What is the New Thought Movement-quotes and discussion.

[Miss Hepburn]

Many have never heard of the New Thought Movement --Here:

What are the beliefs of the New Thought movement?

''New Thought holds that Infinite Intelligence, or God, is everywhere, 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.

Found online:
The history of New Thought started in the 1830s, with roots in the United States and England.
As a spiritual movement with roots in metaphysical beliefs, New Thought has helped guide a variety of social changes
throughout the 19th, 20th, and into the 21st centuries.

Also to get the ball rolling:
"The New Thought movement was among the more notable movements that emerged in the 19th century to help people
achieve a better understanding of divine mysteries, through the power of their thoughts."

[Honza]

So is it much like the New Age movement? They sound very similar.

[Redchic12]

I’ve ever heard of this but it sounds a bit like the new age movement. So what is the difference.

I have to ask, who started this movement. Was it a group or one particular man/women that we could read up about.

So this started in the 1830s hey. So could it be affiliated with Theosophical Society ie Blavatsky, Annie Bessant or Krishnamurti?

Sounds really interesting. Would love to know more so I can do a bit of research on it.

Any thanks for your post.

[Miss Hepburn]

This is interesting, New Thought was influenced by "ancient thought", wisdom and philosophy
from may places thru history, like from Ancient Greece Rome, Egypt, China and from Toaism,
Hinduism, Buddism and the Vedas, and the Bible, etc.

Mainly, it was involved with thought, belief, consciousness in the human mind, and the effects of these within and beyond the human mind.

It basically was one of the biggest wonderful 'finds' of my life.

A good link to read of interested:
https://www.encyclopedia.com/environ...ought-movement

[Miss Hepburn]

Many things are influenced by other things...as you have read New Thought was VERY influenced
by ancient ideas...all of these ancient
beliefs morphed into things more familiar to us today like Unity Church, Christian Science, Theosophy, New Age stuff...even the Law of Attraction...
the source of all of them...who knows - Masters, Scriptures, personal experience in the jungles?
Did someone 'invent' electricity? No, it was always there - even at the time of the Cavemen.

New Thought opened the door for Napoleon Hill's book, "Think and Grow Rich'', 1937.
Norman Vincent Peale's book ''The Power of Positive Thinking'', 1952 ---both influenced by New Thought.
Mary Baker Eddy's 1875, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures''
(Founder of Christian Science.)

[Miss Hepburn]

So, some quotes! And these people have great books!! Maybe you can see why this discovery
of New Thought changed my life.

Napoleon Hill -“Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.”

John Randolph Price - ''The Universe does not compensate individuals based on the activity of work, but on the activity of consciousness.''

Catherine Ponder - ''What you radiate outward with your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.''

Joel S. Goldsmith - ''You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.''

Ernest Holmes - ''All the power of the Universe is with you. Feel it, know it, then act as if it were true.''

Mary Baker Eddy - ''Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal."

[Redchic12]

Oh wow i like the sound of this.
Thanks for explaining it.
I’ll check out the attachment later.

[hazada guess]

Brilliant Quotes.

[Honza]

That is all very well, but I did not make the world what it is. I never created the war in Ukraine, or climate change or Covid 19. There is a discrepancy between what and who I am and what I am creating and what actually is.

[sky]

Originally Posted by Honza

There is a discrepancy between what and who I am and what I am creating and what actually is.

Yes, there are two realities,
Objective reality - the world out there.
Subjective reality - the world in here.....

Mountains exist regardless of my thoughts, how I see them is my reality