Terry Cole-Whittaker

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Terry Cole-Whittaker (born December 3, 1939, in Los Angeles), or Dr. Terry, is a New Thought writer and United Church of Religious Science minister,^[1] and the founder of Terry Cole-Whittaker Ministries and Adventures in Enlightenment.

History

She became familiar with what she calls the "principles of prosperity" through the actions of a teacher in high school. She enrolled in college, where she became the homecoming queen and president of the freshman class. She would later go on to enter the Mrs. America pageant, becoming Mrs. California and winning third place in the national competition. She later joined the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera and became an opera singer. She would not stay with this position long, however. She went on to start a company, Success Plus, in which she became one of the first conductors of human potential seminars for corporations, becoming a successful motivational and inspirational speaker.

She went on to earn a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1973, and was ordained as a minister of the United Church of Religious Science in 1975, and became the pastor of a fifty-member congregation of that church in La Jolla in 1977. The church grew under her leadership, drawing numbers as high as 5,000 for Easter Sunday, and eventually expanded to include a grammar school, ministry school, and five teaching centers. She also began a television program in 1979, which at one time was syndicated to fifteen television stations in the country.

In 1982, Cole-Whittaker left the United Church of Religious Science and founded Terry Cole-Whittaker Ministries. She continued to be popular, drawing over four thousand people to her weekly services and traveling as a lecturer and workshop leader. In 1985, financial concerns prompted her to cease production of the television show and create a new foundation, Adventures in Enlightenment.^[2]

The Foundation later purchased land in Washington to build a retreat center and start an organic farm and started an ashram and library in India to teach Westerners traditional Indian religion.

Published works

What You Think of Me is None of My Business (1979).
How to Have More in a Have Not World
Inner Path from the Goddess Within
Dare to Be Great (2001)
Creating Your Destiny – A Remarkable Guide to Making Decisions that Give You Happiness and Prosperity
Every Saint Has a Past, Every Sinner a Future:Seven Steps to the Spiritual and Material Riches of Life
The Inner Path from where you are to where you want to be
Love and Power in a World without Limits
Live Your Bliss (2009)

References

↑ O'Shea, D. (March 2005) "When the spirit moves us," San Diego magazine. Vol. 57, No. 5. p 118. ISSN 0036-4045.
↑ Lewis, James R. (1998). The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-222-6.

External links

Religious Science/Science of Mind

Beliefs	Spiritual mind treatment

Founder	Ernest Holmes

Notable ministers	Fenwicke Holmes Raymond Charles Barker Stuart Grayson Louise Hay Michael Beckwith Joseph Murphy Jean Houston Terry Cole-Whittaker William Hornaday

Largest groups	Centers for Spiritual Living Seicho-no-Ie Affiliated New Thought Network Global Religious Science Ministries

Influences	Ralph Waldo Emerson Emma Curtis Hopkins Thomas Troward Mary Baker Eddy Phineas Quimby Emmet Fox Church of Divine Science

Other	The Science of Mind Science of Mind

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 93906892 LCCN: n79106850 ISNI: 0000 0000 8281 0613

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