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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"New Thought"”.
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What Makes a Founder? : Determining the Founder of New Thought
… the debate over the title of “founder” of New Thought and presents a definitive statement on who should be considered the “founder.” In this debate, the long-standing and most accepted “founder” is Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. Phineas Quimby was a mental healer who is credited with inspiring …
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Deformation theory analysis of a dynamically loaded rigid-plastic cantilever
Taya and Mura (1974) introduced a new thought into rigid-plastic approximate methods by presenting what was claimed to be an extension of Hamilton's Principle (normally considered to be restricted to conservative systems) to rigid-plastic structural dynamics. A comment by Professor A.R.S. Ponter, …
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Leaderisation: How leadership thinking changed the way knowledge is produced about schools
… from Michel Foucault’s history of systems of thought. It conceptualises leaderisation as a leadership ‘thought-system’ reframing school ‘discourse.’ The study accounts for how school discourse and leadership inquiry became a fit, over four steps. Firstly, leadership inquiry was introduced into …
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WITHIN THE HEART OF EVERY HUMAN BEING: SARAH FARMER, HER LIFE, HER WORK, AND HER SEARCH FOR UNIVERSAL TRUTH
… in the history of Vedanta, Transcendentalism, New Thought, and Baha’i. Ultimately Greenacre acted as a major force in disseminating a new spiritual inquiry focusing on Universal Truth, and incorporating a cosmopolitan, global orientation toward religion, science and social justice. Farmer …
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A position on architectural education
… that which preceded as well as the threshold of new thought. A construction of reality is fundamental, yet particular to the temporal context. I propose to explore these issues and their relationship to judgement and decision making processes in design. The approach will be essentially …
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A modern mecca of psychic forces: the Psychical Science Congress and the culture of progressive occultism in fin-de-siecle Chicago, 1885-1900
… editor of Chicago’s progressive spiritualist newspaper, the Religio-Philosophical Journal (R-PJ). Upon Bundy’s death in August 1892, organizational matters fell to Elliott Coues, an internationally famous natural scientist who became chairman of the PSC. The Congress drew into its fold a …
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Filled with light: a new meaning for architecture
… critically examine the result in order to derive new thought or insight gained from the design process. I feel, at least for the time being, that the narrative of the architectural experience is sufficient, and of itself a valid closure for all lines of reasoning. However, we are left with the …
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"Intonations of their Own Language": An Analysis of Leadership and Resonance in Two Progressive Young-Adult-Filled Congregations in the Pacific Northwest.
… young adults who found a home there. It offers new thought categories and working hypotheses for denominations, seminaries, clergy, congregations, young adults, and others interested in religious experience and affiliation among younger people.</p>
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Being Good Women: The Rise and Appeal of Femininity Among Globalist Women
… practices that are often referred to as “New Age” or “New Thought” in what has come to be called the West. That is to say, “becoming” revealed itself not just as a micro-unit of analysis of split interlocuter selves – physical/digital, idealized/uncultivated, or real/virtual – but also as …
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Offerings for a ghost film: From fragmented work to cosmic assemblages
… branches into other disciplines and areas of thoughts. With the thesis I propose an expanded notion of moving image practice moving from fragmented work to a model of assemblage taking into account several forms of writing, filmmaking and exhibition practice. I will draw on the concept of …
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Importing ‘Faith’: The Effect of American ‘Word of Faith’ Culture on Contemporary English Evangelical Revivalism
… Idealism, Transcendentalism and New Thought.<br/><br/>An analysis of the performative rhetoric and teachings of the three persons considered<br/>(and their mentors) examines the use of mechanistic language and concepts such as<br/>principles, steps and keys to describe how their …
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Natural and digital virtual realities: A practice-based exploration of dreaming and online virtual environments
… explores issues of consciousness in relation to New Technology within the context of the researcher's own fine art practice. An outline of the development of a series of creative works is accompanied by an analytical and descriptive text. Together, both practice and text confront and explore …