Re: Our Church, Our Movies, and Your Cure

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yes!

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> You should read this entire e-mail very carefully, because YOU ARE AT RISK.

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> As one of our new colleagues put it when he said he was doing well -- " I

> still have some apprehension about this. " I told him that's a very sane

> thing to feel. You're supposed to feel apprehensive, and fear isn't a bad

> thing, as long as you don't let it control your actions. You may be

> fighting a medically incurable and possibly lethal disease. It's

> appropriate to be apprehensive, scared. Those kinds of feelings keep you

> on your toes. We even have even a lesson called " Pay Attention to That Bad

> Feeling. "

>

> If you're making a movie with us, or in any other way participating in the

> services of our church, you may be using this religion as a substitute for

> medical treatment. Notice -- this is not a disclaimer. Churches don't

> need disclaimers. The Church of Christ, Scientist, forbids its members to

> use medical treatment -- overtly forbids them to accept the doctor's

> medication. We're not that rigid. If you want, go ahead and use medical

> treatment while you're doing this. Will it interfere? Maybe. But our

> entire religious practice is based on you personally interacting with God

> by asking God questions and seeing -- testing -- whether or not you get a

> signal. If God says it won't interfere, we're all for it.

>

> One of the main points here is that for many people who join this church,

> medical treatment is either no longer an option, or never was. And anyway,

> we think everybody should be doing this spiritual practice whether they

> have any medically diagnosed diseases or not, because by relating to God in

> this way you're becoming a new and better human being. Most people pray by

> talking at God. We pray by God giving us signals. Our God connection is

> simply a lot stronger than most people's.

>

> One other thing about our church service -- it never stops. You are doing

> our church service every time you test something -- every time you do the

> kind of prayer that we showed you.

>

> Now a big part of your participation is public. We have learned, through

> long and bitter experience, that people who participate publicly, people

> who show what they're doing -- their spiritual practice -- to everyone

> they know, and everyone they can reach who they don't know, tend to be far

> more certain of their results -- their positive results, their negative

> medical tests. We do hope you will get yourself tested by a doctor, even

> if you don't use doctor treatments, because we all like hearing those

> negative medical results. People who are expressive -- publicly expressive

> -- of their participation in this religious practice simply tend to go

> farther, faster. There are a million reasons why this is, and when you do

> this publicly you will immediately begin to see what they are.

>

> One of the biggest reasons is that you sometimes get attacked for doing

> this. And that enables you to stand up for it and become stronger. We

> expect this of you -- we don't want to work with anybody, put our time into

> anybody, who won't stand up and become stronger. You're going to get

> attacked anyway, whether you're public or not. But when you're public and

> you get attacked, you have the support of the rest of us. If you're not

> public, you don't. We've tried to support people who weren't public, but

> because they weren't public it was just very hard to see them, so we

> couldn't effectively support them.

> Plus, while we were trying to help them, we weren't helping anybody else.

>

> Whereas, when you stay completely public, and we help you publicly, WE'RE

> SIMULTANEOUSLY HELPING EVERYBODY ELSE WHO'S WATCHING. I'm sure you can see

> that that is a far better use of our energy, which is why we only choose to

> use our energies that way.

>

> A word about failure. Failure is inevitable. And it comes after success,

> which is very demoralizing. When you fail, you need the help of a great

> many other people who have also failed, and then succeeded, and then gone

> further. We have had many people tell us they'd be happy to be public

> about curing whatever it is they've got after their negative medical

> tests. We can't won't work with people like that. You need to be public

> at the beginning. That's when you need people to see you -- because then

> they can care, and come up with solutions for you.

>

> Years ago I did seminars, and I used to tell the participants, " If people

> can't see you, they can't love you, because they have to see you to love

> you. " If your loved ones stop loving you if they see you or learn

> something about you . . . well, they never loved you in the first place --

> you just weren't facing that. And not facing things makes you sick, and

> makes you stay sick.

>

> Several Europeans have told us that no one in Europe is allowed to use the

> word " cure " with regard to the activities that we are doing -- that it's

> illegal there. They're just unfamiliar with the laws of their countries --

> and scared. It is legal for God to cure your herpes or your cancer in

> France or England, or in China for that matter, just as it is in the good

> old U.S.A. -- though God knows what they'll do to you in China. But if

> they do throw you in a dungeon, you'll still be able to get signals

> there. God is everywhere. And that's what really matters.

>

> When we talk about standing up, we really mean standing up. We want you to

> be great, and we want to work with great people.

>

> Now, I probably sent you this detailed explanation because you've joined

> the CureTeam. And maybe we're going to make a movie together, a movie

> where you show how you cure your disease, and do it on camera. And if we

> do make a movie together, I'm going to expect you to send that movie to all

> your Facebook friends and post it on Twitter and any and every other place

> where you have access to people. This is you standing up for

> yourself. That's also what CureTeam membership is about. And we also

> expect you to share the movies that other people make with your Facebook

> friends, and watch them, or some of them, and say things about them. We

> also expect you to know what the other CureTeam members are doing, and to

> talk to them on Facebook in front of everybody -- NOT PRIVATE MESSAGES. We

> want to see you helping each other in a way that everybody can see you

> doing, right out there in the sun.

>

> OK?

>

> If it is okay -- and we hope you're excited about it, too, as excited about

> it as we are -- then reply with YES to this e-mail. That means you know

> that this is a church and that you're part of the congregation, as well as

> one of the ministers, possibly -- you'll have to test about that -- and

> that when you're called on to stand up, you will.

>

> Your friend,

> Bayard

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