The loosely organized movement that began with him eventually became known as New Thought, and consisted of a number of independently developed branches such as Unity, Religious Science, and Divine Science. Quimby never sought to found a new religion. He avoided both organized religion and organized medicine, turning, as did Jesus, to God as the Source of healing. Even today, New Thought embraces a minimalist creed, leaving the individual free to relate directly to God. Its emphasis is not on religiosity , but on spirituality .
Spirituality is perhaps the most important category related to religion today.
It refers, as religiosity cannot, to the intensely personal, devotional, life-transforming aspects of religion. It is a term preferred, for example, by people who have had enormously moving experiences but who are disinclined to engage in conventional religious alignments, activities, or orientations. Religiosity commonly is connected with the letter, the mechanistic, literal observance or prescribed practice of a system of beliefs. Yet if New Thought is spiritual, it is also intensely practical. It is the application of one's religious beliefs to solve the daily problems of living.