BY HARV BISHOP Affirmations can be powerful, but there is much more to the creative power of the mind and imagination. Our thoughts create our reality in multiple ways, writes Gary Lachman in his fascinating recent book Lost Knowledge of the Imagination. These alternative ways of knowing include paying loving attention to the beauty that…
BY HARV BISHOP Did an online cartoonish green frog catalyze collective mind power metaphysics to elect Donald Trump? Strange as it may seem, it could have been a contributing factor. Let’s start at the beginning. I’ve blogged twice in the last year to raise awareness about the Alt-Right’s embrace of positive thinking to elect a president…
500 years ago this week, Martin Luther launched the Protestant reformation with his 95 theses that challenged Catholic church authorities. Without that move away from centralized religious dogma, New Thought and alternative spirituality would not exist. New Thought spiritual pioneers experimented with what worked in their lives without blind acceptance of tradition. What in New…
In this short essay, New Thought author and publisher Mitch Horowitz discusses how, while preparing to narrate an audio edition of Joseph Murphy’s pamphlet How to Attract Money, he came into a new and deeper appreciation of the book’s possibilities. This is adapted from Mitch’s introduction. BY MITCH HOROWITZ I am often asked: If I…
By MITCH HOROWITZ Consider how rare it is that any of us strive to live by an ideal or principle. Most of the time we merely seek ways to win praise and security, particularly from peer groups that we want to enter or remain in. We go along, looking for whatever we believe we can…
