The transmission
The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
93 teachers
New Thought
Phineas Quimby
Disease as false belief
1802-1866
New Thought
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalism; the Over-Soul; self-reliance
1803-1882
New Thought
Margaret Fuller
She turned Transcendentalist self-culture into a manifesto for women's full personhood.
1810–1850
New Thought
Henry David Thoreau
Deliberate living; the inner life shapes the outer
1817-1862
New Thought
Warren Felt Evans
The Mental Cure — the influence of mind on body in health and disease
1817-1889
New Thought
Walt Whitman
The cosmic, divine self; identity continuous with the universe
1819-1892
New Thought
Helen Wilmans
Mental Science self-treatment: deny disease, affirm omnipresent Life by will
1831-1907
New Thought
Henry Wood
Ideal Suggestion Through Mental Photography — visual affirmation cards
1834-1909
New Thought
Prentice Mulford
Thoughts are things
1834-1891
New Thought
Thomson Jay Hudson
A patent examiner who proposed a sweeping theory of the dual mind to explain all psychic phenomena.
1834–1903
New Thought
Julius Dresser
A direct Quimby disciple who publicly launched the New Thought movement and defended its true origins.
1838–1893
New Thought
Henry Harrison Brown
Man is Spirit here and NOW; affirm supply until 'Dollars want me'
1840-1918
New Thought
Malinda Cramer
Divine Science: the omnipresence of an all-good God realized through healing
1844-1906
New Thought
Myrtle Fillmore
Co-founder of Unity / healing through affirmation
1845-1931
New Thought
Ursula N. Gestefeld
Science of Being: work a Statement of Being - the real 'I' over the personal self
1845-1921
New Thought
Brown Landone
Vivid Thinking: intense multi-sense mental rehearsal, then tone, then action
1847-1943
New Thought
Thomas Troward
Objective/subjective mind law
1847-1916
New Thought
H. Emilie Cady
Lessons in Truth — practical Christianity
1848-1941
New Thought
Frances Lord
She carried mental-healing across the Atlantic and planted New Thought in Britain.
c. 1848–1923
New Thought
Emma Curtis Hopkins
Scientific Christian Mental Practice — the teacher of teachers
1849-1925
New Thought
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Optimism, the creative power of thought and mood, expressed through popular verse
1850-1919
New Thought
Fannie Brooks James
Divine Science Statement of Being — graded daily lessons culminating in affirming perfect Mind
1854–1914
New Thought
Charles Brodie Patterson
Controlled breath as outward sign of controlled mind, the path to dominion
1854-1917
New Thought
Charles Fillmore
Spiritual mind action / affirmative prayer
1854-1948
New Thought
Annie Rix Militz
Practical healing and Christian metaphysics
1856-1924
New Thought
Wallace Wattles
Creative (not competitive) wealth
1860-1911
New Thought
Nona Brooks
Omnipresence of God / Divine Science
1861-1945
New Thought
Julia Seton
Concentration and the Silence as the secret of success
1862–1950
New Thought
William Walker Atkinson
Thought vibration / Law of Attraction
1862-1932
New Thought
James Allen
As a Man Thinketh — thought shapes character and circumstance
1864-1912
New Thought
Thomas Parker Boyd
The indwelling I AM / Voice Eternal — affirming the divine self within for health
1864–1936
New Thought
W. John Murray
Affirmative supply consciousness — meet every lack-thought with an instant supply affirmation
1865–1924
New Thought
Elizabeth Towne
Nautilus magazine — practical New Thought, breath and concentration
1865-1960
New Thought
Horatio Dresser
Health and the Inner Life — documenting and systematizing the Quimby method
1866-1954
New Thought
Charles F. Haanel
The Master Key System — mental concentration and the law of attraction
1866-1949
New Thought
Ralph Waldo Trine
In Tune with the Infinite — alignment with infinite life and supply
1866-1958
New Thought
Grenville Kleiser
Building mental power by daily disciplined self-culture exercises
1868–1953
New Thought
A. Victor Segno
Law of Mentalism — focus and project thought-force to influence and heal at a distance
b. 1870
New Thought
Florence Scovel Shinn
The spoken word as decree
1871-1940
New Thought
Joseph S. Benner
The Impersonal Life: the indwelling 'I AM' as the true Self
1872-1938
New Thought
Eugene Fersen
Attuning to the universal Life Force
1873-1956
New Thought
Henry Thomas Hamblin
Right thinking in harmony with cosmic law produces health, supply, and peace
1873-1958
New Thought
Christian D. Larson
Sustained dominant optimistic tone
1874-1962
New Thought
Walter DeVoe
Mystic words of mighty power — affirm potent words to radiate a healing force
b. 1874
New Thought
Genevieve Behrend
Practical visualization of the end
1881-1960
New Thought
Glenn Clark
Affirmative, expectant prayer as a practical creative power
1882-1956
New Thought
Fenwicke Holmes
Creative mind / Science of Mind co-development
1883-1973
New Thought
Robert Collier
Subconscious as directable engine
1885-1950
New Thought
Emmet Fox
Seven-day mental diet
1886-1951
New Thought
Frank B. Robinson
Mail-order God-Power religion contacted by daily affirmation
1886–1948
New Thought
Walter C. Lanyon
Inner unfoldment: realizing the indwelling Christ-consciousness
1887-1967
New Thought
Ernest Holmes
Science of Mind
1887-1960
New Thought
Frederick W. Bailes
Mental-equivalent healing through wholly inward Science-of-Mind treatment
1889–1970
New Thought
Claude Bristol
Belief as the magic of mind
1891-1951
New Thought
Dorothea Brande
Act as if you cannot fail: living from a decisive inner posture
1892-1948
New Thought
Joel Goldsmith
The Infinite Way / spiritual healing through realization
1892-1964
New Thought
Masaharu Taniguchi
Japanese New Thought: only God's perfect True Image exists
1893–1985
New Thought
Agnes Sanford
Healing prayer as cooperating with an indwelling creative life-force
1897-1982
New Thought
Joseph Murphy
Subconscious autosuggestion
1898-1981
New Thought
Norman Vincent Peale
Positive thinking: faith and a confident mind reshape circumstance
1898-1993
New Thought
Harold Sherman
Directed thought and ESP - the mind as transmitter, receiver, and shaper of reality
1898-1987
New Thought
Raymond Holliwell
Working with the law of attraction
1900-1986
New Thought
Anthony Norvell
Visualization and 'cosmic' mind-power applied to wealth, success, and personal magnetism
1908-1990
New Thought
Raymond Charles Barker
Decision as the creative act of mind
1911-1988
New Thought
James Dillet Freeman
The ever-present indwelling of divine Spirit
1912-2003
New Thought
Norman Cousins
Laughter, will, and healing
1915-1990
New Thought
Jack Ensign Addington
Abundant living through constructive thinking
1915-1998
New Thought
Eric Butterworth
The divinity within and spiritual economics
1916-2003
New Thought
Robert B. Stone
Trained mental projection and the powers of the mind
1916-1999
New Thought
U.S. Andersen
Three magic words: the power of mind
1917-1986
New Thought
Vernon Howard
Inner awakening: waking from the false self to a higher inner life
1918-1992
New Thought
Johnnie Colemon
Better living through applied truth principles
1920-2014
New Thought
Louise Hay
Affirmations, self-love & mind-body healing
1926-2017
New Thought
Robert H. Schuller
Faith-based positive thinking
1926-2015
New Thought
Catherine Ponder
Prosperity through prayer and thought
1927-present
New Thought
Barbara Lewis King
Transforming life through truth consciousness
1930-2020
New Thought
John Randolph Price
The God-Self within as source of abundance
1932-2014
New Thought
Richard Bach
Self-transcendence & reality as belief
1936-present
New Thought
Terry Cole-Whittaker
Self-worth independent of others' opinions
1939-contemporary
New Thought
Wayne Dyer
Intention & self-determination
1940-2015
New Thought
O. Carl Simonton
Visualization in cancer care
1942-2009
New Thought
Bruce H. Lipton
Belief drives epigenetic signalling (Biology of Belief)
1944-present
New Thought
Hans Wilhelm
Spiritual laws of the universe, illustrated
1945-present
New Thought
Marc Allen
Effortless goal achievement through ideal scenes & ease
1946-
New Thought
Paulo Coelho
Following your Personal Legend; the universe conspires
1947-present
New Thought
James Redfield
Insights: synchronicity & energy awareness
1950-present
New Thought
Alan Cohen
Love, alignment & trusting the flow
1950-present
New Thought
Iyanla Vanzant
Inner healing and self-worth as the ground of a changed life
1953-contemporary
New Thought
Robert Tennyson Stevens
Aligning language with desired outcome to reprogram the subconscious
1955-present
New Thought
Michael Bernard Beckwith
Conscious co-creation through visioning
1956-
New Thought
Mitch Horowitz
The serious historical chronicle of positive-thinking and occult America
1965-present
New Thought
Michael Neill
A coach's coach who teaches that life is lived from the inside out, and that clarity arrives when the mind qui…
c. 1965–present
New Thought
Charles Eisenstein
We are not separate selves in a dead universe but threads of one living web, and a more beautiful world become…
1967–present