American writer (1898–1981)
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Joseph Murphy was born on May 20, 1898, in a hamlet about fifteen kilometers from a small town on the south coast of Ireland.
Joseph Murphy, later a fellow student of Abdullah and biographer of Neville, arrived in New York in 1922.
Place: New York City
Person: Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy founded the Truth Forum in London in 1940, where Professor Evelyn Fleet and Professor Grimes gave weekly talks.
Place: London, England
Person: Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy's radio broadcasts on Los Angeles and Hollywood stations, later recalled by listeners, began in 1941.
Place: Los Angeles / Hollywood, California
In New York in 1943, Joseph Murphy met Tarot expert Ann Mussmann and studied Tarot symbolism with her, finding it aligned with biblical teaching.
Place: New York
Cantin's book states Murphy met a "Professor Abdullah," a Black Jew from Israel who taught Hebrew at Cambridge, in New York around the same period as meeting Ann Mussmann; this accou
Bernard Cantin recounts first discovering Joseph Murphy's work in 1960 via three of his books, an encounter he says transformed his life.
Person: Bernard Cantin
In 1963 Joseph Murphy published The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, a work whose print run would soon reach a million copies across translations.
Person: Joseph Murphy
In June 1979 Bernard Cantin and Frances Kennedy met again with Joseph Murphy, who strongly suggested they open a French-language New Thought center in Montreal.
In August 1979 at Caxton Hall in London, Joseph Murphy counseled a distraught man to "preach the Gospel to yourself," reframing his mental adversaries as fear and self-deprecation.
Joseph Murphy died ("passed to another dimension") in 1981, per Bernard Cantin's introduction written in June 1987.
Person: Joseph Murphy