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…
BY KAI ELLIOT If you would’ve told me, ten years ago, that I would have my own website and I’d be writing about Illness Positivity(tm) for the spiritual field – I would have thought you were nuts! When I took my first yoga class, eighteen years ago, I would’ve told you you were nuts –…
BY HARV BISHOP Once upon a time I was an in-the-closet New Thoughter writing for a Catholic weekly newspaper. Catholicism had been the religion of my youth and this paper was strong on covering social justice issues. At the time I was not only a closeted New Thought adherent, but also caught up in Shirley…
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…
BY HARV BISHOP How do New Thought, the white nationalists of the alt-right, an uptick in racially based harassment, and the election of Donald Trump connect? A few month’s ago, I would have said that New Thought has nothing to do with those disturbing trends. But New Thought concepts about the power of the mind…
