Grateful Recovering Intellectual

Hi,

Thanks for starting this Pod.  I'm new to Zaadz, and very new to this Pod, and I'm just following my nose around the site.  My wife and I are part of a New Thought spiritual community here in San Diego, California called The Unity Center.  I teach World Religions classes there twice a year or so, and the associate minister, Will Newsom and I are preparing a series of classes for next summer on the philosophical roots of New Thought.  We want to show how New Thought is new only in the sense that it was a radical departure from the mainstream Christianity of the 19th century from which it sprouted.  My own work in philosophy (as a professor at a community college) leads very nicely into all of this.  We want to present Plato, Plotinus, Emerson, the Upanishads and the Vedas, Buddhism, mystical Christianity (and mysticisms of all stripes) as roots to New Thought.  Might even touch on the Deism of Jefferson, Paine, et al… 

Any suggestions would be much appreciated…

Gratefully,

Peter