RELIGION Religion tries to replace hate and jealousy and resentment with love; worry and fear with trust and courage; and, very importantly, guilt with the liberating experience of forgiveness. Is religion, then, irrelevant both to immunity from, and the cure of, neurotic illness? (DIS-EASE) Your Harley Street correspondent makes the mistake, remarkable in a psychologist of confusing Religion with Spirit. A man may profess a religion and yet have an outlook severely materialistic; or as is usually the case with the obsessional neurotic, his conception of God may still be the image of a super-policeman which he formed when a child. The characteristics of all neuroses is emotional immaturity and those afflicted feel, and sometimes act, like frightened children. However one looks at it, the root of all neuroses is fear. A fear of adult life, a fear of responsibility for oneself, a fear of being unlike others; in short a fear of life itself because the individual is not integrated and is conscious of a flaw in his personality. In order to cure it is not enough to analyse; one must re-educate and assist development. In doing this one relies on the power of Love, and Love is Spirit. Tasted not Tested! But has to be tested first: Faith through doubt The Rev. Leslie D. Weatherhead 25.10.52 The Sunday Times Dr. R. MacDonald Ladell, Scarborough IBID Dr. R. MacDonald Ladell, Scarborough IBID G.K. Chesterton D.P.H.