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Mind-healing movement that originated in the U.S. in the 19th century. Its earliest proponent, Phineas P. Quimby (1802-66), was a mesmerist who taught that illness is mental. New Thought was influenced by philosophers ranging from Plato to Emanuel Swedenborg, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Ralph Waldo Emerson and in turn influenced Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science. The International New Thought Alliance (formed 1914) asserts that sin and illness stem from incorrect thinking. New Thought groups emphasize Jesus as a teacher and healer and proclaim his kingdom as being within each person
of sin, evil, predestination, and pessimistic resignation
Any form of belief in mental healing other than (1) Christian Science and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy
Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude
The term is essentially synonymous with the term High Thought, used in England
As a cult it has its unifying idea the inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the "old thought" of sin, evil, predestination, and pessimistic resignation
As a cult it has its unifying idea the inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the "old thought"
AS a therapeutic doctrine it stands for silent and absent mental treatment, and the theory that all diseases are mental in origin
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