Instead, Science of Mind sets forth a simple opportunity, one that offers no contradiction to either reason or common sense. Any person, by deliberately applying the basic principle of cause and effect known as Universal Mind, can determine the conditions of his or her life. Not a cult. Because Universal Mind represents an objective principle rather than a guru or a deity, it cannot dispense favoritism or judgment. Science of Mind and its benefits are accessible to all on equal terms without ritual, investment, or formal affiliation.
Interested seekers have nothing to confess, promise, renounce, hand over.
The heart of every religion. All faiths include the workings of an Unseen variously called Mind, Spirit, First Cause, Being, or God. The New Thought movement, influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and others in the 19th century, has long considered this force an indwelling presence, instrumental in physical and spiritual healing. While refining the philosophy he called Science of Mind, Holmes gave lectures, held study groups, and eventually helped establish the Institute of Religious Science in 1927. Ernest Holmes did not claim that he had found the ultimate answers to life s questions.