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Cultivating Empathy as Part of Our Spiritual Practice

ByHarv Bishop

BY MARYJANE OSA In “New Thought Dilemma,” Harv Bishop describes a premise underlying many of our teachings: the belief that “you create your own reality.” The logical inference is that each person is responsible for the circumstances of their lives—the good and the bad. Using this as a foundational belief leads to a further consequence:…

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Fight the Power: Rediscovering New Thought’s Radical Hero

ByHarv Bishop

By Mitch Horowitz “The time for thinkers has come; and the time for revolutions, ecclesiastic and social, must come.” —Mary Baker Eddy, 1875 Critics of New Thought often dismiss mental metaphysics as a milquetoast philosophy that uses “happy thoughts” as a lame substitute for social action. But New Thought grew up hand-in-hand with a tradition…