Ancient Wisdom, New Thought

Rev. Patrick begins with the story of Phineas Quimby, a healer and philosopher who formulated the beginnings of the New Thought movement. Quimby stated that "Mind is matter in solution. Matter is mind in form." He was the first to teach the Christ Principle and the Science of Christ. Quimby reasoned that since dis-ease is a belief or an opinion, it can be changed through changing the belief or the opinion. Next, Rev. Patrick focuses on the present-day Bruce Lipton, a developmental biologist who teaches about the biology of belief. Lipton used to think that we were born with a certain set of genes, and that was fixed. But he found that what influences a cell is perception and environment. In humans, perception is our belief. So our thinking creates seeds of possibility to change our perception by changing our belief. This is exactly what Quimby was teaching in the 1800s.