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If misfortune befalls us, it is because we are not thinking correctly. Health is due to correct thought; the truth will set you free and the truth is that you need only faith to be healthy, rich, saved, whatever.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—New Thought movement<sup id="cite_ref-skeptic_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-skeptic-1">[1]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>New Thought</b> is a religion that draws on various traditions, including <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, transcendentalism, and to a lesser extent <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>. Though it generally recognizes a god or "Infinite Intelligence," New Thought is non-doctrinal, non-dogmatic, and rather non-theistic. <a href="/wiki/Spirituality" title="Spirituality">Spirituality</a> is central to New Thought, but how it manifests the divinity of and in each person, differs with each person. </p><p><br /> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#New_Age"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">New Age</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#God_in_New_Thought"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">God in New Thought</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Jesus_in_New_Thought"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Jesus in New Thought</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#.E2.80.9CNew.E2.80.9D_and_.E2.80.9CThought.E2.80.9D"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">“New” and “Thought”</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#International_Metaphysical_Ministry"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">International Metaphysical Ministry</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Examples_of_New_Thought"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Examples of New Thought</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="New_Age">New Age</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Thought&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: New Age">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>New Thought is one of several forerunners to the later <a href="/wiki/New_Age" title="New Age">New Age</a> movement. The now-trendy <a href="/wiki/Law_of_attraction" title="Law of attraction">law of attraction</a> originated in the New Thought movement. Positive thinking can bring people anything they want, especially health and happiness, and the known <a href="/wiki/Placebo_effect" title="Placebo effect">Placebo effect</a> is extended beyond what is scientifically verifiable. The negative side of all this is that people are <a href="/wiki/Blaming_the_victim" title="Blaming the victim">blamed for their own misfortune</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sin" title="Sin">Sin</a> does not exist, but people make mistakes through not understanding their divine nature, and when we suffer, we should work harder to correct our thinking.<sup id="cite_ref-skeptic_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-skeptic-1">[1]</a></sup> Incidentally, New Thought originated in the 19<sup>th</sup> century, and all the early towering figures who promoted New Thought are now dead. Their style of thinking could not prevent old age, sickness, and death. </p><p>New Thought is also one of the antecedents to the <a href="/wiki/Prosperity_gospel" class="mw-redirect" title="Prosperity gospel">prosperity gospel</a> movement, since some of the New Thought advocates applied the idea to business success.<sup id="cite_ref-burton_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-burton-2">[2]</a></sup> Examples of such New Thought advocates are Charles Benjamin Newcomb<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> and William Walter Atkinson.<sup id="cite_ref-burton_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-burton-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="God_in_New_Thought">God in New Thought</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Thought&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: God in New Thought">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> is some form of spiritual energy or intelligence, but not an entity; its exact nature is a mystery, but it is powerful. God is in everything and every human being or everything is in god, yet god is greater than the sum of the universe — see <a href="/wiki/Panentheism" title="Panentheism">panentheism</a>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Jesus_in_New_Thought">Jesus in New Thought</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Thought&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Jesus in New Thought">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Jesus was divine, but according to New Thought, the divine is in everything. According to some in the New Thought movement, Jesus successfully recognized and used his divine nature. <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> is sometimes seen as a spiritual leader who can show us the road.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span id="“New”_and_“Thought”"></span><span class="mw-headline" id=".E2.80.9CNew.E2.80.9D_and_.E2.80.9CThought.E2.80.9D">“New” and “Thought”</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Thought&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: “New” and “Thought”">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Although the particular mix constituting “New Thought” might have been new, it is neither really new, nor does it involve much thought, at least not <a href="/wiki/Critical_thinking" title="Critical thinking">critical thought</a>. This has all been new before and the thoughts have been the same. The only thing different between periods in history is whether the leaders became obscenely rich or not. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="International_Metaphysical_Ministry">International Metaphysical Ministry</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Thought&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: International Metaphysical Ministry">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The International Metaphysical Ministry (IMM) is an <a href="/wiki/Diploma_mill" title="Diploma mill">unaccredited</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> "Transpersonal, Transcendent, Theocentric, Holistic New Thought Metaphysical Ministry." The IMM operates two distance learning organizations, the University of Sedona and the University of Metaphysics, and a number of similar websites from a tiny building on a commercial strip in Sedona, <a href="/wiki/Arizona" class="mw-redirect" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> The IMM's stated purpose "includes the evolution toward the synthesis of science, psychology, transcendentalism, and mysticism so that eventually absolute spiritual truth and absolute scientific psychological truth may compliment and explain each other as one reality."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Examples_of_New_Thought">Examples of New Thought</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Thought&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Examples of New Thought">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Science" title="Christian Science">Christian Science</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Course_in_Miracles" title="A Course in Miracles">A Course in Miracles</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Divine_Science" class="extiw" title="wp:Church of Divine Science" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Church of Divine Science">Church of Divine Science</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Science" class="extiw" title="wp:Religious Science" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Religious Science">Religious Science</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Church" class="extiw" title="wp:Unity Church" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Unity Church">Unity Church</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Thought&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deepak_Chopra" title="Deepak Chopra">Deepak Chopra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heresy" title="Heresy">Heresy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychokinesis" title="Psychokinesis">Psychokinesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/College_of_Metaphysical_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="College of Metaphysical Studies">College of Metaphysical Studies</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Thought&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; 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