Okay mini rant that is kind of on-topic, I just want to vent about New Thought from a radical perspective and why it works (Side note: I really enjoyed all the Florence Scovel Shinn books I've read and I listen to them on audiobook sometimes to fall asleep):

Now, I get why people think New Thought is some weird woo-woo BS that privilege people use as an excuse to justify having more privilege than others, but it's not at all incompatible with understandings of structural inequality and collective trauma. Like, if you're born wealthy and privileged and grow up believing the world will be kind to you because it's kind to your family/people who look like you, you are more likely to assume you will keep being wealthy and privileged and everyone will be nice to you, and thus can "manifest" those experiences more easily. If you've grown up in poverty, or with generations of trauma and trauma response within both your physical body and the psychological conditioning from your upbringing, you are much less likely to truly believe you will find abundance, peace, joy, care, etc., and therefore have a harder time "manifesting" it.

If we truly want to create a world where people are suffering less and experiencing more joy, freedom, abundance, love, beauty, care, etc., wouldn't it behoove us to use every tool at our disposal? We can change our thinking AND change our economic system, y'all. We can heal our personal trauma cycles while transitioning out of our traumatizing social structures. We're starting to understand the psychological impact of systemic inequality, systemic racism, colonialism, industrialization, capitalism, etc. We know these structures shape our thinking, and toxic structures will pollute our thinking. We also know that changing the social circumstances cannot, on its own, undo trauma patterns or self-defeating beliefs. So like... why can't we take both aspects of healing seriously? Changing our thinking and beliefs, AND changing our society?

I get why so many people think these two ways of looking at the world are in conflict, that either one is invalidating to the other, but they're just not. They fit together seamlessly and we can employ both New Thought and various means of social change to make our own, and others', lives better.

Okay slightly off-topic ramble over ;)