Education

Public schools of Darien and Wethersfield, Connecticut.

B.A., American International College.

LL.B. (later converted to J.D.), University of Connecticut School of Law.

M.A., University of Connecticut.

Ph.D., in Philosophy, Boston University; doctoral dissertation (perhaps the only one in philosophy dealing with New Thought ever accepted by a major university) "Horatio W. Dresser and the Philosophy of New Thought," published in somewhat enlarged and illustrated form in 1993 by Garland Publishing as Healing Hypotheses.

Occupation

Professor of Philosophy and Religion in Curry College, Milton, Massachusetts.
 

Courses now or formerly taught:

Dimensions of Consciousness

 Introduction to Philosophy

 Life after Death

 Mysticism

 Philosophy of Religion

 Social and Political Philosophy

 Beginnings of Philosophy (Ancient and Medieval)

 Modern Philosophy

 Contemporary Philosophy

 American Philosophy

 Philosophy and Health Issues

 Western Religion

 Eastern Religion and Philosophy

 Contemporary Religion in America

 Western Civilization

 
Writings

Commercially-published books, in addition to Healing Hypotheses

1985, The Problem is God, Stillpoint Publishing

1995, With Deborah G. Whitehouse, New Thought: A Practical American Spirituality, The Crossroad Publishing Company.

Joint-editor

1973, Religious Reconstruction for the Environmental Future: Proceedings Report, University of Connecticut.

1988, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby: The Complete Writings, DeVorss and Company.

Monograph

1991, Monograph No. 1 of the Society for the Study of Metaphysical Religion: Contrasting Strains of Metaphysical Idealism Contributing to New Thought.

Self-published softback books and booklets

1981, God in a Nutshell

 1986, Metaphysical Mousetraps

1991, A Guide to the Selection and Care of Your Personal God

 1991, Inching into the Infinite: A New Way of Thinking and Living

 1991, More than Mortal?: Contrasting Concepts and Enigmatic Evidence About Life After Death

Papers given at special conferences, in addition to many presented at regular meetings of various organizations

 1976, "The Healing Idealism of P. P. Quimby, Warren F. Evans, and the New Thought Movement," Bicentennial Symposium of Philosophy.

1993, "New Thought: A Link Between East and West," Parliament of the World's Religions.

Member (and in some cases present or past officer, board member, or committee chairman) of

American Philosophical Association

 American Academy of Religion

 Center for Process Studies

 Metaphysical Society of America

 Society for the Study of Process Philosophy

 International Association for Near-Death Studies

 Academy of Religion and Psychical Research

 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

 Society for the Study of Metaphysical Religion (co-founder and currently Program Chair, as well as Board member)

In the International New Thought Alliance (an umbrella organization of New Thought groups and individuals), he is Third Vice President, Chairman of the Educational Standards and Accreditation Committee, Chairman of the INTA Committee on the Society for the Study of Metaphysical Religion, originator and coordinator of the annual Rethinking New Thought sessions held yearly for the past decade at the INTA meetings, and New England District President.

He also is the creator and maintainer of the New Thought Movement Home Page and an array of associated World Wide Web pages, as well as the nostalgic 1939-1940 New York World's Fair page, which has attracted considerable favorable attention.

With his partner, Deb Whitehouse, he is a popular speaker and seminar leader. They have formed Anderson-Whitehouse New Thought.

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