| A Shift in the Way We Think | | | | into their philosophies and charters. Over 100 million |
| The New Thought Movement is a paradigm shift in | | | | people have made these principles part of their |
| the way we view the world, ourselves, and each | | | | personal philosophies making New Thought Religions |
| other. The movement has been around for | | | | (as a group) the 8th largest religious body on the |
| thousands of years, but was actually illegal in many | | | | planet. |
| parts of the world before the core principles became | | | | The reform is subtle, but is slowly being integrated |
| guaranteed human rights under the American | | | | into churches and religious organizations all over the |
| constitution in 1776 and as of 1948, guaranteed rights | | | | world. |
| under the United Nations "Universal Declaration of | | | | Scientific Evolution |
| Human Rights." | | | | Perhaps nowhere has the New thought Movement |
| The magnitude of what's going on here is hard to | | | | had such a rapid and dramatic impact as the Scientific |
| express, because like all massive paradigm shifts it is | | | | Community. New Thought principles posit that |
| occurring slowly. Like a glacier moving with | | | | consciousness actually influences reality, and in 1932 |
| imperceptible speed forever changing the face of the | | | | New Thought Quantum Physicist Werner Karl |
| Earth, so too is the New Thought Movement forever | | | | Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize for proving |
| changing the landscape of our minds. | | | | beyond any doubt that consciousness was affecting |
| A Closer Look: | | | | and influencing the very fabric of reality when he set |
| Okay, so what is this massive paradigm shift | | | | for and proved the matrix formulation of quantum |
| anyways? What is it affecting, and where is it | | | | mechanics. |
| headed? | | | | In the 80 years since then, Quantum Physics has |
| The New Thought Movement is a full fledged assault | | | | become the global standard and everything we |
| at the core of five critical aspects of all our lives: | | | | understand about the time, space, energy, and reality |
| | | | itself has been reassessed to include the simple idea |
| 1. Gender and Racial Equality | | | | that we really do influence the world around us at |
| 2. Religious Equality | | | | every level. |
| 3. Scientific Evolution | | | | The Human Potential to Create and Manifest |
| 4. The Human Potential to Create and Manifest | | | | For thousands of years the idea of, "Born poor, die |
| 5. Medicinal Equality | | | | poor" was the dominant paradigm worldwide. Of |
| Wow! That's a pretty ambitious effort for any | | | | course we aren't talking just about wealth, the idea is |
| movement to undertake, but what might be just | | | | that the situation you are born into dictates the rest |
| beyond your field of vision is how massive the shift | | | | of your life. |
| already is. Each of these areas is pretty big, so for | | | | In the modern world it has become commonplace to |
| sake of this short article I'm going to touch on each | | | | believe that we have the innate right to try and |
| one of them just briefly. | | | | create a better life for ourselves. This is a huge |
| Gender Equality | | | | paradigm shift in global consciousness with implications |
| Often called the mother of the New Thought | | | | stretching to every aspect of all our lives. |
| Movement, Emma Curtis Hopkins was instrumental in | | | | It has become so commonplace to believe that we |
| the movements' rapid expansion from 1850 through | | | | can change and create our destinies that it is almost |
| the 1920's. What few people realize is that Emma | | | | hard for the modern mind to imagine a time just 150 |
| was dedicated to the evolution of all five of these | | | | years ago when 99% of all people believed they |
| fronts simultaneously, but felt that "Women's | | | | were born into a situation which they could not |
| Equality" was the aspect most lacking. To these ends | | | | change. Nowadays, most humans are deeply |
| she is remembered amongst the largest and most | | | | entrenched in the idea that through hard work and |
| influential contributors in the passing of the American | | | | determination they can create the life they choose. |
| 19th Amendment (women's right to vote) which set | | | | Could there be a more massive shift than that? |
| the stage for the 1948 United Nations passing of the | | | | Medicinal Equality |
| "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" which | | | | New Thought principles that the mind has natural |
| guarantees women's right to participate in | | | | healing powers accessible through alignment and |
| democracies worldwide... Not too shabby, eh? | | | | harmony with nature are beginning to achieve |
| Religious Equality | | | | widespread acceptance within the medical community |
| The New Thought Movement has sought to reform | | | | worldwide. |
| world religion with a two pronged approach: | | | | While perhaps the slowest community to embrace |
| - First: The idea that people are born in original | | | | the New Thought Paradigm, over the last 150 years |
| goodness and that Universal Divinity is benevolent | | | | the medical community has expanded its self |
| rather than angry or wrathful | | | | definition to include such esoteric principles as: |
| - Second: The belief that all world religions are simply | | | | Herbology, Acupuncture, Massage, Psychology, and |
| variations of the same universal truths (different | | | | Chiropractic to the point of acceptance that these |
| paths to the same end result) | | | | practices are covered by most modern medical |
| The New Thought Religious movement addresses | | | | insurances. |
| the two cores of religion by removing the ideas of, | | | | Putting it All Together |
| "The One True Faith" as well as, "Born a Sinner, born | | | | Changes in consciousness come slowly, building over |
| to suffer." However, with those two small changes in | | | | time. The New Thought Movement with its esoteric |
| tow it allows all other practices of each individual faith | | | | notions of personal empowerment and equality for all |
| to remain unchanged by embracing the idea that all | | | | have already seeded our global consciousness and |
| faiths are inherently teaching the same truth. But | | | | taken root as the highest truths of humanity. What |
| what a difference it makes! | | | | once was considered mystical has now become |
| Already, after only 150 years churches of various | | | | ordinary as people all over the world find themselves |
| faiths have begun to adopt these two core teachings | | | | empowered to create the lives of their dreams. |