12 POWERS CLUB BOOK REVIEWS
Power: Life
Book recommendations:
TREAT YOURSELF TO LIFE
By Raymond Charles Barker
DeVorss Publications
TREAT YOURSELF TO LIFE is a metaphysical treasure. Straightforward in its writing and practical in application, it is “an acknowledged classic in the field of using one’s own natural resources for health, prosperity, happy relationships, and creative expression of talents. It teaches how to improve conditions in these and all other areas of living by means of a (prayer) technique known as (Spiritual) Mind Treatment.”
Dr. Barker writes, “…you are a creative channel for an unlimited intelligence. The reciprocal action between your patterns of thought and feeling, and the universal life, has determined every experience which you have ever had, are having, or ever will have….. The greatest sages, saints and messiahs had minds no greater and no finer than yours. Only, they knew how to use them… This book is not written to give you faith, that your church will give you. This book is written to show you how to translate your faith into right subconscious action, to produce the results you want.’
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Raymond Charles Barker (1911-1988) began his formal studies in 1935 at Unity headquarters in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. He studied there for three consecutive summers and, while still formally a student, organized a Unity Center in Syracuse, New York. In 1940, he was ordained as a Unity minister by Charles Fillmore. Shortly after, during a trip to Los Angeles, he met Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, and was inspired to expand his ministry through Religious Science.
In 1946, Dr. Barker founded The First Church of Religious Science in Manhattan, New York. His congregation grew so large that he ultimately moved his ministry to the Alice Tully Hall in the famous Lincoln Center. Through services, classes and radio shows, Dr. Barker touched the lives of countless thousands – including the renowned Dr. Louise Hay, who received her first Spiritual Mind Practitioner license under the tutelage of Raymond Charles Barker.
I encourage you to enjoy this New Thought classic this Holiday Season – and Treat Yourself to Life!