Mind Is Destiny
The metaphysics of Joseph Murphy could change everything for you
Many of us grew up with the notion — almost wholly untested — that our moods are, more or the less, the result of our circumstances. That our moods are symptoms.
Metaphysical writer and minister Joseph Murphy (1898–1981) upended that point of view. Murphy perceived and documented a different and more powerful way of living — one in which mood, thought, and mental image are causes rather than symptoms. Murphy considered this true in the most literal and vital sense. More so, the author reasoned that you, as an individual, are an expression and channel of the Godlike creative powers referenced in Scripture, and that you are, at this very moment, constructing your world through your emotionalized thoughts and mental images.
Beginning with his first book This Is It in 1945, the Irish minister combined principles of psychology, self-suggestion, and a cosmological theology, which he had been developing and testing for many years. It is notable that Murphy did not produce his first book until age 47 — he first sought to validate his ideas in the laboratory of experience. Once Murphy found his footing as a writer and speaker, his output was prodigious.
The size of Murphy’s readership, which today is growing, is equal to the volume of his…
