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/images/stories/radiant/playsound.gif Hear Herbert Sutcliffe talk about the Eliminating Diet: This clip requires Flash Player 7 or higher. Download Flash Player 7. Click on arrow to play or download as mp3 (634kb) This sound file is taken from an interview with Herbert Sutcliffe shortly before his death in 1971.
Hear Herbert Sutcliffe talking about the origins of Radiant Living
The School of Radiant Living was a movement active in New Zealand from the late 1930s until the late 1980s. Founder Dr Herbert Sutcliffe taught a holistic philosophy of physical, psychological and spiritual health.
Biography of the founder of the School of Radiant Living in New Zealand
The teachings of Radiant Living were complex and involved holistic psychological, physical and spiritual health.
'On yonder hill you will pitch your tent' prophesied the daughter of Golden Dawn founder Robert Felkin to Herbert Sutcliffe, as she pointed towards Te Mata Peak.
Havelock North has long been a centre of 'alternative thought' or liberal theology in New Zealand.
Radiant Living emerged from the American-based philosophical movement New Thought, which gained popularity in the late 19th century
One of the first New Zealand schools of Radiant Living was established in Auckland. Its secretary was Gertrude Hillary who reported progress early in 1939. Her son, Edmund, was an early student
To obtain physical fitness, it is of vital importance that the right mental attitude should accompany the food diet to enable the emotions, nerves and glands to co-operate with the healing processes of the body.
Colour, beauty, exquisite artistry find joyous expression in the Art of Salad Making. The homemaker who serves salads so deliciously and artistically tempting that the family cannot resist is thereby blessing all with the glorious gift of health.
The Auckland School of Radiant Living was founded in 1938, and this was one of the first of these schools established in New Zealand. Everyone in the Hillary family was a member.
Acknowledged as New Zealand’s most accomplished poet, Baxter is also well-known for his wild lifestyle and the religious community he established on the banks of the Whanganui River.