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Thomas
Parker Boyd
(1864-1936)
Founder of the Society of the Healing Christ |
Born in Manfordville, Kentucky in
1864,
the middle son of Thomas Parker Boyd and Mary Bosenquet Greenup, young
Thomas worked in the tobacco fields in the summer and went to school in
winter. He moved with his family to Texas in his early
teens, and then to Oregon where they bought a flour mill. He felt a
calling into the ministry whilst still a teenager.
He attended the University of California and Church Divinity School of the Pacific where he earned a Doctorate in Divinity. He was a rector in several Episcopal churches, including St. Paul's in San Francisco, where, after the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire in 1906, he formed the Society of Healing Christ where he trained people who wanted to be healers. Dr. Boyd studied psychology at U.C. Berkeley, earning himself another Doctorate. He then used hypnosis with other professors, clergymen and doctors on the West Coast.
While serving as Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Francisco, Dr. Boyd learned of work being done by the psychology department of the University of California, Berkeley, and introduced himself to and later worked with Dr. George M. Stratton, President of the American Psychological Association, and Professor of Psychology at U.C. Berkeley on the use of hypnosis to treat epilepsy, and was instrumental in founding a local branch of the Emmanuel Movement at Emmanuel Church, Boston, Massachusetts.
The Emmanuel Movement was an attempt to combine spirituality with a kind of simple lay psychotherapy. But it began simply as a medical mission carried out by two clergymen, the Rev. Elwood Worcester and Dr. Samuel McComb, which focused on the treatment of tuberculosis in Boston's slums. A weekly gathering allowed for fellowship among the people who came to them. When they added a "Class for the Treatment of Mental Disorders" with the help of Dr. Isador H. Coriat, a psychiatrist, they began moving into new areas of work. They soon discovered that a substantial number of these impoverished men were alcoholics, and began to develop special techniques for working with them. It was found that it was the combination of spirituality, very simple psychological treatment, and fellowship all three which got people sober and kept them off the bottle. The similarities to the later Alcoholic Anonymous movement were substantial. The Emmanuel Healing Movement was the subject of Dr. Boyd's first book.
In his book The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement, Dr. Boyd showed the art of healing had been practiced from earliest times, from the witch doctor of old driving out the devil, to the modern therapist. “Between these extremes of development are all the pathies, shrine cures, bones of the saints, holy waters, quackery, charlatanism, allopath, homeopath, isopath, osteopath, electric, botanic, magnetic, Christian Science, mind cure, divine healing and what not.”
Dr. Boyd lectured widely for more than twenty years, visiting most of the cities and larger towns in the USA. as well as England and Scotland and various cities in Canada. He also founded the London Truth Forum, later headed by Michael Grimes. He became involved in the International New Thought Alliance, including serving as its president between 1930-32. In 1934, Dr. Boyd retired, naming Dr. Edna Lister his successor as head of the Society of the Healing Christ. Thomas Parker Boyd passed on in 1936.
He published many books.including The Emmanuel Movement, The How and Why of The Emmanuel Movement, Hypnotism, The Finger of God, The Principia of Spiritual Life, The Evolution of Human thought, The Law of Suggestion and Its Practical Uses, The Voice Eternal, Prospectus of Life in the University of Hard Knocks, The Mental Highway, Borderland experiences, The Law and the Testimony, The Christ Science of Being, Doing and being: The A.B.C's and X.Y.Z's of Spiritual Healing, and an autobiography, "Te-Pe-Be."
The Finger of God
The Voice Eternal
The Mental Highway
The Evolution of Human Thought
The Principia of Spiritual Life
Prospectus of Life in the University of Hard Knocks
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Hypnotism
How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement
The Law of Suggestion and Its Practical Uses
He attended the University of California and Church Divinity School of the Pacific where he earned a Doctorate in Divinity. He was a rector in several Episcopal churches, including St. Paul's in San Francisco, where, after the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire in 1906, he formed the Society of Healing Christ where he trained people who wanted to be healers. Dr. Boyd studied psychology at U.C. Berkeley, earning himself another Doctorate. He then used hypnosis with other professors, clergymen and doctors on the West Coast.
While serving as Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Francisco, Dr. Boyd learned of work being done by the psychology department of the University of California, Berkeley, and introduced himself to and later worked with Dr. George M. Stratton, President of the American Psychological Association, and Professor of Psychology at U.C. Berkeley on the use of hypnosis to treat epilepsy, and was instrumental in founding a local branch of the Emmanuel Movement at Emmanuel Church, Boston, Massachusetts.
The Emmanuel Movement was an attempt to combine spirituality with a kind of simple lay psychotherapy. But it began simply as a medical mission carried out by two clergymen, the Rev. Elwood Worcester and Dr. Samuel McComb, which focused on the treatment of tuberculosis in Boston's slums. A weekly gathering allowed for fellowship among the people who came to them. When they added a "Class for the Treatment of Mental Disorders" with the help of Dr. Isador H. Coriat, a psychiatrist, they began moving into new areas of work. They soon discovered that a substantial number of these impoverished men were alcoholics, and began to develop special techniques for working with them. It was found that it was the combination of spirituality, very simple psychological treatment, and fellowship all three which got people sober and kept them off the bottle. The similarities to the later Alcoholic Anonymous movement were substantial. The Emmanuel Healing Movement was the subject of Dr. Boyd's first book.
In his book The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement, Dr. Boyd showed the art of healing had been practiced from earliest times, from the witch doctor of old driving out the devil, to the modern therapist. “Between these extremes of development are all the pathies, shrine cures, bones of the saints, holy waters, quackery, charlatanism, allopath, homeopath, isopath, osteopath, electric, botanic, magnetic, Christian Science, mind cure, divine healing and what not.”
Dr. Boyd lectured widely for more than twenty years, visiting most of the cities and larger towns in the USA. as well as England and Scotland and various cities in Canada. He also founded the London Truth Forum, later headed by Michael Grimes. He became involved in the International New Thought Alliance, including serving as its president between 1930-32. In 1934, Dr. Boyd retired, naming Dr. Edna Lister his successor as head of the Society of the Healing Christ. Thomas Parker Boyd passed on in 1936.
He published many books.including The Emmanuel Movement, The How and Why of The Emmanuel Movement, Hypnotism, The Finger of God, The Principia of Spiritual Life, The Evolution of Human thought, The Law of Suggestion and Its Practical Uses, The Voice Eternal, Prospectus of Life in the University of Hard Knocks, The Mental Highway, Borderland experiences, The Law and the Testimony, The Christ Science of Being, Doing and being: The A.B.C's and X.Y.Z's of Spiritual Healing, and an autobiography, "Te-Pe-Be."
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The Finger of God
The Voice Eternal
The Mental Highway
The Evolution of Human Thought
The Principia of Spiritual Life
Prospectus of Life in the University of Hard Knocks
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Hypnotism
How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement
The Law of Suggestion and Its Practical Uses
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