| Title: | Psychic Phenomena |
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| Moderator: | JARETH::PAINTER |
| Created: | Wed Jan 22 1986 |
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I AM ADDING THIS NOTE TO SEE IF ANY OF YOU ERUDITE PEOPLE HAVE
DELVED INTO THE PHILOSOPHY OF EMMANUAL SWEDENBORG.
Swedenborg was a prominent scientist of his day (17th Century, I
believe) who spent the later (and more noteworthy) part of his life
exploring and experiencing what he believed were the spirit realms.
I have done some reading and have found that the Divinity
School of the Swedenborg Church is in Newton, MA. of all places
and there is a church in Boston. I'm not sure if this is the American
headquarters. But the church is international and serves as a
repository and disseminator of information gathered by Swedenborg
during his (earthly) life. The data contains accounts
of the other realms (the astral, etheric, etc. ) and man's role
in the universe - his way to achieve ultimate fulfillment - salvation?
Has anyone gone to the Swedenborg Church service? I have spent
a fair amount of time in the Spiritualist community here in greater
Boston (Greater Boston Spiritualist Church in Watertown) and would
like to find out more about the Swedenborgians.
Mary B. (just on Rocha's account)
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| 807.1 | SSDEVO::ACKLEY | wow | Tue Jul 26 1988 18:13 | 22 | |
I read Swedenborg's classic; "Heaven And Hell", after reading
Colin Wilson's review of it. It was a very interesting book,
and most of the information seemed quite in line with many other
sources. I found it to be quite inspiring and interesting. In
particular I liked his detailed descriptions of the 'correspondences'
between spiritual realities and mundane realities. For instance,
he says that for a spirit, distance is defined by attitude and
emotion, so that a spirit experiences 'emotional distance' where
we experience 'physical distance'. His concepts are deep and
internally consistent.
I liked his dry, almost skeptical reporting of his unusual
experiences. No doubt his training as a scientist added some
power to the quality of his writing. At the age of 46, he
began to have 'visions' and visitations by 'Angels'. The
book I read was an account of his tour of the afterlife, which
has some similarities with Dante's.
I've never looked into the church though. I understand
they have become much like other protestant denominations.
Alan.
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