Back To The Garden

In the episode, we continue our review of Unity's Five Basic Principles with a look at principle #4 which states: prayer is creative thinking that heightens the connection with God-Mind and therefore brings forth wisdom, healing, prosperity and everything good. In her book titled The Five Principles, author Rev. Ellen Devenport, begins her chapter on the fourth principle: "Prayer would seem to be the simplest and most familiar of spiritual concepts. Even little children understand it. Prayer has been practiced by human beings throughout the ages, in many different forms, addressed to gods of many different names. And yet this is where confusion usually sets in regarding the Five Principles." But what could be confusing about prayer? You talk to God, you ask for this or that, sometimes the petition is granted, sometimes it is not. What's confusing about that? Isn't that the way it works? No, that isn't the way it works! That is a view of God that is external, and anthropomorphic.