A native of Ireland, Joseph Murphy (1898 1981) was a prolific and widely admired New Thought minister and writer, best known for his motivational classic, <i>The Power of Your Subconscious Mind</i>, an international bestseller since it first blazed onto the self-help scene. His pamphlet <i>How to Attract Money</i> first appeared in 1955, and likewise entered many editions. Murphy wrote widely on the auto-suggestive and metaphysical faculties of the human mind and is considered one of the pioneering voices of affirmative-thinking philosophy.