Test 9: Min. REL Flashcards
Who were the great thinkers and leaders of New Thought before Ernest Holmes? Be able to give the names and greatest contributions of eight of these leaders.
JESUS
MESMER Franz Anton Mesmer healed illness through trance-based sessions, and reportedly worked. Something is here and his followers M. Puysegur, Poyon Collyer saw the mind and belief and desire as the operative factor and carried these ideas to NE US in 1830s.
SWEDENBORG Emmanel Swedenborg: “Divine influx”—an animating body of energies and ideas—that permeated all of nature, including the mind.
QUIMBY Phineas P. Quimby “The patient’s disease is in his belief, and the cure is in the confidence of the doctor.” The ability to awaken hope. Intelligence from universal source, continuum of spirit, mind, and matter. Mind and body subject to scientific and spiritual laws. “All science is a part of God”
EMERSON Ralph Waldo Emerson “Be Yourself”
TROWARD Thomas Troward Reciprocal we are “individualizations of pure spirit”
EVANS Warren Felt Evans “I see how it is that by believing I have the thing for which I am praying causes me to have it.”
EDDY Mary Baker Eddy
HOPKINS Emma Curtis Hopkins
Review “What We Believe.” Be able to explain the core principles and concepts of Science of Mind.
Prepare a definition of the Science of Mind without using jargon.
In teaching Science of Mind principles, what will you personally contribute to assisting others in understanding and embracing our philosophy?
How are the teachings of Science of Mind similar to those of Christianity? How are they different? What is the Science of Mind view of Jesus?
Review the gospels and parables of Jesus and be prepared to explain several of them in metaphysical terms.
What is your understanding of prayer and how it works? Is prayer always answered?
Why is it important to understand the Bible in a historical context? How does this give a clearer understanding of the gospels? Give an example of how this works.
How would you explain Science of Mind to: a traditional Christian?
How would you explain Science of Mind to:A teenager
A five-year-old
How would you explain Science of Mind to:a teenager
A five-year-old
What were Troward’s chief contributions to new thought?
Remember the teaching of Troward, “the
higher level of intelligence can control the
lower level of intelligence if it chooses to do so.”
we are “individualizations of pure spirit” who have the ability to control “all (lesser) modes of spirit which have not yet reached the same level of recognition.” As we discover the relationship of reciprocal action between ourselves and the universal, we open ourselves to the universal energy of love and healing occurs. Creative Process in the Individual.
The Reciprocal Relationship between Universal Spirit and the individual is one of the most important ideas of Thomas Troward and is critical to the understanding of spiritual mind treatment. As individuals open themselves to the Universal, the “Universal seems to pour itself into the individual,” resulting in expanded individualization of consciousness.
Individuals wish to express fully and completely as individuals. This desire pushes them into higher states of consciousness and ultimately they encounter the dimension of Universal Spirit.
Universal Spirit, through Its reciprocal action, wishes to express through the individual, and therefore meets the individual where individual and Universal Mind merge together.
It is like a plant that is pushing itself up by its roots from below towards the sun and, at the same time, the sun is pulling the plant toward its universal rays. This reciprocal action must begin with individuals opening to the possibility of a Presence and Power greater than themselves. They begin the process with an act of faith, inviting the Universal into their individualized minds and the Universal responds and pours forth Its energy into the mind s of individuals according to the degree of acceptance and receptivity of individuals.
What were Evan’s chief contributions to new thought?
“I see how it is that by believing I have the thing for which I am praying causes me to have it.”
Faith, Evans continued, “proceeds from God” and “if my belief of it is a truth received from God, or if my faith is the faith of God, it becomes a substantial reality.” At this crucial point Evans arrived at his insight that faith is a force, which manifests “an actual realization of what I am praying for.” While framing this principle in Christian terms, Evans is saying that mental certitude and visualization, backed by faith, is the engine of creation.
What were Quimby’s chief contributions to new thought?
Omnipresent wisdom is in all and us, visible world is effect
spiritual matter responsive to thought
natural and spiritual man
disease is misidentification of material for wisdom
whatever we believe we create
discover false belief and bring truth to it
disease is negative thought based on faulty truth/opinion
body is an effect and mirror of the mind, for each of us
mind is creative from suggestion and has imagination
“The patient’s disease is in his belief, and the cure is in the confidence of the doctor.” The ability to awaken hope. Intelligence from universal source, continuum of spirit, mind, and matter. Mind and body subject to scientific and spiritual laws. “All science is a part of God”
What were Mesmer’s chief contributions to new thought?
healed illness through trance-based sessions, and reportedly worked. Something is here and his followers M. Puysegur, Poyen Collyer saw the mind and belief and desire as the operative factor and carried these ideas to NE US in 1830s.
