One of the pioneers in the field of religious radio broadcasting.

Dr. Ernest C(harles) Wilson
(1876-1982)

the ‘Dean of Unity minsters’

Dr. Ernest Charles Wilson or Ernest C. Wilson (1876 - 1982) was a prominent minister with the Unity School of Christianity, headquartered in Kansas City. He was ordained in 1917 and became minister of Cleveland Unity Center in 1935. From Cleveland he went to Unity School of Christianity as editor of Youth Magazine and later became editor-in-chief of Unity Publications, as well as an international lecturer and teacher.

 Charles Fillmore, the founder of Unity, appointed Dr. Wilson as his successor as minister of Unity Church in Kansas City. Prior to coming to Unity on the Plaza, Dr. Wilson established Christ Church Unity in 1938, and under his leadership it became the largest Unity church in the world, and one of the foremost churches in Los Angeles. 

Dr. Wilson was one of the pioneers in the field of religious radio broadcasting, having spoken on radio for almost 50 years, and having given several nationwide broadcasts in connection with Columbia Church of the Air. He had made over 1,200 television appearances.

He was the author of books many on Christianity which are popular today. His works include "The Great Physician," "Soul Power,"”The Master Class Lessons,” "The Contemplation of Christ," "The Week that Changed the World," "The Emerging Self," and "Like a Miracle."

MASTER CLASS LESSONS 

 1935  

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE 12,751 STUDENTS IN HIS TWELVE MASTER CLASSES TO DATE, WITH GRATITUDE FOR THEIR FAITHFUL APPLICATION OF THE LESSONS AND FOR WHAT THEY HAVE TAUGHT HIM 
He closed every lesson with the following to reflect on: 

 “You are a radiant center of the Christ light, mighty to attract your good, and to radiate good to others.”

Columbia Broadcasting System Inc. announced a change of policy in its religious programs. No longer would Columbia sell time to religious bodies or individuals. Instead, Columbia would put on a Sunday schedule of its own. to be known as "Church of the Air," beginning Sept. 13. Time Monday, Aug. 24, 1931 

1940 Ad CBS Sunday Radio Columbia's Church of the Air - Original Print Ad http://www.amazon.com/1940-Sunday-Radio-Columbias-Church/dp/B005DGLO6A

“Death is not the end of life, but an event in its midst. We are inheritors of immortality. Our life did not begin when we came into this world. Nor will it cease when this life ends.”

In the 1920's Ernest Wilson came to be the lead editor of all Unity publications, in 1931 he remarried Charles and Myrtle on their 50th wedding anniversary, in 1933 he presided at the marriage of Charles and Cora Fillmore, and in 1934 he succeeded Charles Fillmore as the Senior Minister of the Unity Society. He knew Emilie Cady, he was at Charles Fillmore's bedside in his last few hours when Charles asked him if he believed in eternal life, he knew Lowell Fillmore, James Freeman and May Rowland when they were young, he launched a very successful church in the Los Angeles area in 1939, attracting many notable celebrities, and in 1965 he returned to Kansas City to lead the Plaza Church until his retirement in 1976.

Wilson was considered a pioneer in religious television for his daily appearances on a Los Angeles television station and weekly network appearance on the Betty White Show.  Betty White Ludden briefly hosted and produced her own daily talk show, The Betty White Show, on NBC

We must know exactly who we are, what we are and why we are!

The secret of living life and loving this: First, your feeling towards the livingness of life in you, as well as in all life everywhere, should be to recognize life as Intelligent and to know that when this Intelligence is working through you it does not change its essential nature. 

The "nocebo effect"

The "nocebo effect" is the lesser-known opposite number of the placebo effect, and describes any case where putting someone in a negative frame of mind has an adverse effect on their health or well-being. Tell people a medical procedure will be extremely painful, for example, and they will experience more pain than if you had kept the bad news to yourself. Similarly, experiences of side effects within the placebo groups of drug trials have shown that a doctor's warning about the possible side effects of a medicine makes it much more likely that the patient will report experiencing those effects. 

This is not just in the mind: it is also about physical effects. The stress created by the nocebo effect can have a long-lasting impact on the heart, for example – perhaps serious enough to cause fatal damage.

In the 1970s, for example, doctors diagnosed a man with end-stage liver cancer, and told him he had just a few months to live. Though the patient died in the predicted time, an autopsy showed the doctors had been mistaken. There was a tiny tumour, but it had not spread. It seemed the doctors' prognosis had been a death curse. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327247.100-13-more-things-the-nocebo-effect.html

A nocebo (Latin for "I will harm") is something that should be ineffective but which causes symptoms of ill health. A nocebo effect is an ill effect caused by the suggestion or belief that something is harmful. The term 'nocebo' became popular in the 1990s. Prior to that, both pleasant and harmful effects thought to be due to the power of suggestion were usually referred to as being due to the placebo effect. http://www.skepdic.com/nocebo.html 

• More than two-thirds of 34 college students developed headaches when told that a non-existent electrical current passing through their heads could produce a headache.
• "Japanese researchers tested 57 high school boys for their sensitivity to allergens. The boys filled out questionnaires about past experiences with plants, including lacquer trees, which can cause itchy rashes much as poison oak and poison ivy do. Boys who reported having severe reactions to the poisonous trees were blindfolded. Researchers brushed one arm with leaves from a lacquer tree but told the boys they were chestnut tree leaves. The scientists stroked the other arm with chestnut tree leaves but said the foliage came from a lacquer tree. Within minutes the arm the boys believed to have been exposed to the poisonous tree began to react, turning red and developing a bumpy, itchy rash. In most cases the arm that had contact with the actual poison did not react." (Gardiner Morse, "The nocebo effect," Hippocrates, November 1999, Hippocrates.com) [please see reader comments]
 • In the Framingham Heart Study, women who believed they are prone to heart disease were nearly four times as likely to die as women with similar risk factors who didn't believe.* (Voelker, Rebecca. "Nocebos Contribute to a Host of Ills." Journal of the American Medical Association 275 no. 5 (1996): 345-47. ) [Of course, one might argue that the women in both groups had good intuitions. The objective risk factors may have been the same, but subjectively the women knew their bodies better than the objective tests could reveal.]
• C. K. Meador claimed that people who believe in voodoo may actually get sick and die because of their belief ("Hex Death: Voodoo Magic or Persuasion?" Southern Medical Journal 85, no. 3 (1992): 244-47).
• "In one experiment, asthmatic patients breathed in a vapor that researchers told them was a chemical irritant or allergen. Nearly half of the patients experienced breathing problems, with a dozen developing full-blown attacks. They were “treated” with a substance they believed to be a bronchodilating medicine, and recovered immediately. In actuality, both the “irritant” and the “medicine” were a nebulized saltwater solution."
• Double-blind, controlled studies have repeatedly shown that electro-sensitives can't tell the difference between genuine and sham electro-magnetic fields (EMFs).1, 2 For example, a research team in Norway (2007) conducted tests using sixty-five pairs of sham and mobile phone radio frequency (RF) exposures. "The increase in pain or discomfort in RF sessions was 10.1 and in sham sessions 12.6 (P = 0.30). Changes in heart rate or blood pressure were not related to the type of exposure (P: 0.30–0.88). The study gave no evidence that RF fields from mobile phones cause head pain or discomfort or influence physiological variables.
• About 20% of patients taking a sugar pill in controlled clinical trials of a drug spontaneously report uncomfortable side effects — an even higher percentage if they are asked. 

 • Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, found in a recent review of the nocebo literature that patient expectation of adverse effects of treatment or of possible harmful side-effects of a drug, played a significant role in the outcome of treatment (Barsky et al. 2002).

In medicine, a nocebo reaction or response refers to harmful, unpleasant, or undesirable effects a subject manifests after receiving an inert dummy drug or placebo. Nocebo responses are not chemically generated and are due only to the subject's pessimistic belief and expectation that the inert drug will produce negative consequences. In these cases, there is no "real" drug involved, but the actual negative consequences of the administration of the inert drug, which may be physiological, behavioural, emotional, and/or cognitive, are nonetheless real. The term nocebo (Latin for "I will harm") was chosen by Walter Kennedy, in 1961, to denote the counterpart of one of the more recent applications of the term placebo (Latin for "I will please"); namely, that of a placebo being a drug that produced a beneficial, healthy, pleasant, or desirable consequence in a subject, as a direct result of that subject's beliefs and expectations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo

The Nocebo Effect is Serious Medicine ~ http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2012/01/24/the-nocebo-effect-is-serious-medicine-2/
The Nocebo Effect ~ http://harvardmagazine.com/2005/05/the-nocebo-effect.html
The Biochemical and Neuroendocrine Bases of the Hyperalgesic Nocebo Effect ~ http://www.neuro.cjb.net/content/26/46/12014.full
Warnings about insomnia and stress are naturally more likely to induce stress and insomnia, of course, but victims of the nocebo effect report depression, fatigue, nausea, and chronic pain. Those who were told that medical procedures would be painful reported more pain than those who were told that the procedures would be relatively painless. ~ http://io9.com/5639545/plan-the-perfect-murder-with-the-nocebo-effect

Cause leads; effects follow! 

Thought is the cause; conditions are the effects!

Thought is the cause; conditions are the effects!

“If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”~ Mark 9:23 

And so begins “How To Live Life and Love It” by Genevieve Behrend. 

1. Study carefully St. Matthew, chapter 13, verse 12. Jesus uttered those golden words to teach mankind that like does attract like, invariably and infallibly. That passage states the law of attraction at its best, including an unshakable faith, visualizing by means of which one HAS spiritually, or in the mind, even that which is sought, and which serves as a magnet of infinite power to draw to one the glad fulfillment in form, or physical reality, provided only one also WORKS confidently and happily to carry out the ideas the Father gives one, through intuition, as steps in the path to the shining goal. Now let us directly quote the passage, then strip it bare of all the "mystery" so many claim it contains for them. 

2. The only way anyone can fully understand Life's law of attraction is through seeing what it does under certain given conditions. 

3. Always desire and fulfillment are bound together as cause and effect through the universal law of attraction! 

4. Thought is the energy by which the law of attraction is brought into operation. 

She only used the phrase “law of attraction” those four times. 

In reading your Bible always substitute the word "Subconscious Mind" for the word "Lord." 

Try this with such passages as Isaiah 40:31, Mark 29:30, Luke 18:29-30 and a host of others. 

Look about you; look at the results achieved by those who have learned to LOVE, to USE and to TRUST the MIND. Strength, power, beauty, television, wire photography, microscope, telescope, spectroscope, all of these, yes ALL of ALL THINGS, are RESULTS from the Great Creative Energy whose progress, harmony; telephone, wireless, airplanes, chief attributes are these: 

1. It is ever-present, everywhere; 

2. It is always amenable to suggestion; 

3. It is forever responsive; 

. It is eternally creative. 

This God-energy, remember, manifests in the mind of man, in fact IS the mind of man. 

The three Bible-references given above, and many others, teach us that if one puts the development of the divine spark within first, over all else, the divine in return will make that one first with it! 

Truly then the best Life has to give is the possession of that one! 

The law of life is: 

To change an effect the cause must be changed first. 

Cause leads; effects follow! 

Thought is the cause; conditions are the effects! 

“How To Live Life and Love It” by Genevieve Behrend. 

Many read the Truth; few assimilate it! 

Many hear the Truth; few heed it! 

Many know the Truth; few do it!

A model for the women of the world.

Annette Marie Sarah Kellerman (1886 – 1975) was an Australian professional swimmer, vaudeville and film star, and writer. She was one of the first women to wear a one-piece bathing costume, instead of the then accepted pantaloons, and inspired others to follow her example. She is often credited for inventing the sport of synchronised swimming after her 1907 performance of the first water ballet in a glass tank at the New York Hippodrome. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

At the age of 6, a weakness in Kellerman's legs necessitated the wearing of painful steel braces to strengthen them. In order to further overcome her disability, her parents enrolled her in swim classes at Cavill's baths in Sydney. By the age of 13, her legs were practically normal, and by 15, she had mastered all the swimming strokes and won her first race. At this time she was also giving diving displays. Through insistent, persistent, determined, steady effort she became the physically-perfect woman, a model for the women of the world.

 In 1902, Kellerman decided to take her swimming seriously and subsequently won the ladies' 100 yards and mile championships of New South Wales in the record times of 1 minute, 22 seconds and 33 minutes, 49 seconds respectively.

On 24 August 1905, aged 18, Annette Kellerman was the first woman to attempt to swim the English Channel. After three unsuccessful swims she declared, "I had the endurance but not the brute strength."

Kellerman was famous for advocating the right of women to wear a one-piece bathing suit, which was controversial at the time. According to an Australian magazine, "In the early 1900s, women were expected to wear cumbersome dress and pantaloon combinations when swimming. In 1907, at the height of her popularity, Kellerman was arrested on Revere Beach, Massachusetts, for indecency - she was wearing one of her fitted one-piece costumes."

The popularity of her one-piece suits resulted in her own line of women's swimwear. The "Annette Kellermans", as they were known, were the first step to modern swimwear.

In 1916, Kellerman became the first major actress to do a nude scene when she appeared fully nude in A Daughter of the Gods. A Daughter of the Gods (1916) is a silent film that featured Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman.The film was controversial because of the sequences of what was regarded as superfluous nudity by the main character, Nydia, played by Kellerman. The scene is regarded as the first complete nude scene by a major star, which occurred during a waterfall sequence, though most of Kellerman's body is covered by her long hair.