Episcopalian minister & healer (1864-1936)
The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement
It is an interesting fact that in history there are recorded numerous incidents in which factors present themselves which are not classed as normal mental activities, and which cannot be classed, justly, as abnormal, but which we may call supernormal, inasmuch as they are the experiences of perfectly normal people, brought out under the stress of extraordinary circumstances.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
Borderland Experiences
Existence is sweet, and if we consent to its limitation in one sphere it is with the distinct understanding that it will have proportionally larger action in another sphere, for the abundant life is the flying goal toward which we move.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Voice Eternal
Life is not stationary, nor can be. The living body is forever changing by the ceaseless vibrations of the life within. The mental powers are forever built up or depleted by the thoughts that flow from them, and the truth that is discovered by them, and that reacts upon them.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Voice Eternal
One may dream the same dream at intervals for years, and in each case it is an unconscious action, but if in his dream he recalls that he has had this dream before, and recognizes what is coming next, or remembers that it is different from what it was before, there has entered into his dream a factor of conscious thinking.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
Borderland Experiences
Love of life is the primal impulse.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Voice Eternal
One who fails to solve a problem in his waking hours lies down to sleep, and in the dream state the unconscious is able to make known the solution which it has already worked out.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Mental Highway
Very often it happens that one starts in to study some problem, and after gathering a mass of facts pertaining to it, the attempt is made to set them in order, and the conscious effort ends in confusion and disorder. Then the conscious effort is abandoned, and the unconscious which has been at work all the time has a chance to project up into consciousness a perfect plan or outline of the subject.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Mental Highway
We have entered a way of progress that has no limit to its advance, a shining pathway through the earth and heaven that has no noontide height from which to slowly and sadly decline but that moves onward and upward to the throne of God, and the perfect day.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Voice Eternal
We have to confess that one man manifests more of the divine life than another, because he furnishes, consciously or otherwise, a better channel through which the divine life may flow. He has more avenues of expression, and is able to keep them open, and hence is a better medium through which the divine life may speak.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Voice Eternal
Pain and disease may be results, but they are not punishments. Rather shall we think of them as signal calls announcing wrong conditions and challenging us to move up out of them.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Voice Eternal
The most critical study of the healing works of Jesus reveals a knowledge of psychic laws and use of methods that are today regarded as scientific, and that may be used by anyone who knows how. Of course this view does not put our Lord on a plane of miraculous wonder-working as one separate and apart from us, and unlike us, but rather it makes his life and work that of an elder brother who would teach us how, that we might do the works he did, and even greater works than he did.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement
Not only was man a thought before he was a thinker but he continues to have his growing mental life by feeding on the living truths which other men have discovered, and for which they have laid down their lives, and also on those which he discovers by responding to the vibrations of that Infinite life within him, and for which he is ready to lay down his life. All his emotions, finer feelings, aspiration, and longing, and the more spiritual activities are responses to the stimulus of the divine character finding expression in him.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Voice Eternal
Matter is changing and transient, but substance or spirit is unchanging and eternal.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Voice Eternal
And herein lies the solution to the riddle of existence--to take a part of the Infinite Life, give it individuality by incarnating it in human flesh, multiplying and projecting it through human personality, polishing and refining it through the vicissitudes of material environment, until it comes to express so much of the Infinite character that to have seen it is to have seen God.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Voice Eternal
At every step of this moving upward into larger life, from seed to man, pain is seen to be an attendant fact. The seed or bird or man could well say, "Thank you pain; by you I have come into higher, larger life."
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Voice Eternal
We may spend our lives curing the mind that we may in turn cure the body, or doctoring the body that we may heal the mind when the logical thing would be to heal and set in harmony the real spiritual being back of them so that it will express health through them.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Mental Highway
God lives out his life in the life of the world and all things therein, his highest expression being man.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Voice Eternal
By such extension of perception, the healer sees not the withered arm, but spiritual reality which reports to him an arm outstretched and well. He sees not a mind in chaos through worry and trouble, but in spiritual reality, a mind clothed with peace. He sees not a woman under condemnation of sin, although taken in the act, but spiritual reality, which clothes the repentant one with a love which dissolves all sin. He sees poverty and want fade away in the presence of spiritual reality and abundance.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
Borderland Experiences
Memory consists in reproducing mental images of past experiences and ideas. These seem to be lost but their impressions are stored up so that often they spring up spontaneously; at other times by a little conscious effort and association they are recalled, while very often they refuse to come into consciousness no matter how much we may try to recall them. Then we resort to the time honored device of turning the attention to other things, when behold, an unconscious movement starts and the memory-image emerges into mental view.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The Mental Highway