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…
The following is excerpted from Mitch Horowitz’s book The Miracle Club (Inner Traditions). BY MITCH HOROWITZ The writer and religion scholar Michael Muhammad Knight saw Spike Lee’s movie Malcolm X at age 15 and began his conversion to Islam. “Can a movie,” Mike wondered, “be sacred scripture?” I strongly believe that it can. For me,…
The following is an excerpt from Mitch Horowitz’s new audio program, Miracle: The Ideas of Neville Goddard By MITCH HOROWITZ Neville Goddard argues, with elegance and suppleness, that we live under one ultimate law of mentation. Is that true? Nothing in his philosophy, or any other, should be taken at face value. When testing a…
BY HARV BISHOP My wife and I are walking into the life of our dreams and yet we have done no formal New Thought affirmative prayer practices for almost two years. We leave for New York and then Europe next month, both long-held bucket list items. Yet this isn’t a one-off, “cross the trip off…
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…
