International New Thought Alliance

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The International New Thought Alliance (INTA) is an organization "dedicated to serving the New Thought Movement’s various branches, organizations and individuals".^[1]

1 History
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

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The International New Thought Alliance was founded in London, England in 1914 by renaming the National New Thought Alliance.^[2] The National New Thought Alliance, which was founded in 1908, had itself been formed by renaming the World New Thought Federation (founded in 1905), which had formerly been the New Thought Federation (founded in 1900).^{[citation needed]}

Upon INTA's creation, it also absorbed the International Metaphysical League (founded in 1900), which claimed a membership connection to The Metaphysical Club. Thus, at the time of its official "founding", INTA claimed an unbroken membership history that stretched back 42 years. ^[3]^{[not in citation given]}

The second International New Thought Alliance Congress was held in San Francisco in 1915. This gathering was described in 1919 in The History of New Thought by Horatio W. Dresser:

The convention held at San Francisco, in connection with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915, was called The First International New Thought Congress. It began August 30, and continued until September 5, with three sessions daily and noon healing meetings. The meeting place was Moose Auditorium, Jones St., near Golden Gate Ave. The convention was preceded by New Thought Day, August 28, at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The program for that day was as follows: Assembling of all New Thought people at Fillmore St. entrance, to be escorted by officials and band to the Court of Abundance, to receive commemorative bronze medal; Science and Demonstration of Mind Reading by The Ellises, Pompeiian Room, Inside Inn; banquet-lunch at Inside Inn; music and reading, Recital Hall; interpretation of Dante's La Divina Comedia, Rev. Lucy C. McGee; choral and organ recital, Mr. A. L. Artigues, Festival Hall.^[4]

[edit] See also

List of New Thought denominations and independent centers

[edit] Notes

^ International New Thought Alliance website, accessed May 2008.
^ Satter, p. 226.
^ Dresser.
^ Dresser, p. 208.

[edit] References

Dresser, Horatio (1919) A History of the New Thought Movement, Thomas Y. Crowell.
Satter, Beryl (2001) Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0520229273.