Joseph Murphy, undated.

Joseph Murphy: Timeline of a Metaphysical Pioneer

Mitch Horowitz
5 min readMar 19, 2020

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Many inaccuracies appear in bio briefs of the influential New Thought writer and minister Joseph Murphy (1898–1981), author of the 1963 mind-metaphysics classic, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind.

Various sources have the Irish-born seeker studying with Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) or English judge and mystic Thomas Troward (1847–1916) — both of whom lived and worked at…

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China