P.P. Quimby: We exist within the One Presence, the One Spirit.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby(1802-1866), who was known as "Park," was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and died in Belfast, Maine, where he lived most of his life. Quimby was an accomplished clockmaker, inventor, and Daguerreotypist. In the late 1830s, he learned of mesmerism and became an expert mesmerist. With a youth named Lucius Burkmar, he gave demonstrations of mesmerism, including to some extent its healing powers. Quimby came to question accepted theories of what was happening in mesmerism and eventually developed his own system of spiritual healing.


He believed that what Jesus had taught was absolute truth which was lost for centuries after by being swallowed up by the politics of organized religion. He unfolded this truth slowly but toward the end of his life on this plane of existence he had unfolded a preponderance of the truth that had been lost for so long a time.

Dr. Quimby claimed that all mental and most physical diseases were the result of faulty reasoning. He said “the explanation is the cure.” He treated over 12,000 to 15,000 people in the last 15 years of his life, using his own unique process which he termed “The Quimby System.” He also found that many religious beliefs and opinions were the root cause of a great percentage of all the diseases he treated. Quimby claimed that disease is not the cause of illness, but is the effect of a conflict existing within the mind.

Among his patients were Warren Felt Evans, Julius and Annetta Dresser and Mary Eddy Baker of Christian Science,

Quimby’s philosophy covered certain ideas which enrich life in all ways.
Beliefs determine happiness or the lack of it.
Beliefs can be changed.
Life responds to our beliefs.
We exist within the One Presence, the One Spirit.
We have access to the One
He is considered the “Father of New Thought