for food, so will there be an increase of machinery to do the labor of the hands : giving the head leisure to make more progress in spiritual and higher departments. ........ At the present rate of increase, without the discount of war and epidemics, there will be nearly a hundred millions of people in the United States fifty years hence, and possibly eleven millions of slaves! (This prediction was very close, there were ninety six million people in the United States in 1906, a steady increase at the pace that Davis might have known if he checked statistics would have meant an estimated sixty million people, but the growth increased.) ......
What effect will such farm-work exert upon the merchant?
Machinery will increase the value of farms so much, and the use of magnetism in combination with electricity will so beau- tify and multiply the crops, that farming will be considered more popular and profitable than storekeeping. Men of youth and means will associate and form vast farming and industrial monopolies. And were it not for the distribution of property, the result of our limitation laws, we should have the old feudal system temporarily established in the United States. Little, selfish farmers, unable to compete, would be swallowed by the great ones; farming associations would multiply, and become popular; but the results would be every way beneficial to mechanics and the skilful professions. Such improvements will exert an effect upon the inhabitants of cities; to draw them out into the far-off countries. People now rushing from the country* to the city will then be drawn back into farming districts ; and cities, as now existing, shall be changed. There will be more Brotherhood — better opportunities for enjoyment-such as now exist upon Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. ....... Machines will furnish you with clothing; will labor, and lay at your feet all you need; will prepare your food; and, sometimes, they may do your eating. p.223-6
Yes; there is to be great improvement in motive forces; also a method for traveling upon dry land and through the air. There are persons mentally capable of receiving inspiration upon this subject from the Spiritual world. Such inspiration will bring a new motive force ; by which talented minds may increase the speed of travel and safety thereof. Cars may be constructed so that no accident, not even a collision, would be dangerous to either passengers or baggage. We shall have new and more commodious methods of constructing railroad-cars, as soon as the mass of working-travellers can afford to pay for luxuries. The most useful will become the most agreeable. .......
Yes; in the almanac language, "Look out about these days" for carriages and travelling saloons on country roads - without horses, without steam, without any visible motive power - moving with greater speed and far more safety than at present. Carriages will be moved by a strange and beautiful and simple admixture of aqueous and atmospheric gases-so easily condensed, so simply ignited, and so imparted by a machine somewhat resembling fire engines as to be entirely concealed and manageable between the forward wheels. These vehicles will prevent many embarrassments now experienced by persons living in thinly-populated territories. The first requisite for these land-locomotives will be good roads, upon which, with your engine, without your horses, you may travel with great rapidity. These carriages seem to be of uncomplicated construction. We will one day ventilate, and light, and spiritualize our dwelling-houses, by a very simple admixture of water and atmospheric gases-from which combination will also spring the new motive-power under present anticipation.
What progress will men make in atmospheric navigation?
I find only one thing necessary in order to have aerial navigation, viz.: the application of this contemplated superior motive-power, which is even now in the process of discovery and elimination. Deeply impressed am I that the necessary mechanism – to transcend the adverse currents of air, so that we may sail as easily, and safely, and pleasantly, as birds – is dependent upon a new motive-power. This power will come. It will not only move the locomotive on the rail, and the carriage on the country-road, but the aerial cars also, which will move through the sky from country to country; and their beautiful influence will produce a universal brotherhood of acquaintance. Nations await only this: to be closely and intimately fraternized. P. 227-8
Do you perceive any plan by which to expedite the art of writing?
Yes; Im am almost moved to invent an anutomatic psychographer; that is, an artificial soul-writer. It may be constructed something like a piano; one brace or scale of keys to represent the elementary sounds; another and lower tier, to represent a combination; and still another, for a rapid recombination; so that a person, instead of playing a piece of music, may touch off a sermon or a poem! Every note, while discoursing sweet sounds, may catch the type and put it in its place; so that, instead of going through the inevitable mechanical drudgery of the superior short and beautiful phonetic method, ideas may be printed upon the surface of paper prepared for publication. There will then be but little time necessary, and little physical labor required, for a man to tell all lie knows, and more too! Men of utilitarian habits will soon have confidence in this Psychographer; it is not more surprising than daguerrotyping, or photographing, or ambrotyping. These are within the domain of utilitarian discoveries which will awaken the Psychographer. p.236 Complete book
It will “cost” far less to save fifty human beings from crime than it now costs to punish ten without improving them. P. 223
Atmospheric improvements will come within the area and dominion of man’s inventions. A harmonious relation between the planet and the sun will not accomplish it. Climatological reforms will be brought about by human investigations and systematic industry. The investigations of Humboldt and those of Lieutenant Maury, are helps, whereby many shipmasters have been enabled to navigate the sea with unusual safety. Certain currents of wind may be anticipated. These researches show that the atmosphere is regulated by certain fixed laws, which, when understood, come within man’s immediate use. Meriam, on the heights of Brooklyn, is calculating the circles of cold and heat. He is showing that the changes of the atmosphere may be calculated, as eclipses are; and mapped out, as men put down the weeks and months of the year. The different aerial phenomena are to be classified under fixed Laws. Through the instrumentality of machinery, man will control aerial currents, and produce the state of climate and temperature which will augment the soil’s productiveness. By arrangements of electricity and magnetism, he may prevent extreme heat or cold; also, drouths and disastrous storms. Man’s power is limited by nothing save infinity and omnipotence. If man can comprehend the laws of the atmosphere, his knowledge foreshadows the ability to control the phenomena. Laws which govern the propagation and existence of human beings, once enveloped in mystery, are now within man’s control. Having ascertained these laws, the children of men will soon improve before as well after birth, and will feel themselves one day but “little lower than the angels.”
Will the principle of Use bring agricultural improvements?
Yes; progress in agriculture will come upon the world. But too many agriculturists, like men in the churches, have worn the thinking-caps of their forefathers. However, as such minds increase in spiritual knowledge, there will be agricultural improvements. Farmers will be able to double, treble, and quadruple the crops of their fields; and, by machinery, to store up every season two or three times the quantity they now do, and with much less trouble to either head or hand. Just in proportion as population increases the demand for food, so will there be an increase of machinery to do the labor of the hands : giving the head leisure to make more progress in spiritual and higher departments. ........ At the present rate of increase, without the discount of war and epidemics, there will be nearly a hundred millions of people in the United States fifty years hence, and possibly eleven millions of slaves! (This prediction was very close, there were ninety six million people in the United States in 1906, a steady increase at the pace that Davis might have known if he checked statistics would have meant an estimated sixty million people, but the growth increased.) ......
What effect will such farm-work exert upon the merchant?
Machinery will increase the value of farms so much, and the use of magnetism in combination with electricity will so beau- tify and multiply the crops, that farming will be considered more popular and profitable than storekeeping. Men of youth and means will associate and form vast farming and industrial monopolies. And were it not for the distribution of property, the result of our limitation laws, we should have the old feudal system temporarily established in the United States. Little, selfish farmers, unable to compete, would be swallowed by the great ones; farming associations would multiply, and become popular; but the results would be every way beneficial to mechanics and the skilful professions. Such improvements will exert an effect upon the inhabitants of cities; to draw them out into the far-off countries. People now rushing from the country* to the city will then be drawn back into farming districts ; and cities, as now existing, shall be changed. There will be more Brotherhood — better opportunities for enjoyment-such as now exist upon Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. ....... Machines will furnish you with clothing; will labor, and lay at your feet all you need; will prepare your food; and, sometimes, they may do your eating. p.223-6
Yes; there is to be great improvement in motive forces; also a method for traveling upon dry land and through the air. There are persons mentally capable of receiving inspiration upon this subject from the Spiritual world. Such inspiration will bring a new motive force ; by which talented minds may increase the speed of travel and safety thereof. Cars may be constructed so that no accident, not even a collision, would be dangerous to either passengers or baggage. We shall have new and more commodious methods of constructing railroad-cars, as soon as the mass of working-travellers can afford to pay for luxuries. The most useful will become the most agreeable. .......
Yes; in the almanac language, "Look out about these days" for carriages and travelling saloons on country roads - without horses, without steam, without any visible motive power - moving with greater speed and far more safety than at present. Carriages will be moved by a strange and beautiful and simple admixture of aqueous and atmospheric gases-so easily condensed, so simply ignited, and so imparted by a machine somewhat resembling fire engines as to be entirely concealed and manageable between the forward wheels. These vehicles will prevent many embarrassments now experienced by persons living in thinly-populated territories. The first requisite for these land-locomotives will be good roads, upon which, with your engine, without your horses, you may travel with great rapidity. These carriages seem to be of uncomplicated construction. We will one day ventilate, and light, and spiritualize our dwelling-houses, by a very simple admixture of water and atmospheric gases-from which combination will also spring the new motive-power under present anticipation.
What progress will men make in atmospheric navigation?
I find only one thing necessary in order to have aerial navigation, viz.: the application of this contemplated superior motive-power, which is even now in the process of discovery and elimination. Deeply impressed am I that the necessary mechanism – to transcend the adverse currents of air, so that we may sail as easily, and safely, and pleasantly, as birds – is dependent upon a new motive-power. This power will come. It will not only move the locomotive on the rail, and the carriage on the country-road, but the aerial cars also, which will move through the sky from country to country; and their beautiful influence will produce a universal brotherhood of acquaintance. Nations await only this: to be closely and intimately fraternized. P. 227-8
Do you perceive any plan by which to expedite the art of writing?
Yes; Im am almost moved to invent an anutomatic psychographer; that is, an artificial soul-writer. It may be constructed something like a piano; one brace or scale of keys to represent the elementary sounds; another and lower tier, to represent a combination; and still another, for a rapid recombination; so that a person, instead of playing a piece of music, may touch off a sermon or a poem! Every note, while discoursing sweet sounds, may catch the type and put it in its place; so that, instead of going through the inevitable mechanical drudgery of the superior short and beautiful phonetic method, ideas may be printed upon the surface of paper prepared for publication. There will then be but little time necessary, and little physical labor required, for a man to tell all lie knows, and more too! Men of utilitarian habits will soon have confidence in this Psychographer; it is not more surprising than daguerrotyping, or photographing, or ambrotyping. These are within the domain of utilitarian discoveries which will awaken the Psychographer. p.236 Complete book
If this person, who allegedly couldn't spell or write properly managed to come up with this and much more that is a major unsolved mystery, itself, however if he was influence by an unknown advanced intelligence of some sort, perhaps aliens then that might explain it, and it could explain how he came so close to describing so many future inventions. Additional writings attributed to him also describe reforms in agriculture or other economic fields that hadn't taken place in his time either, including the prediction of farms consolidating onto the control of large corporations, although he didn't use those words, yet he was almost completely forgotten by most historians, and the vast majority of the public almost certainly never heard of him.
Some of these predictions seem to have come at least partially true, although like many other alleged prophecies they're phrased in a way that skeptics can find and excuse to doubt while believers, can find justification to believe, sorting through the details requires a closer look with a reasonably open mind.
His claim that "If man can comprehend the laws of the atmosphere, his knowledge foreshadows the ability to control the phenomena," also sounds like geoengineering of the weather, which modern scientists are now considering a real possibility and if there is some truth to the claim that Climate Change is caused by man that would be a form of unintentional geoengineering. Additional evidence for this theory goes back at least to the sixties when U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Science Advisory Committee issued report on global warming which was long before most of us took Climate Change seriously, yet scientists were already studying it in a low profile manner. This is also one of the theories that I came up with in previous articles listed below, including Hurricane Apocalypse Coming With or Without Fringe Conspiracy Theory, which goes into more detail.
No doubt this seems far-fetched to most people; however a close look at related research raises major doubts about the official explanation of many things, which opens up other possibilities that that may be worth serious consideration.
The following are some related articles or books:
Gillian Gill "Mary Baker Eddy"
American Heritage: Mary Baker Eddy
History of the Edgar Cayce Hospital and the Association for Research and Enlightenment
The hospital on a hill: Padre Pio's earthly work
Religious ecstasy
Why is religious trance found in almost all religions?
Andrew Jackson Davis "The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind" 1847
Andrew Jackson Davis, 1826-1910: The penetralia; being harmonial answers to important questions. (Boston, B. Marsh, 1856) HTML
Books by Andrew Jackson Davis
The following are some of my past articles on UFOs:
Hurricane Apocalypse Coming With or Without Fringe Conspiracy Theory
Why so few arrests for Crop Circles makers? Is there microwave evidence?
UFO Hypothesis Far More Credible Than Catholic Claim of A "Miracle Of The Sun"
Researching Poor, Slaves, Prisoners, To Benefit Ruling Class With Alien Technology?
Spectacular Heart Transplant for Sophia But at What Cost
Who's Controlling Oligarchies Dividing The Market? Aliens?
Do Aliens own Stock in Monsanto, DuPont, or Microsoft? This includes a list of most of my previous articles on this subject.
A Brief History of the Mormon Church
Did Padre Pio Or Other Alleged Mystics Have "Revelations" from "God?"
Helena Blavatsky Ancient Aliens Connection?
Scientology connection to the CIA? Ancient Aliens? Other mystics including Helena Blavatsky?
