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Phineas Parkhurst Quimby: His Complete Writings and Beyond

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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.

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.

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.