Creative Mind - Holmes, Ernest

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Résumé :
Ernest Holmes presents the mind as a creative spiritual power, capable of shaping experience through thought, belief, and conscious alignment with universal law. In Creative Mind, Holmes lays out the early principles that would become central to Religious Science and the Science of Mind tradition: that life is governed by spiritual law, that thought has formative power, and that the individual can participate more deliberately in creation by changing consciousness. Holmes writes in the language of New Thought, metaphysics, affirmation, and practical spirituality, but his aim is not abstract speculation alone. He is concerned with how people think, believe, pray, imagine, and act-and with how these inner habits affect health, confidence, prosperity, relationships, purpose, and spiritual growth. The book encourages readers to move from fear, limitation, and passive acceptance into a more active recognition of the creative intelligence within and around them. First published in the early twentieth century, Creative Mind remains valuable for readers interested in New Thought, mind-power teachings, manifestation, spiritual psychology, affirmative prayer, and the roots of modern metaphysical self-help. It offers Holmes in a concise and foundational form, before his later system became more fully developed, and gives readers a clear entry point into his belief that the mind, rightly understood and directed, is an instrument of transformation....

Biographie:
Ernest Shurtleff Holmes (1887-1960) was an American spiritual teacher, author, and founder of the Religious Science movement. Influenced by the broader New Thought tradition, Holmes developed a philosophy that emphasized the creative power of thought and the presence of a universal intelligence operating through spiritual law. His most influential work, The Science of Mind, became the foundational text for Religious Science and continues to shape modern metaphysical and spiritual teachings....

Sommaire:
Ernest Holmes (1887-1960) was an American writer, lecturer, spiritual teacher, and founder of the Religious Science movement, later widely associated with the Science of Mind tradition. Born in Lincoln, Maine, Holmes grew up with limited formal education but developed a wide-ranging intellectual and spiritual curiosity. He read deeply in philosophy, psychology, religion, metaphysics, mental healing, New Thought, Transcendentalism, and comparative spiritual traditions, eventually shaping these influences into a practical philosophy of spiritual law and conscious creation.Holmes taught that the universe is governed by an intelligent creative principle and that human thought participates in that principle. His central message was that people could change their experience by changing consciousness, not through wishful thinking alone, but through disciplined belief, affirmative prayer, spiritual understanding, and alignment with what he saw as universal law. His work appealed to readers looking for a religion of practical results, inner growth, healing, prosperity, confidence, and a direct relationship with divine creative power.His major books include Creative Mind, Creative Mind and Success, The Science of Mind, This Thing Called You, The Art of Life, and many lectures, essays, and lessons that helped define twentieth-century metaphysical religion. Holmes's influence continues through Centers for Spiritual Living and through the broader world of New Thought, manifestation teaching, affirmative prayer, and spiritual self-development. His writings remain important for readers who want a classic source for the belief that consciousness, faith, and imagination are active forces in shaping life....