Emmet Fox

It's coming up on 100 years old.

And Emmet Fox is absolutely crystal clear about the ways that we are working with the creative law.

He has a story in here called The Mixing Bowl, which I'm going to read to you.

And the stories are relatively short.

And what we do as we establish ourselves in this practice is we become adept at turning to the truth, turning away from the effect and turning towards the cause, turning towards the divine spiritual power.

that abides within.

I'm going to read a little bit more from Emmet Fox.

He's got some things that he calls spotlights, and these are just pithy little sayings.

I was mesmerized because I realized that there was actually a body of knowledge that on top of that foundation of silence that I was teaching people by teaching the meditation, there was actually a blueprint, a formula for creating success in life.

And I realized that I was the perfect person to to not only teach people how to become successful, because I started studying Napoleon Hill and Wallace Wattles, Florence Coble Shinn and Emmett Fox, but I can give them something that most people didn't.

And that is a way to create a foundation of silence so that when your building of success starts being built, it will have a deep, just

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In line with a group not doing things which give a false impression of AA, when one's sponsoring, of course one can recommend books, but one should be very cautious about introducing...

A good example, a lot of AA over history has used Emmett Fox quite heavily, but it's not conference approved.

And I asked my sponsor about Emmett Fox.

He says he makes my blood run backwards.

So that's the effect of Emmett Fox on some people.

And with me, some days I love it.

Some days I can't deal with it.

You frame the annual review as a modern ritual, a modern ritual.

like Bali going silent for a day before the new year or the temple bells in Japan ringing 108 times and the New Year's Eve, right? So what have we lost by abandoning rituals of reflection? You know, Thomas Merton, you know, there's all kinds of Emmett Fox.

The other guy that comes on the show for me, he's in his 80s, the Fox that's written all the books.

He's all about reflection and spiritualism.

And if you need a little reminder of the truth of who you are, or maybe a refresher on how spirit works in your life, or if you sometimes forget to be grateful or feel as if you don't have much to be grateful for, then this is the month for you because we're going to engage in some real truth talk and address each of these areas.

Emmett Fox, the author of many, many books, one of my favorite pamphlets is The Golden Key, and he really was a pioneer in the New Thought movement.

He said, the truth movement is the only thing that can save the world from its ills.

Everything else has already been tried.

And I started following those principles, however imperfectly, and my life dramatically improved and changed.

And so looking into the history that came before Alcoholics Anonymous and such, I was led to different books, William James, Emmett Fox, some of these new thought movement speakers and writers from earlier in the 20th century.

And there was a real kind of metaphysical awakening from around 1920 to 1940, there was a lot of good stuff there.

I mean, you read it today and it's like, oh, shit, this is deep.

If you didn't hear anything, you were on the radio beam.

Emmett Fox talks about being off the radio beam.

Guess what? Bill Wilson stole it from Emmett Fox.

It's in our big book.

You're on.

Amen.

Emmett Fox tells you that you can.

He sure would.

It could be another one of those things that people use as an excuse.