We gather online from 10:30-11:45 interactive on Zoom or watch on YouTube Live, even on the Sundays we meet in person.

Welcome & meditation begins at 10:15.

Each Celebration is a blend of inspiring words, personal spiritual practice and fellowship with bright Lights of Divine Love just like you. We also have a lot of fun and laughter - it's easy to be spiritual without being stodgy or pious. This is a hands-on approach to make the concepts of Practical Spirituality accessible in a powerful and personal way.

Tune Out the Fear - Tune In the Vision

Beginning on July 28 and continuing for 100 days (Nov. 4) - we are cultivating a special mindfulness practice to raise the vibration for the 2024 US Presidential Election.

The airwaves are filled with fear, noise and anxiety closing in from all sides. While it is important to be an informed voter - it is also critical to pay mindful attention to the vibration and frequency of our consciousness, knowing that the quality and tenor of our thinking directly impacts the quality of our experience. With that in mind, we seek to intentionally cultivate a high vibration mindfully grounded spiritual practice for 100 days.

To take part text "join" to (470) 784-0250.

Listen to the Daily messages.

Learn the simple steps to create an effective prayer that can bring transformation and change to your life.

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A Practical Prayer is a prayer that works! - It gets a result, and creates a new experience in our lives. You can learn the simple steps in this self-paced online class.

We've created a group on Meetup.com for Philly Spiritual Adventures. The activities include daily meditations as well as classes, workshops, events and Sunday Celebrations and new programs at various times and locations where Spiritual Adventurers can gather to connect, deepen, and be transformed.

Join the group to add your energy! It also gives you an easy place to let people know you'll be at a gathering.

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Become a member of New Thought Philadelphia.

We believe that membership is about community. It’s about supporting and uplifting each other as we grow, learn and give back together. It takes place in small groups, and classes in New Thought principles and practices. It’s also about guiding and leading our community through service, whether that’s volunteering, serving on our Board of Trustees, or other activities.

Above all, membership is about finding your spiritual home – a place where you can be and become your best self, form lasting friendships, and make a positive impact on the world.

There are many openings for volunteers interested in helping to bring about our weekly celebrations - for people who are on-site or online. Training is provided, and no experience is necessary. This is an excellent way for you to lend a hand and connect with this growing community.

• Hosts, Ushers & Greeters (the HUGs)
• Hospitality
• Setup or Cleanup
• Audio/Video production
• Web site & Facebook
• Communications
• Outreach
• More  - however you're drawn to help, we gratefully say "Yes!"

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An Affiliated Center

Since our founding, New Thought Philadelphia has been part of the Emerson Institute family, with accredited educational programs, certificates, and degrees. Emerson promotes an understanding and embodiment of the Universal Principles so that each learner can pursue unlimited spiritual, emotional, intellectual and social potential.

Emerson has graduates who have brought New Thought into many occupations and fields of interest. The grads are co-creating at such professions as classroom teaching, art, writing, publishing, adult education, health and nutrition, business, curriculum creation, chaplain and ministerial work.

About Emerson Institute

Since its beginnings in 1992, Emerson has promoted an understanding and embodiment of the Universal Principles so that each person can pursue unlimited spiritual, emotional, intellectual and social potential.

Emerson graduates truly believe that by changing their thinking they can positively change their lives — everything is possible!

The Learning Environment

Focus: Emerson’s learning environment includes traditional classes. However, the major focus is on programs designed to further the Institute’s vision of awakening people to empowering Universal Principles and providing the educational resources to facilitate development of healthy relationships, spiritual communities, and realization of potential.

Core Curriculum: To accomplish its vision, Emerson’s core curriculum embraces the spiritual ideology of the presence of God in all life and the power of right thinking. It emphasizes the existence of One Life, One Mind, One Power, One Presence, in, as, and through all creation.

All of Emerson’s courses of study and programs have New Thought as a foundation incorporating universal spiritual principles as found in world religions and teachings. The degrees offered through Emerson Institute are not academic degrees. Students desiring academic degrees (such as Ph.D., M.A., B.S., etc.) should enroll in private or state colleges offering such degrees.

Teachings: The teachings of Ernest Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mary Baker Eddy, Emma Curtis Hopkins, Charles Fillmore, Thomas Troward and other greater teachers and philosophers are studied, as well as masters such as Jesus, Buddha, Lao-Tzu and others.

Modern Teachers: Since learning is a life-long experience, the learner must be “open at the top” as Ernest Holmes so profoundly stated. In that endeavor and so that students can grow spiritually, emotionally, intellectually and socially, the writings of modern-day writers are examined. Stuart Wilde, Joel Goldsmith, Wayne Dyer, Caroline Myss, Deepak Chopra, and Thomas Moore, among others, are studied.

Instructional Model: Programs are designed to maximize the creativity of the student. Participatory learning precludes lecture-test methods and incorporates student interaction in small and large groups, working together on projects, research and experiential project development, student-driven formats, cooperative teaching, and goal-directed instructional modalities. This is a place where students can truly maximize their potential wherever they may be.

The teaching and learning methodology is outcome driven and includes the concept of the school without walls, on-the-job training, home-study projects, use of the Internet, e-mail communication with staff, traditional residential classes and travel study. However, the degree programs’ major instructional modality is classroom instruction and personal, one-on-one interaction with the instructors.

Every time you load a page on our website you'll see a different inspirational quote in the green box near the top of the page.

When you find a short bit of inspiration, please share it with us so we can add it to the rotation.