Creative Living

Dr. Stuart Grayson(???? -2001) was a leading authority in the area of mental and spiritual self-development. He was a Minister and Director of the Center of Creative Living and Pastor of First Church of Religious Science in New York. He then became Pastor Emeritus in 1999. A renowned speaker, he was a frequent lecturer on the Science of Mind across the United States and abroad. He spoke weekly at Alice Tully Hall in New York’s Lincoln Center for thirty years. Many thousands of people have attended his lectures which explained how the principles of health, prosperity, and fulfillment may be used in their lives.


After experiencing a dramatic physical healing at an early age through spiritual means, Dr. Grayson devoted much of his time to the study of world religions. He personally investigated eastern and western spiritual philosophies and psychologies, practicing various methods of self-awareness. He studied at the Jung Institute in Switzerland and particularly with the world-renowned Dr. Carl Alfred Meier[1], co-founder of the Institute. As a result of his spiritual quest, Dr. Grayson affiliated himself with Religious Science and was a minister for 35 years.
Once active in the business world, Dr. Grayson was a corporate executive for many years. His conviction about the need to bring a practical spiritual philosophy to as many people as possible guided him into the full-time ministry. He soon became widely known and respected for his presentation of spiritual psychology and philosophy.
He was both author and poet, and his writings have been published in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. Dr. Grayson appeared on a weekly television series, “Creative Living,” which he produced for the New York area. He also produced and appeared on a weekly talk-radio program in New York for several years.

[1]Carl Alfred Meier (1905 – 1995) was a Swiss psychiatrist, Jungian psychologist, scholar, and first president of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich. As a successor to Carl Jung, he held the Chair of Honorary Professor of Psychology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1949. Later, co-founded the Clinic and Research Center for Jungian Psychology in Zürichberg.
Professor Meier was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 1905. He enrolled at the University of Zürich in 1924. In the winter semester of 1927, Meier traveled to Paris to study at the Medical Faculty of the University of Paris. Later, in 1928, he traveled to Vienna to study at the Steinhof (the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Vienna), and to attend the lectures of Julius Wagner-Jauregg.
A colleague at Steinhof invited him to attend a series of Wednesday seminars delivered by Sigmund Freud. In 1931, he began his study of psychiatry under H.W. Maier at Burghölzli.
His numerous books have made significant contributions to the understanding and practice of psychotherapy.