Phineas parkhurst quimby wikipedia
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Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
American writer and folk healer, 1802 – 1866
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (February 16, 1802 – January 16, 1866) was an American människor healer, mentalist and mesmerist. His work is widely recognized as foundational to the New Thought spiritual movement.[1]
Early life
[edit]Born in the small town of Lebanon, New Hampshire, Quimby was one of seven children and the son of a blacksmith and his wife. As was customary for his social and economic class at that time, Quimby received little formal education. He later wrote that he suffered from consumption (now called tuberculosis) in his ungdom, a disease that then had no cure, and was prescribed calomel bygd his doctor. The calomel was no cure, and began to rot his teeth.
Quimby began experimenting with his own ideas for a cure. He found that intense excitement (such as galloping on his horse) alleviated his pain for brief periods of time, and he became interested in the mind's ability to affect the bo
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Phineas Parkhurst Quimby 1802-1866
Park Quimby was a watch and clockmaker with a scientific, analytical mind who is credited by most as being the “Father of New Thought.” In 1836 Quimby was introduced to mesmerism by a traveling practitioner who traveled through Belfast, Maine. He left his job and traveled with the mesmerist for two years until he became proficient at the trade (“Phineas Quimby”, Wikipedia). Quimby eventually came to work with an uneducated youth named Lucius Burkmar, who exhibited an amazing ability to diagnose disease and to prescribe a remedy by clairvoyant powers when hypnotized by Quimby. Quimby's work with Burkmar led to his conclusions about the cause of all illness, the source of error beliefs and the mental basis for healing.
Error belief as cause of disease and Truth as the cure
Quimby eventually came to understand that the cause of the cure was not the remedy prescribed by Burkmar but rather that Burkmar's remedies were removing erroneous beliefs
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History of New Thought
The history of New Thought started in the 1830s, with roots in the United States and England. As a spiritual movement with roots in metaphysical beliefs, New Thought has helped guide a variety of social changes throughout the 19th, 20th, and into the 21st centuries. Psychologist and philosopher William James labelled New Thought "the religion of healthy-mindedness" in his study on religion and science, The Varieties of Religious Experience.[1][2][3]
Roots
[edit]Rooted in universal science, early New Thought leaders shared a Romantic interest between metaphysics and American Christianity. In addition to New Thought, Christian Science, transcendental movement, theosophy, and other movements were born from similar interests, all in the late 18th and early 19th century. John Locke's definition of ideas as anything that existed in the mind that could be expressed through words;[4] and the transcendentalist belief t