Believe in Yourself, Joseph Murphy

From Believe in Yourself by Dr. Joseph Murphy

"A great industrialist told me one time how he started in a small store. He said that I used to dream (Joseph was a dreamer) of a large corporation with branches all over the country. He added that regularly and systematically he pictured in his mind the giant building, offices, factories, and stores, knowing that through the alchemy of the mind, he could weave the fabric out of which his dreams would be clothed. He prospered, and began to attract to himself by a universal law of attraction the ideas, personnel, friends, money, and everything needed for the unfoldment of his ideal. He truly exercised and cultivated his imagination, and lived with these mental patterns in his mind until imagination clothed them in form.

I liked particularly one comment which he made as follows, "It is just as easy to imagine yourself successful, as it is to imagine failure, and far more interesting."

"We have said previously that all our mental at­titudes are conditioned by imagination. If you imagine: It is going to be a black day today; business is going to be very poor; that it is rain­ing; no customers will come into your store; they have no money, etc., you will experience the re­sult of your negative imagery.

One time Troward (Thomas Troward*) was walking the streets of London, and he imagined he saw a snake on the street. Fear caused him to become semi-paralyzed. What he saw looked like a snake, but Troward had the same mental and emotional reaction as if it were a snake.

Imagine whatsoever things are lovely, noble, and of good report, and your entire emotional attitude toward life will change. What do you imagine about life? Is it going to be a happy life for you? Or is it one long series of frustrations? "Choose ye whom ye will serve."*

You mold, fashion, and shape your outer world of experience according to the mental images you habitually dwell on. Imagine conditions and cir­cumstances in life which dignify, elevate, please, and satisfy. If you imagine life is cold, cruel, hard, bitter, and that struggle and pain are inevitable, you are making life miserable for yourself."



* Thomas Troward is one of the authors credited with inspiring "The Secret" film.
* Joshua 24:15

Imagination Fullfills Its Self - Neville Goddard

From Imagination Fullfills Its Self, by Neville Goddard, October 26th, 1968.....

"I say imagination creates reality, and if this premise is true then imagination fulfills itself in what your life becomes. Although I have changed the words, what I am saying is not new. Scripture says it in this manner: "Whatsoever you desire, believe you have received it and you will." This statement goes back two thousand years, yet even before that Jeremiah tells of the same principle in his story of the potter and his clay.

But until imagination becomes a part of your normal, natural currency of thought, you will not act consciously. Like breathing, this awareness must become so much a part of you that you will not turn to the left or the right to praise or blame anyone. When you know this presence it will not matter if you started life behind the eight-ball, or in a palace; as a poor, or a rich child; you will realize that life is always externalizing what you are imagining.

Lacking the knowledge of this principle, you can reproduce your environment - be it pleasant or unpleasant - forever and ever, as you feed your imagination on what your senses dictate. But knowing this principle, you can ignore the present, and untethered by the so-called facts of life, you can imagine the present as you desire it to be and feed upon your desire, rather than its omission. "

"I tell you: imagining creates reality. Believe me, for it is true. Faucett* was right when he said," The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems to the solution of which the mystic aspires, for supreme power, supreme wisdom and supreme delight lie in the far off solution of this mystery. "

"I ask you to take me seriously. Imagination will fulfill itself, so do not limit yourself by anything that is now happening, no matter what it is. Knowing what you want, conceive a scene which would imply you have it. Persuade yourself of its truth and walk blindly on in that assumption. Believe it is real. Believe it is true and it will come to pass. Imagination will not fail you if you dare to assume and persist in your assumption, for imagination will fulfill itself in what your life becomes."


*I think he was referring to Edward Douglas Fawcett who wrote "Divine Imagining" in 1921.

Believe It In - Neville Goddard

From Neville's lecture "Believe It In" October 6th, 1969......

"First, you must know what you want, then create an image that fulfills it. Would your friends know and talk about it? Imagine they are with you now, discussing your fulfilled desire. You could be at a cocktail or dinner party that is being given in your honor. Or maybe it's a little get-together over tea. Create a scene in your mind's eye and believe its reality in! That invisible state will produce the objective state you desire, for all objective reality is solely produced by imagination.

The clothes you are now wearing were first imagined. The chair in which you are seated, the room that surrounds you - there isn't a thing here that wasn't first imagined; so you can see that imagining creates reality. If you don't believe it, you are lost in a world of confusion.

There is no fiction. What is fiction today will be a fact tomorrow. A book written as a fictional story today comes out of the imagination of the one who wrote it, and will become a fact in the tomorrows. If you have a good memory or a good research system, you could find today's facts. Not every fact is recorded, because not every thought is written; yet every person imagines. A man, feeling wrongfully imprisoned and desiring to get even, will disturb the world, because all things by a law divine in one another's being, mingle. You can't stop the force that comes from one who is imagining, because behind the mask he wears, you and he are one. Start now to become aware of what you are thinking, for as you think, you imagine. Only then can you steer a true course to your definite end. If you lose sight of that end, however, you can and will be moved by seeming others. But if you keep your mind centered in the awareness of dwelling in your destination, you cannot fail.

The end of your journey is where your journey begins. When you tell me what you want, do not try to tell me the means necessary to get it, because neither you nor I know them. Just tell me what you want that I may hear you tell me that you have it. If you try to tell me how your desire is going to be fulfilled, I must first rub that thought out before I can replace it with what you want to be. Man insists on talking about his problems. He seems to enjoy recounting them and cannot believe that all he needs to do is state his desire clearly. If you believe that imagination creates reality, you will never allow yourself to dwell on your problems, for you will realize that as you do you perpetuate them all the more.

So I tell you: the greatest thing you can do is to believe a thing into existence, just as our founding fathers did. They had no current example of democracy. It existed in Greece centuries ago, but failed because the Greeks changed their imaginal activity. We could do that too. Don't think for one second we have to continue as a democracy. We could be under dictatorship within twenty-four hours, for everything is possible. If you like democracy, you must be constantly watchful to keep its concepts alive within you. It's the most difficult form of government. A man can voice an opinion and stage a protest here, but in other forms of government he cannot. If you want to enjoy the freedom of a democracy, you must keep it alive by being aware of it.

Now, if you keep this law, you don't have to broadcast what you want; you simply assume that you have it, for - although your reasonable mind and outer senses deny it - if you persist in your assumption your desire will become your reality. There is no limit to your power of belief, and all things are possible to him who believes. Just imagine what an enormous power that is. You don't have to be nice, good, or wise, for anything is possible to you when you believe that what you are imagining is true. That is the way to success."

I have read "The Secret" and a ton of other books on LOA, but Neville and Joseph Murphy really seem to define things down to a basic idea for me.
That is why I quote them so much here.
They say it way better than I ever could.

The truth really is out there.
But you have to find the truth that works for you.
Read Goddard, Murphy, Allen, Wattles, Dyer, Tolle, Hicks and others and see for yourself what works best for you.

Faith in God - Neville Goddard

From Faith in God.....

"Omnipresent, God is alive in you now, so I ask you to test Him. Would you like a better job? Greater income? Greater recognition? What would you do right now if it were true? Now test God by thinking of a friend. Hear him congratulate you on your good fortune. See his face light up with joy and feel his presence. Do that, and you have performed a magical act, for God has acted and all things are possible to God.

You do not have to devise the means necessary to make your imaginal act come to pass. He who thought of the friend and saw the whole thing will build a bridge of incident across which you will move to the fulfillment of that which has been done. That is Christ!"

Neville Goddard

FREE Manifestation Stuff

I get so tired of people saying they have the secret to the Law of Attraction and then wanting to charge me $100 dollars and up to tell me about it.
If you are so concerned about your fellow man, just tell him!
If your manifesting technique works so well, you don't need to charge for it do you?
Just manifest more money.

Sure I run ads on here, but that is your choice to look at them or not.
I have never and will never charge for anything on this blog that I might think will help someone.
Just once I'd love to see someone say "Look, I have a law of attraction system that works. I'll GIVE it to you, and when the money rolls in, THEN you can pay me what you think it's worth."

So since it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness, here are three really good FREE things you can read online at no charge.
Yes FREE!

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles
You can read the whole book online here:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Getting_Rich

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
You can read the whole book online here:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/As_a_Man_Thinketh

The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel
You can read all the lessons plus some of them even have an audio track which I really like.
To go past a certain point you have to register, but that is free also.
http://masterkeycommunity.com/

And I know I have mentioned this before, but you can read all of Neville Goddard's lectures online for free as well here:
http://nevillegoddard.wwwhubs.com/Neville_Index.htm

I apologize about the rant.
But sometimes no matter how hard I try, these things get to me.
I know I shouldn't let it bother me.
No telling how many laws that violates.
But there are a lot of people out there trying to do good, and these other people just give them a bad name.

Voodoo and the Mind Body Connection

Why am I posting a link to an article about Voodoo on a manifesting blog?
Well read the article and I think you'll understand why.
"What you think is what you are" is a driving force in manifesting.
If you look, massive amounts of will are not required to make you sick.
Just belief.
So turn that around and just belief can make you well right?
You think you are sick and you become sick.
You think you are well and you become well.

Anyway, read the article and think about it.
You can read the full article here

Manifesting Results

I know I have posted a link to this somewhere before, but it's been the number one result on a Google search for manifesting reality for a long, long time.
So evidently it's worth a read huh?
The article is by an Israeli trainer, lecturer and coach, Vered (Tanmayo) Neta.

I've experimented with conscious manifesting techniques for 13 years now. For 5 years I have taught others the tools that I myself have learned in a course called 'Manifesting Results'. Some people come to the course with a preconception that I'm going to teach them how to manifest. The bad news is that I'm not going to do that. The good news is that you already DO manifest everything in your life. You always have.
Since we all already create our own realities, what we do in the course is slow down the creative process and learn how this is done, in order to understand the principals behind and in so doing adjust things and create something different.
We create our reality from our Thoughts, Feelings, Choices and Beliefs. Lets explore each of these:
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Neta5.html

December Updates on Mantras

Okay, it's been awhile so I thought I would update everyone on how things are going with the Mantra tests.
First off, what I am doing......
Using Wayne Dyer's "Ahhh" meditation in the AM, the mantra's "Shreem", "Om Brzee Namaha", "Thiru Neela Kantam", Using Dattatreya Siva Baba's "Ahhh" meditation and "How to Compress Time for Manifestation" in the evening.
I've also been using a few other mantras on and off and studying Vedic Astrology a bit.
I've used the " Ara Kara" very little, but I'm thinking about using it more.
Bottom line......
Someone I haven't spoken to in ages called. I had been meditating on this person during the Ahhh meditation.
My online business has gone from 31 per cent of my goal when I started in October to 40 per cent in December.
Am I just chanting?
No.
I am working too.
Both Wayne Dyer and Dattatreya Siva Baba say to keep on doing things while you do the mantras. Don't expect the mantras to do everything.
As far as my health goes, I have a Doctors appointment Monday, so I'll relay what is said there. I actually started these mantras after my last appointment.
So that about wraps it up for now. I'll be updating later.
Before I forget though, there is a young lady in Australia that has put several mantras on her YouTube channel so that you can actually hear them and chant along to get the feel.
Her name is Mathina Maideen and her channel is http://www.youtube.com/user/MathinaMaideen

Sigil Magic and the Law of Attraction

Sigil magic is another way of transforming your reality.
There are a ton of links online ( which I'll plug in at the bottom) but the technique is very simple.
First, write down your desire.
Its suggested that you use " It is my will" or a variation thereof, but a simple " I am"(ala Neville Goddard) should work too.
" It is my will that I make one million dollars this year" or " I am a millionaire".
Okay, taking the first sentence, eliminate all the vowels, a,e,i,o,u (as far as I know y and w are fine)
That gives you " TSMYWLLTHTMKNMLLNDLLRSTHSYR "
Kinda long huh?
Now Remove all the repeating letters.....
TSMWLHKNDR
Now...take those letters and create a symbol.
Charge the symbol and BANG!
Like I said...VERY simplified explanation.
Check out these links for more info......

www.jasnetworks.net/zotiel/OF/sigilcreation.html
www.wisdomsdoor.com/wb/hwb-sigil.shtml
http://www.boudicca.de/max9-e.htm

BTW, don't be put off by the word magic. A lot of people that use sigils don't think it has a thing to do with magic, but rather programming your subconscious.

The well known Sigil, the Seal of Solomon

Various Sigils

A Simple Technique for Manifesting Success into Your Life

A Simple Technique for Manifesting Success into Your Life
By Mark Williams

Manifesting is great way to bring about the desires of your life. I want to teach you a simple technique to use manifesting to create the life you desire.
The first thing you need to realize is…
You and you alone are in charge of your life. The successes and failures in your life are directly correlated to what you think about.
A very empowering realization in life is to finally realize that you are in charge of it. The success or lack of it, in your life is not the fault of someone else or some event. Happiness and success is created by the thoughts and emotions you focus on.
Manifesting is a great tool for turning thoughts and emotions into reality. The key to successful manifesting is not just the thought of what it is you desire but putting the feelings and emotions with the thought. Coupling emotions with thoughts is a very powerful manifesting technique.
Thoughts are very powerful things but by themselves they are virtually harmless. Much like a bullet, thoughts are potentially powerful but without a firing pin it is harmless. Emotions are the firing pins of successful manifesting.

Full article here:

http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Simple-Technique-for-Manifesting-Success-into-Your-Life&id=132265

Top Five Manifesting Links

I thought since it had been awhile, I'd post a few manifesting links that people might be interested in......

You already know how to manifest reality. You just need to learn how to properly direct it, and I can show you how to get the things you want.
www.how-to-manifest-your-desires.com/how-to-manifest-reality.html

I've experimented with conscious manifesting techniques for 13 years now. For 5 years I have taught others the tools that I myself have learned in a course
www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Neta5.html

Manifesting is an active form of prayer in which we are more consciously aware and focused.
www.byregion.net/articles-healers/manifesting.html

It’s an uncanny phenomenon but it’s true: The Universe has a way of supporting those who get crystal clear on what they want and then wholeheartedly go after it.
www.spiritualnow.com/articles/49/1/How-You-Manifest-Your-Reality.html

If you aren't manifesting what you want, there may be hidden reasons why you're holding onto the undesirable condition
www.cedarfire.com/art.gains-jeri.shtml



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Nona L. Brooks - New Thought and Church of Divine Science

Nona Lovell Brooks, described as a "prophet of modern mystical Christianity", was a leader in the New Thought movement and a founder of the Church of Divine Science.

Brooks was born on March 22, 1861 in Louisville, Kentucky, the youngest daughter of Chauncey and Lavinia Brooks. At a fairly early age, her family moved just outside Charleston, West Virginia, where Brooks graduated from the Charleston Female Academy. Due to the collapse of her father's salt mining business, the family moved again, this time to Pueblo, Colorado where he entered the metal mining business, He died shortly after the move, when Brooks was 19.

In 1887, encouraged by her sister, Althea Brooks Small, Nona Brooks attended classes taught by Kate Bingham, proponent of the New Thought philosophy. While attending these classes, Brooks "found herself healed of a persistent throat infection" and shortly thereafter Brooks and Small began to heal others.

In 1890, with the aim of becoming a teacher, Brooks enrolled at Pueblo Normal School, which was followed by a one year stay at Wellesley College. In December 1898, Brooks was ordained by Malinda Cramer as a minister in the Church of Divine Science and founded the Denver Divine Science College. Shortly thereafter, she inaugurated the Divine Science Church of Denver, holding its initial service on January 1, 1899 at the Plymouth Hotel in Denver, in the process becoming the first woman pastor in Denver.

In 1902, Brooks founded Fulfillment, a Divine Science periodical. During this period, she also served on several Denver civic boards, including the Colorado State Prison Board.

After World War I Brooks succeeded her sister Fannie James as head of the College and in 1922 Brooks aligned the growing Church of Divine Science with the International New Thought Alliance. In the early 1930s she moved to Australia, where she established several Divine Science organizations, returning to Chicago in 1935 and then back to Denver in 1938. She died March 14, 1945 in Denver, Colorado.

Nona was described by many who knew her as warm, gentle, and "motherly", but with "a strength that came from conviction"

Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924) was an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement. He also held a degree in medicine, and was a successful hotel owner.

Marden was born in Thornton Gore, New Hampshire to Lewis and Martha Marden. When he was three years old, his mother died at the age of 22, leaving Orison and his two sisters in the care of their father, a farmer, hunter, and trapper. When Orison was seven years old, his father died from injuries incurred while in the wood, and the children were shuttled from one guardian to another, with Orison working as a "hired boy" to earn his keep. Inspired by an early self-help book by the Scottish author Samuel Smiles, which he found in an attic, Marden set out to improve himself and his life circumstances. He persevered in advancing himself and graduated from Boston University in 1871. He later graduated from Harvard with a M.D. in 1881 and an LL.B. degree in 1882. He also studied at the Boston School of Oratory and Andover Theological Seminary.

Marden supported himself during his college years by working in a hotel and afterward by becoming the owner of several hotels and a resort. Financial reverses ended that career, and in 1893, he was again working as a hotel manager, in Chicago, during the time that the World's Columbian Exposition was attracting visitors to that city from all over the world. It was during this period that he began to write down his philosophical ideas, with the goal of inspiring others as he had been inspired by Samuel Smiles.

In addition to Smiles, Marden cited as influences on his thinking the works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson, both of whom were influential forerunners of what, by the 1890s, was called the New Thought Movement.

Marden's first book, Pushing to the Front, was published in 1894. He followed this with several more volumes on the subjects of succes, the cultivation of will-power, and positive thinking. He founded Success Magazine in 1897 and was also a regular contributor to Elizabeth Towne's New Thought magazine Nautilus during the first two decades of the 20th century.

Like many proponents of the New Thought philosophy, Marden believed that our thoughts influence our lives and our life circumstances. He said, "We make the world we live in and shape our own environment." Yet although he is best known for his books on financial success, he always emphasized that this would come as a result of cultivating one's personal development: "The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."

Marden died in 1924 at the age of 74.

William Walker Atkinson - New Thought Movement

William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 - November 22, 1932) was a very important and influential American figure in the early days of the New Thought Movement. He was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of New Thought, which is in fact the title of a magazine he edited at one time. He is also known to have been the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont and Yogi Ramacharaka.

Atkinson's 1906 book Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World, is associated with the thinking behind the recent phenomena surrounding the 2006 movie, The Secret.

Due in part to his intense personal secrecy and extensive use of pseudonyms, he is now largely forgotten, despite having obtained mention in past editions of Who's Who in America, Religious Leaders of America, and several similar publications -- and having written more than 100 books in the last 30 years of his life.

William Walker Atkinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 5, 1862, to William and Emma Atkinson, both of whom were also born in Maryland. He began his working life as a grocer at 15 years old, probably helping his father. He married Margret Foster Black of Beverley, New Jersey, on October 1889 and they had two children. The first probably died young. The second later married and had two daughters.

Atkinson pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bar of Pennsylvania. While he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880s he found it with New Thought. From mental and physical wreck and financial ruin, he wrought perfect health, mental vigor and material prosperity, which he attributed to the application of the principles of New Thought.

Some time after his healing, Atkinson began to write articles on the truths he felt he had discovered, which were then known as Mental Science. In 1889, an article by him entitled "A Mental Science Catechism," appeared in Charles Fillmore's new periodical, Modern Thought.

By the early 1890s Chicago had become a major centre for New Thought, mainly through the work of Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Atkinson decided to move there. Once in the city, he became an active promoter of the movement as an editor and author. He was responsible for publishing the magazines Suggestion (1900-1901), New Thought (1901-1905) and Advanced Thought (1906 - 1916).

In 1900 Atkinson worked as an associate editor of Suggestion, a New Thought Journal, and wrote his probable first book, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, being a series of lessons in personal magnetism, psychic influence, thought-force, concentration, will-power, and practical mental science.

He then met Sydney Flower, a well-known New Thought publisher and businessman, and teamed up with him. In December, 1901 he assumed editorship of Flower's popular New Thought magazine, a post which he held until 1905. During these years he built for himself an enduring place in the hearts of its readers. Article after article flowed from his pen. Meanwhile he also founded his own Psychic Club and the so-called "Atkinson School of Mental Science". Both were located in the same building as Flower's Psychic Research and New Thought Publishing Company.

Thomas Troward (1847-1916) - New Thought Movement

Thomas Troward (1847-1916) is an author whose works influenced the New Thought Movement, Mind Sciences, and mystic Christianity. Influences on his writings include the teachings of Christ, Islamic and Hindu Teachings, and Buddhism.

Troward was the author of several books including the Edinburgh Lectures 1904.

Troward has been credited as a major influence on New Thought, Religious Science, Science of Mind and founder Ernest Holmes, and even in the History of Alcoholics Anonymous literature. In the beginning of the global best seller The Secret, the introduction remarks credit Troward's philosophy with inspiring the movie and it's production.

The philosopher William James characterized Troward’s Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science as "far and away the ablest statement of philosophy I have met, beautiful in its sustained clearness of thought and style, a really classic statement." Several of Troward's books are in the public domain due to their publication before the 1920s.

Emmet Fox - New Thought

Emmet Fox (July 30, 1886-August 13, 1951) was born in Ireland, and was a famous New Thought spiritual leader of the early 20th Century. He was educated in England and he had a large influence on the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.

His father, who died before Fox was ten, was a physician and member of Parliament. Fox attended Stamford Hill Jesuit college near London, and became an electrical engineer. However, he early discovered that he had healing power, and from the time of his late teens studied New Thought. He came to know the prominent New Thought writer Thomas Troward.

Fox attended the London meeting at which the International New Thought Alliance was organized in 1914. He gave his first New Thought talk in Mortimer Hall in London in 1928. Soon he went to the United States, and in 1931 was selected to become the successor to James Murray as the minister of New York's Divine Science Church of the Healing Christ. Fox became immensely popular, and spoke to audiences in some of the largest halls in the city. He was ordained in the Divine Science branch of New Thought.

While Emmet Fox lived he addressed some of the largest audiences ever gathered to hear one man's thoughts on the spiritual meaning of life. His books and pamphlets have been distributed to over three million people and it can be conservatively estimated that they have come into the hands of ten million.

Fox's secretary was the mother of one of the men who worked with Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W., and partly as a result of this connection early AA groups often went to hear Fox. His writing, especially "The Sermon on the Mount," became popular in AA.

Some similar New Thought writers Ernest Holmes, Thomas Troward, Emma Curtis Hopkins, H. Emilie Cady, Charles Fillmore, Myrtle Fillmore, Joel S. Goldsmith, James Dillet Freeman, Eric Butterworth.

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Henry Drummond - Natural Law in the Spiritual World

Henry Drummond, born August 17, 1851, died March 11, 1897 was a Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer.

He was educated at Edinburgh University, where he displayed a strong inclination for physical and mathematical science. The religious element was an even more powerful factor in his nature, and disposed him to enter the Free Church of Scotland. While preparing for the ministry, he became for a time deeply interested in the evangelizing mission of Moody and Sankey, in which he actively co-operated for two years.

In 1877 he became lecturer on natural science in the Free Church College, which enabled him to combine all the pursuits for which he felt a vocation. His studies resulted in his writing Natural Law in the Spiritual World, the argument of which was that the scientific principle of continuity extended from the physical world to the spiritual. Before the book issued from the press (1883), a sudden invitation from the African Lakes Company drew Drummond away to Central Africa.

Upon his return in the following year he found himself famous. Large bodies of serious readers, alike among the religious and the scientific classes, discovered in Natural Law the common standing-ground which they needed; and the universality of the demand proved, if nothing more, the seasonableness of its publication. Drummond continued to be actively interested in missionary and other movements among the Free Church students.

In 1888 he published Tropical Africa, a valuable digest of information. In 1890 he traveled in Australia, and in 1893 delivered the Lowell Lectures at Boston. It had been his intention to reserve them for mature revision, but an attempted piracy compelled him to hasten their publication, and they appeared in 1894 under the title of The Ascent of Man. Their object was to vindicate for altruism, or the disinterested care and compassion of animals for each other, an important part in effecting the survival of the fittest, a thesis previously maintained by Professor John Fiske.

Drummond's health failed shortly afterwards, and he died on the 11th of March 1897. His character was full of charm. His writings were too nicely adapted to the needs of his own day to justify the expectation that they would long survive it, but few men exercised more religious influence in their own generation, especially on young men.

Coincidentally, his name was used in the popular American play about the Scopes/Monkey trial, Inherit the Wind by Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence.

Oprah likes it, so it must be good. Right? | News | guardian.co.uk Books

Oprah likes it, so it must be good. Right? News guardian.co.uk Books:

"Oprah likes it, so it must be good. Right?
John Crace
Monday March 10, 2008
The Guardian

Are you Ready for your unconscious To be awakened to the Random use of capital Letters? Oprah thinks You are. And what Oprah thinks, the US invariably does, so more than 500,000 people logged on to her website last week to view the first of 10 online seminars by self-styled Spiritual Teacher Eckhart Tolle.
Tolle's latest book, A New Earth, has been heavily plugged on the chatshow host's website, propelling it straight to the top of the Amazon bestseller list. Around 3.5m copies have been shipped in the four weeks since Oprah selected it, and with another seminar scheduled for tonight, it's unlikely to stop there"


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Online seminars add to the stampede for Eckhart Tolle’s book - Times Online

Online seminars add to the stampede for Eckhart Tolle’s book - Times Online:

"It is known simply as the Oprah effect, but a personal recommendation by Oprah Winfrey is the most powerful commercial force in world publishing. A recommendation by the talkshow host will give an enormous boost to the sales of any title – although the popularity of Eckhart Tolle is said by American retailers to be unprecedented."




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Raymond Charles Barker - Treat Yourself to Happiness

Treat Yourself to Happiness, Excerpt from Treat Yourself To Life by Raymond Charles Barker

"WILL I EVER be happy again?" is the cry which comes from the hearts of thousands.

For twenty years I have been talking with hundreds of these people and have proved to them that their happiness can be regained and expanded IF they follow a few simple rules.

Wherever you are, in an apartment in New York or San Francisco, a farm in Iowa, a house in Texas or a bungalow in Florida, there is an inner you which is craving love, self-expression, permanence in your health and security in money.

If not actually fearful of the future, you are at best suffering mild anxiety, the number one mental symptom of the twentieth century.

Elizabeth Andrews in a great New York City hospital looked up at me from her bed and said:
"I have just been told by the doctors that I have Padgett's Disease, a malignant disease, and that I will never walk again without heavy braces and crutches. I don't want to accept this verdict. Need I?"

Knowing that this woman was capable of making drastic changes in her thinking and feeling, I answered: "While the factual evidence of bone disease is true— your need to believe it permanent is not. You can treat yourself out of this, and I know it can be done."

Eight months later, without a brace or a crutch, Elizabeth Andrews walked into her church on a Sunday morning and joined others in the acknowledgment of a Power which knows no incurability!

How could this happen? Life limits no one, offers itself freely to all. If you can accept this new viewpoint as Elizabeth did, you can treat yourself to greater living. Elizabeth had learned that what man, with his material science, could not do for her, creative thinking could, provided she directed it herself.

Standing at her bedside on the day of her sentence to a life of invalidism, I saw her faint hope that I would agree she would walk again. Knowing her sincerity, and her capacity in the past to control her thinking, I immediately said:

"You certainly can walk again, and I will help you every step of the way."

Every day for months, she and I knew certain basic truths together. She, in her hospital bed, and I, in my home or office, replaced in her subconscious the verdict of an incurable disease with a sure knowledge of a woman walking through life with ease.

One cold autumnal day when Elizabeth was walking down Fifth Avenue, she suddenly fell. The ambulance intern told her she had broken her leg. Her fall, however, had not been the usual kind, no broken pavement, no icy sidewalk, nothing to trip over. The bones in her right leg had simply given way!

At the hospital the X-rays showed the disease. The doctor anxiously made his way to her room, carrying the pictures with him, hoping that as her own eyes saw the condition, the blow would be softened as he told her:

"You have Padgett's Disease."

She had faith in her doctor and obeyed his orders. She knew that his diagnosis was accurate and factual.

For a single moment the news terrified her, tears came to her eyes and panic clutched her heart. But she instantly turned in thought to her greater, faith in God and affirmed that the Creative Power was equal to this situation. The calm came, the faith returned, and I came to her bedside in answer to her call.

Her recovery was not miraculous. For four months she never left the bed. I was there the day they brought to her the heavy massive brace, to cover her from hip to toe. She looked at it and had a momentary cry. Then, catching herself, she turned to me and said:

"We'll fool them yet, won't we?" My agreement with her faith was instantaneous.

Four months later she walked into church without that brace or even a crutch!

The key to Elizabeth's victory was in her own ability to keep her thinking clear and to waver not in her knowledge of her own self as a creative channel for an unlimited intelligence. She knew that life would respond to her as she responded to it.

This reciprocal action between your patterns of thought and feeling, and the universal life has determined every experience which you have ever had, are having or will ever have.

You can learn how to treat yourself to greater living. Your mind is no different than Elizabeth's, mine or anyone's else. The greatest sages, saints and messiahs had minds no greater and no finer than yours. Only, they knew how to use them. They knew how to keep their minds directed to creative ends. This book is not written to give you faith, that your church will give you. It is written to show you how to translate your faith into right subconscious action, to produce the results you want.


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