How to Use Your Healing Power

By: Joseph Murphy

Narrated by: Dennis Rowley

How to Use Your Healing Power by Dr. Joseph Murphy explains the inner meaning of the healing miracles of the New Testament. Through the analysis of Biblical stories, Dr. Murphy illuminates how the listener can apply these same healing principles to their own lives.

Joseph Murphy (b. 1898, d. 1981) was born in Ireland in 1898 to a private boys' school headmaster father. Raised Roman Catholic, he first thought he would become a Catholic priest and enrolled in a Jesuit seminary while also studying chemistry. But by his late teen years, he began to question Catholic orthodoxy. While he was ordained a priest, it didn't take long for him to leave the priesthood.

Eager to explore new ideas, he emigrated to the United States in 1922 and earned a living as a pharmacist. It was here that he was introduced to New Thought at New York City's Church of the Healing Christ.

This work explores the power of spiritual awareness to fight mental disorders. As Dr. Murphy explains, "All demons or devils are negative states of mind that have been developed because the creative power of man has been used in an ignorant and destructive manner. The work of every man is to...through spiritual awareness cast out of his own mind the false theories, dogmas, beliefs, opinions, as well as all negative states such as resentment, ill will, hatred, jealousy, etc."

The mind can also heal physical ailments as well as the mental, as we see in the stories of Simon's mother-in-law in Mark and Luke, and the healing of the leper in Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

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TOTALLY against the Bible

This guy uses the Bible as just any other book out there. He takes stories out of it as a just symbolic references to how things are in the world. All sickness and demon possession is just in one's mind. .I 100% disagree with this book.