high thought

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high thought - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  New Thought \New` Thought"\
     Any form of belief in mental healing, other than (1)
     Christian Science and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy. It was
     practised in the 19th century, and its central principle was
     affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the
     conviction that man produces changes in his health, his
     finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental
     attitude. As a therapeutic doctrine it stands for silent and
     absent mental treatment, and the theory that all diseases are
     mental in origin. As a cult it has its unifying idea the
     inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the "old
     thought" of sin, evil, predestination, and pessimistic
     resignation. The term is essentially synonymous with the term
     High Thought, used in England. -- New` Thought"er, n. --
     New` Thought"ist, n.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]