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Malinda Cramer

Founder of Divine Science


At age fifteen she developed a disease which the doctors declared incurable. One morning in 1885, while in prayer she simply asked, "Is there a way out of my condition? Is there a Power in the Universe that can heal me?" The answer came intuitively. .

Rev. Dr. Johnnie Colemon

Founder-minister of Christ Universal Temple, has a message: Teaching People How To Live Better Lives. Often referred to as the first lady of America's Religious Community, she is the pastor of the thriving, spirited and progressive New Thought Church, which has nearly 20,000 members.



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Rev. Dr. Barbara King

Minister and founder of the Hillside Chapel and Truth Center, Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia, the Reverend Dr. Barbara Lewis King has played an important role in the African American church and community for many years.



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Deepak Chopra

Chopra is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda. He is largely responsible for the re-introduction of Ayurveda into the alternative health system. Ayurveda is a holistic system comprising many different healing aspects. List of Books



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Nona Brooks

The doctor had given Nona Lovell Brooks the final prescription he felt might help an ulcerated throat that had made it impossible for her to eat anything but five, specially-prepared soft foods. Healings occured in cases Nona Brooks was called upon to treat, though at first she did so very reluctantly.

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Florence Shinn
WHO WAS FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN?...... Ms. Shinn was an artist and a metaphysics teacher in New York in the early part of the 20th century. Her books are truly incredible. They are relatively short, but they are profound.


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Charles Fillmore

The Unity movement was founded by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in the late 1880s. They were down and almost out when they conceived the idea that became Unity. The Unity movement was founded by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in the late 1880s. They were down and almost out when they conceived the idea that became Unity. 

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Emilie Cady

H. Emilie Cady was a true holistic pioneer. Both a turn-of the-century homeopathic practitioner and metaphysician, she treated her patients medically and spiritually.  Dr. Cady teaches that your life can be transformed by the power of your thoughts, words, and beliefs.

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Emma Curtis Hopkins

Emma Curtis Hopkins, the author of "High Mysticism" and "Scientific Christian Mental Practice" was a student of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science, who started her own school, and some argue that she was the founder of the New Thought movement.

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Thomas Troward
The most notable books were a few small volumes that have had a profound effect on the development of spiritual metaphysics.

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Wallace D. Wattles

Wattles was born shortly after the Civil War, Wallace Delois Wattles and experienced a life of failure after failure, until — in his latter years, after tireless study and experimentation — he formulated and put into practice the principles laid out in The Science of Getting Rich.

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The Science of Getting Rich

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Joseph Murphy

DR. JOSEPH MURPHY wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands all over the world for nearly fifty years. Born in 1898, he was educated in Ireland and England. Years of research studying the world’s major religions convinced him that some great Power lay behind them all: The Power is within you!

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James Allen
Who is James Allen?  James Allen is a literary mystery man. His inspirational writings have influenced millions for good. Yet today he remains almost unknown. None of his nineteen books give a clue to his life other than to mention his place of residence - Ilfracombe, England. 

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Catherine Ponder
Catherine Ponder is considered one of America's foremost inspirational authors. She has written more than a dozen books, which include such bestsellers as her Millionaires of the Bible series. She is a minister of the non- denominational Unity faith -- long known as the "pioneer of positive thinking" -- and has been described by some as "the Norman Vincent Peale among lady ministers."

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Ralph Waldo Trine
Ralph Waldo Trine was a philosopher, mystic, teacher and author of many books, and was one of the early mentors of the New Thought Movement. No other New Thought author has sold more books than he, his writings reaching far beyond New Thought circles out to the general public, which has bought and read Trine's books without ever knowing that they were New Thought.
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Raymond Charles Barker
Dr. Barker opened the First Church of Religious Science in New York City in 1946, was President of the International New Thought Alliance (INTA) and a well-known minister, author and teacher throughout the New Thought movement.

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Emmet Fox

His father, who died before Fox was ten, was a physician and member of Parliament. Fox attended Stamford Hill Jesuit college near London, and became an electrical engineer. However, he early discovered that he had healing power, and from the time of his late teens studied New Thought.

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Frederick Bailes
Frederick Bailes was among the most popular and important teachers of the Science of Mind. Dr. Bailes served with Science of Mind founder Ernest Holmes as Assistant Dean of the Science of Mind Institute in Los Angeles.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great forerunner to the New Thought Movement, or the man who did more than any other thinker of our time to prepare the popular mind to accept the new practical idealism and gospel of optimism, was Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
However, it was probably as regular contributor to newspapers that Ella Wheeler Wilcox reached her widest public, for she wrote syndicated articles for the Hearst newspapers. Many of these were simply expositions of the central teachings of New Thought, though not definitely linked with that minority point of view.

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Warren Felt Evans

Warren Felt Evans became the first to give literary form to the new ideas and methods of cure, though he never seems to have concerned himself with any institutional expression of either -- save that he established a kind of mind-cure sanitarium at Salisbury, Massachusetts, to which people came for rest and healing.

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Phineas P. Quimby
MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. -- volume 3, page 208 of Quimby's Complete Writings

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Annie Rix Militz

Annie Rix Militz will always be regarded as one of the "greats" of New Thought. Her editing and publishing of Master Mind, one of the earlier and more outstanding New Thought magazines, from its beginning in 1911 until her death in 1924, would ensure that. She was also a key figure in the early days of the Unity movement.

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James Dillet Freeman
Called the "Poet Laureate to the Moon" or "a modern day Ralph Waldo Emerson", James Dillet Freeman has been one of the most popular of all Unity writers. His poetry has been read by more than five hundred million people.

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Horatio W. Dresser

Born in 1866, the year P. P. Quimby died, Horatio W. Dresser returned with his family to Massachusetts in 1882 after several years in the West. In 1883 he took up a study of Emerson and other great writers and copied for his father the Quimby Manuscripts loaned to him by George Quimby.

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Eric Butterworth
For over 50 years a teacher of "practical Christianity," helping thousands of people to help themselves to a more abundant life by the study and application of Truth. Possesses unique ability to render the most complex metaphysical teachings in simple sound bytes of awareness.

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Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes founded the International Religious Science movement, wrote "The Science of Mind" and numerous other books on metaphysics, and originated the international periodical Science of Mind magazine, which has been in continuous publication since 1927.
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Glenn Clark
A man who, without being himself a recognized New Thought leader, has been highly influential in introducing New Thought ideas and techniques into the churches, was Glenn Clark.

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Joel Goldsmith
"The world is not in need of a new religion, nor is the world in need of a new philosophy: What the world needs is healing and regeneration. The world needs people who, through devotion to God, are so filled with the Spirit that they can be instruments through which healings take place, because healing is important to everybody."

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Jack Addington
"If you don't have goals, you have no direction. You're going to drift and get nowhere. Setting a goal creates a mold into which the energy of life flows. It's a law of the mind -- that which you can conceive of, believe in and confidently expect for yourself, must necessarily become your experience."

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Ervin Seale

Seale, a veritable "dean" of Quimby studies, presents a readable portrait of Phineas Parkhust Quimby--an icon in the American metaphysical movement and pioneer of the subconscious mind and its connection to all the outcomes and issues of our lives.

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John Price
John Randolph Price is the co-founder with his wife Jan of The Quartus Foundation, a spiritual research and communications organization. He and Jan are the originators of "World Healing Day" a global mind-link that began on December 31, 1986.

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Robert Collier
Robert Collier's inspirational books have changed the lives of thousands. He was a prolific writer and progressive publisher who strongly believed that happiness and abundance were within easy reach.

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Wayne Dyer
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, affectionately called the "father of motivation" by his fans, is one of the most widely known and respected people in the field of self-empowerment.


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William James
William James was a physician, naturalist, artist, psychologist, philosopher, religious thinker, psychic researcher, drug experimenter, writer, lecturer, and professor. One of the most influential Americans of his time, his impact remains undiminished 90 years after his death, primarily through his classic 1902 book, "The Varieties of Religious Experience."

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