Dr. Raymond Charles Barker (1911 – 1988) was a renowned leader and author in the New Thought spiritual movement. Barker was the founder and first minister of the Church of Religious Science in Manhattan. He was a president of the International New Thought Alliance.
He had grown up in New Thought, being trained at the Unity Training School, and prior to his election as INTA president in 1943, was minister at the Unity Center in Rochester, New York. He was later to affiliate with the Church of Religious Science and became the leader of the First Church of Religious Science in New York City and president of the IARSC. But his deep interest in INTA never flagged. He was probably the youngest person ever to be chosen INTA president, was very enthusiastic about it and entered actively into the affairs of INTA. He served on committees, attended congresses, worked in regional groups promoted by INTA, and in general warmly supported INTA in its various activities.
During his presidency he visited every major city in the USA where he could get local groups to open the doors to him, holding rallies in the name of INTA. He averaged about two months a year on the road, usually working "one-night stands." Being a accredited minister of Unity made it possible for him to get into Unity Centers despite the fact that Unity had already withdrawn from any official connection with INTA by then. He also lectured in Europe.
His classic book, “Treat Yourself to Life” is often used in Religious Science classes. In it he explains how to change the subconscious pattern through spiritual treatment. Some of his statements: "There are unfortunately a great many people with attractive surface attitudes but with the same old rubbish underneath;" "If you fail to direct your subconscious mind, it produces under a law of averages, and you are a nice, ineffective sweet person;" "I call treatment mind surgery. It is the way in which you go into the subconscious, destroy old patterns and instill new ones."
He provides processes for treating the subconscious blocks which prevent individuals from attaining their goals. These treatments include everything from creating new ideas, eliminating problems, creating happiness, removing the belief of lack and limitation, how to decongest your consciousness and how to create a fresh mind!
“I freely let go of the past. I freely let go of that which yet will be. I am a now person in a now experience.”
One of the great advantages of being a part of the New Thought Movement is that we are not a part of that which has been. We are a part of that which is. It is good that we cannot trace our religious lineage back more than a hundred years. It is constructive that we cannot go back and claim that we are New Thought people because of what we were; we are New Thought people because of what we are. That sounds like a paradox, but it is a truth. It is a truth, and we have proven it. "As a Center of Consciousness You Are Invisible" by Raymond Charles Barker[1986]
Treatment for Money by Dr. Raymond Charles Barker
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