Phineas Parkhurst Quimby's Writings ― Chronologically

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Lecture Notes-Booklet 1  Early Writings
Lecture Notes-Booklet 2  Early Writings
Lecture Notes-Booklet 3  Early Writings
Lecture Notes-Booklet 4  Early Writings
Lecture Notes-Booklet 5  Early Writings
Lecture Notes-Booklet 6  Early Writings
Lecture Notes-Booklet 7  Early Writings
Burkmar's Journal: See Lucius C. Burkmar 1843 - 1845
Lucius C. Burkmar's Private Journal 1843 - 1845
Letters of Introduction 1843 - 1845
Quimby's Letters to His Patients 1856 - 1862
Another World II 1859
What Is Disease? October 1859
How Does the Mind Produce Disease? October 1859
How Does the Mind Produce Disease? October 1859
Mind Is Spiritual Matter October 1859
Symptoms of Disease, The October 1859
Is Disease a Belief? November 1859
Is the Curing of Disease a Science? November 1859
Life and Disease November 1859
Mind Is Not Intelligence November 1859
Communication from One Said to Be Dead December 1859
Disease II December 1859
Love II December 1859
Love III December 1859
My Theory December 1859
Two Sciences December 1859
Your Position December 1859
Another World I 1860
What Is Religion? 1860
Clairvoyance January 1860
How Dr. Quimby Cures January 1860
My Religion January 1860
Truth II January 1860
What Is My Theory? January 1860
Happiness II February 1860
Do People Really Believe What They Think They Do? March 1860
How I Cure the Sick March 1860
Jesus and Christ March 1860
Prayer I March 1860
Prayer II March 1860
Wrong Use of Words March 1860
Difference of Opinion about the Dead April 1860
Harmony April 1860
Resurrection III April 1860
Harmony II April 1860
Breathing May 1860
Errors of False Reasoning May 1860
Mind and Matter May 1860
Resurrection II, The May 1860
Senses May 1860
Controversy about the Dead May 1860
Jesus' Healing and His Mission May 1860
On Consumption June 1860
Effect of Religion on Health, The June 1860
Jesus' Parables of Another World July 1860
Odor July 1860
Taking a Disease July 1860
Love I July 1860
Science July 1860
Answer to an Article in the N. Y. Ledger August 1860
Parables August 1860
Science, Woman, the Spiritual Rib August 1860
Spiritual Truth or Wisdom August 1860
Why Are Females More Sickly than Males? August 1860
Another World III August 1860
Life August 1860
My Use of the Word Mind August 1860
Science Is One Character of God August 1860
Right and Wrong, Part 2 September 1860
Spiritual Communications from the Dead September 1860
King's English, The October 1860
About Patients I November 1860
Case: A Divorced Lady, A November 1860
Character November 1860
Shadow and Substance November 1860
What Is God? November 1860
Senses I, The December 1860
Defense against an Accusation of Putting Down Religion, A 1861
Imagination 1861
Senses II, The 1861
Teachings of Jesus, The 1861
Explanation of Matter, The January 1861
Death II March 1861
How I Hold My Patients March 1861
Natural Man, The March 1861
Spiritualism: Death of the Natural Man March 1861
Government April 1861
Superstitious Beliefs April 1861
Standard of Law, The May 1861
Cures May 1861
Disease, Love, Courage June 1861
Opposing the Physician and Priest June 1861
Mind and Disease July 1861
Language of Men and Animals August 1861
Origin of Political Parties August 1861
Patriotism August 1861
Popular Definitions of the Word "Mind" Confused: Illustrations and Explanations of the Same, Meaning Matter August 1861
True Wisdom August 1861
What Is the Relation of God to Man? August 1861
Christian's God, The August 1861
Conclusion August 1861
Is There Another World beyond This? August 1861
Parable August 1861
What Is Disease? Part 1 August 1861
Man September 1861
Scientific Interpretation of a Passage in the Bible September 1861
Showing How the Errors of Our Beliefs Make Up Human Knowledge: Also that We Ignorantly Are the Authors of Our Misery, Part 2 September 1861
To the Old Whigs September 1861
To the Sick: The Conflicting Elements in Man September 1861
To the Sick: The Conflicting Elements in Man September 1861
What Is a Clairvoyant Person? September 1861
How to Make a Belief and How to Correct It October 1861
To Those Seeking the Truth October 1861
Life and Death October 1861
How the Error of Disease Is Made, Part 4 November 1861
Strength I (Whence Is Itof Matter or Wisdom?  Errors and Misery Resulting from the Misapplication of the Word) November 1861
Case of a Patient, The December 1861
Disease: Cures outside of the Medical Faculty December 1861
Disease Traced to the Early Ages and Its CausesReligion December 1861
Popular Belief of Curing Disease December 1861
Sickness Is What Follows the Belief that Disease Is an Independent Life December 1861
Where Do I Differ from All Others in Curing Disease? December 1861
Disease III December 1861
About Patients, Part 2 1862
Concerning the Dying, Part 1 1862
False Reports concerning My Belief 1862
Immortal, The 1862
Jesus, His Belief or Wisdom 1862
Spiritualism and Mesmerism 1862
What Is a Belief? 1862
Why Do I Talk to the Sick? 1862
Works, the Fruits of Our Belief 1862
Death January 1862
Imagination February 1862
Questions and Answers February 1862
Christian Explanation of the Testaments, The March 1862
Efficacy of Prayer for the Sick, The March 1862
Separation of Myself from All Others Who Treat Disease, The March 1862
Why Do I Not Cure All with Equal Ease? March 1862
Difficulty in Establishing a New ScienceLanguage, The April 1862
Does Imagination Cure Disease? April 1862
Light-Substance and Shadow April 1862
Music April 1862
Religion for the Well and the Religion for the Sick, The April 1862
True and False Science April 1862
What Is the Foundation of a Religious Man's Belief? April 1862
ClairvoyanceA Detection in Disease April 1862
Can a Spirit Have Flesh and Blood? May 1862
On Being in Two Places at the Same Time May 1862
On Healing Those Who Do Not Understand May 1862
Spirits-Are They Substance or Shadow? May 1862
What Is a Spirit? May 1862
What Is Spiritualism? May 1862
What Is the True Meaning of Life and Death and of the Two Worlds? May 1862
Can Dr. Quimby Be in Two Places at the Same Time? June 1862
Prove to Me that Mind Is Matter July 11, 1862
Phenomena of Spiritualism, The August 1862
What Is Man? August 1862
God, the White Man, and the Negro Race September 1862
Science Is FreedomError Is Slavery September 1862
About the Dead and Spiritualism September 1862
Book of Man, The September 1862
Conversations with Patients during a Sitting September 1862
On Public Opinion September 1862
On Sitting with Patients September 1862
Outlines of a New Theory for Curing Disease September 1862
Short Chapter on Disease, A September 1862
Concerning the Dying, Part 2 October 1862
Religion of Jesus October 1862
Trinity of Opinions and the Trinity of God or Wisdom, The October 1862
Experience of a Patient with Dr. Quimby October 1862
Is There Any Curative Quality in Medicine? October 1862
Relation of This Truth to the Sick, The October 1862
Illustrating the Word Mind November 1862
Language l November 1862
My Ignorance of English November 1862
Resurrection I November 1862
What Is Happiness and Misery? November 1862
Word Life and Its Common Application, The November 1862
Defense against an Accusation of Making Myself Equal to Christ November 1862
Belief of Man December 1862
Illustration of the Use and Abuse of Language December 1862
Is Language Always Applied to Science? Part 1 December 1862
Is Language Always Applied to Science? Part 2 December 1862
Is Language Always Applied to Science? Part 3 December 1862
Language of Truth, The December 1862
On the Senses Being Outside the Body December 1862
What Calls Out My Arguments December 1862
Aristocracy and Democracy 1863
Cause of Disease 1863
Disease I 1863
Disease and Sickness 1863
Elements of Progress, Aristocracy, Freedom, Conservatism & Abolitionism 1863
First Cause, The 1863
Introduction, Part 3 1863
Is the True Issue of the Rebellion before the People? 1863
Liberty and Equality 1863
Mode of Curing Disease, The 1863
On the Circulation of the Blood II 1863
Scientific Man, The 1863
To the Reader 1863
What I Impart to My Patients 1863
What Is Death? 1863
My Conversion January 1863
Body of Jesus and the Body of Christ, The January 1863
Aristocracy and Democracy February 1863
Misery Contains Knowledge February 1863
New England February 1863
Analysis of Ideas by a Lecturer, The March 1863
Illustrations of Immortality May 1863
Being in Two Places at Once June 1863
On the Circulation of the Blood I December 1863
Belief in Another World 1864
Cause of Man's Trouble, The 1864
Concerning the Use of Medicine 1864
Curing without Medicine 1864
Death 1864
Disease and Its Cause 1864
DiseaseWhite Swelling 1864
Do We Know All We Write or Say? 1864
Do We See That Which We Are Afraid Of? 1864
Experiments in Detaching the Senses from the Body 1864
Fragment, A 1864
Higher Intelligence, The 1864
Immortality of the Soul, The 1864
Language, Part 2 1864
Learning to Heal 1864
Man's Identity 1864
Mind Not Wisdom 1864
Misery 1864
Nothing and Something I 1864
Nothing and Something II 1864
On the Draft 1864
Quimby's Introductions I & II 1864
Spiritualism I 1864
Spiritualism III 1864
Spiritualism IV 1864
Strength I 1864
To the Sick 1864
Truth and Belief 1864
What Is Disease? 1864
Truth I 1864 - 1865
To the Reader II 1864 - 1865
Conservatism 1864 - 1865
TruthDay and Night 1864 - 1865
World of Science, The January 1864
Effect of Mind upon Mind, The February 1864
Religion May 1864
DeathA Scene July 1864
How the Opinions of Physicians Operate July 1864
Obstacles in Establishing a New Science July 1864
Explanation of an Error Is the End of Disease, The August 1864
Opinions of the Physicians and Priests, The August 1864
Poor vs the Rich, The September 1864
Senses (Sight), The September 1864
Concerning Happiness 1865
Happiness 1865
Health and Disease 1865
How the Senses Are Deceived 1865
On the Circulation of the Blood 1865
On Wisdom 1865
Reception of This Great Truth, The 1865
Religion in Disease 1865
Science Is the Body of Wisdom 1865
Treatment of a Child 1865
Assassination of President Lincoln, The  April 1865
Honeymoon, The: Spiritual Analysis of Man and Woman April 1865
Evidence of Sight, The July 1865
Answer to a Question  
Birth and Order of Intelligence in Man, The  
Brothers, The  
Christ Explained  
Christian Religion Reduced to a Science, The  
Circular to the Sick  
Comparison between Christians Eighteen Hundred Years Ago and Now: Science and Ignorance Illustrated, Part 3  
Comparison between Two Gods  
Concerning Human Standards  
Concerning Revolutions and Rebellions  
Copperheads Caught in Their Own Trap  
Cure, The  
Definition of Words, The  
Difference between Knowledge and Wisdom  
Difference between My Belief and Others  
Difference between My Philosophy and That of Others  
Difference between Quimby's Belief and That of Others  
Difficulty of Introducing My Ideas, The  
Disease  
Do Words Contain Any Wisdom of Themselves?  
Dr. Quimby Explains His Method of Cure  
Establishing a New Science  
Experiences in Healing, Spiritualism and Mesmerism  
Explanation, The [Questions in Healing]  
Explanation of Science  
Exposition of Dr. Quimby's Method of Curing  
First Symptoms of Disease, The  
Future Life, A  
Healing Power, The  
How a Cancer Is Sown in the Mind  
How Disease Is Made and Cured  
How Does Dr. Quimby Stand in Relation to His Patients?  
Identity of God or Wisdom, The: Ignorance of Man in Regard to the True God, Part 1  
Illustration, An  
Immortality, a Dialogue  
Intelligence  
Jesus and His Teachings, Part 2  
Language, Part 1  
Language, Part 1, Cont'd  
Light  
Mind  
Mind or Introduction  
Nations and Individuals Have Their Characters  
New Theory on the Cure of Diseases, A  
On Disease Being in the Mind  
On Healing  
On Reasoning in Politics  
On Spiritualism I  
On Spiritual Medium of Communication from the Spirit World  
On the Rebellion  
Process of Sickness, The  
Prophecy concerning the Nation, A  
Quimby's Method of Treatment  
Quimby System, The  
Religion Analyzed, Part 1  
Right and Wrong, Part 1  
Science of Man, The  
Science or Love  
Senses, The  
Spiritual Communion between the Living  
Spiritualism II  
Spiritualism and Mesmerism  
Spiritualism and Mesmerism II  
Subject of Mind, The  
Thought  
To the Sick in Body and Mind  
True and False Christs  
Truth and Error  
Two Principles Acting on Man, The  
Use of Language, The  
What Has My Writing and Talking to Do with Curing?  
What Is Disease? I  
What Is Disease? Part 2  
What Is God? II  
What Is Human Life?  
What is Truth?  
Where Do I Differ from All Others?  
Your True Position