The ultimate reference source for historically accurate information of this nineteenth-century clockmaker turned metaphysical teacher and healer. Including the Missing Works of P. P. Quimby; based on new and independent research by the editor, the present volume surpasses all previously published "complete" compilations of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby's writings in size, scope and historical accuracy. Within these pages you will find: All of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby's previously published writings in their original uncut and unedited form; Thirty-seven never-before-published articles or pieces written by Phineas Parkhurst Quimby; Commentary by his designated copyists: George A. Quimby, Sarah E. Ware, and Emma G. Ware; Photographs and transcriptions of the Letters Patent issued to Phineas Parkhurst Quimby--two of these Letters Patent are signed by President Andrew Jackson; Phineas Parkhurst Quimby's writings arranged in alphabetical order to facilitate easy access; and much more.
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"This publishing landmark is the only truly complete and accurate collection of Quimby writings...Serious students of Quimby's work will want to own their own copies of this new and complete one-volume..." --Alan Anderson, Book review for INTA New Thought Magazine, Winter 2010.
"And you have done an outstanding job in documenting and organizing Quimby's writings."--Robert J. Winterhalter, Author of The Healing Christ.
"The message of Truth lives on and now and again one comes along who shines brightly. Quimby is truly one who's actions were a testimonial to God's Word...This book
brings far more insight then ever before about the man, his oneness with God, his practice in Truth." --Craig Harris, Divine Science Minister.
"We are amazed how you managed to get it all into one handsome volume...It ought to be in the
library of everyone of the two thousand or so centers and churches of the New Thought philosophy." --Herman J. Aaftink, Quimby Foundation in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
"I can verify that there is information in this book that cannot be found from any other available source."--Aldon K. Samaha, Unity Minister.
"And you have done an outstanding job in documenting and organizing Quimby's writings."--Robert J. Winterhalter, Author of The Healing Christ.
"The message of Truth lives on and now and again one comes along who shines brightly. Quimby is truly one who's actions were a testimonial to God's Word...This book
brings far more insight then ever before about the man, his oneness with God, his practice in Truth." --Craig Harris, Divine Science Minister.
"We are amazed how you managed to get it all into one handsome volume...It ought to be in the
library of everyone of the two thousand or so centers and churches of the New Thought philosophy." --Herman J. Aaftink, Quimby Foundation in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
"I can verify that there is information in this book that cannot be found from any other available source."--Aldon K. Samaha, Unity Minister.
From the Author
"Radical!" "Humbug!" "Visionary!" "Insightful!" "Quackery!" "God speaks through Quimby!"
These are some of the comments used to describe the writings of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby since he first began to commit his words to paper in the 1840s.
In the course of my research work for this present publication, I rediscovered 37 unpublished articles and personally transcribed them for this book. There are more than twenty-eight thousand words missing from previously published volumes of Quimby's writings and you will not find them in any other collected works.
At nearly six hundred thousand words, this present volume has too many words to squeeze into a 6 by 9 inch trade book. Therefore, the printed version of this book is only available in an 8.5 by 11 inch edition.
Designed as an encyclopedic reference work, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby: His Complete Writings and Beyond, expands on the work begun by Ervin Seale and the Quimby Memorial Church and Foundation. These nineteenth-century writings are as Phineas Parkhurst Quimby and his immediate helpers recorded them; free of interpretative editing by twentieth and twenty-first century writers and editors. This single volume contains more information than Ervin Seale's entire three-volume set.
Drawing on the Phineas Quimby collections of both the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center of Boston University, each article includes a microfilm reference number for documentation purposes. Quimby's son George, authenticated the largest collection of original manuscripts penned in his father's own handwriting that is now located in the Library of Congress. Conversely, there is only one personal letter and two pages of poetry in the entire Boston University collection that are in Phineas Quimby's own handwriting. In the spirit of historical accuracy, there are no "Dr. Quimby personal journals" in the Boston University collection, if by this term one infers the bounded copybooks are in P. P. Quimby's handwriting. They are not.
Two of Quimby's granddaughters, Elizabeth (Quimby) Pineo and Katharine (Quimby) Carter, divided the collection of writings by P. P. Quimby when they loaned a portion of the collection at the Library of Congress in Washington D. C. on April 5, 1930. Most Quimby scholars consider this as the formal collection of Quimby's writings and his granddaughters converted this loan into a gift in 1953.
Ervin Seale introduced C. Alan Anderson to those Quimby granddaughters. While working on his dissertation for his doctorate in philosophy at Boston University in 1962, Anderson requested that the Quimby heirs place the balance of the Quimby collection at Boston University. The university microfilmed this collection in 1963 where it has since remained. This made the Quimby "family collection" available to Anderson and other researchers.
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire on February 16, 1802. His father, Jonathan Quimby (1765-1827), a blacksmith by trade, and his mother, Susanna (White) Quimby (1768-1827), were married on March 23, 1790, and had seven children. "Park," as he was addressed by his friends and family, was the sixth-born child of Jonathan and Susanna.
The Quimby family relocated to Belfast, Maine in 1804 when Phineas was two years old. Although technically he was not a lifelong resident of Belfast, he did maintain a home there for the remainder of his life. On December 23, 1827, Phineas married Susannah Burnham Haraden (1808-1875) and together they had four children.
The Belfast public school system in the early 1800s offered no more than six weeks of school classes per year. Phineas acquired only the most basic reading and writing skills during his formative years, but he did not allow this disadvantage to limit the written expression of his ideas. He continued to educate himself throughout his lifetime and possessed a natural aptitude for anything mechanical. He followed the career path of his oldest brother, William, and apprenticed as a clockmaker during his youth. In his later writings, he tells us he possessed the mathematical skills necessary to calculate the gear train ratios used to determine the required pendulum lengths for timekeeping and the construction of clock movements.
Although most widely known as a spiritual healer, P. P. Quimby also worked as a silver and goldsmith, jeweler, merchant, and as a photographer making an early form of photographs known as daguerreotypes. He was also an inventor and received at least four Letters Patent. President Andrew Jackson's signature appears on two of those patents. Around 1838 he became fascinated with mesmerism, (an early form of hypnosis) and went on to become an extraordinary mesmerist himself, conducting experiments and giving public demonstrations from 1843 through 1847. Based on his experiments and personal experiences, he concluded there were greater spiritual truths at work beyond the "Science of Mesmer," and it became his life's calling to explore these principles for the healing benefit of the sick and suffering.
By December of 1857 when he opened his healing practice at the Hatch House in Bangor, Maine, Quimby identified himself professionally as "Doctor Quimby." This of course was an honorary title as he lacked the formal education and accreditation of a doctorate. Still, this healer was much beloved by his family, friends and patients, and the title of "Dr. Quimby" stayed with him for the remainder of his earthly life and beyond.
The biographical article written by George A. Quimby for The New England Magazine in 1888 (included) indicates that he and the "Misses Ware" (Sarah E. Ware and Emma G. Ware) were the designated copyists for Phineas Parkhurst Quimby in the Portland, Maine healing offices spanning the years of 1859 through 1865. It was their collective function to make copies of the original handwritten drafts of the articles penned by Quimby and shared them with the doctor's patients. In a sense, these three individuals comprised the healer's office staff. Quimby first established his healing practice in the United States Hotel and subsequently relocated to the International House Hotel, both in Portland.
My intentions throughout this publication are to First: Let Quimby be Quimby. Let us examine his writings as they were recorded. Second: Present historically accurate, unaltered and verifiable information about Phineas Parkhurst Quimby in a single volume.
Ronald A. Hughes --editor
These are some of the comments used to describe the writings of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby since he first began to commit his words to paper in the 1840s.
In the course of my research work for this present publication, I rediscovered 37 unpublished articles and personally transcribed them for this book. There are more than twenty-eight thousand words missing from previously published volumes of Quimby's writings and you will not find them in any other collected works.
At nearly six hundred thousand words, this present volume has too many words to squeeze into a 6 by 9 inch trade book. Therefore, the printed version of this book is only available in an 8.5 by 11 inch edition.
Designed as an encyclopedic reference work, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby: His Complete Writings and Beyond, expands on the work begun by Ervin Seale and the Quimby Memorial Church and Foundation. These nineteenth-century writings are as Phineas Parkhurst Quimby and his immediate helpers recorded them; free of interpretative editing by twentieth and twenty-first century writers and editors. This single volume contains more information than Ervin Seale's entire three-volume set.
Drawing on the Phineas Quimby collections of both the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center of Boston University, each article includes a microfilm reference number for documentation purposes. Quimby's son George, authenticated the largest collection of original manuscripts penned in his father's own handwriting that is now located in the Library of Congress. Conversely, there is only one personal letter and two pages of poetry in the entire Boston University collection that are in Phineas Quimby's own handwriting. In the spirit of historical accuracy, there are no "Dr. Quimby personal journals" in the Boston University collection, if by this term one infers the bounded copybooks are in P. P. Quimby's handwriting. They are not.
Two of Quimby's granddaughters, Elizabeth (Quimby) Pineo and Katharine (Quimby) Carter, divided the collection of writings by P. P. Quimby when they loaned a portion of the collection at the Library of Congress in Washington D. C. on April 5, 1930. Most Quimby scholars consider this as the formal collection of Quimby's writings and his granddaughters converted this loan into a gift in 1953.
Ervin Seale introduced C. Alan Anderson to those Quimby granddaughters. While working on his dissertation for his doctorate in philosophy at Boston University in 1962, Anderson requested that the Quimby heirs place the balance of the Quimby collection at Boston University. The university microfilmed this collection in 1963 where it has since remained. This made the Quimby "family collection" available to Anderson and other researchers.
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire on February 16, 1802. His father, Jonathan Quimby (1765-1827), a blacksmith by trade, and his mother, Susanna (White) Quimby (1768-1827), were married on March 23, 1790, and had seven children. "Park," as he was addressed by his friends and family, was the sixth-born child of Jonathan and Susanna.
The Quimby family relocated to Belfast, Maine in 1804 when Phineas was two years old. Although technically he was not a lifelong resident of Belfast, he did maintain a home there for the remainder of his life. On December 23, 1827, Phineas married Susannah Burnham Haraden (1808-1875) and together they had four children.
The Belfast public school system in the early 1800s offered no more than six weeks of school classes per year. Phineas acquired only the most basic reading and writing skills during his formative years, but he did not allow this disadvantage to limit the written expression of his ideas. He continued to educate himself throughout his lifetime and possessed a natural aptitude for anything mechanical. He followed the career path of his oldest brother, William, and apprenticed as a clockmaker during his youth. In his later writings, he tells us he possessed the mathematical skills necessary to calculate the gear train ratios used to determine the required pendulum lengths for timekeeping and the construction of clock movements.
Although most widely known as a spiritual healer, P. P. Quimby also worked as a silver and goldsmith, jeweler, merchant, and as a photographer making an early form of photographs known as daguerreotypes. He was also an inventor and received at least four Letters Patent. President Andrew Jackson's signature appears on two of those patents. Around 1838 he became fascinated with mesmerism, (an early form of hypnosis) and went on to become an extraordinary mesmerist himself, conducting experiments and giving public demonstrations from 1843 through 1847. Based on his experiments and personal experiences, he concluded there were greater spiritual truths at work beyond the "Science of Mesmer," and it became his life's calling to explore these principles for the healing benefit of the sick and suffering.
By December of 1857 when he opened his healing practice at the Hatch House in Bangor, Maine, Quimby identified himself professionally as "Doctor Quimby." This of course was an honorary title as he lacked the formal education and accreditation of a doctorate. Still, this healer was much beloved by his family, friends and patients, and the title of "Dr. Quimby" stayed with him for the remainder of his earthly life and beyond.
The biographical article written by George A. Quimby for The New England Magazine in 1888 (included) indicates that he and the "Misses Ware" (Sarah E. Ware and Emma G. Ware) were the designated copyists for Phineas Parkhurst Quimby in the Portland, Maine healing offices spanning the years of 1859 through 1865. It was their collective function to make copies of the original handwritten drafts of the articles penned by Quimby and shared them with the doctor's patients. In a sense, these three individuals comprised the healer's office staff. Quimby first established his healing practice in the United States Hotel and subsequently relocated to the International House Hotel, both in Portland.
My intentions throughout this publication are to First: Let Quimby be Quimby. Let us examine his writings as they were recorded. Second: Present historically accurate, unaltered and verifiable information about Phineas Parkhurst Quimby in a single volume.
Ronald A. Hughes --editor
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A Great Compendium, A Great Resource,
This review is from: Phineas Parkhurst Quimby: His Complete Writings and Beyond (Paperback)
I am the president of Southwestern College Santa Fe), founded originally as Quimby College, a graduate institution for Counseling and Art Therapy. I am by no means a "Quimby Scholar", nor yet have I read all that he has written. I may never accomplish that. At our College we have a lot of great books related to Quimby, but are only now "re-recognizing" him as key to our roots. Ron Hughes' book is a beauty, a visual beauty (God, I love the cover) and provides a very readable, follow-able collection, arranged by TOPIC (how great is THAT? Answer--VERY great....I pick it up and browse and read on topics that grab me in the moment, have energy or meaning on that given day.)
Anybody interested in Quimby, almost ESPECIALLY if you are not a Quimby or New Thought "scholar", would love this one. We all know that Quimby himself is not the easiest read in the whole wide world, so arranging his work in an optimally comprehensible way is a great gift to those of us who are lucky enough to have Quimby in our lives and energy fields. This is a five star, two thumbs up production. It IS a scholarly yet accessible work for the average man and woman enlightened enough to have discovered Phineas Parkhurst Quimby.
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A labor of love,
This review is from: Phineas Parkhurst Quimby: His Complete Writings and Beyond (Paperback)
This new, oversize one-volume edition of the complete writings of P. P. Quimby, "the father of New Thought", is a true labor of love. Ron Hughes has gone over the microfilms and photocopies of the original handwritten documents, finding additional Quimby writings that have been missing from all previous editions. He has also, in his search, corrected some typos that had crept in to other editions. He has restored Quimby's original titles and placed fragments of articles in their proper sequential order. He has cross-referenced various versions of certain articles, which helps the scholar establish or verify their dates. His intentions are to "let Quimby be Quimby" by examining his writings as recorded rather than as edited by others and "present historically accurate, unaltered and verifiable information about Phineas Parkhurst Quimby in a single volume". This is of enormous help to serious scholars of New Thought, which arguably began with Quimby's rediscovery of what he believed to be the lost healing methods of Jesus. During Quimby's career, he evolved spiritually, and the reader is able to trace this evolution and the resulting changes in Quimby's ideas. As both a scholar and a spiritual seeker, I am grateful to Ron for this work and recommend it wholeheartedly.
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I LOVE this book. As a fan and student of Quimby, I ordered this book but didn't know what to expect. It's far better than I ever hoped. This is the master work of the man who started the whole New Thought movement. There's enough here to keep you fascinated for a lifetime.
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