Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

you don't know what it's going to look like, you have an idea, right? Right.

Yes, and Ernest Holmes of Science of Mind, it was the first kind of organization I worked with when I first moved to California 35 years ago.

And that really spoke to me.

It spoke to the power of your thoughts and what you create with your

And that he also said that back then, that the people of ill will were far more diligent than the people of goodwill towards their goals.

And so I definitely am a proponent of what Ernest Holmes, well, the science of mind community would say, is treat and move your feet right so treat is the science of mind treatment or prayer so you pray and you move your feet you you you visualize you conceptualize and you energize and so that that's how i live my life i'm i'm not a passive observer whether i'm working in my consciousness or i'm working with my hands and in the world uh i'm i'm focused on what i like not what i don't like so i don't give energy to what i don't want and In my experience of life, there have been many times when the most powerful agent for change in my experience was my misery.

And so if that's how some people are choosing it, that's how some people are choosing it.

But it doesn't have to be that way.

And when it happens, we... connect with a creative power that can inform us, enlighten us, inspire us.

Ernest Holmes put it this way, the world we live in is all that it appears to be, but it is also much more.

There is the unseen cause, the intelligence or purpose in and through all things.

Those limitations we confront in the exterior world.

That is what someone else thinks and how they experienced you at the moment.

what does it matter really? Ernest Holmes said, don't be elated by elation or depressed by depression.

When you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living an illusion.

You're not seeing reality, but you're adding something to reality.

I thought that I'm gonna just pretend that none of this is happening.

And somebody gave me a quote attributed to Ernest Holmes, although I've not been able to find it.

It says, our job is to stand in hell and declare heaven.

Because sometimes life is difficult.

Buddha said, "What you're experiencing today is the result of your past thoughts.

Change your thought." Actually, Buddha said before Ernest Holmes, "Change your thoughts and you'll start to change your experience." Who's in?

Me.

Great.

Los Angeles, 1945.

Ernest Holmes ran the Institute of Religious Science, the largest organization in American New Thought.

And he had 500 of his own alumni in the hall waiting for Neville.

Minutes before Neville went on, Holmes called him into an office and shut the door.