New Thought
New Thought is the nineteenth-century American movement that made mental causation a mass philosophy. Its authors produced the bestsellers that seeded modern self-help, prosperity preaching and much popular mind-body language. The claims are presented with their sources, including where clinical evidence does not support them.
21 indexed lives · 0 Nobel laureates · 4 countries
Where to start
Phineas Quimby
1802 – 1866Clockmaker turned mental healer whose notebooks seeded the entire New Thought movement.
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Warren Felt Evans
1817 – 1889Swedenborgian minister who wrote the first systematic books of mental-cure philosophy.
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Prentice Mulford
1834 – 1891Essayist who popularised 'thoughts are things' and the idea of mental forces.
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New Thought across the centuries
19th century · 17
- Phineas Quimby1802 – 1866
- Warren Felt Evans1817 – 1889
- Prentice Mulford1834 – 1891
- Myrtle Fillmore1845 – 1931
- Thomas Troward1847 – 1916
- Emma Curtis Hopkins1849 – 1925
- Charles Fillmore1854 – 1948
- Wallace Wattles1860 – 1911
- Nona Brooks1861 – 1945
- William Walker Atkinson1862 – 1932
- James Allen1864 – 1912
- Florence Scovel Shinn1871 – 1940
- Napoleon Hill1883 – 1970
- Emmet Fox1886 – 1951
- Ernest Holmes1887 – 1960
- Norman Vincent Peale1898 – 1993
- Joseph Murphy1898 – 1981