“The Quimby Memorial Library supports the curriculum of Southwestern College and the research needs of its students, faculty, administration, staff, alumni and college community.”
~Leslie Monsalve-Jones, Library Director This page is dedicated to the memory of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby and honoring his legacy that lives on through Southwestern College & the Quimby Memorial Library. https://www.fac
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With approximately 18,500 books, journals and audiovisual items, the Quimby Memorial Library directly supports teaching and research in art therapy, counseling, grief and loss, transformational eco-psychology, applied psychology and experiential education. Through Internet services, access is provided to on-line catalogs in several New Mexico college libraries for course work and research. Also available are several powerful national databases – EBSCO, Gale, First Search and World Cat. These indexes provide abstracts and full-text articles from several well known scholarly journals. Our campus library includes the Phineas Quimby Collection of rare books, which focuses on comparative religion and metaphysics. It is one of the more significant collections of metaphysical materials in the country. Learn more about Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, father of ‘new thought,’ scholar, clockmaker, inventor and healer. http://swc.edu/about-the-library/................
SWC History:
The roots of Southwestern College can be traced to 1945 when a group of forward-thinking individuals began a collection of spiritual and metaphysical books to establish the Quimby Memorial Library. In 1963, the library was dedicated in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The collection included the works of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, the Father of New Thought and an important early influence on American healing and spiritual traditions. By 1976, Southwestern College, then called Quimby College, was ready for dedication. Dr. Neva Del Hunter and Dr. Robert Waterman, the College’s founders, put forth its original mission. The education at the College was to be innovative and holistic. The charge was as follows: the College would teach that the power within a person is as powerful as anything out in the world; that humankind has an inherently sincere desire to learn and a willingness to serve and that education must encompass the ancient wisdom and knowledge traditions from all eras, including the present one. They expressed high expectations for the students of the College. They firmly believed that education enabled individuals to manifest the destiny of their souls in the world. In 1979, the first classes were offered, with Robert Waterman serving as President. In 1996, Dr. Marylou Butler became the school’s second President and Southwestern College was granted accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission. Later Southwestern was accredited by the American Art Therapy Association. In 2006, Dr. James Michael Nolan was selected as the third president. Under his leadership, the College built the Art Therapy Complex, was re-accredited by the Higher Learning Commission for the maximum ten years, launched a much more powerful scholarship program (beginning in Fall, 2012), and recently achieved its highest enrollment ever. Since the beginnings of Quimby/Southwestern College, Katherine Ninos has also been a profound contributor to the core curriculum, to the service orientation of the College (as Director of Community Educations Programs and creator of the Transformation and Healing Conference) and to the administrative and financial strength of the institution. Her commitment to the school has been a constant during its thirty year history, and as the current Vice-President, she remains a key, original holder of the mission and vision of Quimby/Southwestern College. Today, Southwestern College continues to teach in a holistic, transformational and experiential way. Students are challenged to acquire knowledge and skills in the context of a rigorous applied curriculum. They learn to cultivate the qualities of transformational leadership so they can assist others to realize their full potential. They graduate from the College with the skills necessary to foster transformation in themselves and in others. Our graduates, faculty and board members are some of the most prominent professionals in the world of mental health in New Mexico today. http://swc.edu/about-swc-3/swc-history/................
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby 1802 – 1866
Father of New Thought
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby is widely recognized as the “Father of New Thought”, since the essence of the movement is rooted in the interpretation of his teachings and healing practices. Earlier in life, Quimby developed tuberculosis but experienced no benefits from the medical treatment of his time. He became disillusioned with medicine, but when he experienced a significant improvement from non-medical means, he began a lifelong study of the true nature of health, disease and healing. His studies led to the development of “mind healing”, and his teachings and healings became legendary in his native New England. Among the students and patients who joined his studies and helped him to commit his teachings to writing were Warren Felt Evans, Annetta Seabury Dresser and Julius Dresser, the founders of New Thought as a named movement, and Mary Baker Eddy, who, years after experiencing a profound healing from Quimby, set off in a related but dogmatic direction and founded the Christian Science movement. Other luminaries who come from this lineage stream were Emma Curtis Hopkins, whose students included Ernest Holmes and the Fillmores, founders of the Church of Religious Science (now the Center for Spiritual Living) and Unity Church, respectively. New Thought is alive and well today in the work of Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Andrew Harvey, Louise Hay, Abraham-Hicks, Caroline Myss and many other popular leaders in the world of spirituality and healing. http://swc.edu/about-the-library/phineas-parkhurst-quimby-1802-1866/
