New Thought Faiths and Practices. The New Thought movement is an umbrella term for diverse beliefs that emphasize practically oriented spirituality promoting wholeness in living through constructive thinking, meditation, prayer and the realization of the presence of God. New Thought, which is more than a century old, includes Unity, Religious Science (Science of Mind), Divine Science, and other groups. Because it maintains that the mind is continually growing, New Thought is not a static system of beliefs. While it acknowledges the importance of traditional religious thought as a part of the mind’s development, it finds the permanence of dogma to be contradictory to the mind’s natural striving for advancement. This perpetual development of the mind is often called progressive or unfolding thought.
New Thought practitioners believe there exists one God—an omnipresent Universal Mind or creative intelligence. There are no particular incarnations, as God is within all equally. New Thought worship is syncretic. What New Thought Practitioners Believe. New Thought Library. Sacred Texts. Sacred-texts home The New Thought movement, which originated in the late 19th and early 20th century, has at its core a belief that a higher power pervades all existence, and that individuals can create their own reality via affirmations, meditation and prayer. Early New Thought groups emerged from a Christian Science background, and many New Thought writers refer back to the Bible as their foundation text. New Thought resembles in some respects New Age philosophy, although some New Thought groups dismiss a connection. This page includes some of the writings of this movement, as well as related and similar texts.
What All the World's A-Seeking by Ralph Waldo Trine [1896]Compassion for all life and meditation as keys to mental power and success. A Common-Sense View of the Mind Cure by Laura M. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward [1909] The Dore Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward [1909] In Tune with the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine [1910]
New Thought Wikipedia. New Thought Movement. 1931Google + What is New Thought? New Thought is a mind-healing movement that originated in the 19th-century United States. It has no one creed, but its fundamental teaching is that spirit is more real and more powerful than matter and that the mind has the power to heal the body. Major groups within the New Thought movement include the Unity Church, Church of Religious Science, and Divine Science. Many, but all, New Thought groups are based in Christianity. New Thought is related to Christian Science both historically and philosophically, but Christian Science is more organized and doctrinal than the New Thought movement. In addition, New Thoughters do not reject modern medicine to the extent that Christian Scientists do. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802-66), the earliest founder of New Thought.
Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849–1925), one of the founders of New Thought. Myrtle Fillmore (1845-1941), co-founder with her husband of the Unity Church. History Phineas P. Myrtle did get better. Texts Beliefs. Association for Global New Thought.