BY ELIZABETH PURVIS Like so many in our community, I write with a fierce and heavy heart. After the deadly Alt-Right protests in Charlottesville last year, and several incidents of racism and violence since, I am shocked, outraged, sickened, saddened, overwhelmed, and determined. Like so many in our community, I feel so very deeply about…
BY HARV BISHOP How did the racist Alt-Right morph the truism “Change your thinking, change your life” into “Change your thinking, change your country, persecute your neighbor?” Elements of the Alt-Right believe that the power of positive thinking helped to elect Donald Trump and make no mistake: they are pursuing mind power to shape the…
BY STEVE WALLING Harv Bishop’s blog, “New Thought’s Darth Vader Move”, about the far right appropriating New Thought practices shows that these people mistake the tool — the power of thought — for the larger philosophy that guides the use of the tool such as a hammer. However just having a hammer — in this…
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…
