AND I SHALL BE HEALED

I have always been familiar with the subject of spiritual healing, since my paternal grandparents

She disentangles the snarls out of my mind.

… [William] James now undertook to raise money for a salary for Richard Hodgson, who was to be the paid secretary of the American Society for Psychical Research. In an effort to cure his intractable insomnia he tried a mind-cure doctor named

Are you determined to see things differently?

12 Rules for Life

My body is a temple.

We make our own happiness or our own misery indenpendant of circumstances - for no matter how sad the circumstances - or unfortunate the surroundings - there is wisdom & happiness enough - we have only to turn to it.

Claim Your Sacred Birthright

You attract the things you give a great deal of thought to. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn

Who we think we are is only 4% of who we really are. The rest of the unseen parts of us is really the 96% and the greater part. Karen Lamark Wilson (Meet Karen Lamark Wilson | Heart of Courage)

Turn your passion into your paycheck

A new revelation of Christianity.

Mr. Quimby pointed back to Christianity, he did not take credit to himself. He saw that for hundreds of years the world had been deprived of an important portion of the gospel of Christ. Hence the teachings which have grown out of Quimby's pioneer work have been said to be nothing less than "a new revelation of Christianity.

Share YOUR Best Self With The World.

You Are Designed to Know What is Best For You

Even though you may think you know what is best for others, you don't. Even though others may believe they know what is best for you, they don't. Each one of us is connected to Divine Intelligence and as individualized expressions of Spirit we receive the inspiration that is ours to be, do, have and share.

You can strengthen your knowing by admitting what you know. If you write down what you know, you draw yourself closer to your higher self. For example, what is the best food for your body? What is the best environment for you to thrive in? What is your natural rhythm? What is the type of work you are best suited for? Basically, what makes your heart sing?

Affirmation:

"Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts"

David Seabury (1885 – 1 April 1960) was an American psychologist, author, and lecturer. While practicing as a consulting psychologist in New York City, he published fifteen books. He founded the Centralist School of Psychology, was the founder and president of the David Seabury School of Psychology, and was president of the Seabury University of Adult Education. He was the son of Julius Dresser (a Quimby patient and student) but chose to use his mother's maiden name. Dr. Seabury legally changed his last name to stand on his own merit. He was well versed in New Thought.

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Mental Healing (II) : Metaphysical Healing

The present decade has experienced an intense interest in mental healing. This has come as a culmination of the development along these lines during the past half century. It has shown itself in the beginning of new religious sects with this as a, or the, fundamental tenet, in more wide-spread general movements, and in the scientific study and application of the principles underlying this form of therapeutics.

Many have been led astray because, being ignorant of the mental healing movements and vagaries of the past, the late applications, veiled in metaphysical or religious verbiage, have seemed to them to be new in origin and principle. No one could consider an historical survey of the subject and reasonably hold this opinion. It is on account of the ignorance of similar movements, millenniums old, that so much, if any, originality can be credited to the founders.

. . .

What we may designate "Metaphysical Healing" originated with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802-1866). The movement was important, not so much on account of what Quimby himself was able to accomplish by it, as because of the work that has been carried on since by at least three of his pupils. He was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and in early life was a watch and clock maker. In 1840 he began experimenting with mesmerism, and accounts of these experiments were published in the Maine papers of that time. After this he developed a system of mental healing of his own, practising it in different towns in Maine for some years. About 1858 he settled as a practitioner in Portland and remained there until his death. I shall quote brief extracts in his own words, which portray his system.

"My practice is unlike all medical practice. I give no medicine, and make no outward applications. I tell the patient his troubles, and what he thinks is his disease; and my explanation is the cure. If I succeed in correcting his errors, I change the fluids of the system and establish the truth, or health. The truth is the cure. This mode of practice applies to all cases."

"The greatest evil that follows taking an opinion for a truth is disease."

"Man is made up of truth and belief; and, if he is deceived into a belief that he has, or is liable to have, a disease, the belief is catching, and the effect follows it."

"Disease being made by our belief, or by our parents' belief, or by public opinion, there is no formula to be adopted, but every one must be reached in his particular case. Therefore it requires great shrewdness or wisdom to get the better of the error. Disease is our error and the work of the devil."

Quimby made many wonderful and mostly speedy cures, and although he wrote out his system, it has never been published. Among his patients was Mrs. Patterson from Hill, New Hampshire, who went to Portland in 1862. She had been a confirmed invalid for six years. To quote her own words, published in the Portland Evening Courier in 1862, she made a rapid recovery. "Three weeks since I quitted my nurse and sick room en route for Portland. The belief of my recovery had died out of the hearts of those who were most anxious for it. With this mental and physical depression I first visited P. P. Quimby, and in less than one week from that time I ascended by a stairway of one hundred and eighty-two steps to the dome of the City Hall, and am improving ad infinitum. To the most subtle reasoning, such a proof, coupled, too, as it is with numberless similar ones, demonstrates his power to heal." Mrs. Patterson, afterward Mrs. Eddy, proclaimed after his death a doctrine very similar to Quimby's. She called it "Christian Science," a name Quimby applied to his teaching, although usually he called it "Science of Health."
Another patient of Quimby's was Julius A. Dresser, who visited him first in 1860. Of him Mr. Dresser says: "The first person in this age who penetrated the depths of truth so far as to discover and bring forth a true science of life, and publicly apply it to the healing of the sick, was Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Belfast, Me."
Rev. W. F. Evans was still another patient and disciple of Quimby's. His testimony is as follows: "Disease being in its root a wrong belief, change that belief and we cure the disease.... The late Dr. Quimby, of Portland, one of the most successful healers of this or any age, embraced this view of the nature of disease, and by a long succession of most remarkable cures ... proved the truth of the theory.... Had he lived in a remote age or country, the wonderful facts which occurred in his practice would have now been deemed either mythical or miraculous."
These three, Messrs. Evans and Dresser and Mrs. Eddy, proved to be Quimby's most famous patients and disciples. Evans became a noted and voluminous writer on mental healing, Mr. Dresser has been identified with the New Thought movement of which his son H. W. Dresser is probably the best exponent, and Mrs. Eddy ruled the Christian Scientists with a rod of iron.
Warren F. Evans visited Quimby twice in the year 1863, and at these times obtained his knowledge of Quimby's methods. Up to this time he had been a Swedenborgian clergyman, and his beliefs enabled him the better to grasp the new doctrines. On the occasion of the second visit he told his healer that he thought he could cure the sick in this way, and Quimby agreed with him. On returning home he tried it, and his first attempts were so successful that he became a practitioner, using only mental means, and continued in this work. He wrote several books on the subject of mental healing, the first one, The Mental Cure, appearing in 1869, six years before Mrs. Eddy's Science and Health.
Perhaps, strictly speaking, the New Thought movement does not come within the scope of our subject, except as we see in it an outgrowth and application of the Quimby doctrine, for two reasons. In the first place, its purpose is mental hygiene rather than cure, and it is all the more valuable for that. Of course, in establishing hygienic practices many disorders are cured, but prevention is the main feature. The second reason why we might perhaps not include it in a résumé of the healers is that it is intended to be for the use of the individual to prevent his employing a healer of any kind. The same objection, however, would do away to some extent with a discussion of Christian Science. The principles of New Thought are that the mind has an influence on the body, and that good, sweet, pure thoughts have a salutary effect, but the opposite ones injure the body. Don't worry, don't think of disease, don't look for trouble, but fill the mind with the opposite positive thoughts and life will be happy and the body will be well. The doctrines are expounded differently by the various leaders, and emphasis is laid on different points, some emphasizing more fully the religious aspects of the movement, for example. The principal writers on the subject are H. W. Dresser, R. W. Trine, H. Wood, and H. Fletcher.
Mrs. Mary A. Morse Baker Glover Patterson Eddy (1821-1910) was born at Bow, New Hampshire. After a precocious and neurotic childhood, she united with the Congregational Church when seventeen years of age. At the age of twenty-two she married George Washington Glover, probably the best of her husbands. His death, six months later, was followed by the birth of her only child and a ten years' widowhood. During this time she stayed with her relatives and had long periods of illness, principally of an hysterical character. She then experimented to some extent with mesmerism and clairvoyance. In 1853 she married Dr. Daniel Patterson, an itinerant dentist, from whom she got a divorce, and as Mrs. Patterson she went first to "Dr." Quimby in 1862. She visited Quimby again in 1864, at which time, with some others, she studied with him. After Quimby's death she began teaching what she then called his science. For the next few years she wandered from town to town about Boston in straitened circumstances, healing, teaching, and endeavoring to found an organized society. It was not, however, until 1875 that the organization was formed in Lynn, and later in the same year appeared her Science and Health. The years since then have been filled with controversies in the law courts and newspapers, caresses and blows from the ruling hand of Mother Eddy, and numerous developments from small beginnings, until now over one hundred thousand are identified with the organization. These are almost without exception proselytes from other churches.

From THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF MENTAL HEALING

BY

GEORGE BARTON CUTTEN, Ph.D.

1911

"How can I live according to the principles of spiritual healing among people who have no sympathy with the new principles ?"

One may easily describe the general conditions of healing, the experience of becoming open to spiritual power, of directing this power to the patient through concentration or suggestion, as well as the physiological process accompanying the mental change. But are we not a bit hasty when, neglecting the real point at issue, we confidently affirm that one factor in particular has wrought the cure ? This favorite factor of ours,—faith, auto-suggestion, telepathy, the prayer of silence, or what not, —like a drug heralded as a great specific, may have been but the last in a long chain of helpful causes which played only the culminating part.

Dedicated To the sick everywhere.

From:

Notes from the Dresser Class - 1887

NOTES ON CLASS LECTURES OF JULIUS DRESSER and ANNETTE DRESSER

Taken by:

Mrs. Harriett Hemmenway

Boston, Mass. January, 1887

In treating another the patient should seem to you all mental - or nothing but thoughts & their sickness the result of their bad thoughts - if you can turn them to see their true self & have the right thought the error will vanish.

The spirit of the man and the truth he preached.

"Every disease is the invention of man, and has no identity in wisdom; but to those who believe it, it is a truth. If everything man does not understand were blotted out, what is there left, of man? Would he be better, or worse, if nine tenths of all he thinks he knows were blotted out of his mind, and he existed with what is true?

"I contend that he would, as it were, sit on the clouds and see the world beneath him tormented with ideas that form living errors, whose weight is ignorance. Safe from their power he would not return to the world's belief for any consideration.

"In a slight degree, this is my case. I sit as it were in another world or condition, as far above the belief in disease as the heavens are above the earth, and though safe myself, I grieve for the sins of my fellow-man; and I am reminded of the words of Jesus when he beheld the misery of his countrymen: `O Jerusalem'. How oft would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens, but ye would not.'

"I hear this truth now pleading with man, to listen to the voice of reason. I know from my own experience with the sick that their troubles are the effect of their own belief; not that their belief is the truth, but their beliefs act upon their minds, bringing them into subjection to their belief, and their troubles are a change that follows.

"Disease is a reality to all mankind; but I do not include myself, because I stand outside of it, where I can see things real to the world and things that are real to wisdom. I know that I can distinguish that which is false from a truth, in religion, or in disease. To me, disease is always false; but to those who believe it, it is a truth, and the errors in religion the same. Until the world is shaken by investigation, so that the rocks and mountains of religious error are removed, and the medical Babylon destroyed, sickness and sorrow will prevail. Feeling as I do, and seeing so many young people go the broad road to destruction, I can say from the bottom of my soul: O Priestcraft! fill up the measure of your cups of iniquity, for on your head will come, sooner or later, the sneers and taunts of the people. Your theory will be overthrown by the voice of wisdom, that will rouse the men of science, who will battle your error, and drive you utterly from the face of the earth. Then there will arise a new science, followed by a new mode of reasoning, which shall teach man that to be wise and well is to unlearn his errors."

The first person of this age who penetrated the depths of truth so far as to discover and bring forth a true science of life, and openly apply it to the healing of the sick.

That man was Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, of Belfast, ME[1].

[1]Belfast is a city in Waldo County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 6668.

THE TRUE HISTORY
OF
MENTAL SCIENCE.
A LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE CHURCH OF THE
DIVINE UNITY, BOSTON, MASS., ON SUNDAY
EVENING, FEB. 6, 1887.
By JULIUS A. DRESSER.

A man of conviction.

Horatio Willis Dresser (1866–1945) was a New Thought religious leader and author. Born January 15, 1866 in Yarmouth, Maine to Julius and Annetta Seabury Dresser. His parents were involved in the early New Thought movement through their study with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. In 1921, after the Library of Congress made Quimby's papers available, Dresser compiled and edited a selection of Quimby's works, The Quimby Manuscripts. Dr. David Seabury was his younger brother.
He was described, in an enthusiastic 1900 Atlanta Constitution article, as:

VISUALIZE TOMORROW, THEN ACT TO MAKE THE PICTURE LIVE

You can’t build the future in the future. You can only plan for it by constructive programs and positive actions today. There is now something for you to take, and something for you to give. Your giving may be only a courteous attention to another man’s ideas, but that is something–in fact, much. When this act of giving and taking is wisely repeated you learn not only that you can produce a constantly unfolding life, but how–which is to some point.

How TO WORRY SUCCESSFULLY

How TO WORRY SUCCESSFULLY—David Seabury
Excerpt

Biographical Sketch of Dr. Phineas P. Quimby

from the Quimby Manuscripts, Ch. 1, by Horatio Dresser, 1921, (Excerpts).

PPQ

...Quimby's writings were not meant for publication, although their author hoped to revise them for a book, and he had already written experimental introductions.... Time has shown that the original teachings have come to possess a value which might not have been theirs had they been published fifty years ago. Now that the teachings are given to the world, many new estimates will be made. The majority of us are little accustomed to thinking in terms of inner experience, without the embellishments of literary art or the interpretations of sects and schools; and some effort will be required to take up the point of view of a writer who wrote precisely as he thought.

I believe that I can heal as you do.

As early as 1857, fairly intelligent accounts of Mr. Quimby's theory and practice began to appear in the newspapers of Maine. The first follower to publish a book on the subject was Rev. W. F. Evans (1817-1889), one of the four exponents of the original theory who have done most to spread the doctrine.

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.

You begin to be healed from the moment you see the sources of trouble in yourself, your attitude and the mode of conduct springing from it;

for you then cease to blame your neighbors and your God, and begin with yourself.

HEALING in the spiritual sense of the word begins with the discovery of our inner powers as children of God, made in His image and likeness. ... it is never a mere question of illnesses and external obstacles to be surmounted, but of the attitudes, beliefs, habits, which underlie external conditions and give them their power over us.

Horatio W. Dresser

His parents, Julius A and Annetta Seabury Dresser were patients/students of Quimby along with Mary Baker Eddy.

Horatio was perhaps the first child to grow up in New Thought.