David Seabury, as many of you know, is an eminent psychologist,
teacher and author. He was the first consulting psychologist in the country, I
believe. He tells the story of being announced over the radio, in San Francisco
some years ago. The announcer said,
"And now, ladies and gentlemen, I am
delighted to introduce to you David Seabury, the man who brought psychology out
of the lavatory!"
…
I have been Seabury's associate for many years, and it was
through him that I came to my study of Swedenborg. He is a Swedenborgian, as
were his father and mother before him. His brother, Paul Dresser, was a Swedenborgian
minister.
Now at present, I am associated with a very large New Thought,
church in New York. The father of New Thought is generally acknowledged to be
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. David told me, when he was in New York this winter,
something that is not generally known by the followers of New Thought. He said
that his father and mother read Swedenborg to Quimby quite regularly. So also
did the Ware sisters, who were Swedenborgians and patients of Quimby.
The influence of Swedenborg on New Thought is very evident to
me, although the present leaders of the movement are not aware of it. Their
most profound beliefs stem directly from Swedenborg. But they have gotten the
theories second hand, from Quimby, Emerson and others.
NEW-CHURCHMESSENGER 1958
by Alfred Uhler
by Alfred Uhler
The Image of God in Man Paul Dresser Published by The New Church, 1920Dresser was pastor of the Bath Society Maine. Dedicated to the Founders and Builders of The New Church in Bath, Maine.
Rev. Paul Dresser was lecturing on the Psychology of
Suggestion, and he was giving formulae for inducing sleep in cases of insomnia.
To prove the value of his teaching, there were at least four tired hikers
enjoying peaceful repose and peace in the Land of Oblivion. http://fryeburg.org/first7years
"A Brief History of the FNCA" 1914-1968
1922 :Rev. Harold Gustafson and Rev. Paul Dresser were added to the faculty. http://fryeburg.org/briefhistory
See also Exploring the Spirit of Maine By Karen Batignani
Writing in 1908, Richard C. Cabot, perhaps the leading American
medical advocate of psychotherapy, conceded that "a great deal which
physicians have now taken into their practice they really owe to Quimby and to
Christian Science." [ As quoted in
Weiss, The American Myth of Success, 199-200.]
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