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Neville Goddard

1905 – 1972

Taught imagination as the sole creative power; 'assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled'.

Barbados·New Thought · Philosophy

Louise Hay

1926 – 2017

You Can Heal Your Life and Hay House globalised affirmation culture; its health claims are contested.

United States·New Thought · Psychology

Catherine Ponder

b. 1927

Unity minister whose prosperity books shaped late-century abundance teaching.

United States·New Thought · Economics

Michael Beckwith

b. 1956

Founded Agape International and carried New Thought to a global multiracial audience.

United States·New Thought · Theology