BY HARV BISHOP A woman facing a life-threatening illness is empowered by New Thought ideas. Another woman grieving the death of baby grandchild was told at a New Thought church that the death was caused by the parents’ consciousness. These are stories from readers of our five-week series on New Thought: What Works, What Needs…
BY HARV BISHOP The unalterable New Age belief that there are no accidents ironically began as an historical accident of sorts, Mitch Horowitz writes in his book “One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life.” This belief has been popularized by everyone from Deepak Chopra to Kung Fu Panda. In 1886, mental healer Warren…
BY HARV BISHOP It’s time to stop hiding behind the Law of Attraction to explain tragedy and misfortune says New Thought historian Mitch Horowitz. The good news is New Thought can help us reach our highest potential, explains Horowitz, but it can also be used as a security blanket to avoid life’s tragedies and mysteries….
BY HARV BISHOP In collective consciousness – which is mob mentality played out on a cosmic scale – history’s angels and badasses never really go away. A strange brew of fact and fiction results when the idea that all minds are linked outside space and time is combined with the Law of Attraction – the…
BY HARV BISHOP New Thought is in need of a reformation, says author Mitch Horowitz, and the movement can start by remembering that no one gets out of this world alive. An absolutist view that your thinking creates 100 percent of your reality neglects “that we live under physical limitations. Mortality alone tells us that,”…
