tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29867196166627199362024-02-20T10:13:56.714-08:00New ThoughtLukas Engelbrechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14860181158547525226noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2986719616662719936.post-9737883468790384192012-09-14T12:26:00.000-07:002012-09-14T12:26:05.660-07:00You Create Your Reality<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nZodQ8J-GOI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Lukas Engelbrechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14860181158547525226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2986719616662719936.post-8550464626687305702012-02-12T11:25:00.000-08:002012-02-12T11:25:49.942-08:00Treatments for SelfdevelopmentFrom: Dynamics for living by: Charles Fillmore<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">There is one Presence, one Intelligence, one Substance, one Life: the good omnipotent. God is the name of the everywhere present Principle. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Thy name is Spirit. I know Thee as the one all-seeing Mind. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am the son of God, and the Spirit of the Most High dwells in me. I am the only begotten son, dwelling in the bosom of the Father. I am the Christ of God. I am the beloved son in whom the Father is well pleased. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. I and my Father are one. I am the image and likeness of God, in whom is my perfection. All that the Father has is mine. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Thou art always with me as indwelling wisdom and love. Thy law is now the standard of my life, and I am at peace. Thou art always present in me. I dwell in Thee and share Thine omnipotence. In Thee is my perfection. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">God is Truth. The Truth is: God is Principle, Law, Being, Mind, Spirit, All-Good, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, unchangeable, Creator, Father, Cause, and Source of all that is. God is individually formed in consciousness in each of us, and is known to us as "Father" when we recognize Him within us as our Creator, as our mind, as our life, as our very being. Mind has ideas and ideas have expression. All manifestation in our world is the result of the ideas that we are holding in mind and are expressing. To bring forth or to manifest the harmony of Divine Mind, or the "kingdom of heaven," all our beliefs must be one with divine ideas, and must be expressed in the divine order of Divine Mind. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">My highest ideal is that I am a perfect man. I am identity demonstrated. My perfection is now established in Divine Mind. I am one with Almightiness. Through Christ I have dominion over my every thought and word. Of a truth I am the son of God. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">My "life is hid with Christ in God." I am the substance of Being made manifest. I am formed in the perfection of the divine-idea man, Christ Jesus. My body is the temple of the living God, and the glory of the Lord fills the temple. My body is not material; it is spiritual and perfect in all its being. By seeing perfection in all things, I help to make it manifest. I see in mind that perfect character which I desire to be. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The glory of the Lord is risen upon me, and I walk in the light of life. Christ within me is my glory. The brightness of His presence casts out all the darkness of error, and my whole body is full of light. My understanding is illumined by Spirit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Christ of God is born in my consciousness, and I am glorified in my understanding. My understanding is established in Divine Mind. My spirit is quickened in Christ. I know the reality back of the shadows. I see the light of the Christ consciousness always. I see perfection in all forms and shapes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">With my mind's eye I see more and more the reality of the true ideas ever existing in divine principle. I firmly believe in the guiding Intelligence that directs all my thoughts. I am in authority, I say to this thought, "'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes." Where my thoughts are gathered together in my Christ name, there I am in the midst of them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I will think no evil, for Thou art always with me. I think Thy thoughts after Thee. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">God is good, and God is all; therefore I refuse to believe in the reality of evil in any of its forms. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">God is life, and God is all; therefore I refuse to believe in the reality of loss of life, or death. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">God is power and strength, and God is all; therefore I refuse to believe in inefficiency and weakness. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">God is wisdom, and God is all; therefore I refuse to believe in ignorance. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">God is spiritual substance, and God is all; therefore there is no reality in the limitations of matter. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">God is inexhaustible resource, and God is all; therefore I refuse to believe in the reality of lack or poverty. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">God is love, and God is all; therefore I refuse to believe in hate or revenge. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I believe in the presence and power of the one Mind, and it is to me substantial intelligence. Holding continuously to the reality of things spiritual establishes them in mind--they become mental substance. My mind is opened anew to the splendour of God's kingdom, and a flood of rich substance now pours itself into my affairs. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The understanding of Spirit clarifies my faith. My faith is of God and in God. My faith grows greater day by day, because it is planted in Truth, and through it the mountains of mortal error are moved into the sea of nothingness. My doubts and fears are dissolved and dissipated; in confidence and peace I rest in God's unchangeable law. My faith comprehends the beauty of wholeness. I am persuaded that God is able, that He is willing, that He is eager to give me whatsoever I ask. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">My body does not starve for my love and appreciation of it. I recognize it, honour it, and love it as the body temple of the living God. My body came from no one but God. It came from Him with my spirit and soul and has ever coexisted with them. I am. I am in every cell of my body. I am every cell of my body. I take possession--full possession--of every part of my body in the name of the Lord. My body is life, purity, wholeness, sinlessness. In my flesh I see God. What I see, what I behold, becomes manifest. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I deny that I inherit any belief that in any way limits me in health, virtue, intelligence, or power to do good. I am now free from every belief that might in any way interfere with my perfect expression of health, wealth, peace, prosperity, and perfect satisfaction in every department of life. By my all-powerful word, in the sign and presence of Almighty God, I now unformulate and destroy every foolish and ignorant assumption that might impede my march to perfection. My word is the measure of my power. I have spoken, and it shall be so. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am unlimited in my power, and I have increasing health, strength, life, love, wisdom, boldness, freedom, charity, and meekness, now and forever. I am now in harmony with the Father, and stronger than any mortal law. I know my birthright in pure Being, and I boldly assert my perfect freedom. In this knowledge I am enduring, pure, peaceful, and happy. I am dignified and definite, yet meek and lowly, in all that I think and do. I am one with and I now fully manifest vigorous life, wisdom, and spiritual understanding. I am one with and I now fully manifest love, charity, justice, kindness, and generosity. I am one with and I now fully manifest infinite goodness and mercy. Peace floweth like a river through my mind, and I thank Thee, O God, that I am one with Thee! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">My eyes are no longer darkened by thought of deception, concealment, or lust. The cleansing life and light of Spirit make pure and clean these eyes, and through all-seeing Mind I have spiritual vision. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">My ears are no longer stopped by the sensitiveness and wilfulness of the little self. I am no longer bound by personality. I now bathe in the great ocean of life, and I am free in boundless Spirit. I hear the voice of Truth only and rejoice. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The cleansing life of Spirit frees my mind of all thoughts of fear, timidity, and incapacity. I am bold, free, courageous Spirit, and I can do all things through Christ. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sense appetite no longer clogs the clear discernment of my spiritual judgment. The cleansing life of Spirit quickens and cleanses my taste, and I eat and drink only what my body requires under divine law. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am no longer in bondage to the thought that sensation is in matter. The cleansing life of Spirit dissolves all fleshly lust for sense pleasure. I am Spirit, and I desire the clean, pure currents of life to flow through every part of my body, so that all may be made clean. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The cleansing life of Spirit purifies my heart, and I trust the "still small voice" within my soul. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The cleansing life of Spirit clears my mind of ignorance and materiality, and I see the activity of ideas and understand their import independently of human language. As God gave Daniel "learning and skill in all letters and wisdom, and . . . understanding in all visions and dreams," so He gives me and all His children the original ideas of His great mind to use as we will. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Infinite wisdom guides me, divine love prospers me, and I am successful in everything I undertake. In quietness and confidence I affirm the drawing power of divine love as my magnet of constantly increasing supply. I have unbounded faith in the omnipresent substance increasing and multiplying at my word of plenty, plenty, plenty. I trust the universal Spirit of prosperity in all my affairs. I come to God because I believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that seek after Him. I give freely and fearlessly, fulfilling the law of giving and receiving. Divine love, through me, blesses and multiplies this offering. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Father, I thank Thee for unlimited increase in mind, money, and affairs. </span>Lukas Engelbrechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14860181158547525226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2986719616662719936.post-15590299057984965622012-01-28T11:44:00.000-08:002012-01-28T11:44:05.676-08:00The Art of Enjoying Life<h2>he author of 'Comfort' examines what it takes for people to wake up and be fully alive every day. </h2><div class="articleByLine"> <span>BY:</span> Brett C. Hoover </div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Waiting for a tour company bus at a hotel in Bath, England, I met a young travel writer from California. I was traveling alone and she was with her ninety-year-old grandmother. The bus arrived late, with only one seat left for the three of us. Needless to say, her grandmother got the place on the bus, and the writer and I went off in search of the train station. Later, on the train, we talked about her travel-writing work in France. “My favorite word in French,” she said, “is parfait—‘perfect.’ ” In France, she said, people seem to find it easier to appreciate and enjoy the moment — things can seem perfect. In American English, however, perfect presents an impossible standard to live up to.<br />
I agreed. In a restless country like the United States, we look on perfect as the impossible future to work toward. The present moment is beside the point. We always look ahead to the betterpaying job, the bigger house, a place to live with more pleasant weather. Nothing should stay the same; it must improve. If most of us arrived at some moment that began to feel perfect — a beautiful day, a fantastic job, a magnificent work of art — we would probably begin to look for ways to enhance it. This does many good things for us as a culture, in terms of productivity and innovation. But, as my train companion pointed out, it makes it that much harder to really be happy in the present moment. It makes it harder than ever to just be comfortable.<br />
We might benefit from the Buddhist spiritual practice of mindfulness. This means essentially a discipline of heightened awareness in whatever one does — eating, walking, talking with a friend, working, waiting for the bus. Behind this lies the assumption that much of the time we live an unexamined and automatic life. We do not really know or appreciate what we are doing. We stuff down our food, half listen to the people we encounter, mindlessly groom our amazing bodies, pass by miles of natural wonders without any of them registering on our personal radar. The beautiful and the fascinating surround us, but we do not see them. Once I attended a retreat where, as a meditation exercise, I was instructed to watch insects for half an hour. Initially I dreaded the potential boredom of the exercise, but before many minutes had passed I was captivated. That afternoon I saw butterflies, moths, ants moving large burdens, beetles I could not identify. It was like gaining unexpected entrance to a<br />
secret world. Buddhist mindfulness invites all seekers to slow down and take a look, to listen, to notice. It is an invitation to enjoy ourselves more in every moment.<br />
The world may be imperfect and at times immensely frustrating, but it is also stunningly beautiful, interesting, humorous, and fun. As I sat working at my desk one day, a hummingbird passed by my window, beating those marvelous wings at lightning speed. That same week I had the most delicious tuna in a little Spanish restaurant on an alley in San Francisco. Later that year, in the summertime, my aunt came to visit. My sister and I got her going about her high school dating adventures back in Indiana in the 1950s. Some weeks later I met a woman at a Eugene, Oregon, craft fair who makes eccentric little night-lights out of cat-food cans. As I drove back home to Northern California from Oregon, the moon was a silver crescent over the pine- crested mountains. Back home I visited the home of an architect friend of mine. He has a huge, multiframe architectural diagram of Rome on his wall. I found it lying on the floor of his house in sections on that visit — it had slipped from its moorings during a renovation. He dubbed this the “fall of Rome.” Late in the summer, I made that trip to England. En route home, I picked up a beautiful but sad British novel in which a child’s misunderstanding ruins a young man’s life.<br />
All these details from a few months in my life make up a store of richness and grandeur, yet so much of the time I know I have become too busy or preoccupied to notice such things. What does it take to wake up sufficiently to pay attention? It feels easier to persist in an unconscious, uncomfortable life. During my first year studying for the priesthood, the priest in charge of our novitiate told me he did not believe that Saint<br />
Peter would meet us at any pearly gates when we died. This did not particularly faze me — I had always pictured this as more the stuff of jokes than the literal truth. He went on: there would be no ledger of sins and good deeds, nor would there be an interrogation about doctrinal purity or personal faith in Jesus Christ. I obediently played the “straight man” in this routine. “Well then, what will happen?” He said God would simply ask, “Did you have a good time?” The idea sounded preposterous to me, an existential joke. Is life nothing more than one long frat party? I<br />
must have looked at him as if he had no sense at all. Now I wonder at what he said, and I believe that rather than advocating hedonism, he was trying to get me to think.<br />
If God went to all the trouble of setting in evolutionary motion a remarkable world, what sort of ungrateful creature doesn’t enjoy it? The early Christian theologian Saint Irenaeus once said, “The glory of God is the human person fully alive.” I look around at the astonishing beauty of the world, the sheer blessing and gratuity of being alive. Who am I not to enjoy it? It does begin to feel like a commandment: “Thou shalt enjoy thy<br />
life.”<br />
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Read more: <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/Inspiration/Articles/The-Art-of-Enjoying-Life.aspx#ixzz1kmfEjZY7" style="color: #003399;">http://www.beliefnet.com/Inspiration/Articles/The-Art-of-Enjoying-Life.aspx#ixzz1kmfEjZY7</a></div></div>Lukas Engelbrechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14860181158547525226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2986719616662719936.post-34278723873333282732012-01-28T11:41:00.001-08:002012-01-28T11:41:58.199-08:00The Art of Forgiveness<em>Excerpted from <a href="http://store.beliefnet.com/amazon_store/item/1590309138">BRINGING HOME THE DHARMA</a> by Jack Kornfield, (c) 2011. Published by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston. </em> <em> <a href="http://www.shambhala.com/">www.Shambhala.com</a> </em> <em>.</em> <br />
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Traditionally the work of the heart begins with forgiveness. Forgiveness is the necessary ground for any healing. To begin with, we need a wise understanding of forgiveness. Then we can learn how it is practiced, how we may forgive both ourselves and others.<br />
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Forgiveness is a letting go of past suffering and betrayal, a release of the burden of pain and hate that we carry. Forgiveness honors the heart’s greatest dignity. Whenever we are lost, it brings us back to the ground of love. With forgiveness we become unwilling to attack or wish harm to another. Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.<br />
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It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.<br />
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Consider the dialogue between two former prisoners of war:<br />
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“Have you forgiven your captors yet?”<br />
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“No, never!”<br />
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“Well, then, they still have you in prison, don’t they?”<br />
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We begin the work of forgiveness primarily for ourselves. We may still be suffering terribly from the past while those who betrayed us are on vacation. It is painful to hate. Without forgiveness we continue to perpetuate the illusion that hate can heal our pain and the pain of others. In forgiveness we let go and find relief in our heart.<br />
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Even those in the worst situations, the conflicts and tragedies of Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Northern Ireland, or South Africa, have had to find a path to reconciliation. This is true in America as well. It is the only way to heal.<br />
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Sometimes this means finding the courage to forgive the unforgivable, to consciously release the heart from the clutches of another’s terrible acts.<br />
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We must discover a way to move on from the past, no matter what traumas it held. The past is over: forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past.<br />
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Remember these truths:<br />
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<em>Forgiveness is not weak or naive. </em>Forgiveness requires courage and clarity; it is not naive. Mistakenly people believe that to forgive is to simply<br />
“forgive and forget,” once and for all. This is not the wisdom of forgiveness.<br />
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<em>Forgiveness does not happen quickly.</em> For great injustice, coming to forgiveness may include a long process of grief, outrage, sadness, loss, and pain. True forgiveness does not paper over what has happened in a superficial way. It is not a misguided effort to suppress or ignore our pain. It cannot be hurried. It is a deep process, repeated over and over in our heart, that honors the grief and betrayal, and in its own time ripens into the freedom to truly forgive.<br />
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<em>Forgiveness does not forget, nor does it condone the past. </em>Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes the sufferings of the past, and understands the conditions that brought them about. There is a strength to forgiveness. When we forgive, we can also say, “Never again will I allow these things to happen.” We may resolve to never again permit such harm to come to ourselves or another. <br />
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<em>Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm.</em> In some cases the best practice may be to end our connection, to never speak to or be with a harmful person again. Sometimes in the process of forgiveness a person who hurt or betrayed us may wish to make amends, but even this does not require us to put ourselves in the way of further harm. In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.<br />
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Read more: <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/Wellness/Personal-Growth/The-Art-of-Forgiveness.aspx#ixzz1kmehbVsK" style="color: #003399;">http://www.beliefnet.com/Wellness/Personal-Growth/The-Art-of-Forgiveness.aspx#ixzz1kmehbVsK</a></div>Lukas Engelbrechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14860181158547525226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2986719616662719936.post-36193559005867763862012-01-28T11:37:00.000-08:002012-01-28T11:37:28.276-08:00What New Thought Practitioners BelieveAn umbrella term for diverse beliefs that emphasize experiencing God's presence for practical purposes, such as healing and success. Examples include Unity, Religious Science, and Divine Science.<br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Belief in Deity</strong><br />
There exists one God--Universal Mind, creative intelligence, omnipresent--a principle (not a being), an impersonal force that manifests itself personally, perfectly, and equally within all. <div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Incarnations</strong><br />
No particular incarnations, as God is within all equally. Some believe Jesus was exemplary of someone who fully realized his divine nature, and therefore is the "wayshower" (shows the way). <div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
Read more: <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/06/What-New-Thought-Practitioners-Believe.aspx#ixzz1kmdHOH6E" style="color: #003399;">http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/06/What-New-Thought-Practitioners-Believe.aspx#ixzz1kmdHOH6E</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Origin of Universe and Life</strong><br />
The universe and all within it are expressions of God--the creative intelligence--with no beginning and no end. <br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><strong>After Death</strong><br />
Some believe in continual rebirth as a gift from God so that all may become immortal, as was Jesus Christ, with each lifetime a preparation for the next. Others believe the individual soul merges with the universal spirit after death.<div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
Read more: <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/06/What-New-Thought-Practitioners-Believe.aspx#ixzz1kmdNCoXT" style="color: #003399;">http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/06/What-New-Thought-Practitioners-Believe.aspx#ixzz1kmdNCoXT</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Why Evil?</strong><br />
No original sin, and no Satan and no evil. People make "mistakes" due to ignorance of one's true nature as Perfect Mind and Love, which is God. <div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
Read more: <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/06/What-New-Thought-Practitioners-Believe.aspx#ixzz1kmdRQ6aw" style="color: #003399;">http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/06/What-New-Thought-Practitioners-Believe.aspx#ixzz1kmdRQ6aw</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Salvation</strong><br />
Salvation lies in the realization of oneness with the impersonal life force, thus unlocking one's healing potential. Licensed practitioners counsel on spiritual healing for problems of the mind, body, and life. Some believe Jesus is the "wayshower" to salvation. Some believe that all, regardless of actions, will be saved by the grace of a loving and <a class="bn-keyword" href="http://www.beliefnet.com/holistic-living/quiz/how-forgiving-are-you.aspx" id="70bc3a33-487b-4e03-a989-1aeae3585684" target="_blank">forgiving</a> God. Most believe that spiritual awareness of God's omnipresence--that God is all and all are God--leads to personal and humanity's salvation. Many believe that repeated reincarnations are God's gift, each lifetime a preparation for the next, until "perfection" is reached, which is God. <div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
Read more: <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/06/What-New-Thought-Practitioners-Believe.aspx#ixzz1kmdTx1QC" style="color: #003399;">http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/06/What-New-Thought-Practitioners-Believe.aspx#ixzz1kmdTx1QC</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Undeserved Suffering</strong><br />
Suffering results from ignorance of one's true nature as Perfect Mind and ceases with complete realization that we all are one with God, the Universal Mind. One can heal personal suffering through New Thought practices, often with the assistance of New Thought practitioners. <div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
Read more: <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/06/What-New-Thought-Practitioners-Believe.aspx#ixzz1kmdWVfwp" style="color: #003399;">http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/06/What-New-Thought-Practitioners-Believe.aspx#ixzz1kmdWVfwp</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Contemporary Issues</strong><br />
There is no official doctrine on abortion; therefore, abortion is not condemned. <div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
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</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Lukas Engelbrechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14860181158547525226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2986719616662719936.post-67675981768412909232012-01-28T11:32:00.000-08:002012-01-28T11:32:58.542-08:00New Thought<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"></h1><div id="siteSub">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div><div id="siteSub"> </div><table class="infobox" style="border: 1px solid #F0E68C; clear: right; float: right; font-size: 85%; margin-left: 15px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; text-align: center; width: 15em; width: 190px;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><b>New Thought</b> promotes the ideas that "Infinite Intelligence" or "God" is ubiquitous, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-newthoughtalliance.org_0-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-newthoughtalliance.org-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-newthought.info_1-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-newthought.info-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup><br />
Although New Thought is neither <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolithic" title="Monolithic">monolithic</a> nor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine" title="Doctrine">doctrinaire</a>, in general modern day adherents of New Thought believe that "God" or "Infinite Intelligence" is "supreme, universal, and everlasting", that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinity" title="Divinity">divinity</a> dwells within each person, that all people are spiritual beings, that "the highest spiritual principle [is] loving one another unconditionally ... and teaching and healing one another", and that "our mental states are carried forward into manifestation and become our experience in daily living".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-newthoughtalliance.org_0-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-newthoughtalliance.org-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-newthought.info_1-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-newthought.info-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup><br />
The <b>New Thought movement</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality" title="Spirituality">spiritually-focused</a> or philosophical interpretation of New Thought beliefs. Started in the early 19th century, today the movement consists of a loosely allied group of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_denomination" title="Religious denomination">religious denominations</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular" title="Secular">secular</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membership_organization" title="Membership organization">membership organizations</a>,<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from June 2011">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> authors, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher" title="Philosopher">philosophers</a>, and individuals who share a set of beliefs concerning <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics_%28supernatural%29" title="Metaphysics (supernatural)">metaphysics</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_thinking" title="Positive thinking">positive thinking</a>, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Attraction" title="Law of Attraction">law of attraction</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healing" title="Healing">healing</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_%28esotericism%29" title="Energy (esotericism)">life force</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_visualization" title="Creative visualization">creative visualization</a>, and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_power" title="Personal power">personal power</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup> The three major religious denominations within the New Thought movement are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Science" title="Religious Science">Religious Science</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Church" title="Unity Church">Unity Church</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Divine_Science" title="Church of Divine Science">Church of Divine Science</a>. There are many other smaller churches within the New Thought movement, as well as schools and umbrella organizations.<br />
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<tr> <td> <div id="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle"></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#Overview"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Overview</span></a></div><ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#History"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a> <ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#Origins"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Origins</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#Growth"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Growth</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#Major_gatherings"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Major gatherings</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#Belief_systems"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Belief systems</span></a> <ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#Evolution_of_thought"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Evolution of thought</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#Theological_inclusionism"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Theological inclusionism</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#Therapeutic_ideas"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Therapeutic ideas</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#Movement"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Movement</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#References"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#Bibliography"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Bibliography</span></a></li>
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</tbody></table><h2><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Overview">Overview</span></h2><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, in <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience" title="The Varieties of Religious Experience">The Varieties of Religious Experience</a></i>, described New Thought as follows:<br />
<blockquote class="templatequote"> <div>... for the sake of having a brief designation, I will give the title of the "Mind-cure movement." There are various sects of this "New Thought," to use another of the names by which it calls itself; but their agreements are so profound that their differences may be neglected for my present purpose, and I will treat the movement, without apology, as if it were a simple thing. It is an optimistic scheme of life, with both a speculative and a practical side. In its gradual development during the last quarter of a century, it has taken up into itself a number of contributory elements, and it must now be reckoned with as a genuine religious power. It has reached the stage, for example, when the demand for its literature is great enough for insincere stuff, mechanically produced for the market, to be to a certain extent supplied by publishers – a phenomenon never observed, I imagine, until a religion has got well past its earliest insecure beginnings.<br />
One of the doctrinal sources of Mind-cure is the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Gospels" title="Four Gospels">four Gospels</a>; another is Emersonianism or New England <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism" title="Transcendentalism">transcendentalism</a>; another is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_idealism" title="Subjective idealism">Berkeleyan idealism</a>; another is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritism" title="Spiritism">spiritism</a>, with its messages of "law" and "progress" and "development"; another the optimistic popular science <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionism" title="Evolutionism">evolutionism</a> of which I have recently spoken; and, finally, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> has contributed a strain. But the most characteristic feature of the mind-cure movement is an inspiration much more direct. The leaders in this faith have had an intuitive belief in the all-saving power of healthy-minded attitudes as such, in the conquering efficacy of courage, hope, and trust, and a correlative contempt for doubt, fear, worry, and all nervously precautionary states of mind. Their belief has in a general way been corroborated by the practical experience of their disciples; and this experience forms to-day a mass imposing in amount.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup></div></blockquote><h2><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span></h2><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_Thought" title="History of New Thought">History of New Thought</a></div><h3><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Origins">Origins</span></h3>The earliest identifiable proponent of what came to be known as New Thought was <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Parkhurst_Quimby" title="Phineas Parkhurst Quimby">Phineas Parkhurst Quimby</a> (1802–66), an American philosopher, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesmerist" title="Mesmerist">mesmerist</a>, healer, and inventor. Quimby developed a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">belief</a> system that included the tenet that illness originated in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> as a consequence of erroneous beliefs and that a mind open to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>'s wisdom could overcome any illness.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-4"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup><br />
His basic premise was “The trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in…Therefore, if your mind had been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have out into it the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth, I come in contact with your enemy, and restore you to health and happiness. This I do partly mentally, and partly by talking till I correct the wrong impression and establish the Truth, and the Truth is the cure.”<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup><br />
During the late 19th century the metaphysical healing practices of Quimby mingled with the "Mental Science" of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Felt_Evans" title="Warren Felt Evans">Warren Felt Evans</a>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedenborgian" title="Swedenborgian">Swedenborgian</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_%28Christianity%29" title="Minister (Christianity)">minister</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-6"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></a></sup><br />
New Thought was propelled along by a number of spiritual thinkers and philosophers and emerged through a variety of religious denominations and churches, particularly the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Church" title="Unity Church">Unity Church</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Science" title="Religious Science">Religious Science</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Divine_Science" title="Church of Divine Science">Church of Divine Science</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lewis16_7-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-lewis16-7"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a></sup> Many of its early teachers and students were women; notable among the founders of the movement were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Curtis_Hopkins" title="Emma Curtis Hopkins">Emma Curtis Hopkins</a>, known as the "teacher of teachers", <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtle_Fillmore" title="Myrtle Fillmore">Myrtle Fillmore</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinda_Cramer" title="Malinda Cramer">Malinda Cramer</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Holmes" title="Ernest Holmes">Ernest Holmes</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nona_L._Brooks" title="Nona L. Brooks">Nona L. Brooks</a>;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lewis16_7-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-lewis16-7"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a></sup> with many of its churches and community centers led by women, from the 1880s to today.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Harley_8-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-Harley-8"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-9"><span>[</span>10<span>]</span></a></sup><br />
<h3><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Growth">Growth</span></h3><div class="rellink boilerplate seealso">See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Thought_writers" title="List of New Thought writers">List of New Thought writers</a></div>New Thought is also largely a movement of the printed word.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Moskowitz_10-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-Moskowitz-10"><span>[</span>11<span>]</span></a></sup> The 1890s and the first decades of the 20th century saw many New Thought books published on the topics of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-help" title="Self-help">self-help</a>, financial success, and will-training books. New Thought authors such as of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill" title="Napoleon Hill">Napoleon Hill</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Wattles" title="Wallace Wattles">Wallace Wattles</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Joseph_Green" title="Perry Joseph Green">Perry Joseph Green</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Channing_Haddock" title="Frank Channing Haddock">Frank Channing Haddock</a>, <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph_Waldo_Trine&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Ralph Waldo Trine (page does not exist)">Ralph Waldo Trine</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Troward" title="Thomas Troward">Thomas Troward</a> were extremely popular.<br />
In 1906, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson" title="William Walker Atkinson">William Walker Atkinson</a> (1862–1932) wrote and published <i>Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-atkinson_11-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-atkinson-11"><span>[</span>12<span>]</span></a></sup> Atkinson was the editor of <i>New Thought</i> magazine and the author of more than 100 books on an assortment of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious" title="Religious">religious</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality" title="Spirituality">spiritual</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occult" title="Occult">occult</a> topics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-12"><span>[</span>13<span>]</span></a></sup> The following year, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Towne" title="Elizabeth Towne">Elizabeth Towne</a>, the editor of <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nautilus_%28Magazine%29" title="The Nautilus (Magazine)">The Nautilus Magazine, a Journal of New Thought</a></i>, published Bruce MacLelland's book <i>Prosperity Through Thought Force</i>, in which he summarized the "Law of Attraction" as a New Thought principle, stating "You are what you think, not what you think you are." <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-maclelland_13-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-maclelland-13"><span>[</span>14<span>]</span></a></sup><br />
These magazines were used to reach a large audience then, as others are now. <i>Nautilus</i> magazine, for example, had 45,000 subscribers and a total circulation of 150,000.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Moskowitz_10-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-Moskowitz-10"><span>[</span>11<span>]</span></a></sup> One <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Church" title="Unity Church">Unity Church</a> magazine, <i>Wee Wisdom</i>, was the longest-lived children's magazine in the United States, published from 1893 until 1991.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Miller_14-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-Miller-14"><span>[</span>15<span>]</span></a></sup> Today, New Thought magazines include the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Word" title="Daily Word">Daily Word</a></i> published by Unity and the Religious Science magazine, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_Mind_%28magazine%29" title="Science of Mind (magazine)">Science of Mind</a></i>, published by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Centers_for_Spiritual_Living" title="United Centers for Spiritual Living">United Centers for Spiritual Living</a>.<br />
<h3><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Major_gatherings">Major gatherings</span></h3>The 1915 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_New_Thought_Alliance" title="International New Thought Alliance">International New Thought Alliance</a> (INTA) conference – held in conjunction with the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama-Pacific_International_Exposition_%281915%29" title="Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915)">Panama-Pacific International Exposition</a>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_fair" title="World's fair">world's fair</a> that took place in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> – featured New Thought speakers from far and wide. The PPIE organizers were so favorably impressed by the INTA convention that they declared a special "New Thought Day" at the fair and struck a commemorative bronze medal for the occasion, which was presented to the INTA delegates, led by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Rix_Militz" title="Annie Rix Militz">Annie Rix Militz</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-dresser_15-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-dresser-15"><span>[</span>16<span>]</span></a></sup> By 1916, the International New Thought Alliance had encompassed many smaller groups around the world, adopting a creed known as the "Declaration of Principles".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lewis16_7-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-lewis16-7"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a></sup> The Alliance is held together by one central teaching: that people, through the constructive use of their minds, can attain freedom, power, health, prosperity, and all good, molding their bodies as well as the circumstances of their lives. The declaration was revised in 1957, with all references to Christianity removed, and a new statement based on the "inseparable oneness of God and Man".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lewis16_7-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-lewis16-7"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a></sup><br />
There are regular conventions and conferences today, including those hosted by the major denominations, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agape_International_Spiritual_Center" title="Agape International Spiritual Center">Agape International Spiritual Center</a>, and others.<br />
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Belief_systems">Belief systems</span></h2><table class="infobox" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: 85%; text-align: center; width: 14.0em;"><tbody>
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<tr> <td> <div style="background: #FFA500;"><b>Divinity</b></div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipresence" title="Omnipresence">Omnipresent God</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Spirit" title="Holy Spirit">Ultimate Spirit</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinity" title="Divinity">Divine Humanity</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_consciousness" title="Higher consciousness">Higher consciousness</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span><br />
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<tr> <td> <div style="background: #FFA500;"><b>Beliefs</b></div><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law" title="Natural law">Universal law</a></b><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction" title="Law of attraction">Law of attraction</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_choice" title="Power of choice">Power of choice</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">Metaphysics</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_%28esotericism%29" title="Energy (esotericism)">Life force</a><br />
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<tr> <td> <div style="background: #FFA500;"><b>Actions</b></div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmations_%28New_Age%29" title="Affirmations (New Age)">Affirmations</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_prayer" title="Affirmative prayer">Affirmative prayer</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_visualization" title="Creative visualization">Creative visualization</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healing" title="Healing">Healing</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_magnetism#Mesmerism_and_spiritual_healing_practices" title="Animal magnetism">Personal magnetism</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">·</span> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_thinking" title="Positive thinking">Positive thinking</a><br />
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</tbody></table>The chief tenets of New Thought are:<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NewThought_16-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-NewThought-16"><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a></sup><br />
<ul><li>Infinite Intelligence or God is omnipotent and omnipresent.</li>
<li>Spirit is the ultimate reality.</li>
<li>True human self-hood is divine.</li>
<li>Divinely attuned thought is a positive force for good.</li>
<li>All disease is mental in origin.</li>
<li>Right thinking has a healing effect.</li>
</ul><h3><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Evolution_of_thought">Evolution of thought</span></h3>Adherents also generally believe that as humankind gains greater understanding of the world, New Thought itself will evolve to assimilate new knowledge. Alan Anderson and Deb Whitehouse have described New Thought as a "process" in which each individual and even the New Thought Movement itself is "new every moment". Thomas McFaul has hypothesized "continuous revelation", with new insights being received by individuals continuously over time. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Houston" title="Jean Houston">Jean Houston</a> has spoken of the "possible human", or what we are capable of becoming.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-17"><span>[</span>18<span>]</span></a></sup><br />
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Thought&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Theological inclusionism">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Theological_inclusionism">Theological inclusionism</span></h3>The Home of Truth, which, from its inception as the Pacific Coast Metaphysical Bureau in the 1880s, under the leadership of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Rix_Militz" title="Annie Rix Militz">Annie Rix Militz</a>, has disseminated the teachings of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> teacher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, is one of the more outspokenly interfaith of New Thought organizations, stating adherence to "the principle that Truth is Truth where ever it is found and who ever is sharing it".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-18"><span>[</span>19<span>]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material in the vicinity of this tag failed verification of its source citation(s) from August 2011">not in citation given</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_S._Goldsmith" title="Joel S. Goldsmith">Joel S. Goldsmith</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infinite_Way" title="The Infinite Way">The Infinite Way</a> incorporates teaching from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science" title="Christian Science">Christian Science</a>, as well.<br />
<h3><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Therapeutic_ideas">Therapeutic ideas</span></h3>Divine Science, Unity Church, and Religious Science are organizations which developed from the New Thought movement. Each teaches that Infinite Intelligence or God is the sole reality. There are New Thought adherents believe that sickness is the result of the failure to realize this truth. In this line of thinking, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_healing" title="Faith healing">healing</a> is accomplished by the affirmation of oneness with the Infinite Intelligence or God.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from November 2011">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bovee_Dods" title="John Bovee Dods">John Bovee Dods</a> (1795–1862), an early practitioner of New Thought, wrote several books on the idea that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease" title="Disease">disease</a> originates in the electrical impulses of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_system" title="Nervous system">nervous system</a> and is therefore curable by a change of belief.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from June 2011">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Later New Thought teachers, such as the early 20th century author, editor, and publisher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson" title="William Walker Atkinson">William Walker Atkinson</a>, accepted this premise. He connected his idea of mental states of being with his understanding of the new scientific discoveries in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetism" title="Electromagnetism">electromagnetism</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural" title="Neural">neural</a> processes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Atkinson_19-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-Atkinson-19"><span>[</span>20<span>]</span></a></sup><br />
<h2><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Movement">Movement</span></h2>New Thought publishing and educational activities reach approximately 2.5 million people annually.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-20"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a></sup> The largest New Thought-oriented denomination is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seicho-no-Ie" title="Seicho-no-Ie">Seicho-no-Ie</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-21"><span>[</span>22<span>]</span></a></sup> Other belief systems within the New Thought movement include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Science" title="Jewish Science">Jewish Science</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Science" title="Religious Science">Religious Science</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Spiritual_Living" title="Centers for Spiritual Living">Centers for Spiritual Living</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Church" title="Unity Church">Unity</a>. Past denominations have included <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiana" title="Psychiana">Psychiana</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Divine" title="Father Divine">Father Divine</a>.<br />
Religious Science operates under three main organizations: the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Centers_for_Spiritual_Living" title="United Centers for Spiritual Living">United Centers for Spiritual Living</a>; the Affiliated New Thought Network; and Global Religious Science Ministries. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Holmes" title="Ernest Holmes">Ernest Holmes</a>, the founder of Religious Science, stated that Religious Science is not based on any "authority" of established beliefs, but rather on "what it can accomplish" for the people who practice it.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-22"><span>[</span>23<span>]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Mind" title="The Science of Mind">The Science of Mind</a></i>, authored by Ernest Holmes, while based on a philosophy of being "open at the top", focuses extensively on the teachings of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ" title="Jesus Christ">Jesus Christ</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought#cite_note-23"><span>[</span>24<span>]</span></a></sup><br />
Unity, founded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fillmore_%28Unity_Church%29" title="Charles Fillmore (Unity Church)">Charles</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtle_Fillmore" title="Myrtle Fillmore">Myrtle Fillmore</a>, identifies itself as "Christian New Thought", focused on "Christian idealism", with the Bible as one of its main texts, although not interpreted literally. The other core text is <i>Lessons in Truth</i> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Emilie_Cady" title="H. Emilie Cady">H. Emilie Cady</a>.Lukas Engelbrechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14860181158547525226noreply@blogger.com0