There is lots of info about "Emma Curtis Hopkins" on the net. Do a google search of that term.
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By 1886 she was a practitioner in Chicago, but excommunicated by Mrs. Eddy in 1887 & again in 1888 along with Julius Dresser.
". . . for being Mind-quacks who were spreading abroad patchwork books, false compendiums of my system crediting some ignoramus or infidel with teaching they have stolen from me. The unweaned suckling whines while spitting out the breast-milk which sustained him . . . "
How sweet.
The founders of AA also appear to have been familiar with this belief system, as they are linked with Emmet Fox, another New Thought promoter.
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It all really boils down to the same thing.
That you can "create reality" with your "thoughts", or by unifying your thoughts with "God".
To me this is just a mental trap.
As the only way to get it to work, they say, is to believe 100% and have no doubt.
If its not working, and you are sick, etc, then it is YOUR FAULT for not believing hard enough. If you believed better, you would be better.
So you cannot entertain doubt, and must believe 100% no matter what is happening.
So to get it to work, then you must believe 100% for as long as it takes.
This is madness.
There is no proof that it works in the way it claims.
Where is the evidence after 100 years?
Not stories, not anecdotes, not lies.
Where is the PROOF?
I don't know of any, other than perhaps some things that are accounted for in hypnosis and self-suggestion.
Do you see the mental trap of all these New Thought systems?
You have to believe 100% to get it to work, if you doubt or question, then you will fail, and stay sick and die, etc.
Well this is the PERFECT system to start a cult.
It gets rid of all doubt and questioning.
Now we all know that critical thinking and questioning are the healthiest things on earth.
So what they are advising is pretty much the unhealthiest way of thinking that i can think of. They are encouraging Delusional Thinking, and denying reality.
Healthy thinking is the exact opposite. Its balanced, flexible, REALISTIC, and reality-tested. You get psychologically healthy when your thinking is attuned to reality, not to some metaphysical delusion.
Eddy had it right.
MIND-QUACKS.
And that includes her and the rest of them.
Mind-Quacks.
Thx Mary for the great term!
Mind-Quacks spinning a Catch-22 mental trap.
Coz