In New Thought we know that "thought creates." Therefore we cannot deny that we've felt chaos heading steadily towards us for a good long time. The old-school admonishment: "Stop your crying or I'll give you something to cry about," is an uncomfortably apt metaphor. Individuals and societies, across platforms and at every level, have been crying out and accusing, threatening, fighting, blaming and separating at accelerating rates, angrily turning up the volume on our perceptions of injustice and danger, tunneling right into the core of our fear. In financial markets, this portends a "correcti ..read more

"If I am exclusively caught in my identity with daily concerns and passing thoughts and feelings, I mistake constantly changing circumstances for all there is, and my sense of well-being gets batted about like a ping-pong ball depending upon moment to moment conditions within and around me, conditions that are largely beyond my control. Without the perspective of knowing my essence I will suffer and in doing so I cannot help but spread suffering in the world." ~Oriah Mountain Dreamer As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the US national elections approach, and the Climate Crisis continues to th ..read more

“Scared? Pray. Over thinking? Pray. Losing hope? Pray. Worried? Pray. Struggling? Pray. Pray and trust in Allah!” ~ Dr Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, Founder: Islamic Online University We are confronting any number of challenging opportunities to express our spiritual poise these days, aren’t we? In New Thought, we learn principles which help us to accept the idea of our connection to an infinite Spirit and the infinite Power which goes with that acceptance. This does not mean that we are invincible, because when we understand the true nature of the Universe, which is Oneness, we realize that we ..read more

‎ "Diversity ... is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind, have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do. And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that will protect us all. We are meant to be here together." ~ William Chase Perhaps the most common response to the suggestion that New Thought spiritual communities could do more to foster diversity and inclusion is, “but we welcome all people ..read more

“The normalcy currently experienced in the day to day lives of a small percentage of the world's population is an illusion & it is stolen. The least that can be done is to use this time to nourish the fabric of community, find the cultural blind spots & acknowledge the damage done.” ~ Nora Bateson on Twitter Humanity is in desperate need of healing, and like an individual in need of healing, the symptoms of the dis-ease are becoming increasingly obvious. When I need healing, my body and my psychology/emotions combine to give me clues, which may be subtle at first, but grow louder as t ..read more

Members of this New Thought community have been meeting weekly for the last couple of months, beginning with a Life Visioning process on Moving Beyond White Supremacy. Rev. Bill Marchiony, founder and spiritual director of New Thought Philadelphia, contacted AGNT to say they had drafted and published a statement about their call to a new consciousness. This center might soon join many other congregations around the nation to offer AGNT's original New Thought curriculum – "Spiritual Uplift Ministries" (S.U.M.) on “Healing Racism and Upholding Ethnic Fairness.” ,https://www.agnt.today/real-abou ..read more

The Prayer of the Heart To deliver oneself up, to hand oneself over, entrust oneself completely to the silence of a wide landscape of woods and hills, or sea and desert; to sit still while the sun comes up over the land and fills its silences with light. ...few are willing to belong completely to such silence, to let it soak into their bones, to breathe nothing but silence, to feed on silence, and to turn the very substance of their lifeinto a living and vigilant silence. ~ Thomas Merton (from Thoughts in Solitude) They call it “doomscrolling.” It is a newly coined term from our present time ..read more

This list is from Quaker Friends in Baltimore. If you are feeling helpless right now, just choose one action. We can’t fix everything, but together we can do something. 1. Google whether your local police department currently outfits all on-duty police officers with a body-worn camera and requires that the body-worn camera be turned on immediately when officers respond to a police call. If they don’t, write to your city or town government representative and police chief to advocate for it. The racial make-up of your town doesn’t matter — This needs to be standard everywhere. Multiply your voi ..read more

Amid nationwide protests spurred by the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, a 1967 speech by King at Stanford University has resurfaced for its perennial wisdom. The "Other America"' speech was recently shared on Twitter by the King Center, the organization set up by Coretta Scott King to honor her late husband. In the speech, King emphasized his support for nonviolent tactics in the "struggle for freedom and justice" and expressed his disapproval for riots, referring to them as "socially destructive.” King, however, argues that worsening economic and social conditions ..read more

We in New Thought have a timely opportunity to act regarding one of the most significant issues of our time. Beginning in September, the third module of AGNT’s Spiritually-guided Social Uplift Ministries (SUM) will focus on Healing Racism & Upholding Ethnic Fairness. This topic is very much in the foreground within New Thought and beyond today. The legacy of racism and ethnic discrimination is deeply interwoven into modern culture, not only in the United States, but everywhere. Interestingly, just this week, the New York Times published The 1619 Project, an in-depth look at the history of ..read more