“Those
early religious movements – Christian Science, New Thought and the Emmanuel Movement – attracted many Americans who believed that mental
health was, or should be, a function of religion. This ideological kinship strengthened the
image of Freud as a mental healer and
thus favorably influenced the American reception of psychoanalysis.” So concludes “THE AMERICAN RECEPTION OF SIGMUND
FREUD” [1] by Ruth Pedersen
Hunsberger
Emmanuel
Movement, MEB,
Christian
Science, Horatio
W. Dresser, Julius
Dresser, New
Thought, Phineas
Parkhurst Quimby, Warren
Felt Evans, William James,
Elwood
Worcester, Ralph
Waldo Trine, Samuel McComb,
Richard
Clarke Cabot, Isador
Henry Coriat, Thomas
Parker Boyd, are all mentioned.
It
talks of Freud and his positive
reception by New Thought
when
he visited the states in 1909 and really is quite good.
The
only thing I would caution on is that Quimby didn’t make disease real, he
firmly believed that disease was an invention of man.
“Mind-cure, or Christian Science, is called by people outside of New England a Boston craze. No other city has developed the system to such an extent as Boston and probably in no other place are there as many disciples of mental healing. Four recognized heads of as many different schools reside in this vicinity and hundreds of followers swell the list of believers. A system of healing, claiming so many adherents and recognized so largely by many eminent men, deserves to be better understood than it is at present by the large majority of people.” Boston Morning Journal 1884
“Where physicians are indifferent to the value of mental and spiritual forces in overcoming disease, then we may look for a full crop of queer cults which have been misleading large numbers of people in recent years. The people want to know what help there is along this line….The rapid growth of these strange cults covered all over with such nonsense as would tend to crush them is a significant symptom of our twentieth century life. Let the physician be more fully instructed in the medical schools and in the principles of psychology. The mood and the need of our age imperatively demand it.” Charles Reynolds Brown, Dean of the Yale Divinity School, stated in 1910
I also liked the idea that books
recommended to read for healing did not include one title relating to
God and the kingdom of heaven.
Much of what she says can explain
the appeal of the current New Age movement today.
"We cannot learn what is right if we secretly insist that we already know it. Now, this statement seems quite obvious; a man would quickly agree with it. Yet, there is something drastically wrong somewhere. If a man _truly_ sees that he does not know rightness, his very emptiness leaves room for it, _which changes the man into a freer state_. If a man does _not_ change, it means just one thing: he fearfully clings to the false assumption that he already knows rightness, which blocks entrance of genuine rightness." Vernon Linwood Howard
Physical issues, Spiritual issues and Personality issues. Do you want to stop worrying?
And we know that everything works together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. Romans 8:28
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