A rare image of Joseph Murphy, undated. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Revelation of Joseph Murphy

A New Thought pioneer’s radical idealism

Mitch Horowitz
15 min readApr 20, 2023

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Metaphysical writer and minister Joseph Murphy (1898–1981) encouraged his readers and listeners to live by an entirely different scale of values.

Most of us born in the West grew up with the notion — almost wholly untested — that mood and outlook result from personal circumstance. Emotions are symptoms. Murphy’s…

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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