To understand something about the doctrine of thought power, it’s helpful to look at its history. The father of the religion of positive thinking was an obscure New Englander named Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802–66).
Quimby,
like many men of his time, was a jack of all trades. He started as a
clockmaker, but eventually became fascinated with alternative methods of
healing and learned the art of mesmerism or animal magnetism, a
forerunner of hypnosis. Quimby found that if he put an assistant into a
trance, the assistant could diagnose and prescribe a remedy for a
patient’s disease (much like Edgar Cayce, the celebrated “sleeping
prophet” who lived a couple of generations later)....<<<Read More>>>...
