The Association for Global New Thought, or AGNT, is an organization of ministers, lay people, heads of other New Thought organizations, and people of all faiths dedicated to "conscious co-creation". It's New Thought

New Thought

New Thought promotes the ideas that "Infinite Intelligence" or "God" is ubiquitous, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect.Although New Thought is neither...

 member churches and centers number between 600 and 700, and include Unity churches

Unity Church

Unity, known informally as Unity Church, is a religious movement within the wider New Thought movement and is best known to many through its Daily Word devotional publication...

, Religious Science

Religious Science

Religious Science, also known as Science of Mind, was established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes and is a spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical religious movement within the New Thought movement. In general, the term "Science of Mind" applies to the teachings, while the term "Religious Science"...

, Divine Science

Divine Science

The Church of Divine Science is a religious movement within the wider New Thought movement. The group was founded originally in San Francisco in the 1880s under Malinda Cramer...

 centers, and nondenominational New Thought spiritual communities.

History

The Association for Global New Thought was formed after, "a leadership struggle in 1996 resulted in a number of influential leaders leaving INTA [International New Thought Alliance

International New Thought Alliance

The International New Thought Alliance is an umbrella organization for New Thought adherents "dedicated to serving the New Thought Movement’s various branches, organizations and individuals".- History :...

] to form the Association for Global New Thought."

Activities

Rev. Michael Beckwith

Michael Beckwith

Michael Beckwith is a New Thought minister, author, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, California, a New Thought church with a congregation estimated in excess of 8,000 members...

 is a cofounder and president of the organization. Programs of the AGNT include the Season for Nonviolence

Season for Nonviolence

Season for Nonviolence was established by Arun Gandhi as a yearly event celebrating the philosophies and lives of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Today, he co-chairs the Season along with Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith of the Agape International Spiritual Center...

; the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

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; the Awaked World Annual Conference; and New Thought Broadcasting.Twist, L. and Barker, T. (2006) The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources. W. W. Norton & Company. p 262.