The Science of Successful Living
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“Looking at life from an inspired viewpoint you can see those things which are on the side of greatness and cease resisting the petty and the unimportant. Life is a process of intelligence. It always acts intelligently. Problems are the result of living life unintelligently.
“The universe is actually a mental system. Its primary nature is the process of ideas becoming form. Every fact in your world is also an idea in your mind. To get new things in your world you must have new ideas in your consciousness. Few people do enough abstract thinking to create new ideas in their minds. They continually think about what they already know and have known for years. This explains the monotony of their lives.
“Select the idea of some new experience you want and then think it without ceasing. Mind will deliver to you everything you need in order to accomplish your demonstration. This is far from being impossible. The great, the wise, and the true have proven this to be so. You have done it and so have your friends. You may not have thought of the process as being either spiritual or psychological. You intuitively knew a new idea. Your thinking in terms of this idea caused something to happen in your experience.
“This book has been written for that large section of today’s population which is spiritually liberal and psychologically aware. Those bound by traditional beliefs will cast it aside. It is my desire that thousands will be helped and healed by reading these pages.”—Raymond Charles Barker
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Raymond Charles Barker (1911-1988) was a leader and author in the New Thought spiritual movement and, specifically, in Religious Science. Born on August 31, 1911 in Rochester, New York into a Presbyterian family, in 1916 his parents George Elbert Barker and Harriet Whitbeck Barker became interested in New Thought upon attending lectures related to this spiritual philosophy and movement, and became very actively involved with the Unity Center formed in Rochester. Raymond attended the Sunday School and, in 1935, began his formal studies one month each summer, 1935-1938, at Unity headquarters, Lee’s Summit, MO, where he was ordained in 1940. Later that same year, he became affiliated with Religious Science at the request of Dr. Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, and on February 1 1946 founded the First Church of Religious Science in Manhattan. By 1949 services were being held at New York’s prestigious Town Hall, and in 1969 had moved to Alice Tully Hall in the city’s famous Lincoln Center to accommodate the hundreds of attendees of his lectures and classes. Dr. Barker also had a weekly program on New York City’s metropolitan-area radio station WOR, served as President of the International New Thought Alliance from 1943-1946, and later as President of Religious Science International from 1954-1957 and 1959-1962. Upon Dr. Barker’s retirement from the ministry in 1979, he was succeeded by Dr. Stuart Grayson. Dr. Barker took up residence at Rancho Mirage, California, where he continued actively as a writer and guest speaker until his death on January 26, 1988.
