Has Mental Healing A Valid Scientific and Religious Basis?

Tidbits from a paper read before the clergymen's "MONDAY CLUB" at the Channing Building, Boston,1895

Let us now briefly touch upon the practical application of the healing power of one mind as exerted upon another. The fact that thought-vibrations can be projected, and strike unisons in another mind, has been scientifically demonstrated, and few will deny it. Certain persons of highly trained and concentrated power can gradually induce a new quality of consciousness in the receptive mentality of others. A degree of passivity and harmony of purpose in the recipient is necessary. Soon the invalid begins to think differently of himself. The better thought seems to be entirely his own, but in reality he has been assisted. There is no hypnotic imposition, but only the calm, concentrated working of two minds for one result. A re-enforcement, or thought-ministration, is sent to where it is most needed. The healer has no power in his own personality; but his projected ideal, for which he is only a kind of channel, is the working force. With a clear and clean mind of his own, he looks through and beyond the adverse external appearances of the other, striving to awaken a perfect ideal that may at length be brought into expression. He penetrates to where influences are radiated outwards. Gradually visible sequence and manifestation fail into line.

The patient is like a discordant instrument which needs tuning. A successful healer must be an overflowing fountain of love and good-will. He makes ideal conditions present. The patient's mental background is like a sensitive plate, upon which will gradually appear outlines of health and harmony as positively presented.

This is no mere narrow professionalism. Every one should project thought-ministrations of ideals into other minds. We are thinking, not for ourselves, but for the world. Thoughts are positive forces. Even their unconscious vibrations go out in never-ending waves ; but when consciously projected with an aim, their impact upon the resonant strings of other minds stirs them to action. Every ego is a creative centre. Not that he forms anew, but brings something of the Universal into manifestation. Thought-energy, so cheaply valued and so aimlessly squandered, can be made infinitely more valuable than material treasures. We make ideals our own by holding them, and this both actualizes them and gives them to others. Material ownership has but one objective, but a single ideal can be held by thousands. Every owner, instead of consuming it, only makes it richer.

. . .

The highest inner consciousness is the Christ. He is unrecognized so long as we think of ourselves as flesh. He is found when we recognize the true spiritual ego. Blood represents the inmost quality, not the death, but the life. The resurrection is the lifting of the consciousness from the physical to the spiritual. The mind of Christ is the Saviour of humanity. It knows neither sin, disorder, nor death. It confers dominion over the dreams and illusions of mortal sense. It heals, restores, invigorates, and harmonizes, and is no less scientifically exact than religiously fitting. The divine likeness is at the soul-centre of man. Here is the manger where the Christ-consciousness comes to birth. Here the resurrection takes place when the stone of the lower self-consciousness is rolled away. " The kingdom of heaven is within you ; " and that kingdom includes wholeness, harmony, and health.
HAS MENTAL HEALING A VALID
Scientific and Religious Basis?
BY HENRY WOOD
SUBSTANCE OF A PAPER READ BY INVITATTON BEFORE THE CLERGYMEN'S "MONDAY CLUB" (UNITARIAN MINISTERS OF BOSTON AND VICINITY) AT THE CHANNING BUILDING, BOSTON,
JUNE 3rd, 1895

What is the Christ?

Christ is God's Son as He created Him. He is the Self we share, uniting us with one another, and with God as well. He is the Thought which still abides within the Mind that is His Source. He has not left His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. He abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God.

Christ is the link that keeps you one with God, and guarantees that separation is no more than an illusion of despair, for hope forever will abide in Him. Your mind is part of His, and His of yours. He is the part in which God's Answer lies; where all decisions are already made, and dreams are over. He remains untouched by anything the body's eyes perceive. For though in Him His Father placed the means for your salvation, yet does He remain the Self Who, like His Father, knows no sin.

Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home in God alone, does Christ remain at peace within the Heaven of your holy mind. This is the only part of you that has reality in truth. The rest is dreams. Yet will these dreams be given unto Christ, to fade before His glory and reveal your holy Self, the Christ, to you at last.

The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams, and bids them come to Him, to be translated into truth. He will exchange them for the final dream which God appointed as the end of dreams. For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things separate, for what remains to see except Christ's face?

And how long will this holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last? So therefore let us seek to find Christ's face and look on nothing else. As we behold His glory, will we know we have no need of learning or perception or of time, or anything except the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son.

ACIM
Lesson 271

New Thought

A philosophical/religious system that emphasises the power of the mind for healing and constructive thinking.

Many people think that a New Thought church is part of a new age religion but that isn’t the case. New age includes various practices such as crystals, tarot cards, astrology, and psychic readings. These activities are not part of a traditional church. Unlike the new age movement, New Thought does not involve itself in the use of crystals, pyramids, etcetera. While New Thought is open to truth from whatever source, it discourages (but does not condemn) involvement with occultism.

The New Thought movement is a spiritually-focused or philosophical interpretation of New Thought beliefs. Started in the early 19th century the three major religious denominations within the New Thought movement are Religious Science, Unity Church and the Church of Divine Science. There are many other smaller churches within the New Thought movement, as well as schools and umbrella organizations.

The earliest identifiable proponent of what came to be known as New Thought was Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, an American philosopher, mesmerist, healer, and inventor. Quimby developed a belief system that included the tenet that illness originated in the mind as a consequence of erroneous beliefs and that a mind open to God's wisdom could overcome any illness.

SUGGESTIONS TO THOSE WHO WISH TO BE LED BY THE SPIRIT.

By Nona L. Brooks

We are where we are by Law, not by chance.
Each individual has a mission.
The God-life has been given to each; a great trust is for a great purpose.
Each may know what his mission is and can fulfill it, if he is willing to be led by the Spirit to that end.

The following suggestions are offered:
1. Lay aside ambition and personal desire.
2. Be willing to go when called and wherever led.
3. Declare steadfastly: a. That the Spirit knows what is best for you. b. That the Spirit is guiding you there - to your own place. c. That whatever is best to prepare and develop you for this mission will come through the Spirit.
4. Know: a. That each kind of work that comes to you is part of the plan and must be done heartily as unto God. b. That work is "high" or "low" not according to the kind, but according to the motive that prompts it and the disposition in which it is accomplished. The individual exalts the work. c. That the whole need in harmonizing environment, changing conditions, removing limitations and in realizing peace, plenty and success, is to work with one's own self.
5. Cultivate the habit of trustful thinking.
6. Insist on inward serenity.
7. Look upon your present occupation as God-given, and love it. Rest assured that as soon as you have fulfilled in this, the next will come.
8. Be very certain, in any responsibility thrown upon you by the Spirit, that by the same Spirit, will you be given the wisdom and strength to execute it.
9. Keep your thought from evil and your lips from guile: a. Do not read the "horrors" in the newspapers. Do not talk about them. b. Do not discuss inharmonious conditions. c. Do not worry, fear nor doubt. d. See the good in every one and in every thing.
10. Repeat often:

Self-interest does not influence me.
Impulse does not guide me.
Prejudice does not warp me.
Opinion does not bind me.
Neither family nor friends hinder me.
Self-depreciation does not limit me.
Remembrance of the past or fear of the future does not weaken me.
I do not limit God's power.
Let us have patience that, after we have done the will of God, we may receive the promise. "Sufficient unto each moment is the Wisdom and Strength thereof."

Mind Healing

Real life began for me when the message contained in this book was revealed. It was a veritable new birth, and I owe all that I am and have to its light. From a negative condition of self-depreciation and gloom, this message has lifted me into immortal faith in my own possibility and that of all men. In meekness and gratitude to God, and to those blessed souls who became avenues of His revelation to me, I send forth this little book, trusting that others may find through it the joy of life.

For over twenty years these lessons have been given, in individual and class instruction, to thousands of students, and it was largely because of the demand for them that I under- took the work of having them published. For one year past they have been running as a serial in the magazine, "The Master Mind" (Los Angeles, Mrs. Annie Rix Militz).

Through the application of the principles taught herein I have had the satisfaction of seeing the weak in character made strong, dross turned to pure gold, every form of misery and disease healed, and hope, faith and love, take the place of doubt, despair and material- ism. In the larger field of its activity, my prayer is that the harvest from this message may be great and that you, dear reader, may find in it a key to the solution of your problems.

Harriet H. Rix.
Alameda, Cal.
March, 1914.

Christian Mind Healing
BY Harriet Hale Rix
A Course of Lessons in the Fundamentals of New Thought 1914

Annie Rix Militz and Harriet Hale Rix held an expansive view of faith and healing. The two sisters were educated through the spiritual movements of Emma Curtis Hopkins and Mary Baker Eddy, pioneers in New Thought Metaphysics.

They also were catalysts in the Unity Movement and what was to become the rich spiritual vein of New Thought.

Right thinking is health, joy, freedom, prosperity. Prosperity does not consist in the things you possess in the money you have in bank. In fact, we might say from a very free standpoint, that if you absolutely understand prosperity you have no need of any bank account. Prosperity is a way, a mode, of thinking. So is poverty. You are poor if you class yourself this way, and you are rich if you can think rich thoughts, thoughts that are constructive, optimistic, unlimited these instantly crown you successful. The mentality must first be rich towards God rich in God-knowledge and consciousness. I cannot think of wealth and prosperity and success as a lasting possession to those who are callous regarding the spiritual life. Dr. Bucke[1], who studied cosmic consciousness for over thirty years, states that in all his examinations of men and women he has never come across a single case of cosmic consciousness where the individual was bent on making money; whose whole conception of life was accumulation.

[1] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/01/cosmic-consciousness-vivid-sense-of.html

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?

THERE is war for the warlike. There is peace for the peaceful. There is hope for the hopeful. There is faith for the faithful. There is plenty for the plentiful. There is happiness for the joyful. There is a song for the singer; there is love for the lover ; there is God for the worshiper. There is a sun for children of the day and a cloud for children of the night. For him who would be rich, there is riches ; and he who expects nothing shall equally be blessed by the law, for verily his faith shall have its reward. "He sends his sun and his rain upon the just and the unjust, the evil and the good.

Each of us makes his own sunrise and his own sunset. Each soars or crawls as his thought decrees. He takes the wings of the morning and mounts to Pleiades, or the feet of the mole and burrows in the earth. He walks uprightly fearing no man or meekly bends before every pretender to his throne. He goes forth with fear and meets his fate, or with courage and is hailed as conqueror. He laughs and the world laughs with him ; he weeps and all the world's in tears.

Life is a comedy to the optimist and a tragedy to the pessimist. No loving heart but finds its mate. No hostile heart but finds its enemy. No fear but finds its devil ; no faith but finds its God.

It is of the very nature of life and mind that every thought is matched by reality in two directions: it exists as an eternal possibility in the universal, or else we could not think it: it must come forth into form, for every thought expresses in its individual way. Clearness of thought, which is the image and persistency of the thought, which is faith, alone decree when and how completely it shall come. Every thought becomes a thing, but whether it is vital or still-born is governed by your faith.

This is the great inspiration of the new-old message of the Christ-conscious : you cannot conceive a desire but that it is matched by reality. The inventor who fashions an instrument never before seen, the sculptor who chisels a form never before conceived, are merely bringing into expression ideas that lie latent in the Mind of the Infinite. You cannot want anything but God wants it for you : you cannot expect anything but that that thing can and will come to you, IF YOU EXPECT IT ENOUGH.

What do you want! What do you expect? These are the decisive factors in the living of your life. Behind you lie the broken things of yesterday. Forget them. Before you is dawn and the day. What shall come forth out of the unrolled parchment of the future * It is for you to decide. You hold tomorrow in the hollow of your hand. God is on your side. Life is on your side. Eternity is on your side ; Life never ends. All things are possible to him that believes. "Only have faith; and thy faith shall save thee." Believe, believe! EXPECT, EXPECT!!

How to Develop

THE FAITH THAT HEALS
By
Fenwicke L(indsay) Holmes,
Los Angeles, Cal., 1919

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MY WISH FOR YOU.
I wish you health and harmony ;
I wish you peace and joy ;
I wish you strength and happiness
And wealth without alloy.
I pray the inner grace may shine
Through all you do and say ;
And more than all, I pray that Love
May guide you on your way.

NONA L. BROOKS
Denver, 1914.

THE SECRET OF HEALING - from a pioneer in the field of self-help writing and teaching (Excerpt).

A woman came to me one day and said,

" Mr. Sears, I should like to know what is the right thing for me to do."

I said,

" Have you been coming to all these lectures, lessons and public services for these many months, and ask that question? Haven't I told you again and again, in public and in class, that the thing we want to do is the right thing? "

" Well,"

she said,

" I don't know what I want to do;"

then I said,

"Until you know what you want to do, God himself can't help you, because when we do not know what we want to do, we are vacillating, weak, wandering, worse than a tramp meandering from place to place, and it is impossible for any one to help us constructively, when we ourselves do not know what we want."

We can put our hands on the other fellow's life, and say, " Here, you do this," but when we understand the law, we would not wish to put our hands on any one's life because we refuse to be- come responsible for any one other than ourselves. When we put our hands on another person's life and try to make it do what we want it to do, just that moment do we become responsible for the effects of the causes which that life sets in motion, and so, knowing this law, we refuse to do it. When we do not know what we want, we are carried back and forth from one thing to another on the objective plane. When we get our divine vision, when we allow the player, the divine mind, to get possession of this mirror, and then we get quiet and easy and let go all strain, all effort, all strife, and allow this divine self to get hold of us, we will soon know beyond the question of a doubt the thing we want to do, and the thing that would be the most constructive for us to do; but we go on day after day, killing out and covering up this divine self, this intuitional part of our nature, with our intellect

Intellect is good; it is a necessary thing to have, but there are two ways of using it, just as there are two ways of using anything else. The constructive way is to take the intuitions and inspirations that come to us from the divine player and use the intellect to work them out on the objective plane; the destructive way is to refuse to consider anything that does not at once appeal to our reason and logic and to say,

"It's all foolishness."

Had Edison done this we would never have had the phonograph; Bell would never have given us the telephone, nor Morse the telegraph.

Once, after healing a patient of sick headaches and stomach trouble, he came to me one day and said he had eaten something the day before which he thought "would not agree with him." He said,

" I knew that I would have my old stomach trouble again, so I went and lay down on the couch after lunch and sure enough, in an hour's time, it began to pain me."

He related this incident to me with a great deal of gusto, for he was so proud that his prediction had come true. I said to him,

" My dear man, you are one of the most intellectual men I have ever met; you are a man that in the world of intellect has few equals, let alone superiors, but you are the biggest fool I ever saw in all my life; you haven't an atom of sense; you don't know how to use your intellect. Did you know how to use it half as well as you know how not to use it, you never would have had a sick day in your life. Now, what did you do? Had you known one-tenth as hard, — had you been just one-tenth as sure that you would not have that stomach trouble, when you lay down on the lounge, as you were that you would have it, it would never have come back to you again."

He said,

"That is all in the imagination."

And I said,

"Yes, and what did you use your imagination for? What is your imagination? There never was a soul born that did not live in its imagination, in some way, every moment of its life, because that is where we all do our imaging, and you imaged disease, you imaged stomach trouble, and you got it.

Do you want some more of it? Then go on imaging it, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. You can use your intellect to destroy your body, should you so desire. No one has to suffer fop it but yourself. But when you want health, when you want harmony, use your intellect to image the thing you want, not the thing you don't want; that is why I say to you that you are the biggest fool I ever saw because, with all your great, wonderful, glorious intellect, you imaged the thing you didn't want."

He said,

"I see; my eyes are beginning to open; I am beginning to understand, and I see where I have been following the wrong path, doing the destructive thing."

That is what the writer of John meant when he said,

"The light (the soul, the God-consciousness) was in the darkness (the physical body) and the darkness comprehended it not,"

for there are none so blind as those who will not or cannot see.

What happens when we hold either the thing we want, or the thing we do not want, before this mirror of ours? Why, there is only one thing can occur, — that whatever the vision, whatever the imagination, whatever the image is, it is telegraphed back to the cells of our physical body and our environment, and they send out their calls into this great formless universal energy everywhere around us, for the material which corresponds with that image and harmonizes in its vibration with it.

And so whenever the image is for stomach trouble, we call the atoms from out the formless energy which make for stomach trouble; we relate with them through the energy we create in the physical body, according to the consciousness back of the energy.

F. W. Sears, M. P.
A series of Sunday Morning Lectures delivered by Mr. Sears in the New Thought Church, New York. 1918

Franklin Warren Sears was a pioneer in the field of self-help writing and teaching.

LIFE'S MAGIC STAFF

Peace, Power and Plenty,
Words that are heaven-born.
Say them, ye hearts that are weary
Till hope in your soul is born.

For words are things that will lift on wings
The one who believes them true,
And whatever you will when the mind is still You may call to the soul of you.
The Spirit Singing Henry Victor Morgan 1921

Paul Revere, Henry Laurens, Jack Jouett and the “Swamp Fox”. All descendants of Hugenots.

The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Most of the Huguenot congregations (or individuals) in North America eventually affiliated with other Protestant denominations with more numerous members. The Huguenots adapted quickly and often began to marry outside their immediate French communities fairly rapidly, which led to their assimilation.

Paul Revere was descended from Huguenot refugees, as was Henry Laurens, who signed the Declaration of Independence for South Carolina; Jack Jouett, who made the ride from Cuckoo Tavern to warn Thomas Jefferson and others that Tarleton and his men were on their way to arrest him for crimes against the king; Francis Marion, and a number of other leaders of the American Revolution and later statesmen. The last active Huguenot congregation in North America worships in Charleston, South Carolina, at a church that dates from 1844.


Paul Revere (1735 – 1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Paul Revere's Ride. As a result, his "midnight ride" is a legendary part of United States history.

Henry Laurens (1724 [O.S. 1723] – 1792) was an American merchant and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Laurens succeeded John Hancock as President of the Congress. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation.

John "Jack" Jouett, Jr. (1754 – 1822) was a politician and a hero of the American Revolution, known as the "Paul Revere of the South" for his late night ride to warn Thomas Jefferson, then the Governor of Virginia, and the Virginia legislature of coming British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.


Francis Marion (c. 1732 – 1795) was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Acting with Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven out of the state in the Battle of Camden.
Due to his irregular methods of warfare, he is considered one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare, and is credited in the lineage of the United States Army Rangers.
He is known as the Swamp Fox.

We got lead, and we got powder.
We don't fight with an empty gun.
Only makes us shout the louder.
We are men of Marion.

Swamp Fox! Swamp Fox!
Tail on his hat,
Nobody knows where The Swamp Fox's at.

Swamp Fox! Swamp Fox!
Hiding in the glen,
He runs away to fight again.

Got no blankets, got no bed.
Got no roof above our heads.
Got no shelter when it rains.
All we got is Yankee brains.
Swamp Fox! Swamp Fox!
Tail on his hat,
Nobody knows where The Swamp Fox's at.

Swamp Fox! Swamp Fox!
Hiding in the glen,
He runs away to fight again.


Got no cornpone, got no honey.
All we got is Continental money.
Won't buy bacon, hominy or grits.
Roasted ears and possum is all we ever git.
Swamp Fox! Swamp Fox!
Tail on his hat,
Nobody knows where The Swamp Fox's at.

Swamp Fox! Swamp Fox!
Hiding in the glen,
He runs away to fight again.

General Francis Marion of the Continental Army back during The Revolutionary War. He was known in History as "The Swamp Fox." This was because he and his men hid out in the Swamps of South Carolina, where he used the "Element of surprise" to defeat his foes. Walt Disney released a TV Mini Series about Marion back in the Late 1950's {starring Leslie Nielson), which helped to make "The Swamp Fox" an American Folklore Legend as well as a Military Hero.

Murray Morgan: PART I

Murray Morgan (1916-2000). Tacoma-born Murray Morgan was many things, including journalist, political commentator, theater and arts reviewer, political activist, freelance writer, and college history teacher. An author and , in addition, a history reporter. He was a spellbinding teacher who from 1969 to 1981 taught a Northwest history course at the Tacoma Community College.

Murray Morgan: PART II

In 1933, Morgan moved from Tacoma to Seattle and enrolled in the University of Washington Journalism department. By his 1936-1937 senior year, he became editor of the University of Washington Daily. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism.

During his stay in Seattle he reacquainted himself with Rosa Northcutt, whom he'd first met in Tacoma. They had also worked together at the UW Daily, holding down the only two paying jobs on the paper. (She'd been the morgue librarian.) Murray and Rosa got married at his father's church in Tacoma on March 5, 1939. For their honeymoon, the Morgans took a freighter to Europe and there embarked on a leisurely kayak trip down the Danube River. Murray sent reports of their trip to The News Tribune (Tacoma).

On September 30, 1939, unknown to the kayakers, Germany had invaded Poland and World War II had begun. As the Morgans neared the end of their trip at the mouth of the Danube, a Romanian official apparently questioned them about what they were doing. Murray attempted to tell him in English, and when that didn’t work, he tried to tell them in German. His German sparked an immediate response from the Romanian. The Romanians were on the lookout for German spies. Murray was jailed overnight until he was able to satisfy the Romania state police that his honeymoon trip was in fact a honeymoon trip.

Despite this brief incarceration, Murray Morgan had fond memories of the trip down the Danube.

He always called Western Washington home. “I miss it if I’m not in it for any length of time; I don’t feel comfortable. I want trees and I want frequent rain”.

Murray Morgan decided to get a Master’s degree in Journalism and in 1941 enrolled at Columbia University in New York City. Back East, jobs, at least journalism jobs, were scarce. He applied all over New York for one and got no response. Then Japan attacked the U.S. Naval Station in the Hawaiian Islands. The media outlets immediately expanded their news services and he got calls from most of them offering him a position.

Murray Morgan took full advantage of the offers. In a 1979 interview he recalled, “I worked at CBS [Radio] and edited the network news shows from midnight to 9 a.m., and then I’d report in at 9:30 at Time, and then I worked at the [New York] Herald Tribune on weekends covering the Columbia University campus". That left no time for college. Rosa solved that by going to his classes and taking notes. Murray would show up to take the tests. It finally all caught up with him:

“I finally ran out of sleep to the point where I called in a copyboy at Time and asked if I had paper in the typewriter. I said I could write if there was paper. They took me home in a taxi and I slept for two days, then quit two of the three jobs”.

By 1942, he managed to complete a Master's degree from Columbia University with honors. He was rewarded with a Pulitzer Fellowship to study the conditions of the press in Mexico. At Lake Patzcuaro, Mexico, Murray and Rosa rented a four-room house with an orchard, which included the services of a cook, all for $10 a month. They had been living there for a few months when Murray Morgan was drafted into the Army.

He joined the Army Signal Corps and was stationed on the Aleutian Islands. There was not much to do on an island in the far north Pacific Ocean. To pass the time, Murray wrote to his wife Rosa living on a Seattle houseboat for any books on the history of the Aleutians.

“She wrote back that none had been published. ‘Why don’t you write one?’ she said. And I responded that there was no way to do the research. We didn’t have libraries [in the Aleutians]. Rosa wrote, ‘I’ll do the research down here, send you the material, and you write it’”.

Thus began their first of many collaborations.

Murray completed the manuscript while stationed on the Aleutians and sent it to the United States. He received word back that a section was missing. Upon investigation he found out that the Army censors excised a chapter that described a 200-year-old 1748 battle between Russia and the Aleuts. (During World War II, the Soviet Union including Russia was an ally of the United States.) The censors had thought that Murray Morgan was being “hostile to a friendly power”. Fortunately Murray had a carbon copy of the manuscript and reinserted the chapter when he returned to the United States.

Towards the end of World War II, Murray transferred to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. to do decoding. There was not much for him to decipher, so with his free time he and Rosa, who joined him, started researching the Civil War exploits of a Confederate sailing ship in the Pacific. This joint effort turned into the book Dixie Raider. Most of Murray's books were "joint projects" with Rosa. He described her as a first-rate researcher (like me), and a wonderful editor and critic. He said, "She has an ear for the exact word".

Murray Morgan's books did not keep his bread buttered. He explained that it was “those magazines that paid a lot of bills”. He wrote so many articles, that as early as 1947 he had lost count. He wrote articles like “Mexico’s Explosive Muralists” for Holiday and “Seward’s Annual Folly” for Esquire. Dozens of magazines, from Cosmopolitan to The Nation to the Saturday Evening Post kept the Morgans eating.

But slowly this source of income dried up. Murray called himself the “Typhoid Mary of journalism.” In 1978, he said,

“I’d guess I have written for at least 50 different magazines in the past 35 years and half of them folded. I did a two-parter for one magazine and it went belly up between issues".

In November 1951, on the 100th anniversary of the Denny party landing at Alki Point in West Seattle, bookstores started selling Morgan’s Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle. The idea for the book came from Viking editor Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989). Murray served as a tour guide for Cowley, who was visiting Seattle. The Viking editor, impressed with Murray’s stories of the city’s past, encouraged him to write a book about it. Skid Road became Murray Morgan’s most successful book. Sales estimates of hardback and paperback copies through 1999 approach one-quarter million.
About 1952, Murray entered radio. At the time, before television was well established, radio was the dominant medium and powerfully affected public opinion. In the early 1950s, doing business with the City of Tacoma typically involved graft and payoffs. There was a lot to report and comment on. Murray Morgan teamed up with Jim Faber and every morning on KMO and then on KTAC Radio, they did just that. As a news journalist who worked at the same station put it, "They furnished a wild and hilarious radio journalism ..." They played taped discussions between heads of Tacoma’s crime rings and City officials. They named names, exposed corruption. Motivated at least in part by the Morgan-Faber investigative reporting, city hall cleaned up its act.

In 1956, Murray Morgan went solo on KTNT with a news commentary show called “Our Town, Our World.” For the next 15 years, Morgan commented on local news every morning at 7:30. To keep his listeners informed, when in town, he attended nearly every Tacoma City Council meeting. For those few that he missed, Rosa Morgan usually covered for him. In 1970, his reports of the shenanigans in city hall led to a recall of a majority of the Tacoma City Council. Even though he expressed opinions that bankers probably did not share, Federal Savings & Loan Association sponsored “Our Town, Our World” for the entire run.

In 1957, he traveled to 22 countries to research the history and state of the United Nations World Health Organization. He wrote most of Doctors to the World in Geneva.

In 1963, Murray started writing a regular column in the Argus, a Seattle weekly periodical. He wrote theater and cultural reviews for more than 15 years.

In 1964, Murray Morgan was diagnosed with cancer and given a one in 20 chance of living a year. But then, a radical operation cured him.

In all Murray Morgan wrote 21 books. Murray Morgan died on June 22, 2000.

THE WISE MEN

May the Wise Men lead your heart, my dear,
Where the Christ is born anew ;
May Love's kingdom come,
And God's will be done,
In the depths of the soul of you.

The Spirit Singing
By Henry Victor Morgan, 1921

It’s all in the attitude.

The Duck family is a fictional family created by The Walt Disney Company. Its best known member is Donald Duck[1].

Gladstone Gander first appeared in the story "Wintertime Wager" in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #88 (1948). Gladstone is a lazy and infuriatingly lucky goose who never fails to upset his first cousin Donald Duck[1]. Gladstone's luck defies probability and provides him with anything he desires, with hardly the need of effort.

Gladstone is unwilling to make the slightest effort to gain something that his luck cannot give him, and, when things go wrong, he resigns immediately, certain that around the next corner a wallet, dropped by a passer-by, will be waiting for him. For all his luck Gladstone has no achievements to be proud of and no true ambitions, as he is incapable of long-term planning.

He and Donald have formed an intense rivalry with each other. Gladstone's arrogance and outrageous luck, combined with Donald's own ego and belief he can still best him despite all odds--- "Donald's eternal tendency towards self-destruction".

[1] Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Donald's most famous personality trait is his easily provoked and explosive temper.

Who would you rather be?

IDENTITY

IDENTITY I am one with storm and sunshine, I am one with wind and with rain, I fly with the birds in the forest, I grow with the wheat on the plain. My heart is the heart of the Redman, I thrill to the lure of the East; All men ever born are my brothers, I am one with the greatest and least. The roses that grow in my garden, Call to roses deep, deep in my soul; I laugh with the laughter of children, In the dewdrop catch gleams of the Whole. My song is the song of the dauntless, My heart is a stranger to fear, I live with Wise of all ages, I know that Love's kingdom is Here. ~ Henry Victor Morgan ~

MY EVENING PRAYER For Children

MY EVENING PRAYER
For Children
Now I lay me down to sleep;
I know that God His child doth keep. I trust Him for my daily food,
My life, my health, and all my good. May I grow stronger day by day,
And learn to live the truest way. All this I ask because I know
Thou art the Love that wills it so.
~ Nona L. Brooks ~

Rev. Nona Lovell Brooks,
Teacher and Minister, Co-founder of Divine Science
Date of Birth- March 22, 1861
Date of Transition- March 6, 1945

What and Where is Heaven?

My happiness is within me.
My peace and my joy are from God; I have God in my heart to make me happy.
My health and all my good is in God; the kingdom of God is within me.
I will let the truth of God's presence keep my thought pure; I shall find my perfect heaven here and now.
I love to think of God's presence within and all around me, for this is Truth.

Dawning Truth
by
Fannie B(rooks) James

Teacher

Date of Birth: February 26, 1854
Date of Transition: December 14, 1914

New Civilization Church / THE INTERNATIONAL NEW THOUGHT ALLIANCE

New Civilization Church

12 Lessons in Concentration and Will Power

We should never be afraid to spend our money for anything which will benefit us.

There is plenty of money in the world and there is no reason why we should not relate with whatever amount we may want.

When we do not it is because we have used our concentration and will power wrongly and not because there is any lack in the supply of money.

When we try to get the best of anyone in any deal we are only beating ourselves by using our concentration and will power wrongly.

When we do anything with the consciousness of "economizing" we are simply shutting ourselves away from the universal abundance of the supply of everything through the wrong use of our concentration and will power.

When we attempt to control others and make them buy our goods whether or not they want them, we are using our concentration and will power wrongly and no matter how much profit we may make today as the result, the day will come when we will lose it all and everything else we may have.

All this is the result of the Universal Law which works out the effects of causes we set in motion through the wrong use of our concentration and will power.

We may say "I do not believe such rot," but that doesn't in any way affect its truth.
The time was, and not so very long ago either, when the most intellectual men in the world did not believe such "rot" as that the world was round, and they proved conclusively (to their own satisfaction) that it couldn't be round or else the water would all fall off of it.

The best educated men of that day, as well as the Christian religion, taught also that the sun revolved around the earth and ostracized and excommunicated those who did not profess similar beliefs, but that did not make the earth square neither did it make the sun revolve around the earth.

"Ignorance of the law excuses no one," so say our civil and criminal courts," and this is in full accord with the Universal Laws; our " beliefs," no matter what they may be, do not in any way excuse our ignorance.

It is evident that you wanted to learn something you did not know otherwise you would not have purchased these lessons.

The first thing for a real student to do is to become receptive to his teacher.

This does not mean that he has to become acceptive and swallow everything whole at one gulp without regard to whether or not it appeals to his reason, logic and common-sense, but it does mean that he should become receptive, and that when he finds something which does not agree with his preconceived ideas he should not reject it at once as being untrue but he should go to work to see how well he can prove its truth to himself.

There is nothing in these lessons but what the Author knows is true because he has proven them for himself and has taught thousands of his students how to prove them during the past few years.

There are two ways in which to learn any lesson: One way is to memorize the words.

This is the method usually adopted by most students.

The other way is to learn by absorption. That is, read the lesson over quietly, carefully, calmly, while in a relaxed condition and so absorb it rather than attempt to memorize it.

When we memorize a lesson we only get the form, the words; we get little or nothing of either their consciousness or vibration.

Memorizing a thing gives us an intellectual knowledge of it, its theory, but gives us little or nothing of its wisdom or understanding.

When we absorb a lesson we may not at first be able to express our conception of it as intellectually as it is written but we at least get the soul of it, the wisdom and understanding of it, because we feel it and live it in our consciousness.

This is the true method of obtaining wisdom and understanding, and it is the method the Author would most earnestly recommend in the study of these lessons.

My best wishes are always with you.
THE AUTHOR.

12 Lessons in Concentration
and Will Power
by F.W. Sears
1919

Topics covered in the 12 lessons include: Concentration Rightly and Wrongly Used; Character of Thoughts We Think; Thought Habits; Inharmonious Thought Habits; Consciousness and Thought Habits; I'll Try Thought Habit; Overcoming Self-Consciousness; Law of Harmony; Law of Force; Oneness of All Life; Individuality; and Will Power.

F.W. Sears was a pioneer in the field of self-help writing and teaching and his theories remain as relevant decades after his death as they were at the time of his writings in the 1910s and 1920s.

Numerology is nothing less than a tool which aids us towards psychological self awareness.

A little remembered music teacher, living in Atlanta City, came to some startling conclusions. In her studies of harmony, Mrs L. Dow Balliett came to realize that the letter name applied to each note had the same vibratory qualities as the note itself. It was this simple observation, she later claimed, which led to her interest in the application of numerical science. The handful of books which she published on the subject essentially defined the modern method of relating names and numbers to acquire insight to the character and personality of the individual. It should be well noted, that no such system existed before the time of Mrs L. Dow Balliet. Any individual, or organization, claiming otherwise is at best misinformed, and at worst deliberately misleading. Around the turn of the century (from 1800 to 1900 A.D.) Mrs. L. Dow Balliett combined Pythagoras' work with Biblical reference.[1]
Her ideas could easily have been quickly forgotten, but for the efforts of one of her students.

A Pioneer In The Field Of Self-help

Franklin Warren Sears held a Master of Psychology and was the author of “The Books Without an If” series in the early 20th century. Through his books, correspondence courses, as well as by personal counseling, he was able to help a great many people overcome everyday difficulties of all kinds.

HOW THE RENT WAS PAID

SHE was about 25, well dressed, neat in appearance, rather good looking, quite intelligent, and a teacher of art. The distressed look upon her face when she entered my office showed that she was undergoing terrible suffering of some kind. She greeted me with the inquiry, "What in the world will I do, doctor?"

I told her the first thing she should do was to sit down, just get quiet a little and "let go," then tell me all about it.

I talked with her about unimportant matters for a few minutes until I saw that she had grown somewhat calm and quiet in the harmonious atmosphere of my office and then asked her what her trouble was.

She said that it was money or rather the lack of it. I told her there was plenty of money in the world and a great abundance of it right here in New York. "Yes," she said, "but I can't get hold of it unless I pawn my diamond ring. I had to pawn one of them last month in order to pay my rent and will have to pawn my last one in order to pay my rent this month and then what shall I do?"

"Why pawn your ring now?" I asked.

"I haven't pawned it yet," she said, "but I will have to do so."

"You may not as yet have gone through the physical act of taking your ring to the pawn shop and leaving it there," I replied, "but you have pawned it already in your consciousness, your thought world, your imagination, and unless you at once stop pawning it there you will soon take it to the pawn shop. But should it be necessary for you to go to the pawn shop, why worry about it? Why not look upon your rings as cash in the bank, to be drawn upon when necessary. We sometimes draw our bank balance down to the last dollar but that does not worry us for we know we will deposit some more right away, and when we do KNOW it we always get the money to deposit. Why not take this same attitude towards the ring you have in pawn?"

"Again, this is only Friday and the first of the month does not come until next Monday," I said.
"Supposing you did not pay your rent on that day, your landlord would not put you out for you have always been a good tenant and paid your rent heretofore. Even though he was to serve a dispossess notice on you you have five days in which to pay or move, so that you have at least a week from today, under the most unfavorable conditions, in which to get your rent money."

"Yes," she replied, "that is all very true but from whence is the money coming? I haven't been doing any work lately and no one is paying out any money for my kind of work these days and I haven't a cent in sight anywhere and no place I can go to get any, except by pawning my diamond ring, even if I had two months' time instead of only a week."

"It isn't necessary for you to know from whence the money is coming," I replied, "for that is the work of God—the great Universal Law. Your work is to KNOW that God always attends to His part of the business and materializes things for us, both in body and environment, to accord with the vision or image we create and hold in our imagination and the harmonious or inharmonious energy we use in creating and holding it. God always does His part of the work whether we do ours consciously and intelligently or unconsciously and ignorantly. Just so long as you hold the image, thought or idea that you will have to pawn your ring, creating and holding this image, thought or idea in fear and trembling, then the only thing God can do for you is to work out that image in material form the same as he did for you last month. You actually had to pawn your ring then, and while you paid your rent, yet you are in even worse condition today than you were then. You can continue to do this same thing again this month and keep it up until there is nothing left for God to do for you but to continue materializing lack and inharmony for you in every way. Or by using this same Universal Law which has brought you lack, but changing your application of it by changing the image, thought, idea, vision with which you fill your imagination, you can attract the money to you with which to pay your rent, get it in a perfectly legitimate and constructive manner and not have to pawn your ring either, and by continuing to make the new application which I will teach you you can be in a much better position this time next month instead of a worse one as you now are."

"Oh how can I do it, doctor," she asked.

"Just FILL your thought world, your imagination, with the thought, idea, image, vision, that you have your rent money NOW, and keep it FILLED. Every time the thought of lack comes to you displace it at once with the affirmative statement of 'I have the rent money NOW,' " I replied.

"How can I say 'I have the rent money NOW,' doctor," she asked, "when I know it's a lie, for I haven't it?"

"My dear girl," I said, "as long as you know you haven't it; as long as you know it's a lie, just so long will you continue to be without it, for God—the Universal Law—can only materialize for you according to your vision and the energy back of it, and he cannot furnish you with supply for your needs so long as you continue to create lack, fear, worry, anxiety, etc., in your consciousness, your imagination. When you learn to affirm that you have your rent money NOW with one-tenth the energy and creative power you use in affirming its lack, God will materialize it for you."

"Well, doctor, I will try," she said.

"That will not do," I answered.

"I will do the best I can, then," she said.

"That will not do," again I answered.

"I will do it," she said.

"Now I am sure you will succeed," I replied.

On the following Tuesday she came into my office with her face wreathed in smiles and, after greeting me, said, "Oh doctor, it is so wonderful. I hardly know how it was done, but it seemed as though every one in the world wanted to pay me money since I was here the other day, and I have collected enough money not only to pay my rent this month but was able to take my ring out of pawn today."
Everyday Experiences
by F.W. Sears M.P.
1916

MAN POSSESSES WITHIN HIMSELF ALL THE CREATIVE POWER OF THE UNIVERSE. ~ Dr. F.W. Sears

F.W. Sears was a pioneer in the field of self-help writing and teaching and his theories remain as relevant decades after his death as they were at the time of his writings in the 1910s and 1920s.

PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY By GEORGE A. QUIMBY (Part Two).

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby ~ Biographical Sketch.

[The New England magazine. / Volume 6, Issue 33, March 1888]

{Significant because his son, George Quimby, was privy to his father’s affairs. He describes Quimby’s method of inducing young Lucius Burkmer during the first years of his investigation and describes the latter years when he dealt with patients and the technique employed. He describes how the Misses Ware suggested to Quimby that he make notes. Evidently it was Quimby’s wish that George should continue his work but, alas, George’s interests lay elsewhere.}

PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY By GEORGE A. QUIMBY (Part One).

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby ~ Biographical Sketch.

[The New England magazine. / Volume 6, Issue 33, March 1888]
{Significant because his son, George Quimby, was privy to his father’s affairs. He describes Quimby’s method of inducing young Lucius Burkmer during the first years of his investigation and describes the latter years when he dealt with patients and the technique employed. He describes how the Misses Ware suggested to Quimby that he make notes. Evidently it was Quimby’s wish that George should continue his work but, alas, George’s interests lay elsewhere.}

THE great interest evinced, during the last ten years, in the treatment of disease through the mind, and the growing desire of a large number of students of the science, and others, to know in what manner the late P. P. Quimby was connected with this principle of curing and what was his mode of treatment, has induced the writer to present, in a brief article, a sketch of the man, his life and ideas. It is not the intention to make the article other than a plain statement of facts,
based on personal knowledge.

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.

The dancing mania or choreomania

Paracelsus (born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493 –1541) was a Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist.

Paracelsus pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine. He used the name "zink" for the element zinc in about 1526, based on the sharp pointed appearance of its crystals after smelting and the old German word "zinke" for pointed.

All dis-ease is in the mind.

I have said that all dis-ease is in the mind. I will try to explain it more clearly. I will separate the mind from the senses and the senses from the thing called dis-ease. Now to cure a trouble is to know how it is made. As men reason, they reason upon mathematical principles, but as they stand on a false basis, they will land sooner or later in trouble.

Dis-ease is the effect of one kind of reason.
The cure is the opposite kind of reason.
One is based on science and the other on belief or opinion.

To give the reader an idea of my manner, I will take the case of a lady that came to see me. I will show how I changed the mind and how the cure was affected. I sat down by the lady and she affected me in this way. I felt a heat in the back of my neck accompanied with pain. This affected my shoulders and the pit of my stomach. Now all this pain or heat of itself contained no wisdom, only the state of mind. This is mind and out of this everything grows or is made. This was the condition of the lady.

Now she had a belief that she had a cancerous tumor and in fact thought she had one coming. The belief was in this heat for the heat was the mind or soil to have the cancer. Now her beliefs contained the elements of a cancer to her, so she received the belief, and this made the disturbance in the mind. Now who was it that made the disturbance? Not wisdom but the devil or error. Now the sensation made her inquire what it was, and some error or ignorant physician gives his opinion that it is a cancer. So she believed this opinion, and went to work to make the phenomenon. So now I had to change her mind and destroy her belief. This set her senses free from the error and this was the cure. As my reasoning is from what I consider a false report taken for a truth, I have to make the change by illustrations. So I said, Your dis-ease is all in your mind. You think you have a cancerous tumor. This she said was a fact and not in the mind, so I went on to prove my theory and put it into practice.

So I began by a parable. Suppose I ask you if you ever saw a quince and you say, I don't think I have. I said, will you tell me how it looks, how it smells and how it tastes? This you cannot do so you admit your ignorance. Then I commence to explain how it grows on a tree like a small pear tree and I describe it to the best of my ability. You listen. Now all the time your mind is going through a chemical change and you really create a quince after my description. Now this quince is a spiritual one but it has a real name, so you start up excited to find a quince, and as fruit is known by names, you approach a fruit store and look at the various kinds of fruit. At last your eye strikes on the kind you think is a quince, so you buy one and come and show it to me and say, I have found a quince. I say are you sure? You say pretty sure. Have you not a doubt? Why, I cannot say certainly, but I am as sure as I can be without being certain. So I say to you, It is a quince. Now this is wisdom, but in the quince there was no life nor wisdom, and in the name, there was no life nor wisdom to you. But when I put your senses and the name to the thing called quince, then out of this came life or a truth. This is wisdom.

When you heard the name of tumor or felt the sensation of heat, of course being a little excited and your curiosity awakened, you went to find the cause of your trouble so your senses would enquire of everyone what it was. At last you got the idea of cancerous tumor. Now of course you would look for it the same as you looked for the quince, so your senses would look all over the body, and of course you would be very anxious to find where it generally located itself or stopped. At last you settle that you have found it by the direction you have had from me so you come to me and say, I have found it. I ask you where, you say in the stomach. I ask you when you got it and how it came there. This you can't tell, only that it came without your knowing it. So I say you have made it yourself by listening to the devil or error in the opinion of the medical faculty or public opinion. This you can't believe, so I then commence to explain the trinity of dis-ease.

Man's trinity is the word, the flesh and the opinion.
Science is the word,
the flesh is the thing, and
the theory is applying the thing to the thing named.
PPQ 1864