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:''Documentation note''
: * '''Primary sources:''' Phineas Quimby (1802-1866) clinical correspondence; Emma Curtis Hopkins ''Scientific Christian Mental Practice'' (1888); Ralph Waldo Trine ''In Tune with the Infinite'' (1897); [[William Walker Atkinson|W. W. Atkinson]] ''Practical Mental Influence'', ''Mind-Power'', ''Mental Fascination'' (1907-1908); Ernest Holmes ''Science of Mind'' (1926-1938); Joel Goldsmith ''The Infinite Way'' (1947+)
: * '''Status:''' DOCUMENTED (historical movement documented by academic literature on US esotericism — cf. Catherine Albanese, ''A Republic of Mind and Spirit'', Yale University Press, 2007)

'''New Thought''' is '''an American cultural and religious movement''' that developed in the second half of the nineteenth century (~1850-1900) and later spread into the twentieth century, based on the idea that '''the mind has direct causal power''' over physical reality, health, and life circumstances. Alongside Christian Science (Mary Baker Eddy), the Theosophical Movement (Blavatsky), and Spiritualism, it constitutes one of the '''four major branches''' of nineteenth-century American alternative religiosity.

For the ISI-CNV wiki cluster, New Thought is '''the cultural framework''' that produced the synthesis of [[William Walker Atkinson|Atkinson]] on [[Mental Fascination di Atkinson (1907)|Mental Fascination]] (1907) and — later and in a transformed way — the quantum psychology of [[Stephen Wolinsky — Trance Interpersonale e Trance per Osservazione|Wolinsky]] (1991). It must be recognized as a '''necessary historical context''' for reading those two authors, but '''not as a foundational theoretical source''' of the [[Paret Method]] (see below, section "The Limit of New Thought").

== Basic Principles of the Movement ==

New Thought shares, in varying forms among individual authors, some '''fundamental principles''':

# '''Mind as cause''' — thought (idea, image, affirmation, intention) is the '''direct cause''' of physical, emotional, material, and relational states
# '''Immanent God''' — divinity is '''within every human being''', accessible as "Divine Mind," "Infinite Substance," "One Life." It is not a separate personal God
# '''Affirmations and visualizations''' — the central practice is the conscious enunciation of '''positive affirmations''' and the '''mental visualization''' of the desired state
# '''Mind-body connection''' — health is an expression of mental state; disease is '''error of thought''' (radical Christian Science formulation, mitigated in New Thought variants)
# '''Prosperity''' — material abundance is a natural expression of mental alignment; financial success is a '''sign''' of spiritual growth (American Protestant version)
# '''Vibration, induction, attraction''' — vocabulary derived partly from European Mesmeric magnetism, partly from Theosophy, partly from French occultism, integrated into a mentalistic framework

== Chronology and Main Authors ==

* '''1838-1859''' — Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (Maine), mental healer, develops the idea of disease as "error of thought." Considered the father of the movement
* '''1875-1879''' — Mary Baker Eddy publishes ''Science and Health'' (1875), founds Christian Science (1879). Dissident branch, more dogmatic, formally separates from New Thought
* '''1881''' — Warren Felt Evans, ''The Divine Law of Cure'' — the first systematic treatise of the movement
* '''1888''' — Emma Curtis Hopkins, Eddy's student then dissident, founds the '''Christian Science Theological Seminary''' in Chicago and trains the first generation of New Thought leaders (including Charles Fillmore of Unity Church)
* '''1889''' — Charles and Myrtle Fillmore found '''Unity Church''' in Kansas City
* '''1897''' — Ralph Waldo Trine, ''In Tune with the Infinite'' (New Thought bestseller, 5 million total copies)
* '''1907-1910''' — Atkinson publishes a series of books under various pseudonyms (Yogi Ramacharaka yoga series 1903-1910; ''Mental Fascination'' 1907; ''Mind-Power'' 1908; ''The Kybalion'' 1908 as Three Initiates)
* '''1914''' — Founding of the International New Thought Alliance (Atkinson will be its president)
* '''1926''' — Ernest Holmes publishes ''The Science of Mind'' (systematic exposition)
* '''1940-1950''' — Norman Vincent Peale ''The Power of Positive Thinking'' (1952, 5 million copies) — popular Protestant version
* '''1947+''' — Joel Goldsmith, ''The Infinite Way'' — more mystical version of the movement
* '''1980-2000''' — Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Esther Hicks (Abraham), Rhonda Byrne — contemporary New Age version
* '''2006''' — ''The Secret'' (Rhonda Byrne) — mass-market, media version, reduced to the "law of attraction" alone

== Historical Influences of New Thought ==

New Thought has durably influenced:

* '''Positive psychology''' (Martin Seligman 1990+) — academic formulation of the movement's affirmative core
* '''Motivational management''' (Dale Carnegie 1936, Stephen Covey 1989) — professional application
* '''Modern counseling and coaching''' (Tony Robbins, etc.)
* '''American self-help''' (Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, etc.)
* '''US corporate culture''' (goal visualization, positive affirmations, strategic optimism)
* '''American esotericism''' (Theosophy → New Age → Quantum Psychology → ''The Secret'')

That is, the movement has '''permeated''' mainstream American culture, to the point that many '''do not recognize it''' as a distinct esoteric tradition — it has become '''common sense''' for the English-speaking public.

== The Limit of New Thought ==

''Critical section of the Paret-ISI-CNV School.''

New Thought shares with [[The Kybalion]] the same '''mentalistic limit''' that blocks the movement '''before Awakening''':

# '''Mentalization of reality''' — the body is reduced to a '''reflection''' of thought. Magnetic fluid (Mesmer), prana (yoga), the Egyptian KA, alchemical substances disappear or are reduced to metaphors. This is the '''opposite''' of the authentic European magnetic tradition ([[Charles Lafontaine|Lafontaine]], [[Donato — Il Padre della Fascinazione|Donato]], [[Du Potet e il Magnetismo Scientifico — Genealogia e Commissioni|Du Potet]], [[Prof. Erminio Di Pisa — Ipnosi con lo Sguardo|Di Pisa]]) which always starts from the '''body as an autonomous plane'''
# '''Horizontal objectives''' — New Thought aims at '''healing, prosperity, success, influence, happiness''' — these are all '''worldly''' objectives, all '''horizontal''' in Marco Paret's formulation in ''[[L'Energia Segreta della Mente]]'' (2009). '''It does not aim at Awakening''' in the sense documented by [[La Doctrine du Corps Immortel|Giudicelli]] and by [[Il Risveglio|Evola]]
# '''American optimism''' — New Thought inherits Protestant-American optimism: "you can always improve," "life is abundance," "think positive." This is '''useful to start''' (mobilizes energy, dissolves resignation) but '''insufficient''' for the real work, which requires '''also''' the ability to see trance, pain, error, one's own dark side (see [[Mirror Fascinazione (Ajna/Third Eye)]] and Wolinsky's work on Deep Trance Phenomena)
# '''Lacks the authentic traditional framework''' — New Thought eclectically draws from Mesmerism, Theosophy, adapted yoga, popular Hermeticism, but '''does not fit into''' a real initiatic chain. It is a '''modern construction''' (19th-century American), not a reformulation of an ancient operative tradition
# '''The orientation contrary to the wet bodily path''' — precisely the movement that should value the body (symptoms, health, material prosperity) ends up '''dissolving it into the mental''', producing a "dry path without a body" (Evolian category) which is the flaw of all contemporary popular American spirituality

== What New Thought Brings (Positive) ==

It must be acknowledged, without reducing it to the opposite effect:

* '''Initial mobilization''' — for those stuck in resignation, fatalism, mild chronic depression, New Thought practices (affirmations, visualization, gratitude) are '''useful as pre-work''' to rebuild a basic capacity for initiative
* '''Contemporary vocabulary''' — New Thought created a '''modern lexicon''' for ancient things (mental induction, vibration, attraction, mind-body connection), accessible to a wide audience
* '''Mental concentration exercises''' — some exercises from the New Thought corpus (visualization of the center, focusing on qualities, maintaining intention) are '''useful as propaedeutics''' for higher paths
* '''Strategic optimism''' — the mental quality of '''refusing defeat''' is useful in many areas, from work to relationships, and should be recognized as an achievement of the movement

== Position of New Thought in the Paret Method ==

The student of the Paret Method encounters New Thought:

* As the '''American cultural context''' of [[William Walker Atkinson|Atkinson]] (1907) and [[Stephen Wolinsky — Trance Interpersonale e Trance per Osservazione|Wolinsky]] (1991)
* As '''useful propaedeutics''' to exit initial resignation and mobilize energy
* '''Not as an ultimate reference''' — the reference is the authentic European magnetic tradition (Mesmer → Du Potet → Donato → Di Pisa → Paret) integrated into the Hermetic-Masonic-Magnetic initiatic framework (Reghini, Evola, Kremmerz, Giudicelli)
* With the awareness that "think positive" alone '''does not lead to Awakening''' — indeed it can hinder it, creating a '''always positive''' person who does not see their own shadow or their own trances

In other words: New Thought is '''a starting point''', not an endpoint. Marco Paret cites the [[William Walker Atkinson|Atkinson system]] in a note in ''[[The Magnetic Gaze (Paret 2011)]]'', but builds '''his own theoretical work''' (''[[L'Energia Segreta della Mente]]'') on the European initiatic tradition (Fedeli d'Amore, Reghini-Negri, Gruppo di Ur, Giudicelli) — '''not on American New Thought'''.

== Documentation Status ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Statement !! Source !! Verification
|-
| Historical movement documented 1850-2000 || academic research (Albanese 2007, Braden 1963, Anderson 1993) || DOCUMENTED
|-
| Chronology of main authors || corroborated biographical research || DOCUMENTED
|-
| Atkinson as key New Thought figure 1900-1932 || presidency of International New Thought Alliance + publications || DOCUMENTED
|-
| Influences on Norman Vincent Peale, Dale Carnegie, ''The Secret'', Louise Hay, etc. || standard historical reconstruction || DOCUMENTED
|-
| Critique of the mentalistic limit || own analysis of the Paret-ISI-CNV School || RECONSTRUCTED (School critique, based on comparison with the Awakening cluster)
|}

== Primary Sources and Bibliography ==

* Catherine L. Albanese, ''A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion'', Yale University Press, 2007 — standard academic reference
* Phineas P. Quimby, ''The Quimby Manuscripts'' (1846-1865)
* Ralph Waldo Trine, ''In Tune with the Infinite'', 1897
* William W. Atkinson, ''Practical Mental Influence'' (1908), ''Mind-Power'' (1908)
* Ernest Holmes, ''The Science of Mind'', 1926
* Joel Goldsmith, ''The Infinite Way'', 1947+

== See Also ==

* [[William Walker Atkinson]]
* [[Mental Fascination di Atkinson (1907)]]
* [[The Kybalion]]
* [[Stephen Wolinsky — Trance Interpersonale e Trance per Osservazione]] — contemporary version with the same mentalistic limit
* [[L'Energia Segreta della Mente]] — the Paret book that explicitly opposes mentalistic reductionism
* [[La Doctrine du Corps Immortel]] — the ultimate reference
* [[Il Risveglio]] — axis page
* [[Quantum Psychology e Fascinazione — Il Ponte Paret-Wolinsky]]
* [[Hypnotic Techniques of Fascination (Paret, Atkinson, Story 2011)]]
* [[Paret Method]]
* [[:Categoria:Fonti primarie]]

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