Show Notes
An Irish boy left the priesthood, crossed an ocean, and built a new faith out of the human mind.
This is the story of Joseph Murphy, the Irish-born minister whose single book on the subconscious mind has sold in the millions and has never left print. We begin with the boy who trained for the priesthood and lost his faith, the chemist who crossed an ocean, and the quiet preacher who found in a New York congregation a new American religion of the mind. From there we trace the tradition he inherited, the British judge whose ideas he carried, and the simple, startling model of two minds at the center of his teaching.
We follow his redefinition of prayer, his practice at the threshold of sleep, his promises of health and wealth, and the impersonal God he made out of the God of his childhood. And we ask the hard questions in turn, whether the teaching is kind, whether it is true, and why, decades after his death, the world still cannot stop reading him.
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00:00:00 The Boy Who Left the Priesthood 00:10:42 The American Religion of the Mind 00:18:11 The Judge Who Weighed the Soul 00:24:34 The Gardener and the Soil 00:35:26 The Law of Belief 00:41:13 The Book That Would Not Die 00:52:42 Prayer Without a Listener 01:01:34 The Doorway of Sleep 01:07:27 The Body That Believes 01:14:57 The Heat of Conviction 01:21:32 The Promise of Plenty 01:28:47 Rewriting the Self 01:39:45 What Became of God 01:47:29 The One Mind 01:54:04 When the Law Fails 02:02:38 How Would We Know 02:12:44 The Minister at His Desk 02:19:07 The Long Afterlife
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