ANDERSON-WHITEHOUSE
NEW THOUGHT

New every moment is not just a slogan; it is shorthand for an uplifting attitude and a comprehensive philosophy that we use to update New Thought, to keep the fun and major transformations in living that characterize New Thought, while discarding the perplexities and paradoxes that have marked some versions of New Thought.

For our vision of New Thought, click here and here.

OUR LATEST BOOK, Practicing the Presence of God for Practical Purposes is now available in both electronic and paperback forms from 1stBooks Library. Click here to read the Table of Contents, Preface, and Chapter 1, free of charge, or click here for information on ordering the complete book.

WHO WE ARE

Deborah G. Whitehouse, Ed.D. in educational psychology; consultant, educator, speaker, writer, and editor. Deb is a member and Alan a former member of the Executive Board of the International New Thought Alliance, and Deb is the Editor of its quarterly, New Thought. She is lyricist and composer of the process song "New Every Moment", which expresses a profound grasp of the rapidly developing nature of everything.

OUR UNIQUENESS

We are new every moment in the creative process guided by God's love. This understanding is founded on the best of recent science, philosophy, and theology, as well as on some ancient views. You can learn about your "serial selfhood," your moment-by-moment co-creation with God, in our seminars, workshops, and writings, especially Chapter Six of New Thought: A Practical American Spirituality.

We believe that co-creation requires a plurality of freely choosing minds or experiences. To claim that all is God, somehow appearing as many, is--in effect--to deny the reality of co-creation. We recognize the psychological value of asserting that there is nothing but God, as an affirmation of (we agree) the perfect presence and adequacy of God in every situation, as well as the nonexistence of any cosmic evil power. Nevertheless, we consider the claim of God's allness to be an inadequate attempt to explain God's omnipresence, an attempt that produces insoluble ethical and metaphysical problems. Especially since Alfred North Whitehead explained how God and we can include (by what he called prehension) one another without being one another, it has been neither necessary nor desirable to suppose that God is all.

Our Process New Thought uses insights from Whiteheadian process philosophy, and emphasizes the essential nature of God as initiator, rather than responder in relation to any act of co-creation. For God to have the supreme self-consciousness, intelligence, and love required to be the inspirer and orchestrator of the universe is for God to be the ultimate, impartial person (without the limitations of human persons), rather than impersonal, abstract principle. Process New Thought has no need for a supposedly active Principle or Law, mechanically responding to thought. Interaction of innumerable minds--in various degrees acccepting and rejecting divine leadership--explains everything. Our Process New Thought provides the most sound foundation for New Thought practices such as affirmative prayer, visualization, and meditation, and adds the power of comprehensive philosophical understanding.

In our services and publications we combine our backgrounds in philosophy, psychology, business management, and personal development with the tradition of New Thought, a more-than-century-old spiritual, philosophical, practical living movement. It is the practice of the presence of God for practical purposes. New Thought includes such groups as Divine Science, Religious Science (Science of Mind), and Unity. Invaluable though these approaches are, they are largely based on traditional, idealistic, substance views of reality. We introduce current, developmental, process understandings of creativity that are coherent and practical in application to daily living.

OUR SERVICES

Seminar, "Self Leadership Through Mind Management." Based mainly on Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, enriched by other insights from ethics and metaphysics.

YOUR CHALLENGES:
EXPLORE the foundations of Covey's principles to EMPOWER YOURSELF.
INTEGRATE these practical principles with the essential insights of PHILOSOPHY, distinguishing a character ethic from a personality ethic.
APPLY Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, augmented by inspirational philosophy to YOUR LIFE.
CREATE the visions, goals, and plans for YOUR FUTURE.

YOUR CHANGES:
Install a powerful philosophical background for your life and activities.
Learn how to have more happiness, joy, and pleasure in your life.
Acquire techniques for handling discouragement.
Implement each of the Seven Habits in your life.
Learn to live deliberately and with focus.
Enhance your sense of self-worth.
Clarify your life's mission.
Walk your talk!

A DIFFERENT Seminar, based specifically on New Thought: A Practical American Spirituality, of various lengths, can be offered wherever and whenever wanted.

SOME WRITINGS AND SPEAKING:

See Deb's article on the nature of God from the April 1996 Unity Magazine.

"Accept Your Freedom to Be Whole" from the June 1998 Unity Magazine.

Both of us speak regularly at the International New Thought Alliance Congresses.

TO CONTACT US Anderson-Whitehouse
84 Walpole Street, 7L
Canton, MA 02021 U.S.A.
(781) 828-6965
alan@neweverymoment.com or
deb@neweverymoment.com

OUR BOOKS

NEW THOUGHT: A PRACTICAL AMERICAN SPIRITUALITY. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1995.
Unique, lively, readable survey of the New Thought movement, distinguishing it from New Age, and explaining how to use New Thought practice of the presence of God for healing of body, relationships, and finances. Introduces the authors' new interpretation of New Thought in terms of a process philosophy inspired by the writings of Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Hartshorne, and others. Meditations included.
May be ordered from almost any bookseller. Autographed, postpaid from the authors: U.S. $22.00, payable in advance by check or money order to Anderson-Whitehouse at the above address. Massachusetts residents please add 5% sales tax.
Amazon.com listing of the book, with reviews.

PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF GOD FOR PRACTICAL PURPOSES ordering information This book is now available in electronic and paperback book form from 1stBooks Library and the paperback version is available from other sources (see below).

To buy the e-book:

The price of the electronic version is $3.95, with no additional costs. Simply go to 1stBooks Library, set up "Your Library," download Adobe Acrobat if you do not already have it, select the book (most easily by typing practicing in the place for the title), and pay by MasterCard or Visa. You will get the book as rapidly as your computer will download it. You can read it online and/or print any or all of it on your printer (most e-book readers do not allow this).

After buying the electronic version of the book, (1) go to 1stBooks Library, (2) select "Your Library," if you are not automatically taken to your "Personal Library," (3) go to "Download Your Electronic Books," (4) select "Download the book from the Download Center (on the left side of the screen), (5) click on the "Download This Book" long button (on the right side of the screen), and the book should appear. With some browsers, it may be necessary at this point to go to "File" and select "Close" in order to reveal the book.

To buy the paperback book:

The paperback version is available from the same source. Its price is $9.95, plus shipping, which for domestic locations is about $5.75. It can be ordered online (beginning by typing practicing in the space for the title, clicking the appropriate "buy" button after the book listing appears, and filling in the requested information), or by calling 1-800-839-8640, extension 231, between 9:00 and 5:00, Eastern time. The shipping cost decreases with the number of books ordered. It may be available through bookstores, probably at a price around 30% or 35% higher than the 1stBooks price. It is also available from Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com and Borders.com for $15.54 plus shipping charge. BestBookBuys lists several sources, with totals of prices and approximate shipping charges ranging from $15.38 to $21.25.

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For occasional updates on our doings, as well as helpful thoughts on daily living and on understanding the outlook that we embrace, please request such free e-mailings at updates@neweverymoment.com.

If you didn't seek additional information on our New Thought vision by clicking on links above, please be sure to do so now by clicking here and here. Whether you agree or disagree with our conclusions, you cannot afford to ignore the issues raised at those sites.

New Thought Movement Home Page, which has links to many writings by Deb and Alan.

Created Oct. 3, 1995
by Alan Anderson
alan@neweverymoment.com

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