This book introduces New Thought, a more-than-a-century-old movement dedicated to the healing of body, pocketbook, and interpersonal relationships through persistent positive thinking and the acceptance of one’s indwelling divinity.New Thought applies religious beliefs to solve the problems of daily living. Based largely on teachings from the Bible, it also incorporates Eastern wisdom and psychological principles. It is practical, spiritual, and distinctly American. The authors provide historical background, philosophical perspective, and new understanding.New Thought fulfills the contemporary hunger for a spirituality that promotes both the practice of the presence of God and health, wealth, and happiness here and now. This book is for everyone who wants to go deeper than most popular writing on spirituality and self-improvement, much of which is indebted to New Thought.New Thought still is evolving; it may yet be the point at which religion, philosophy, and science come together as the most effective combination to move the world to greater peace, plenty, health, and harmony. Whether you accept New Thought or reject it, it is important to learn more about what New Thought is, where it came from, how it is evolving, and how to use it, if you wish. These topics are what this book is about.
The Religion of Healthy Mindedness This timely book explains what New Thought is, where it came from, how it is evolving and how to use it. There are three aspects to New Thought: the psychological, metaphysical and mystical and this belief system may yet prove to be the point where religion, science and philosophy come together to eventually help bring about a better world.The essence and the philosophical and organizational aspects are discussed in chapters one and two. This section includes a look at the founder, , other early movers like Warren Felt Evans and Emma Curtis Hopkins as well as various denominations like , Unity, Science of Mind or and other groups.The religious background and development of New Thought is dealt…
A Valuable Introduction to New Thought Metaphysics American philosopher William James, in his book “Varieties of Religious Experience,” called New Thought (NT) “the religion of healthy-mindedness” and considered it the American people’s “only decidedly original contribution to the systematic philosophy of life.” The authors consider Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802 – 1866) to be the modern founder of the movement although some of the philosophical roots go all the way back to the idealism of ancient Greece. Contemporaneous American influences include the transcendentalists, especially Ralph Waldo Emerson, who drank from the wells of eastern thought. The movement’s “healthy-mindedness” began with Quimby’s interest in mesmerism as it related to physical healing, but expanded through time to include mental, financial, and interpersonal well-being and success. Although the authors state that Quimby eventually rejected the idea, held by Franz Mesmer among others, of a subtle magnetic fluid that…