Happy New Year.

I`m grateful I`ve blogged over 380 entries, exhausted almost all of the New Thought authors, discovered the Ancient Mysteries, prophecies, planetary alignments and doom and gloom are nothing new and largely just sensationalism or MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING(they sell books).

I`ve had 109 countries visit and got MOS certified too.

Don`t expect the world to change unless you change the way you look at the world.

Once the veil is lifted from your eyes and you see Truth and understand “this world” for the fantasy it is, you will never again be able to see it the way you did before. The veil is removed in Christ (which is Light - or understanding).
REGARDING THE WORLD OF APPEARANCES [Jane Woodward] Sept. 2005

A lot of people will be in denial when nothing happens over 2012.
Please use common sense.

There is no separation. God is all and God is Mind, thus all which appears to be - is in Mind, and actually is Mind. Understanding comes of Sound Mind, the True and Only Mind. The body, as you think of it, is "in Mind" as well.
“THE BODY [2005]” BY: Jane Woodward

The key to this year COOPERATION.

Love, Light and Laughter!

“Mastery”:

Not all at once can the soul master its objective passions, and be truly ethical in its outer life. True wisdom consists in careful adjustment of means to ends, in slow, patient, persistent overcoming in close imitation of natural evolution, not in assuming that the victory is already won. It is a serious mistake to make this assumption. The entire life must be regenerated; and this is the work of time, for otherwise it is not healthy. He is truly aware of the higher law who at last really begins to practise what he preaches, when he at last obeys the law, and ceases once for all to be a hypocrite. This it is to be a man: to be and not seem, to do and not simply to talk, to have the right ideal, the true motive, and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

[1] ~ Horatio W. Dresser ~ 1896

[1] Dresser is borrowing from the Epistulae Selectae of Pliny the Younger:

“This it is to be a man: to be and not seem, to do and not simply to talk, to have the right ideal, the true motive, and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.”

Ancient Mysteries: Recycled bunk or Legitimate?

W. J. Colville (1862–1917)[ William Wilberforce Juvenal Colville] Colbville wrote about the Occult, Theosophy and Spiritism among other things.

This is a curiosity:

The Relation of Thought to Health

Leander E. Whipple (1848-1916) was a teacher and practiced mental healing in Hartford, Conn. and New York City and authored several books. A native of Southborough, Mass, he used the term “mental science” when he began his work as mental healer. The interest aroused by his highly successful work made him a pioneer in mental healing.


He founded the Metaphysical Publishing Co. in 1893 in New York. In addition to publishing, it sold books and advertised that it would

“supply any number of copies of any book relating to Meta Physics, Philosophy, or any of the Mental Sciences and works on kindred subjects – which are its speciality. Also any book on any subject published in any part of the world. Those having overstocked libraries or possessing CHOICE EASTERN WORKS to sell or exchange should write us, giving full descriptions and prices.”

He founded The Metaphysical Magazine, a monthly review devoted to science, psychology, philosophy, metaphysics, and occult subjects. It was the first magazine devoted to mental healing in the country.
He began teaching metaphysics by correspondence before starting the American School of Metaphysics in New York. The science of metaphysics investigates first causes of existence and knowledge and seeks to explain the nature of being and the origin and structure of the world, uniting man’s physical, mental, and spiritual character

“into its true nature of holism.”

He predicted Metaphysics would influence the work of ministers and teachers in handling the emotional and physical problems of youth and maturity and in dealing with the sick and dying. He taught that

“the true metaphysician is a combination of teacher, healer, and counselor and espoused universal spirituality.”

During his 30 years of teaching, he authored a number of books including The Philosophy of Mental Healing in 1893. It addressed metaphysics versus hypnotism, mental healing and surgery, telepathy, thought images, the effects of fright, mental causes, curative influences, the law of correspondences, etc.
He wrote Mental Healing in 1905 and Practical Health in 1907. The latter discussed the effect that the mind has on cases of sickness either for good or bad. His A Manual of Mental Science (1911) gave concise rules for the application of mental science to everyday living. He wrote Healing Influences in 1913 which in 14 chapters described “The True Healing Power, Mental Processes and Healing Results, The Relation of Thought to Health, True and False Conceptions of Mental Science, Metaphysics and Health, The Idea and Its Image, Symbolism In Mentality, and Spiritual Healing.

Elizabeth Stuart, Leander’s teacher, was a member of an organization known as “Humanity.” which identified Truth as being established

“through the law of polar or real opposites and its twin sister, the law of contradictories, revealed to man by the science of numbers. It is to that science man must look for a solution of the problems of life in their varied relations.”

She also taught that the “imaging faculty is the highest known to man; through it he expressed the ideal, and it is the means by which he expresses to the senses whatever intellect accepts, thus forming the relation between mind and body. Through that open door fear enters and stamps upon the body distorted, untrue mental images, which physicians name, then proceed to try to erase from the body by physical means."

“As a man thinketh, that he be becometh. As is the mind, so is the thought; as is the thought, so is the image expressed in form externally. Let him who would have pure blood keep his picture-gallery free from impurity. Whatever he does not desire to appear in the external, must be watchfully kept out of mind. Once there, its picture hangs upon the inner walls ready for the favorable moment to appear. The imaging faculty is both cause and cure for all bodily discord.”

God is not God’s name.

God is our name for that which is greater than all and yet present in all.
- Reverend Forrest Church.

Frank Forrester Church IV (1948 - 2009) was a leading Unitarian Universalist minister, author, and theologian. He was Senior Minister of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City, until late 2006 when he was appointed as Minister of Public Theology. Church is best known as a leader of liberal religion. He wrote or edited more than 20 books. These include technical studies of Christian and Gnostic literature, as well as over a dozen books addressing a wider audience.

New Thought, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Ossian Everett Mills

The influence of the New Thought movement on Mills and Sinfonia was recognized by Rollin M. Pease (Supreme Historian, 1926-1934) in his words “A symphony of life our Master led.” In keeping with other references in his text, this is an allusion not only to a heroic figure, but also to Mills. The Symphony of Life was a book written by Henry Wood in 1901, which achieved world-wide fame. Wood’s writing was described as

“semi-mystical philosophy which professes to solve the mystery of the connection between mind and matter.”

A literary review described The Symphony of Life as “interpretations of the ‘higher evolution’ that has been in process in the thoughts of men” and said,

“Mr. Wood is not an extremist concerning the healing power resident in the new philosophy of life. What he says on this point is sane, and would commend itself to the approval of all schools of thinkers. The essays contain much that is suggestive and valuable on the art of making life beautiful and happy.”

The works of Henry Wood were concerned in large part with mental healing.

“The principles of New Thought are that the mind has an influence on the body, that good thoughts have a salutary effect and bad thoughts are injurious.”

The New Thought incorporated the views of Rev. W. F. Evans, a Swedenborgian clergyman, who became a noted and voluminous writer on mental healing. Evans was a disciple of Phineas Quimby (as was MBE, principal founder of Christian Science), who practiced methods in America similar to those of Swedenborg and Chevalier de Barbarin, who influenced the beginning of the spiritualist movement in Europe. In his 1908 book The New Old Healing, Henry Wood describes the healing power of music (http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/12/music-as-healing-power.html). One cannot fail to see the clear alignment of this New Thought philosophy on music with the musical aesthetics of subjectivity and feeling discussed earlier.

“Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality - Father Mills.”

Some distinguished members of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity

• Andrew Carnegie, 1835–1919 (Alpha Honorary 1917; founder of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company which later became United States Steel; Philanthropist; Namesake of Carnegie-Mellon University, Carnegie Hall, and numerous libraries; By virtue of his birthdate, most likely to be the "third Sinfonian to be born", behind Theodore Thomas, born earlier in 1835, and Major Henry Lee Higginson, born in 1834)
• George Eastman, 1854–1932 (Alpha Nu Honorary 1927, Alpha Alpha National Honorary 1941(?); founded Eastman Kodak Company, invented the roll of film, namesake of Eastman School of Music)
• Elmer Bernstein, 1922-2004 (Gamma Omega 1964; American film score composer known for The Ten Commandments, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Meatballs, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, and Airplane!).
• John Cacavas, 1930–present (Iota 1951; Composer of music from television shows including Hawaii Five-O, Kojak, The Bionic Woman, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, the films Airport 1975 and Airport '77; wrote the theme song for the 2005 video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. The song, "March Popakov Remix", was sampled by DJ Danger Mouse and is used frequently in the game).
• Bill Conti, 1942–present* (Beta Omega 1960; Film and television composer, including Rocky, the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Cagney & Lacey, and the ABC Evening News) • Nelson S. Riddle, Jr., 1921–1985 (Gamma Omega Honorary 1967; Bandleader, Arranger, Orchestrator; Noted for the soundtrack of the 1960s Batman television series and movie)
• David Rose* (Gamma Omega Honorary 1968; Wrote music for The Red Skelton Show and Bonanza; Known for 1962 Billboard #1 hit The Stripper; Married to actress Judy Garland)
• Thomas Dewey, 1902–1971 (Epsilon 1920, Alpha Alpha National Honorary 1946; Governor of New York, 1943–1955; Republican nominee for President of the United States, 1944 and 1948; Author of Journey to the Far Pacific (1952) and Thomas E. Dewey on the Two Party System (1966). In addition, Dewey served as president of the Epsilon Chapter at the University of Michigan and as the Fraternity's supreme historian from 1922 to 1924.)
• Frank De Vol, 1911-1999 (Gamma Omega Honorary 1962, Sometimes simply known as "De Vol", American arranger, composer and actor; Recognized for his television theme tunes for Family Affair, The Brady Bunch, and My Three Sons, the latter of which was a hit single in 1961. As an actor, appeared in several TV series, such as I Dream of Jeannie, Bonanza, Petticoat Junction, The Brady Bunch, Get Smart (at least 2 appearances as Prof. Carleton), and The Jeffersons (where he portrayed a sad jingle-writer who moved into Mr. Bentley's vacant apartment), as well as the movie The Parent Trap)
• Nelson Eddy, 1901–1967 (New Zeta Honorary 1936; Baritone & Actor, performed at 1941 inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
• Art Gilmore, 1912–2010 (Chi 1934; Radio Personality; T.V. Announcer for The Waltons, The Amazing Howard Hughes, The Red Skelton Show, Garner Ted Armstrong & The World Tomorrow; Actor, Moonbeams, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Adam-12, Dragnet)
• Andy Griffith, 1926–present f (Alpha Rho 1946; Starred in title roles in The Andy Griffith Show, 1960–1968, and Matlock, 1986–1995)
• Lyle Russell Cedric "Skitch" Henderson, 1918–2005 (Original conductor for The Tonight Show and The Today Show)
• Sy Mann (Pianist & Arranger for The Arthur Godfrey Show)
• Mitch Miller, 1911–present ‡ (Record producer, host of 1960s show Sing Along With Mitch of "follow the bouncing ball" fame)
• Fred Rogers, 1928–2003 f (Xi Psi Honorary 1987; Creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, 1968–2001) • Bo Diddley, 1928-2008 ‡ (Eta Omega Honorary 1999; Rock & Roll pioneer, Member Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) • Lee Loughnane, 1946–present (Kappa Phi 1965; founding member of Chicago rock band) • James Pankow, 1947–present (Kappa Phi 1966; founding member of Chicago rock band)
• Walter Parazaider, 1945–present (Kappa Phi 1964; founding member of Chicago rock band) • Glenn Hughes (singer), 1950–2001 (Kappa Pi 1970; founding member of The Village People, 1970s gay iconic pop band) • Ruben Studdard, 1978–present (Omicron Delta 1997; pop singer, [2003 American Idol winner])
• Shay Watson (Iota Nu 1994, founding member of Watson and Nash)
• Jimmy Webb, 1946–present (Pi Tau Honorary 1969, American songwriter, known for "Up, Up and Away" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix". His songs have been recorded or performed by Glen Campbell, The 5th Dimension, The Supremes, Richard Harris, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Isaac Hayes, R.E.M., and Chet Atkins, among others.)

Enlightenment ideals. In these groups men gather strength, support, and inspiration to advance music through their fraternal bonds, their shared devotion to spiritual ideals, and the earnest search for Truth and Beauty.

"So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial." Ossian Everett Mills (What are the Possibilities of Sinfonia: Optimism Runs High in Phi Mu Alpha, 1912)

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (also known as Phi Mu Alpha, or simply Sinfonia) is an American collegiate social fraternity for men with a special interest in music. The fraternity is open to men "who, through a love for music, can assist in the fulfillment of [its] Object and ideals either by adopting music as a profession, or by working to advance the cause of music in America."


Ossian Everett Mills(1856 - 1920) was the founder of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts on October 6, 1898. Often referred to as the "Father of Sinfonia", Mills was a familiar figure at annual conventions until his last years when his work would not permit his leaving Boston. He served the fraternity as its first and fourth supreme president (1901-1902 and 1904–1905) and was elected "Honorary Grand Supreme President for Life" in 1904.

"Let our friendship be marked by kind words, kind deeds, and lasting cooperation in our common work; and, remembering that our inspiration is from on High, from the God of all creatures, we should ever be constant in our humble attitude to this great source. Let our sincerity be manifest to all. Hypocrisy should be unknown to us, and a solicitude for our fellows should dominate our every word and action. Then our nobility will shine forth in our characters..." Ossian Everett Mills (The President's Message, 1902)

"I assure you that we men, all of us, need, perhaps more than we think, to withdraw from the active, noisy, materialistic rush of the world, not to mention the sensuous, intoxicating, social pleasures of life that minister only to the flesh, and in peaceful quiet meditate upon and consider together some of the deep things of life, listen to the voice of the Eternal and be taught by the infinite spirit of truth." (Greetings and other things from Father Mills, 1909)

"One of the most beautiful spectacles is to see men mutually interested in each other, so much so, that like 'David and Jonathan' they are ready to sacrifice, even to the laying down of their lives, for their brothers..." Ossian Everett Mills (Sinfonia-Yesterday, 1910)

The first Metaphysical Convention was held in Boston in 1889. Like Emerson, the New Thought societies did not define themselves with any particular form of creed or belief. The leaders advocated attendance at the already established churches and wished “to leaven all churches with their spirit, and not to form a new denomination to contend with the old ones.”


In 1891 George Williams(Supreme President 1903-1904) began attending the New England Conservatory15 and joined the Christian Endeavor society. He wrote:

During my sophomore year at college I attended church services at the great Tremont Temple. The pastor was Dr. George C. Lorimer[http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/12/george-claude-lorimer.html]… one of the most brilliant and powerful speakers I have ever heard… Under his persuasive preaching, all my somewhat scattered spiritual impressions were brought to a focus…
As I recall, it was about this time that I established a definite daily Quiet Hour Period, which I have maintained to the present time. Year by year this period of prayer and meditation has become more and more precious; and I now look forward to it as the most helpful and inspiring period of the entire day.
What do we of this noisy world need more than to learn how to be still, lest we lose all contact with our soul? To my mind, we are suffering, not from a loss of theological beliefs, but from a loss of solitude. Afraid to be alone, we are always going places, but in reality never getting anywhere.
Whatever our task, it will be better done if we definitely reserve some time each day for a Quiet Hour Period with God. Ten minutes each day—if not more—of quiet meditation and prayer—“a little hush amid the rush,” will help us, in the words of Plato, to “re-collect ourselves.” Surely there is something in the soul that is blood-relative to God. And thus the soul of all improvement is the improvement of the soul. As Pascal[http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/12/pascal.html]once remarked,

“The heart has reasons which the Reason does not know.”

“Music as a Healing Power”

from The New Old Healing by Henry Wood, 1908.

The systematic use of music as a therapeutic agent has engaged the attention of a few specialists during the past few years, though but little general interest in the subject has yet been awakened. We congratulate ourselves upon the modern cultivation of voice and instrument, and yet have little appreciation of their possible restorative potency.

A general impression prevails to the effect that almost every art or science back in the past ages was but crude, or rudimentary, in comparison with the standard of to-day. And many would think, at first glance, that music as a healing instrumentality is but a recent development, whether it be mostly a fad, or otherwise. But the most superficial investigation of the subject will show that the present philosophy of musical healing is but a slight modern revival of principles which have been far better understood in times long past than in this self-satisfied era.

In reality musical restoration is but a variety of mind cure. Through the awakening of certain emotions which take hold upon the nerve-center, a change is produced in the status of the whole organism.

Musical vibrations can have no direct effect upon the body, as animate matter, but through the ear as a medium they change certain mental conditions which by means of the nervous equipment thrill the organism, and modify its action from head to foot. But human personality is variable, so that any scientific classification, or formula of specific principles, can hardly be laid down with accuracy. While as a rule certain kinds of music may soothe and act as a sedative, and others as a tonic or stimulant, and some as a simple diversion, still subtle individual idiosyncrasy is so variant that it will always remain an important element. In any case, efficacy must largely depend upon the interest and faith of the patient. While the same harmony of concordant sounds in itself will not produce quite the same effect upon different temperaments, the optimistic expectation of each is important. The precise nature of the external means is not significant, but the subjective impression upon the soul is all important.

A comprehensive history of the employment of musical therapeutics embracing all ages and civilization would be of great psychological interest. One comprehensive law would run through all. Great basic principles are proved and even become axiomatic by the examination of a great array of facts and phenomena which occur under conditions often outwardly unlike. These few instances and events might be reduplicated to any extent. From the most ancient historical records, forward, the proofs of musical healing are many and undoubted. Back in the childhood of the race the physician, priest and musician formed a closely related trio for the assuagement of human woes. The occult power of the priesthood, and the charm of melody, were held to be superior to the drug. Notwithstanding superstition prevailed, and oracle, omen and charm were common, they were not entirely irrational or without use. Their effect upon the mind was keenly observed.

There was no cold scientific materialism to cause unbelief, and faith in unseen potency was prevalent and easily aroused.

We moderns may look back with contempt upon the early ages, but were we not too proud we might learn much. While we would not go back to ancient conditions, there was a child-like responsiveness and intuitive spontaneity which possess a peculiar charm and altogether make up an element largely lacking in modern intellection. There is little subtle and delicate poesy in the present era, but rather an all-prevailing prosaism.

Back in the dawn of history in the days of Troy we learn that when the pest rages beneath the city walls it was driven away by music. In Rome 364 B.C. Etrurian flute players dancing through the streets banished the plague which was depopulating the city. The harp cured melancholia as demonstrated in the case of Saul.

Melodious sounds were often effective in freeing the victim of demoniacal possession. Pythagoras wrought wonderful cures through the systematic ministry of melody. Many physicians prescribed music for the recovery from madness. The great Galen recommended melodious strains as an antidote for the bite of a viper or scorpion.

Books enough to make a vast library have been written upon the influence of sweet sounds in disease and many of them are filled with the details of remarkable cases and cures. The disorder treated were in no wise limited to those of a nervous character. The great number of treatises upon the subject were, as a rule, written in Latin and published, notably during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Harmonic compositions, and also sentimental, artistic and immaterial means and methods were utilized to change the current of the human mind and thereby take the man out of himself. An intelligent and persistent effort in this direction would largely provide for the disuse of our modern asylums.

The multiform appliances which have been used to break up abnormally fixed thought are significant, and yet general observation as to the principles involved, is most superficial. If any human being is mentally crystallizing into morbidity he should be jostled or turned about, until a new combination is formed.

Whether music, poetry, sentiment or travel be the external and incidental means for the installation of a new state of consciousness, they are but suggestions in the direction of the great inner Fact. Either of them may be the fulcrum by the use of which the subject lifts himself into a condition of harmony and health.

Uplifting or entrancing vibrations therefore form one of the efficient methods of psychical reconstruction. As a modus operandi, if more freely illogical it may appear what matters it, provided the result be beneficent?

We are ever brought back to the basic and all-inclusive problem: How, and through what appliance, mental or physical, can an adequate and saving faith be evolved and a strong expectation awakened in man?

Henry Wood, The New Old Healing (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.: Boston, 1908)

The "New Age" movement has brought nothing "new".
They've repackaged the "old".

Pascal

Blaise Pascal (1623 –1662), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method. He rejected rationalism and empiricism (which are in contrast with idealism).

In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines, and after three years of effort and 50 prototypes he invented the mechanical calculator. He built twenty of these machines (called the Pascaline) in the following ten years. Pascal was a mathematician of the first order. He helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following Galileo and Torricelli, in 1646 he refuted Aristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. His results caused many disputes before being accepted.

In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism. His father died in 1651. Following a mystical experience during a brush with death in late 1654, he had his "second conversion", abandoned his scientific work, and devoted himself to philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: “the Lettres provincials” and “the Pensées”, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits. In this year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetical triangle. Between 1658 and 1659 he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids.

Pascal had poor health especially after his eighteenth year and his death came just two months after his 39th birthday.

George Claude Lorimer

George Claude Lorimer [Dr. George C. Lorimer] (1838 - 1904) was a noted reverend, and was pastor of several churches around the United States, most notably the Tremont Temple in Boston, Massachusetts. In Louisville, Kentucky, he came under the influence of Reverend W.W. Everts, who turned Lorimer to Christianity. He was ordained in the Baptist Ministry, first holding brief pastorates in Harrodsburg, Kentucky and Paducah, Kentucky, and then for eight years at the Walnut Street Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. After another brief term in Albany, New York, he next took up an office at the Tremont Temple in Boston, where he would serve as pastor for twenty-one years, with some interruptions. Early in February, 1879, the financially distressed First Baptist Church of Chicago extended a call to Lorimer to come there from the Tremont Temple, and on May 4, 1879, he preached his first sermon as pastor of the Chicago congregation. Lorimer's pastorate was "successful in the highest degree", and by January, 1881, the church raised sufficient means to pay a substantial portion of its debt. On September 25, 1881. Lorimer delivered his farewell sermon in Chicago, returning to the Tremont Temple and leaving a gift of $1,600 to the reorganized Chicago congregation. In 1901 he took up a new pastorate for the last time, at the Madison Avenue Baptist Church in New York City.

Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré

Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré is a town in La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, Quebec[4], Canada, along the Saint Lawrence River, 35 kilometers (22 mi) north-east of the Quebec City. The population was 2,803 according to the Canada 2006 Census. The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré is located in the town.
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré stands in a rolling agricultural country, with the foothills of the Laurentian Mountains in the background. The first church was built by sailors who would often become ship-wrecked off Ile-Oeuf on their way to Quebec City. Saint Anne is the patron saint of sailors.
The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré is a major Roman Catholic place of pilgrimage and has a copy of Michelangelo's Pietà[1] (the original is in the Vatican City). The basilica is also known as a place of miracles. One of the builders of the original church, Louis Guimont, helped build the church despite having severe scoliosis and needing the aid of a crutch. When the church was complete, he was able to walk independently. Subsequent visitors to the church who have prayed have left their canes, crutches and walking aides behind as testament to their healing. The main wall when you first walk into the basilica is now completely covered with crutches.
In addition to the basilica, the town contains numerous religious edifices, the chief being the Scala Santa[2], built in imitation of the Holy Stairs in Rome.


[1] Michelangelo's St. Peter's Pietà. The Pietà (pl. same; Italian for pity) is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture.



[2]The Scala Sancta (English: Holy Stairs, Italian: Scala Santa) are, according to the Christian tradition, the steps that led up to the praetorium[3] of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem, which Jesus Christ stood on during his Passion on his way to trial.
[3]The term praetorium, also spelled prœtorium or pretorium, was originally used to identify the general’s tent within a Roman castra, castellum, or encampment.

[4]Quebec is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay, to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick. It is bordered on the south by the US states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia.

Material riches is not life, it is only a means for living.

To the Psalmist, fear is a destroyer of calmness and peace of mind ; therefore, he prays,

"Hear my voice, 0 God, in my prayer ; preserve my life from fear."

But, the same Psalmist tells us, those who take refuge in God have no cause for fear, for God is with them always, watching over them, that no evil may befall them. Absolute trust and confidence in God is the best shield against fear.

"The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear ?"

"The Lord is the stronghold of my life ; of whom shall I be afraid?"

"Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear."

This intense faith carries the Psalmist safely through all danger and affliction.

Faith in God, we see thus, is given as the antidote to fear. This faith must be genuine; it must be felt as sincerely as did the Psalmist. . . .And the fact that He resides in man, is the best assurance that man is protected against the invasion of forces hostile and destructive to his existence. God dwells in man, His presence is a tower of strength and a shield to guard him from all ill. Man must realize this truth, and the realization of it will drive out all fear.

Fear takes its inception from the fact that man feels himself to be alone in this world. When confronted with danger, he believes that the task of extricating himself from imminent peril lies upon himself, and at the same time regards himself as too feeble and insignificant to avert the impending calamity.

Material riches is not life, it is only a means for living.

From Conquest of Fear By Morris Lichtenstein
Morris Lichtenstein (1889–1938) was the founder of the Society of Jewish Science. Born in Lithuania, he later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he was ordained by the Reform Hebrew Union College in 1916, becoming the first Eastern European student to ever study at the institution. Lichtenstein served as a Rabbi in Amsterdam, Troy, and New York City, where he received a Master's degree in Psychology from Columbia University in 1919. He briefly served a congregation in Athens, Georgia before moving back to New York to marry Tehilla Hirshenson in 1920. Together they founded the Society of Jewish Science in 1921.

Smart Meters and Health

SAY NO

B.C.'s provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall said the meters emit the same kind of radiation as cell phones, microwaves and baby monitors.

Given that cell phones, wi-fi and smart meters all transmit information with radio frequency waves, some members of the public have also argued that these devices, as well as baby monitors, and FM radio, which also use radio frequency transmission, be curtailed or banned.

Dr. Perry Kendall, British Columbia’s provincial health officer, recognizes these concerns. Dr. Kendall and his colleagues across the country regularly review information and new science as it becomes available, and have established ongoing review mechanisms to ensure that new knowledge is assessed quickly. http://www.bccdc.ca/healthenv/Radiation/ElectromagRadiation/CelluarandPCSDevices/PerryKendallCellPhoneStatement.htm

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This site provides a collection of Dr. Havas's publications, technical reports, open letters, testimony as an expert witness at hearings, and invited presentations on chemical and electromagnetic contaminants.

• General Web Site http://www.magdahavas.com/

My research deals with the health effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic energy at the extremely low frequency range associated with electricity (60 Hertz) and at the radio frequency range commonly associated with wireless telecommunication. I am particularly interested in monitoring exposure of the population in urban centres to radio frequency radiation and power-frequency fields. Since children are more sensitive than adults to the potentially harmful effects of EMFs I have been trying to encourage school boards to measure magnetic fields within their schools as part of their health and safety program. I also provide information to people who are concerned about antennas, power lines or transformers being built near their residence and am currently trying to help with a Private Member's Motion that will establish guidelines and standards that reflect recent scientific studies and will truly protect public health.
Articles at her website

1. WiFi “Laptops” affect male fertility
2. Wi-Fi in Schools is Safe. True or False?
3. Advice for Health Canada regarding Wi-Fi, cell phone antennas, and other forms of radio frequency emitting devices.
4. Multiple Sclerosis and Dirty Electricity
   

• Trent University http://www.trentu.ca/academic/ihs/mhavas.html

YouTube

1. Welcome to Planet Irth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtb8dTgB3LE
2. WiFi in schools and health effects of microwave radiation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-TJXRc5fzo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
3. Cell Phones & Cigarettes: What do they have in Common? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4uz2TUcwnI&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in (Central-Eastern) southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres (78 mi) northeast of Toronto. Peterborough is known as the gateway to the Kawarthas, "cottage country", a large recreational region of the province. The Kawartha lakes are a band of lakes in south-central Ontario, Canada that form the upper watershed of the Trent River. The lakes all lie upon the boundary between the Paleozoic limestone regions of the Golden Horseshoe, and the Precambrian granite Canadian Shield of northern and central Ontario.

"Kawartha" is an anglicization of the word "Ka-wa-tha" (from "Ka-wa-tae-gum-maug" or Gaa-waategamaag), a word coined in 1895 by aboriginal Martha Whetung of the Curve Lake First Nations. It was hoped that the word, which meant "land of reflections" in the Anishinaabe language, would provide a convenient and popular advertising label for the area. The word was subsequently changed by tourism promoters to Kawartha, with the meaning "bright waters and happy lands."

Human Well-Being .

Richard Cabot's (1868-1939) decision to leave full-time medical work in 1920 to teach social ethics illustrates some of the tensions inherent in twentieth-century medicine's transformation from clinical practice to a biomedical science. Cabot, then one of America's best known physicians, practiced medicine in an era in which science redefined medical practice and thinking. Although a champion of medical science, Cabot's primary concerns were clinical and humanistic. He emphasized the importance of ambulatory medicine, advocated group practice, founded hospital social work, did clinical epidemiologic research, lobbied for preventive medicine, created the Clinical-Pathologic Conference, and wrote extensively on medical ethics. In 1912, despite Cabot's great talents, a top professorship at Harvard Medical School was instead given to David Edsall, a clinician with more extensive basic science training. Cabot's efforts to define the physician's, as well as the health care system's, role in human well-being, however, presaged medicine's current attempts to emphasize the social context of the patient.
He is also credited with discovering Cabot rings(1), and for describing, along with his colleague, Locke, the eponymous Cabot-Locke murmur, a diastolic murmur occasionally heard in severe anemia, unrelated to heart valve abnormalities.
Paul Dudley White, the distinguished cardiologist, wrote of Richard Cabot after his death:

In every generation there are restless souls who cannot be made to fit the common mold. A few of these are valuable in keeping their communities and professions in a ferment by their constant challenge to the existing order of man's thought and action. But when, in addition to possessing these attributes, a rare individual is endowed with the divine fire and makes important contributions to the pioneering progress of humanity, then indeed we recognize a great leader. In the thick of the fray such recognition comes slowly but as soon as the smoke of the battle clears the acclaim is universal. (1939)

[1] Cabot rings are thin, red-violet staining, threadlike strands in the shape of a loop or figure-8 that are found on rare occasions in erythrocytes. They are believed to be microtubules that are remnants from a mitotic spindle. Cabot rings have been observed in a handful of cases in patients with megaloblastic anemia, lead poisoning and other disorders of erythropoiesis. They were first described in 1903 by American physician, Richard Clarke Cabot.
Cabot addressed the seventh annual New Thought conference as did Royce in 1907.

Knower

Josiah Royce (1855 – 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher.
Royce stands out starkly in the philosophical crowd because he was the only major American philosopher who spent a significant period of his life studying and writing history, specifically of the American West, “As one of the four giants in American philosophy of his time […] Royce overshadowed himself as historian, in both reputation and output”

Royce's key works include The World and the Individual (1899–1901) and The Problem of Christianity (1913), both based on lectures, given at the Gifford and Hibbert lectures series respectively. The heart of Royce's idealist philosophy was his contention that the apparently external world has real existence only as known by an ideal Knower, and that this Knower must be actual rather than merely hypothetical. He offered various arguments for this contention in both of his major works. He appears never to have repudiated this view, even though his later works are largely devoted to expositing his philosophy of community.
Two key influences on the thought of Royce were Charles Sanders Peirce and William James.
Horatio W. Dresser evidently did doctoral work with both William James and Royce.
Royce addressed the seventh annual New Thought convention in 1907 as did Dr. R.C. Cabot

Ixquick

is a metasearch engine. Ixquick returns the top ten results from multiple search engines. It uses a "Star System" to rank its results - by awarding one star for every result that has been returned from a search engine. Thereby, the top search results are the ones that have been returned from the most search engines. Ixquick also can search in 17 languages. https://www.ixquick.com/

Time to clean up the old and make way for the new.

Start with your computer.

For FireFox under Tools select Clear Recent History and click ClearNow.
For Internet Explorer - Tools- Delete Browsing History and click Delete


For Windows using the Start ICON choose Accessories under All Programs then choose System Tools and then choose Disk Cleanup and run it. After that you’ll want to run Disk Defragmenter, also found in Accessories-System Tools

I use Disk Cleanup but I also use CCleaner and Defraggler. Both are free. CCleaner installs an option on the Recycle Bin to run it from there and that includes emptying the Recycle Bin as part of the process.

CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download.
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/features

Use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files - unique in the industry.
When Defraggler reads or writes a file, it uses the exact same techniques that Windows uses. Using Defraggler is just as safe for your files as using Windows.
http://www.piriform.com/defraggler/features

Make it a weekly or monthly habit.

Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World

Part documentary, part detective story, Sweet Misery starts with filmmaker and narrator Cori Brackett's poignant story about how she discovered aspartame's ill effect on her health. Brackett had a strange cause-and effect experience with the diet cokes she was drinking and quickly found herself disabled and diagnosed with MS. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/sweet-misery-a-poisoned-world/

Relative risk vs Absolute risk

A new study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reveals that the flu vaccine prevents lab confirmed type A or type B influenza in only 1.5 out of every 100 vaccinated adults(98.5% Useless) … but the media is reporting this to mean "60 percent effective." Some clinical trials are only able to show a meaningful benefit because they focus on relative risk reduction rather than absolute risk reduction. In plain English, here's what that means: let's say you have a study of 200 women, half of whom take a drug and half take a placebo, to examine the effect on breast cancer risk. After five years, two women in the drug group develop breast cancer, compared to four who took the placebo. This data could lead to either of the following headlines, and both would be correct:
"New Miracle Drug Cuts Breast Cancer Risk by 50%!"
"New Drug Results in 2% Drop in Breast Cancer Risk!"

An important feature of relative risk is that it tells you nothing about the actual risk.

Merry Christmas to you!!!

Santa Claus is coming to town!

May you be happy.

May you be healthy.

May you never suffer.

May you feel loved!

Live the Life

If you would help another, let love lead the way.

The Myrtle Fillmore Collection at Unity bears serious reading. She was reared and healed in the Scientific Christian philosophy or tradition. Which got me thinking. Years ago a DVD “Indigo Children”, a new age power of suggestion thingy, was orchestrated to open like a wave across the planet. Perhaps the Truth can be orchestrated to start as wave from each and everyone of us as we open to the Truth of our true nature.

Dresser points out :

"The simple truth is that all our illnesses, woes and vices are intimately related, and that really to be rid of one is to overcome all. It is not a question of gaining enough insight into the power of the human spirit to overcome a few maladies, and then disregard material things and laws as if they did not exist. The power of the spirit is not a half-way measure. It is not disclosed that we may do as we like. The real test of our spiritual faith is given us when we carry the spiritual life into every sphere of our natural and social interests. The power of our human spirit was given us to live by the Spirit. This Spirit has become manifest in this splendid world of space and time, objective in bodies and things, and the Spirit's manifestations are not to be ignored.”

We may say in brief that the one great reason why the world has not whole- heartedly adopted this new version of Christianity is found in the fact that this preliminary period was needed to bring us back to the Gospel. The pioneers cleared the way. They planted the new seed. Its fruitage was judged by appearances. Now we are learning that what seemed to be a mental device for winning people was in reality a call "to live the life." The requisite change of thought from the old order to the new was only a beginning. The psychology of success was merely an aspect of spiritual truths including the whole of life. Behind it all there was a priceless possession which the few caught sight of and have been cherishing. What was that priceless possession? Can we put it into words?

It was the truth of the Inward Presence once more made known to men. It was the rediscovery, made ever and again in human history, that there is in man a God-sense or power of direct communion with heavenly realities, such that experience is the test and verification of all spiritual wisdom. In a practical way this means that any man at any time, whatever his need, may lift his problem into heavenly light and see it transfigured by the guidance he needs. It means further that this light may be admitted into our whole nature, that there is guidance for every need whatsoever. And the application of this guidance to healing was the special phase which this wisdom brought us at first, because this truth needed to be restored to the world. This truth brought back, it became possible to regard the Gospel in its fullness anew. Thus the way to "Live the life" again opened before men as they had not seen it for ages.

The experience of the first pioneer in this re-discovery shows that anyone might make the same discovery--guided by the Spirit. For the heavenly light is always shining. What was needed to bring men to knowledge of it through quest for healing was a method of meditation or silent realization. This method was acquired by our pioneers through the prior discovery that man has inner senses or intuitive power enabling him to discern spiritual reality. All men have evidences of such inward power, but only a few put the evidences together to see that our spiritual nature is adapted for manifold use when we need power in any field. What is needed is an experience sufficiently absorbing so that we will follow it through and find the Spirit within the human spirit, the Lord of life presiding over our human life.

It was the truth of the Inward Presence once more made known to men. It was the rediscovery, made ever and again in human history, that there is in man a God-sense or power of direct communion with heavenly realities, such that experience is the test and verification of all spiritual wisdom. In a practical way this means that any man at any time, whatever his need, may lift his problem into heavenly light and see it transfigured by the guidance he needs.

It means further that this light may be admitted into our whole nature, that there is guidance for every need whatsoever. And the application of this guidance to healing was the special phase which this wisdom brought us at first, because this truth needed to be restored to the world. This truth brought back, it became possible to regard the Gospel in its fullness anew. Thus the way to "Live the life" again opened before men as they had not seen it for ages.

Right thinking assumes its proper place at last as instrumental to right living.

Live the life!

Excerpts from:
SPIRITUAL HEALTH AND HEALING
By HORATIO W. DRESSER. Ph.D. [1922]

"When you begin to understand this life principle, you will know that there is a wellspring of life, substance, and intelligence within you, and that yours is the privilege at any time of giving way to its flow. This may lead to one of the most important realizations that will ever come to you: If ever there is a lack of any kind, whether it is a need for employment, or for money, or for guidance, or even for healing, something is blocking the flow. And the most effective remedy: Give!"~ Eric Butterworth

This has been an exceptional year. From Myrtle Fillmore’s hand written notes I got a better understanding of how she was healed and her FAITH.

And Horatio Dresser’s notes on the “Silent Treatment” are phenomenal. It’s been preserved.

Ah, the legacy that Quimby left behind.

Dr. Quimby emphasized the importance of knowing what the life is before one could rightly adjust the thoughts.

MANY years ago Dr. Quimby remarked that the time would come when people would once more be healed by word of mouth as in the case of the remarkable healings wrought by Jesus and the apostles.

Maybe that time is NOW! We have the tools! Let’s learn to use them wisely!

The pioneers cleared the way. They planted the new seed.

The impetus is on us to Live the Life

As William Samuel (2+2= REALITY) wrote

“Isness—until you get off your soft sofa and actually make your own determination of Reality, of Truth, of Fact. You will never permanently rid yourself of the grind and grate in the pit of the stomach nor find yourself free of that feeling of impending doom until you make your own, individual determination of exactly what God is to you!”

"As they went, they were cleansed."

Let us take a look at the means employed to heal the ten lepers as related in the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of St. Luke. The thing that strikes us in this story is the method that was used to raise their faith to the needful intensity. We are told that the ten lepers appealed to Jesus to "have mercy" on them– that is – to heal them. Jesus ordered them to go and show themselves to the priests, and "as they went, they were cleansed." The Mosaic Law demanded that when a leper recovered from his disease he must show himself to the priest to obtain a certificate of restored health. Jesus imposed a test upon the lepers’ faith and supplied a means by which their faith could be raised to its full potency. If the lepers refused to go – they had no faith – and, therefore, could not be healed. But, if they obeyed Him, the full realization of what their journey implied would break upon their minds as they went and this dynamic thought would heal them. So, we read,

"As they went, they were cleansed."

Prayer is the elevation of the mind to that which we seek. The very first word of correction is always "arise." Always lift the mind to that which we seek. This is easily done by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled.



ANSWERED PRAYER
Neville
(July, 1951)

"Be still, and know that I am God" ~ No pain, No shame, No Regrets.

It was P. P. Quimby who introduced the distinction between the "scientific man" with the wisdom of Christ to draw upon[Divine Mind] and the "man of opinions," always changing, subject to errors, fears, and other false beliefs[Carnal Mind or EGO]. Dr. Quimby's silent realization consisted in making a clear-cut separation between the two minds. All later disciples of the silent method have made an equivalent separation in their own terms. The mind that is swayed by opinions is the "carnal mind," and to be "carnally minded is death." It is this carnal-mindedness which Dr. Quimby sought to banish by affirming the reality of the truth which makes men free, the truth we possess when we have the mind of Christ. No one can make much headway in this field without drawing this distinction.

“Build your church.”

One of the world’s leading teachers and ministers of metaphysics was Reverend William H. D. Hornaday(1911 - 1992) of Founder’s Church of Religious Science in Los Angeles, California. Reverend William Hornaday, affectionately known as "Dr. Bill" to his congregation of over 7,000, is the leading minister at Founder's Church of Religious Science in Los Angeles, California. A former business executive, Hornaday earned his Doctor of Divinity in 1952 and studied under such prominent people as Carl Jung, Albert Schweitzer, Karl Barth, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Ernest Holmes.
His daily inspirational radio program,