His book THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND has sold millions of copies and has been translated into thirty languages. He was one of the best selling authors in the mid-twentieth century. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Louise Hay and Earl Nightingale. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written, which have sold over ten million copies worldwide.ĭr. His lectures and sermons were attended by thousands of people every Sunday. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands of people all over the world, as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. His legacy is being carried forward by the and .ĭr. Murphy changed the lives of people all over the world. This text refers to the paperback edition.ĭr. A meeting with Divine Science Association president Erwin Gregg led to him being reordained into Divine Science, and he became the minister of the Los Angeles Divine Science Church in 1949, which he built into one of the largest New Thought congregations in the country. In the mid-1940s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he met Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, and was ordained into Religious Science by Holmes in 1946, thereafter teaching at Rochester, New York, and later at the Institute of Religious Science in Los Angeles. He later on formed a new church in America with Hindu ideologies. Murphy traveled to India and spent lot of time with Indian sages, learning Hindu philosophy. Here he attended the Church of the Healing Christ (part of the Church of Divine Science), where Emmet Fox had become minister in 1931. In New York City, he became a professional pharmacist in New York City (having a degree in chemistry by that time). In his twenties, before being ordained a priest, an experience with healing prayer led him to leave the Jesuits and emigrate to the United States in 1922 he journeyed as a steerage passenger on board the S/S Cedric, sailing from Liverpool, England, to the Port of New York on the ship's passenger manifest, his occupation was listed as chemist, the British term for pharmacist. Joseph Denis Murphy was born in Ballydehob, County Cork, Ireland, the son of a private boys' school headmaster and raised a Roman Catholic.
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