Childhood and Education
Orr was born in Walton, New York. During his teen years, he became a born again Christian. When he converted to Christianity and started to read the Bible, he took Jesus' words ("He who believes in me shall never taste death.") literally, that anyone who believed in Jesus would not die.
He attended seminary with plans of becoming a preacher. However, while in school, Orr said he felt a calling to be a minister to the unchurched. Pursuing this feeling of a calling and some of his curiosity about life, Orr soon was reading and practicing New Thought philosophy (such as Science of Mind and Ernest Holmes).
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