This is a list of New Thought membership organizations. It is historically based, therefore not all of these groups may be in existence at this time. __NOTOC__

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* Affiliated New Thought Network, associated with

Religious Science The Religious Science movement, or Science of Mind, was established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) and is a spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical religious movement within the New Thought movement. In general, the term "Scie ...

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Agape International Spiritual Center The Agape International Spiritual Center is a transdenominational congregation currently holding Sunday services at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, California, founded in 1986 by Michael Bernard Beckwith. Agape International Spiritual Cente ...

* Association for Global New Thought,

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Centers for Spiritual Living The Centers for Spiritual Living, or CSL, is a spiritual philosophy promoting Religious Science that was founded by Ernest Holmes in 1926. Before 2011, it was two organizations known as United Centers for Spiritual Living (formally, United Churc ...

, based in the teaching of

Ernest Holmes Ernest Shurtleff Holmes (January 21, 1887 – April 7, 1960) was an American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader. He was the founder of a spiritual movement known as Religious Science, part of the greater New Thought movement, whose spiri ...

movement. * Church of the Divine Unity, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1890s; associated with

The Metaphysical Club The Metaphysical Club was a name attributed by the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, in an unpublished paper over thirty years after its foundation, to a conversational philosophical club that Peirce, the future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wend ...

Dresser, Horatio. ''A History of the New Thought Movement.'' Thomas Y. Crowell. 1919. * Church of the Higher Life, founded in 1894 by Helen Van-Anderson in Boston, Massachusetts ( defunct; "the first New Thought society with a regular leader and organization" * The Community Church of New Thought together with The Lola Pauline Mays New Thought School of Ministry, Mesa, Arizona

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* Church of the Healing Christ in

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, associated with

Divine Science The Church of Divine Science is a religious movement within the wider New Thought movement. The group was formalized in San Francisco in the 1880s under Malinda Cramer. "In March 1888 Cramer and her husband Frank chartered the 'Home College of S ...

( defunct) *

, founded in 1892 in

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Malinda Cramer Malinda Elliott Cramer (February 12, 1844 – August 2, 1906) was a founder of the Church of Divine Science, a healer, and an important figure in the early New Thought movement. Biography Cramer was born in Greensboro, Indiana, the daug ...

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* Huna

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* Institute of Religious Science and School of Philosophy (school; opened 1927;

) * International Divine Science Association, the international wing of

* International Metaphysical League, the international wing of The Metaphysical Club, founded in 1900 in

(defunct; absorbed into the

International New Thought Alliance The International New Thought Alliance (INTA) is an umbrella organization for New Thought adherents "dedicated to serving the New Thought Movement’s various branches, organizations and individuals".

in 1914) *

, founded in

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in 1914 by renaming the National New Thought Alliance (founded in 1908) which had been formed by renaming the World New Thought Federation (founded in 1905), which had formerly been the New Thought Federation (founded in 1900); upon INTA's creation it also absorbed the International Metaphysical League (founded in 1900), which was the international wing of The Metaphysical Club (founded in 1872); thus at the time of its official "founding", INTA had an unbroken membership history that stretched back 42 years.

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Jewish Science Jewish Science is a Judaic spiritual movement comparable with the New Thought Movement. Many of its members also attend services at conventional synagogues. It is an interpretation of Jewish philosophy that was originally conceived by Rabbi ...

founded (1916) founded by Alfred G, Moses

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Living Enrichment Center Living Enrichment Center (LEC) was a New Thought organization and retreat center in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was founded in the farmhouse of senior minister Mary Manin Morrissey of Scholls, Oregon, in the mid-1970s; the church moved to a 94, ...

, founded by Mary Manin Morrissey ( defunct; see New Thought Ministries of Oregon)

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, founded in Boston, Massachusetts by Rev. L. B. Macdonald, Dr. J. W. Lindy and Mr. Frederick Reed in 1895. This group, which is unrelated to a group of the same name at Harvard University organized by C.S. Peirce, Oliver Wendell Holmes and William James in 1872, was called "the first permanent New Thought Club" by

Horatio Dresser Horatio Willis Dresser (January 15, 1866 – March 30, 1954) was a New Thought religious leader and author in the United States. In 1919 he became a minister of General Convention of the Church of the New Jerusalem, and served briefly at a Swede ...

. This Metaphysical Club was absorbed into the

in 1914. (membership organization; defunct)

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* New Thought Ministries of Oregon (independent; founded 2004 by former members of

, affiliated with Religious Science in 2007 as a member of United Centers for Spiritual Living)

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Psychiana Psychiana was a New Thought denomination created in 1928 by Frank Bruce Robinson (1886–1948), with headquarters in Turnstone Flats, Moscow, Idaho. It began and largely remained a mail-order enterprise, recruiting people through advertising i ...

, founded in Moscow, Idaho by Frank B. Robinson (1928 – c. 1950; defunct)

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* Radiant Center of Philosophy in Atlantic City, New Jersey, associated with Kate Atkinson Boehme 1918 (defunct) *

Science of Mind founded in

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* Religious Science International, associated with

now known as International Centers for Spiritual Living (originally the International Association of Religious Science Churches). Now integrated with United Centers for Spiritual Living under the new name of Centers for Spiritual Living, headquartered in Golden, Colorado.*

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Science of Mind The Religious Science movement, or Science of Mind, was established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) and is a spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical religious movement within the New Thought movement. In general, the term "Sci ...

a.k.a.

founded in

* Seicho-No-Ie, Japan, founded by Dr. Masaharu Taniguchi, with assistance of Fenwicke L. Holmes, brother to

, founder of

(Religious Science). * Spiritual Growth Institute, San Jose, California. Incorporated in 2015 by a group of ministers representing a wide range of Metaphysical and New Thought Organizations. They take as inspiration, the New Thought ministry of the Rev's. William H. Briggs and Jennie Owen Briggs from the years 1889–1930. Both were students of

Emma Curtis Hopkins Emma Curtis Hopkins (September 2, 1849 – April 8, 1925 age 75) was an American spiritual teacher and leader. She was involved in organizing the New Thought movement and was a primary theologian, teacher, writer, feminist, mystic, and healer, ...

and worked closely with Charles F. Haanel author of the " Master Key System". Spiritual Growth Institute is a member of the

. * Society of Jewish Science Incorporated in 1922 by Rabbi

Morris Lichtenstein Morris Lichtenstein (1889–1938) was the founder of the Society of Jewish Science. Born in Lithuania, he later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he was ordained by the Reform Hebrew Union College in 1916, becoming the first Eastern European student ...

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* Understanding Principles for Better Living Church, founded in

Della Reese Delloreese Patricia Early (July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017), known professionally as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister whose career spanned seven decades. She began her long career as a s ...

United Church of Religious Science The Centers for Spiritual Living, or CSL, is a spiritual philosophy promoting Religious Science that was founded by Ernest Holmes in 1926. Before 2011, it was two organizations known as United Centers for Spiritual Living (formally, United Church ...

, associated with

now known as United Centers for Spiritual Living. Now integrated with Religious Science International under the new name of Centers for Spiritual Living, headquartered in Golden, Colorado. *

Unity Church Unity, known informally as Unity Church, is an organization founded by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in 1889. It grew out of Transcendentalism and became part of the New Thought movement. Unity is known for its '' Daily Word'' devotional publi ...

, founded by Charles Fillmore * Universal Foundation For Better Living, founded in Chicago, IL by Johnnie Coleman

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* Victoria Truth Centre, Victoria BC, founded in 1934

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