New Thought

I går lärde jag mig något nytt. Det finns en andlig strömming som definitivt haft ett starkt fäste i USA under större delen av 1900 talet och som i det landet kan spåras tillbaka till mitten kanske tom början av 1800 talet. Idag går denna andliga tradition under namnet "New Thought".

Min reflektion är att detta är en andlig tradition som kan spåras tillbaka till Platon i den gamla världen och innan dess Egyptens sk Mystery Schools. Detta var då och vid den tiden kunskap och tänkande som hölls strikt separat från massorna och ex Platon fick vänta i över 20 år innan han godkändes som elev till dessa skolor i Egypten. Pytagoras en annan känd gammal grek lär ha spenderat över 22 år i dessa skolor. Var denna tradition, detta tänkande hade sitt ursprung innan dess är däremot svårt att sia om. Intressant är dock att en av eleverna från denna skola dvs Platon skrev historien om "Atlantis".
http://www.world-mysteries.com/mpl_10.htm

Många idag försöker att föra i bevis att även Jesus under de åren som bevisligen saknas i sin levnad fick sin andliga förkovran i just Egypten.
http://www.opencheops.org/page3.htm

Här en intressant film om ämnet:
Ancient Egypt and Mystery Schools - 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHbVW6Pc-LU&feature=related

mer om den Amerikanska New Thought "rörelsen:

New Thought was also largely a movement of the printed word.[9] The 1890s and the first decades of the 20th century saw an explosion of what would become known as self-help books, including the financial success and will-training books of Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles, Frank Channing Haddock, and Thomas Troward.

In 1906, William Walker Atkinson (1862–1932) wrote and published Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World. [10] Atkinson was the editor of New Thought magazine and the author of more than 100 books on an assortment on religious, spiritual, and occult topics.

The following year, Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus Magazine, a Journal of New Thought, published Bruce MacLelland's book Prosperity Through Thought Force, in which he summarized the "Law of Attraction" as a New Thought principle, stating "You are what you think, not what you think you are." [11]

These magazines were used to reach a large audience. Nautilus magazine, for example, had 45,000 subscribers and a total circulation of 150,000.[9] One Unity Church magazine, Wee Wisdom, was the longest-lived children's magazines in the United States, published from 1893 until 1991.[12]

En del i denna andliga strömmning utgörs av Christian Science som har bibeln som en av sina huvud texter och som anser sig föra vidare det urspringliga budskap och läarande som Jesus stod för:

Christian Science is a religious belief system founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866and is practiced by members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Christian Science asserts that humanity and the universe as a whole are spiritual rather than material in nature and that truth and good are real tangible things, therefore, evil and error are unreal. Christian Scientists believe that only through prayer and fully knowing and understanding God will this be demonstrated.

Eddy developed this method of faith healing when she recovered from an injury in 1866after reading a Bible passage describing one of Jesus' miracles. She believed that Jesus Christ's faith healing was available to all believing Christians. After this, she studied the Bible for many years and documented her findings in a textbook, copyrighted in 1875, titled Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. It is the primary source for Christian Science belief and remains in print today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science

Om New Thought:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought

Om New Thought:
http://www.newthought.org/about.html

Här en "gudstjänst" i "New Thought-anda":
http://www.spiritualliving.org/online-resources#watch

En variant av New Thought (en inriktning som är mer eller mindre ledande i att göra den nya vetenskapen känd):
http://unity.org/

Här bla videos med Abraham-Hicks:
http://newthought.ning.com/

(New Thought is) an umbrella term for diverse beliefs that emphasize experiencing God's presence for practical purposes, such as healing and success. Examples include Unity, Religious Science, and Divine Science.

• Belief in Deity
There exists one God--Universal Mind, creative intelligence, omnipresent--a principle (not a being), an impersonal force that manifests itself personally, perfectly, and equally within all.

• Incarnations
No particular incarnations, as God is within all equally. Some believe Jesus was exemplary of someone who fully realized his divine nature, and therefore is the "wayshower" (shows the way).
• Origin of Universe and Life
The universe and all within it are expressions of God--the creative intelligence--with no beginning and no end.

• After Death
Some believe in continual rebirth as a gift from God so that all may become immortal, as was Jesus Christ, with each lifetime a preparation for the next. Others believe the individual soul merges with the universal spirit after death.

• Why Evil?
No original sin, and no Satan and no evil. People make "mistakes" due to ignorance of one's true nature as Perfect Mind and Love, which is God.

• Salvation
Salvation lies in the realization of oneness with the impersonal life force, thus unlocking one's healing potential. Licensed practitioners counsel on spiritual healing for problems of the mind, body, and life. Some believe Jesus is the "wayshower" to salvation. Some believe that all, regardless of actions, will be saved by the grace of a loving and forgiving God. Most believe that spiritual awareness of God's omnipresence--that God is all and all are God--leads to personal and humanity's salvation. Many believe that repeated reincarnations are God's gift, each lifetime a preparation for the next, until "perfection" is reached, which is God.

• Undeserved Suffering
Suffering results from ignorance of one's true nature as Perfect Mind and ceases with complete realization that we all are one with God, the Universal Mind. One can heal personal suffering through New Thought practices, often with the assistance of New Thought practitioners.

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