“This isn't therapy. It's not another self-help book. This is learning how your subconscious creates your reality—and mastering it.”
Manhattan • Since 1946 • Where Louise Hay Discovered How to Heal Herself
If You’re Here, You’re Probably Carrying Something Heavy.
Maybe it’s the grief that won’t lift. The anger you can’t release. The shame you can’t shake off.
Maybe it’s the success that looks perfect on paper but feels hollow inside. The career. The apartment. The life you thought you wanted but something essential is still missing.
Maybe it’s the relationship pattern you swore you’d never repeat—but here you are again, feeling the same pain with a different person.
Maybe it’s the anxiety that wakes you at 3 AM, your mind racing through worst-case scenarios.
Or maybe it’s just that persistent, gnawing feeling that whispers:
Therapy helped you understand it.
Books inspired you for a week.
Meditation apps calmed you temporarily.
Self-help told you to "think positive"—but the pain runs deeper than thoughts.
You're Not Broken. You're Not Failing. You're Just Running Subconscious Programming You Never Consciously Choose.
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WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING
Your conscious mind, the part that’s reading this right now controls about 5% of your daily experience.
That’s your subconscious mind. It holds:
Your subconscious is running programs you never chose.
And until you learn to access it and reprogram it?
The pattern will keep repeating
This Is Where the Transformation Actually Happens
Most approaches treat symptoms. We go to the source.
For nearly 80 years, people have come to us when everything else failed.
Not because we’re special.
Not because we have secret knowledge.
Because We Teach You the Science of Mind Principles That Govern How Consciousness Creates Reality— Then Give You Practical, Repeatable Techniques to Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind.
Abused as a child.
Betrayed in marriage.
Diagnosed with cancer at 50.
She walked into this building in the 1970s—
broken, scared, searching for answers
She learned Science of Mind principles here.
She practiced the subconscious reprogramming techniques here.
She healed herself, mind and body, here.
Years later, she wrote
65 million copies sold worldwide.
Millions of lives transformed.
The techniques in that book? She learned them in this building.
From the same lineage we teach today.
If it worked for her, what could it do for you?
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“I came to FCRS during my divorce, completely shattered. I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror without crying. The Louise Hay techniques I learned—especially mirror work—rebuilt my self-worth from nothing. Two years later, I’m in the healthiest relationship of my life. The pattern finally broke.”
Most approaches manage symptoms.
We reprogram the subconscious beliefs creating those symptoms.
Transformation is nearly impossible alone.
Our community online and in Manhattan provides support, accountability, and living proof this works.
These are universal principles about how consciousness works.
They enhance whatever you already believe—or work without any belief system at all.
This isn’t new. This is legacy.
Ernest Holmes founded Religious Science (Science of Mind), a New Thought movement teaching that consciousness creates reality and universal principles govern how life works.
Dr. Raymond Charles Barker , Holmes’ distinguished student, established The First Church of Religious Science in New York City. For 33 years, Dr. Barker taught thousands how to use their minds as creative instruments.
Louise Hay began studying under Dr. Barker. She learned affirmations, subconscious reprogramming, and New Thought healing practices. Years later, she wrote You Can Heal Your Life, now sold over 65 million copies worldwide.
The techniques in that book? She learned them here.
Under Rev. Stuart Grayson and Rev. Wade Adkisson, The First Center became a sanctuary during the AIDS epidemic, offering spiritual healing, community support, and compassionate care when many institutions turned away.
Rev. Dr. Greg Harte became the Spiritual Director, carrying forward the teachings of Holmes, Barker, and Hay. Today, he leads a diverse community committed to practical spirituality and New Thought principles.
The story continues with every person who walks through our doors seeking truth, healing, and community. What will your chapter be?
Nearly 100 Years of Transformation
This isn’t new. This is legacy.
Ernest Holmes founded Religious Science (Science of Mind)—a New Thought movement teaching that consciousness creates reality and universal principles govern how life works.
Dr. Raymond Charles Barker , Holmes’ distinguished student, established The First Church of Religious Science in New York City. For 33 years, Dr. Barker taught thousands how to use their minds as creative instruments.
Louise Hay began studying under Dr. Barker. She learned affirmations, subconscious reprogramming, and New Thought healing practices. Years later, she wrote You Can Heal Your Life—now sold over 65 million copies worldwide.
The techniques in that book? She learned them here.
Under Rev. Stuart Grayson and Rev. Wade Adkisson, The First Center became a sanctuary during the AIDS epidemic—offering spiritual healing, community support, and compassionate care when many institutions turned away.
Rev. Dr. Greg Harte became the Spiritual Director, carrying forward the teachings of Holmes, Barker, and Hay. Today, he leads a diverse community committed to practical spirituality and New Thought principles.
The story continues with every person who walks through our doors seeking truth, healing, and community. What will your chapter be?
If you’re reading this, something inside you knows there’s more.
More to life than what you’re experiencing.
More to you than what you’ve been told.
More available than what you’ve been able to access.
You’re right.
For over 30 years, I’ve watched people walk through our doors carrying what you might be carrying right now: Pain. Patterns they can’t break. Questions they can’t answer. That persistent feeling of “Is this all there is?”
And I’ve watched them discover the same truth Louise Hay discovered:
When you understand how your subconscious creates your reality—and learn to work with it intentionally—everything changes.
Not overnight. Not magically.
But consistently. Powerfully. Permanently.
My teaching approach is simple:
Practical over theoretical. Stories over abstractions. “How to use this” over “what to believe about this.”
No pressure. No judgment. No pretending.
Just real teachings that work, with a community that holds you.
You belong here, exactly as you are.
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You don’t have to have it figured out.
You just have to be willing to try.
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