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- [When Life Gives You Apples, Make Pie!](https://swedenborg.com/when-life-gives-you-apples-make-pie/): In 2000, the Swedenborg Foundation planted two seedlings grafted from the last authenticated apple tree planted by Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman. In 2006 they bore their first fruit. Here is their progress in 2013!
- [The Swedenborg Foundation's Next Chapter in Book Publishing](https://swedenborg.com/the-swedenborg-foundations-next-chapter-in-book-publishing/): The Swedenborg Foundation is changing how our books reach you. Starting October 1, 2026, we're leaving our longtime distributor, the Chicago Distribution Center, to become a fully self-distributed publisher—selling directly through our own online Shopify store and Amazon Seller Account, as well as digital and wholesale options. Here's how that decision fits into 176 years
- [Finding the Right Printer for Beautiful Books: A Conversation with Our Managing Editor](https://swedenborg.com/deluxe-printer-search-conversation/): The managing editor of the New Century Edition on the hunt for a printer worthy of the Deluxe volumes — and why fine book printing keeps getting harder.
- [Opening the Inner World: Audiobook Now Available!](https://swedenborg.com/opening-the-inner-world-audiobook-now-available/): The audiobook is available on Libro.fm, Audible, and Spotify, and explores the implications of Internal Family Systems and Swedenborg's spiritual psychology.
- [Swedenborg and Buddhism in Dialog: An Interview with David Loy](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-buddhism-dialog-interview-david-loy/): David Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen Buddhist teacher. He is the author of nine books and numerous articles that offer a Buddhist perspective on Western culture. He has also lectured on Buddhism at the university level in the United States, Japan, and Singapore, among other countries. One of his many areas of interest is the similarities between Swedenborg’s writings and Buddhism, which will be the subject of his talk at our annual meeting. We asked him for a preview of his thoughts.
- [Swedenborg in His Own Hand: The Meaning of "The Sun Grew Hot" (Exodus 16:21)](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-in-his-own-hand-the-meaning-of-the-sun-grew-hot-exodus-1621/): How do we read Swedenborg’s Neo-Latin handwriting nearly 270 years later in this short example from our upcoming publication Secrets of Heaven Volume 12, Exodus 16:21?
- [Revisiting Helen Keller and Our "Shining Soul" Documentary 20 Years Later](https://swedenborg.com/revisiting-helen-keller-and-our-shining-soul-documentary-20-years-later/): Twenty years ago the Swedenborg Foundation released Shining Soul: Helen Keller’s Spiritual Life and Legacy, a documentary exploring the spiritual influences that shaped Keller’s life. In the quote below from the 2004 Swedenborg Foundation Annual Report, the project was announced to members: Penny Price, the filmmaker who produced Splendors [of the Spirit], has completed a
- [New Book Project - Aram Yardumian Interviews Composer Tommie Haglund](https://swedenborg.com/new-book-project-aram-yardumian-interviews-composer-tommie-haglund/): Our book discusses the link between creativity and spirituality in detailed conversations between Swedish composer Tommie Haglund and interviewer Aram Yardumian.
- [Listening to Eternity - Our New Book Featuring Composer Tommie Haglund](https://swedenborg.com/listening-to-eternity-our-new-book-featuring-composer-tommie-haglund/): The publishing date for Listening to Eternity featuring Swedish composer Tommie Haglund is here, and we are very pleased with how this lovely little book has come out.
- [Mundus Imaginalis III: Topographies OPOGRAPHIES of the “Eighth Climate”](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-mundus-imaginalis-iii-topographies-of-the-eighth-climate/): Part III of Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal
- [Mundus Imaginalis II: THE SPIRITUAL IMAGINATION](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-mundus-imaginalis-ii-the-spiritual-imagination/): Part II of Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal
- [Mundus Imaginalis I: “NĀ-KOJĀ-ĀBĀD,” OR THE “EIGHTH CLIMATE”](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-mundus-imaginalis-i-na-koja-abad-or-the-eighth-climate/): Part I of Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal
- [Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-mundus-imaginalis-or-the-imaginary-and-the-imaginal/): Sufism and Swedenborg share similar teachings about a spiritual world senior to this world.
- [Opening the Inner World is Published!](https://swedenborg.com/opening-the-inner-world-is-published/): On May 22, 2025 we officially published Opening the Inner World: Spiritual Healing, Internal Family Systems, and Emanuel Swedenborg. This nonfiction book is a conversation between three voices discussing complimentary aspects of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg and Internal Family Systems (IFS), a therapeutic model. We're pleased to share with you some early media coverage
- [The Cover for Opening the Inner World is Here! And You Helped!](https://swedenborg.com/the-cover-for-opening-the-inner-world-is-here-and-you-helped/): We had over seventy responses to our cover image survey for Opening the Inner World. We are so grateful for all the input we received.
- [Unlocking Trauma: Lessons from Internal Family Systems and Swedenborg](https://swedenborg.com/unlocking-trauma-lessons-from-internal-family-systems-and-swedenborg/): Chelsea Odhner tells the story of how she found Internal Family Systems (IFS) and was inspired by its similarities to Emanuel Swedenborg’s spiritual teachings.
- [New Church in the New World - New Edition!](https://swedenborg.com/new-church-in-the-new-world-new-edition/): In 1932, Marguerite Beck Block published the first edition of The New Church in the New World: A Study of Swedenborgianism in America. A second edition was published in 1968, followed by a third edition in 1984 which included an introduction and epilogue by Rev. Dr. Robert H. Kirven. We are very pleased to announce
- [Celebrating the Release of Surviving Suicidal Ideation by Gina Cavalier and Dr. Amelia Kelley](https://swedenborg.com/celebrating-the-release-of-surviving-suicidal-ideation-by-gina-cavalier-and-dr-amelia-kelley/): You don't have to struggle alone. Whether you're someone who experiences suicidal thoughts or suffers from negative thoughts of any kind, this book can help.
- [New Book Project: An Exploration of Internal Family Systems and Emanuel Swedenborg](https://swedenborg.com/new-book-project-internal-family-systems-swedenborg/): Discover the upcoming book which explores the crossover between Internal Family Systems therapy and Emanuel Swedenborg’s spiritual teachings. Coming in 2025.
- [Controversial Bible Verses: Psalm 137:9](https://swedenborg.com/controversial-bible-verses-psalm-1379/): Have you ever read a Bible verse that made you uncomfortable or confused? You're not alone. Many people find some Bible verses difficult to understand. This is true for both believers and non-believers. Some verses seem cruel or violent. Others seem to contradict the idea of a loving God. In this post, we're going to
- [Past Swedenborg Foundation Board President and New Century Edition Translator George F. Dole has Transitioned to the Spiritual World](https://swedenborg.com/past-swedenborg-foundation-board-president-and-new-century-edition-translator-george-f-dole-has-transitioned-to-the-spiritual-world/): George was a key figure in the New Century Edition, an architect of the project and one of its four translators.
- [Swedenborg Foundation Welcomes New Director of Development](https://swedenborg.com/new-director-of-development/): The Swedenborg Foundation is excited to welcome the newest member of our staff: Timothy S. Bilger.
- [The Shorter Works of 1763 Now Available in E-Book Format](https://swedenborg.com/the-shorter-works-of-1763-now-available-in-e-book-format/): The Shorter Works of 1763, our latest New Century Edition title, was published as a Deluxe edition hardcover in August 2020 and is now available to download as an ePub (free) or Kindle e-book ($2.99)!
- [How We Can Show Up for Each Other in 2020 & Beyond: A Message from the President of the Board](https://swedenborg.com/how-we-can-show-up-for-each-other-in-2020/): Oh, what a year we have had. In the midst of the global and community upheaval that 2020 has brought, I hope and pray that the Swedenborg Foundation has helped you keep your spirit connected to the Lord and the peace of heaven.
- [Now Available: Swedenborg’s Principles of Usefulness by John S. Haller, Jr.](https://swedenborg.com/now-available-swedenborgs-principles-of-usefulness/): We're proud to announce that our latest Swedenborg Studies Series title "Swedenborg’s Principles of Usefulness: Social Reform Thought from the Enlightenment to American Pragmatism" is now available in hardcover and as an e-book.
- [Join Dr. Jonathan Rose as He Tackles a Swedenborg Mystery!](https://swedenborg.com/jonathan-rose-swedenborg-mystery/): Join us on Saturday, October 3 at 3 p.m. Eastern (noon Pacific / 7 p.m. GMT) for “Why Swedenborg Went Public,” a live webcast on the offTheLeftEye YouTube channel. Dr. Jonathan Rose, series editor of the New Century Edition (NCE), will talk with Curtis Childs, director and host of our popular webcasts Swedenborg & Life and News from Heaven, in this free, interactive event.
- [Giving Tuesday Ends with a Blast](https://swedenborg.com/giving-tuesday-ends-with-a-blast/): Giving Tuesday was December 3, but we went big and extended it a whole week, and we were grateful at the amazing response from our supporters!
- [Swedenborg Foundation Launches Planned Giving Society](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-launches-planned-giving-society/): In recognition of the wonderful commitments that we’ve received from our community of supporters, the Swedenborg Foundation is launching a new planned giving society.
- [Save the Date: San Francisco-Area Gathering for Swedenborg Foundation Supporters](https://swedenborg.com/save-the-date-san-francisco-area-gathering-for-swedenborg-foundation-supporters/): Swedenborg and Life Producer and Host Curtis Childs will be there, along with our executive director and director of development to meet and chat about Swedenborg's writings, show production updates, and other exciting happenings at the organization. We'd also love to get your feedback while we're there and learn more about how we can better serve you on your spiritual journey!
- [Free Audio Introduction to The Shorter Works of 1763 by Series Editor Rev. Dr. Jonathan S. Rose Now Available](https://swedenborg.com/free-audio-intro-shorter-works-of-1763/): We’re pleased to announce that the audio introduction to The Shorter Works of 1763 by Series Editor Rev. Dr. Jonathan S. Rose is now available to listen to on our YouTube channel.
- [Good Question! Recap: Giving Tuesday 2019 — 12/09/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-giving-tuesday-2019-finale/): In our finale to our Giving Tuesday week celebration, our expert panel gathers to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Good Question! Recap: Giving Tuesday 2019 — 12/02/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-giving-tuesday-2019/): In this special Giving Tuesday episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose join us to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [An Evening with offTheLeftEye New York City Event in Review](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-nyc-event-in-review/): On Thursday, May 9, 2019, members of our staff and board of directors met with a group of offTheLeftEye supporters at the New York New Church in Manhattan, New York, for An Evening with offTheLeftEye. If you weren't able to attend and hope to catch one of our regional gatherings in the future, here's an inside look
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Jesus Wants Us to Seek the Deeper Meaning of His Words — 4/6/20](https://swedenborg.com/recap-jesus-wants-us-to-seek-the-deeper-meaning-of-his-words/): Seeking to understand the truth of Jesus’s words can be encouraging and enlightening, but it’s also exactly what he wants us to do. Asking questions is one more way we can do God’s work. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose work with the writings of eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg to answer the following question: Does anything in the Bible indicate that there are deeper meanings to Jesus’s teachings?
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: God Used a Specific Design to Create Heaven — 3.30.20](https://swedenborg.com/recap-god-used-a-specific-design-to-create-heaven/): In this episode, we tackle one of the biggest questions ever asked: how was the universe formed? Religion and science seem to argue about creation and chaos, but eighteenth-century scientist and spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg learned more.
- [Heaven and Hell Is Now Available as a Large-Print Edition](https://swedenborg.com/heaven-and-hell-is-now-available-as-a-large-print-edition/): We're pleased to announce that Heaven and Hell—Christian mystic Emanuel Swedenborg’s most popular and detailed book about his experiences in the afterlife—is now available as a large-print edition for readers with low vision or other visual challenges!
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: The Psychology of Jesus — 12/10/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-psychology-of-jesus/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose explore how Jesus’s spiritual and psychological development are reflected in Old Testament stories—and can inform our daily life today.
- [10 Early Signs of a Spiritual Awakening](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-awakening/10-early-signs-of-a-spiritual-awakening): Swedish scientist Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was a deeply devout Christian whose spiritual awakening changed the trajectory of his career to a mystical theology that expanded his faith far beyond what he could have imagined. Swedenborg’s dream journal is a front-row seat to the initial period of his spiritual awakening. While his work continued as usual during his
- [Is it Safe to Talk to Spirits?](https://swedenborg.com/spirits-angels/is-it-safe-to-talk-to-spirits): Even though many people have encountered spirits, the scientific community often denies their existence. How can those of us who have these experiences know if it is safe to interact with them? In this episode, we discuss the nature of these spirits, why it might be dangerous to interact with them, and some simple methods
- [Will We Be Married In Heaven? Yes.](https://swedenborg.com/marriage-in-heaven/will-we-be-married-in-heaven-yes): Are you still married in heaven? Jeanette and Alexander Toczko thought so. They died in each other’s arms only hours apart from each other after 75 years of marriage. The wife told her husband as he died, “Wait for me, I’ll be there soon.” They knew their story wasn’t over. They loved each other deeply on earth,
- [How You Will Find Your Soul Mate After Death](https://swedenborg.com/marriage-in-heaven/how-you-will-find-your-soul-mate-after-death): Marriage on earth can be complicated. Many of us wonder, will things change in the afterlife? We ask God for guidance, and wonder, do you marry your soulmate? Others wonder, what if your soulmate is not your spouse? What happens if your soulmate dies before you – will soulmates reunite? And many more wonder, what
- [The Signs of a Spiritual Awakening Explained](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-awakening/the-signs-of-a-spiritual-awakening-explained): What are the signs of a spiritual awakening? Well, there’s a lot of them, but they all fit into six broad categories. Increased general happiness Increased peace/transcendence Behavior changes Negative aspects New desires Heightened perception The real question is why do spiritual awakenings in general consist of these specific categories? Some you could guess. You
- [Spirits Cause Anxiety](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-awakening/spirits-cause-anxiety): Dealing with anxiety? It could be you have a spirit problem. The Presence of Spirits Don’t worry, we all do to various extents. Spirits aren’t the only source of anxiety, but the presence and absence of particular supernatural beings having a major impact on our mental and emotional weather is a real factor of our
- [What Is Hell Like? The Truth Most Christians Have Wrong](https://swedenborg.com/life-after-death/what-is-hell-like): Hell is real, but there’s a lot of fake news in the world about it. Before any Christians reading this get too nervous, our source is the Bible, but the Bible gets you in trouble if you read it literally. When you understand the nature of the Bible and the spiritual language it contains, you can start to glean
- [What Happens Immediately After You Die?](https://swedenborg.com/life-after-death/what-happens-immediately-after-you-die): We’re born, we live, we die, and . . . then what? What happens after you die? First-hand experiences reported by eighteenth-century scientist and spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg reveal the answer. An unconditionally loving welcome In many stories of death experiences, people witness joyful welcomes and powerful feelings of love. But it’s more than bright lights
- [How to Feel the Presence of Angels](https://swedenborg.com/spirits-angels/how-to-feel-the-presence-of-angels): Angels are closer than they seem. In fact, they may actually be a part of how you already think and feel. How do we feel their presence? Negative thoughts always seem to come more easily and more often than good ones. Sometimes it is harder for us to hear the “higher-order” thoughts, although they are
- [Things Heard and Seen: Separating the Swedenborg from the Story](https://swedenborg.com/things-heard-and-seen-separating-the-swedenborg-from-the-story/): In the April 29 Netflix release Things Heard and Seen, a young professor and his wife (George and Catherine Claire) move from New York City to the Hudson Valley, where he has just landed a job at the fictional Saginaw College. George promptly runs into a professor who declares that he is a believer in Emanuel Swedenborg, one of a group of people in the area who follow Swedenborg’s teachings. But how much of what’s in the move reflects what Swedenborg actually wrote?
- [Carl Godlove's on Board as Our New CEO!](https://swedenborg.com/carl-godlove-new-ceo/): The board of directors has hired Carl Godlove to serve as their CEO, effective July 1, 2022. Carl is a seasoned chief executive officer who brings both his experience and his passion for Swedenborg’s message to the Foundation.
- [Swedenborg and the Plurality of Worlds: Astrotheology in the Eighteenth Century, Part 2](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-and-the-plurality-of-worlds-astrotheology-in-the-eighteenth-century-part-2/): The possible existence of extraterrestrial life led in the eighteenth century to a heated debate on the unique status of the human being and of Christianity. Swedish natural philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg was one of those who discussed the new scientific worldview and its implications for theology.
- [Swedenborg and the Plurality of Worlds: Astrotheology in the Eighteenth Century, Part 1](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-and-the-plurality-of-worlds-astrotheology-in-the-eighteenth-century-part-1/): The possible existence of extraterrestrial life led in the eighteenth century to a heated debate on the unique status of the human being and of Christianity. Swedish natural philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg was one of those who discussed the new scientific worldview and its implications for theology.
- [Spiritual Insight from Newly Discovered Paintings by Hilma af Klint](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-insight-from-newly-discovered-paintings-by-hilma-af-klint/): Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) made abstract works inspired by her occult practices. The results overflow with spiritual insight.
- [A Connection Between Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Emanuel Swedenborg: Their Message for a New Era](https://swedenborg.com/a-connection-between-dietrich-bonhoeffer-and-emanuel-swedenborg-their-message-for-a-new-era/): The question has been asked before: how influenced was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the renowned German Lutheran pastor and theologian who led the resistance against Hitler and was executed for it, by his favorite grandmother’s Swedenborgian commitments? The answer may lie partly in the vision shared by both Swedenborg and Bonhoeffer of a dramatic new era unfolding now in the divine plan.
- [Instrumental Value vs. Intrinsic Value—What Do We Choose?](https://swedenborg.com/instrumental-value-vs-intrinsic-value-what-do-we-choose/): Seeing the inherent value in one another would help to heal our world. Writer and philosopher George Gantz offers a way to access such a perspective.
- [Swedenborg and Life 100th Episode Will Have Live Audience](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-life-100th-episode-live/): The one-hundredth episode of our weekly webcast Swedenborg and Life will air on May 9, 2016, at its usual time of 8 p.m. Eastern. To help celebrate this milestone, we’re inviting fans of the show to come and watch the episode live as it is broadcast over our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel.
- [Unintelligible Afterlife Panel Sheds New Light on Last Words](https://swedenborg.com/unintelligible-afterlife-panel/): What can we learn by studying what people say in the final stage of their lives? On September 19, a group of scholars and researchers participated in a live panel discussion on the Research into the Communications of the Dying (RICD) project, an interdisciplinary academic study of the words uttered by the dying.
- [Video Now Online for the Swedenborg and the Arts International Conference](https://swedenborg.com/video-now-online-for-the-swedenborg-and-the-arts-international-conference/): Recordings of the presentations given at the Swedenborg and the Arts International Conference are now online and available to watch free of charge. Where available, recordings are accompanied by copies of the speaker’s presentation slides for viewers to download and follow along.
- [Watch Jonathan Rose Talk about Indexing and Enlightenment](https://swedenborg.com/watch-jonathan-rose-talk-about-indexing-and-enlightenment/): Dr. Jonathan S. Rose, series editor of the New Century Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg (NCE), takes a closer look at how Swedenborg benefited from indexing his own writings in a talk that was given in Bryn Athyn, PA on February 12 as part of the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Swedenborg Library.
- [SF to Attend Local Book Expo 4/11](https://swedenborg.com/sf-to-attend-local-book-expo-411/): The Swedenborg Foundation will be at Bryn Athyn College’s 2015 Book Expo with a $1 bin of overstock books and great selection of titles at 20% off retail price.
- [Part Three: Free Resources to Inspire Hope and Connection in Times of Crisis](https://swedenborg.com/part-three-free-resources-to-inspire-hope-and-connection-in-times-of-crisis/): The social distancing many of us are practicing as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic can have us feeling isolated, anxious, and maybe even experiencing a spiritual crisis. There are parallels that can be drawn between us and Swedenborg during this unexpected trial. In his mid-fifties, Swedenborg’s successful career was interrupted by a powerful
- [offTheLeftEye to Debut New Season of Swedenborg & Life April 1](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-new-season-swedenborg-life/): A new season of Swedenborg & Life is about to begin on Monday, April 1st! The channel has been airing live shows over the last few months while the team has worked on these brand new episodes that are focused on helping viewers figure out how to change their life story.
- [9/19 Free Livestream Event with Dr. Raymond Moody – Save the Date](https://swedenborg.com/livestream-event-raymond-moody/): What do the final words of those on their deathbed’s mean? What do they tell us about the next stage of existence? This not-to-be-missed event gives audiences an opportunity to hear Dr. Raymond Moody discuss his “typology of unintelligible language” and its relationship to consciousness.
- [The Shape of Perfection](https://swedenborg.com/the-shape-of-perfection/): The wounded God says something powerful not only about God but about us.
- [Enter Swedenborg Fan Art Contest for Chance to be Featured and Inspire Others](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-fan-art-contest/): Summon your artistic spirits! We're looking for talented individuals to take part in a fun art contest. If you're moved by Swedenborg's spiritual insights, channel that inspiration into artwork and we'll share it with the world.
- [New Book Release: Overcoming Divisiveness: Lessons from Emanuel Swedenborg](https://swedenborg.com/new-book-release-overcoming-divisiveness/): Our newest book release, Overcoming Divisiveness: Lessons from Emanuel Swedenborg, is now available in paperback!
- [Now Available in Our Bookstore: On The Conjugial Angel by A S Byatt](https://swedenborg.com/now-available-on-the-conjugial-angel/): We’re excited to now offer On The Conjugial Angel from the UK-based Swedenborg Society for U.S. customers in our online bookstore!
- [Introducing Swedenborg: Correspondences By Gary Lachman Now Available in Our Bookstore](https://swedenborg.com/introducing-swedenborg-correspondences-by-gary-lachman-now-available-in-our-bookstore/): In this 88-page quick read, author Gary Lachman provides an accessible overview of the many fascinating ways Emanuel Swedenborg’s system of correspondences influenced philosophical movements and influential figures over the past 250 years.
- [NCE Minute: Survey and Soul-Body Interaction—Strange Bedfellows?](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-survey-and-soul-body-interaction-strange-bedfellows/): Just as no art historian would think of studying Picasso without considering the different phases and periods of his paintings, no serious reader of Swedenborg should lack awareness of the sequence and time frame in which his works were published.
- [Resources for Anti-racist and Anti-biased Spiritual Growth](https://swedenborg.com/resources-for-anti-racist-and-anti-biased-spiritual-growth/): We as an organization have chosen to embrace Swedenborg’s powerful messages of divine love and wisdom as a call to respect all of God’s creations equally. In the list of resources that follow, we hope you’ll consider each in the spirit of compassion and charity that Swedenborg called us to.
- [Conflict Resolution: Learning from Psychologists and Angels](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-conflict-resolution-learning-from-psychologists-and-angels/): There’s a spirituality to developing effective ways of transforming difficult relationships.
- [Did Swedenborg Study Kabbalah? Part 1: Comparison of Ideas](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-swedenborg-kabbalah-1/): From seeing a more intimate relationship between heaven and earth to recognizing a depth of meaning beyond the letter of the Bible, the parallels found between Swedenborg and the kabbalah shed some light on how these two great traditions may share a common ground in understanding the reality of the Divine.
- [Save the Date for Our 2021 Annual Meeting](https://swedenborg.com/save-the-date-for-our-2021-annual-meeting/): The Swedenborg Foundation’s one hundred and seventy-first annual meeting will be held on Friday, May 7, 2021. Register to join our virtual meeting!
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: 8 Meditations on Innocence — 10.28.19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-8-meditations-on-innocence/): In this episode, Curtis, Jonathan, and others provide eight meditations on innocence that correspond to paintings in artist Karen Elder’s “angel series.” Please read along and meditate on these inspirational ideas.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Meaning of Easter 3/21/16](https://swedenborg.com/meaning-of-easter/): Ready to venture into a world of symbols, representations, and correspondences? Starting with Easter symbols like rabbits, eggs, and clothing, then examining details within the story of Jesus’s time on the cross and his resurrection, take a journey through Emanuel Swedenborg’s interpretation of the biblical Easter story.
- [Free Resources to Inspire Hope and Connection in Times of Crisis](https://swedenborg.com/free-resources-to-inspire-hope-and-connection-in-times-of-crisis/): In need of some relief during the Coronavirus quarantine? We've compiled a list of free and low-cost content to watch and read from the Swedenborg Foundation!
- [Part Two: Free Resources to Inspire Hope and Connection in Times of Crisis](https://swedenborg.com/free-resources-to-inspire-hope-and-connection-in-times-of-crisis-2/): To keep your spirit rooted in faith and connected to others, we've compiled a list of free and low-cost content to watch and read from the Swedenborg Foundation, as well as online gatherings being offered by other Swedenborgian communities! Browse through and digest what you need for your spiritual nourishment:
- [Curtis Childs Talks Chasing Swedenborg](https://swedenborg.com/curtis-childs-talks-chasing-swedenborg/): On February 8, a new series will debut on the offTheLeftEye YouTube channel: Chasing Swedenborg. Morgan Beard, our executive director, sat down with Curtis Childs, the director of offTheLeftEye and host of the new series, to talk about the genesis of this new venture and what else the future holds for the channel.
- [Communing with Angels: Near-Death Studies and the Nearness of the Spiritual World](https://swedenborg.com/communing-with-angels-near-death-studies/): Angels commune with us constantly, but it works even better when we collaborate.
- [Swedenborg’s Eve: On Mutuality, Meaning, and Mirrors](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-swedenborgs-eve-on-mutuality-meaning-and-mirrors/): Swedenborg wrote The Worship and Love of God, his most poetic work, during a year of intense spiritual awakening. The book, though unfinished, is remarkable for its bold vision concerning the cosmos’s first female.
- [Happy Birthday Emanuel Swedenborg (Or Is It?)](https://swedenborg.com/happy-birthday-emanuel-swedenborg-or-is-it-2/): We are told that Swedenborg was born on Sunday, January 29, 1688. Yet if you take our modern calendar and project backward, you will find that January 29, 1688, fell on a Thursday. How could this be?
- [Is There Really Life on Other Planets?](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-is-there-really-life-on-other-planets/): An acclaimed astronomer, Swedenborg’s deductions about the physical universe were brilliant. Was he also onto something about its spiritual nature?
- [2020 Holiday Book Sale–Enjoy 20% Off & Free Shipping](https://swedenborg.com/2020-holiday-book-sale/): Whether buying for yourself or family and friends, our annual book sale is timed to help us take in the lessons of generosity and service that define the holiday season!
- [NCE Minute: More on Swedenborg’s “Goods” and “Truths”](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-more-on-swedenborgs-goods-and-truths/): The truths that God sets up as commandments were not given to us to be considered in the abstract; they are to be acted on. This sets up a dynamic between goodness and truth: to think of doing something good is itself a truth, and likewise a truth becomes a good thing when we will it and do it
- [Save the Date: OffTheLeftEye Experience 2021](https://swedenborg.com/save-the-date-offthelefteye-experience-2021/): We are currently planning to hold the OffTheLeftEye Experience: The Spiritual World Around You on the weekend of July 23-26, 2021. Although we hope to be able to hold this as an in-person event in Bryn Athyn, PA as originally envisioned, because of the uncertainties around the pandemic, we are also making arrangements to hold the event virtually if needed.
- [Chelsea Odhner Promoted to Director of Content Strategy for OffTheLeftEye](https://swedenborg.com/chelsea-odhner-promoted-to-director-of-content-strategy-for-offthelefteye/): We are thrilled to announced that Chelsea Rose Odhner has been promoted to the newly created position of director of content strategy for offTheLeftEye (OTLE)!
- [Dying Is Living: 7 Lessons about Death from a Loved One Who Died](https://swedenborg.com/7-lessons-about-death-from-a-loved-one-who-died/): Conscious dying reveals lessons about living and graces those around us.
- [Free Three-Part Webinar Series with Author John S. Haller, Jr.](https://swedenborg.com/free-three-part-webinar-series-with-author-john-s-haller-jr/): Join historian and author John S. Haller, Jr., for a virtual lecture series titled Swedenborg, Homeopathy and America’s Reform Tradition. Throughout this three-part series, John will discuss many of the fascinating topics that he’s written about in his books for the Swedenborg Foundation and the Swedenborg Society.
- [New Century Edition Team Announces Translation Phase Is Now Complete](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-translation-phase-is-now-complete/): On Tuesday, September 17, 2019, the New Century Edition (NCE) team hit the most significant milestone they have ever achieved. Latin translator Lisa Hyatt Cooper finished translating all 15 volumes of Secrets of Heaven!
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Are There Animals in the Afterlife? - 10/17/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-are-there-animals-in-the-afterlife/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs from the Swedenborg Foundation and featured guests explore eighteenth-century scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg’s vivid descriptions of animals in the afterlife.
- [Good Question! Recap: Beauty, the Body of Jesus, and Levels of Heaven? — 03/02/20](https://swedenborg.com/recap-beauty-the-body-of-jesus-levels-of-heaven/): Our expert panel has gathered once again to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Why Does the Bible Say "The Dead Know Nothing"? - 2/27/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-bible-say-dead-know-nothing/): Ecclesiastes 9:5 tells us “the dead know nothing.” What does that mean? And why does the Bible contain so many contradictory statements about life and death?
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Conscience: How to Build Heaven in Your Mind - 3/27/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-conscience-build-heaven-mind/): We may think of conscience as the nagging voice that tells us not to eat that cookie, but what if it was actually the gateway to heaven?
- [Good Question! Recap: Depression, the Purpose of Sin, and How to See Angels? — 10/21/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-depression-purpose-of-sin-see-angels/): Our expert panel has gathered to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: Did Jesus Appear to Aliens? — 6/11/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-did-jesus-appear-to-aliens/): In last week’s episode, we joined eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg on a spiritual journey to other planets. Still with us? Well, in this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose go live to learn more.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How Angels Take Care of Us When We Die - 8/15/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-angels-take-care-of-us-when-we-die/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore eighteenth-century Christian mystic and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg’s accounts of how we pass from earthly life to the afterlife.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: How Did Jesus Do His Healing Miracles? 7/1/2019](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-did-jesus-do-his-healing-miracles/): Even people who have never read the Bible have heard of Jesus’s miracles, but he did more than turn water into wine. How could Jesus heal people with his touch? Why don’t we see similar miracles today?
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: How Earth Reveals God’s Love — 7/2/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-earth-reveals-gods-love/): Why does nature feel so beautiful? From a practical perspective, being on top of a mountain offers very little, but it certainly feels amazing to be there. It doesn’t make sense at face value. Eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg would tell you there is a clear reason: nature was the first revelation. Nature can reveal God’s love and truth through its very existence. Each natural element is an image of something more.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How God Reaches Us — 4/27/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-god-reaches-us/): In this special live broadcast from Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose look into all the paths God will take just to reach you. One of these paths, the works of eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, can be particularly powerful . . . even though it seems challenging.
- [Good Question! Episode 4 Recap – 7/8/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-good-question-episode-4/): Our expert panel has gathered to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Episode Recap - Good Question! Episode 5 – 7/29/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-good-question-episode-5/): Our expert panel has gathered to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Good Question! Recap: Beliefs, Evil Spirits, and the Power of Prayer — 9/30/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-good-question-8/): Our expert panel has gathered to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Good Question! Recap: The Purpose of Religion, How Thinking Changes, and Finding Loved Ones in Heaven? — 9/9/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-good-question-7/): Our expert panel has gathered to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Good Question! Recap: Good Works, the Government of Heaven, and Did Jesus Have a Wife? – 6/17/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-good-question-3/): Our expert panel has gathered to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Holistic Truth — 10/15/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-holistic-truth/): In our last episode, we put together a simple toolkit for analyzing the validity of any spiritual idea. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose go live to learn more about spiritual truth from eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Good Question! Recap: Hell, Spirit Guides, and How the Soul Is Made — 5/6/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-hell-spirit-guides-how-the-soul-is-made/): We’ve gathered an expert panel to discuss the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg and answer questions from viewers.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Heaven and Hell — 1/14/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-heaven-and-hell/): Continuing a book-by-book exploration of the works of eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose go live to explore Heaven and Hell (1758).
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Good vs. Evil on the Mountain — 7/9/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-good-vs-evil-on-the-mountain/): In last week’s episode, we looked at what nature can tell us about ourselves—especially through the lens of eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s theory of correspondences. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose go live to dig in deeper, focusing on the symbolism of mountains.
- [Good Question! Recap: Jesus and the Father, the Value of Pain, and How and Why God Created Life? — 4/15/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-good-question-episode-1/): In our inaugural episode of a brand new series, we’ve gathered an expert panel to answer questions from viewers and discuss the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Good Question! Recap — 1/20/20](https://swedenborg.com/recap-good-question-13/): Our expert panel convenes once again to answer some hard-hitting questions—with just a little help from eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: Ghosts, Haunted Gardens, and Edible Fear — 3/26/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-ghosts-haunted-gardens-and-edible-fear/): Last week, we discussed whether or not ghosts exist. Now, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose dig even deeper into the topic—with a little help from audience members and eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: False Gods: Mysteries of the 10 Commandments Explained – 8/21/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-false-gods-mysteries-10-commandments-explained/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose study the inner meaning of the first commandment.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: End Times and Jesus Christ - 7/25/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-end-times-and-jesus-christ/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore what eighteenth-century Christian mystic and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg had to say about Jesus’s predictions on the end times as written in the Bible—specifically, in chapter 24 of the book of Matthew. What could these Bible passages mean for humanity?
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: What if I Don’t Like Heaven? — 5/15/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-dont-like-heaven/): The heaven we see in popular culture doesn’t necessarily seem like a fun place. Will we really be playing golden harps in clouds for all eternity? What if you don’t like harp music? What if you get bored? In this episode, we explore the very different image of heaven found in Swedenborg's writings.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Does My Life Matter? - 1/30/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-does-my-life-matter/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore eighteenth-century scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg’s spiritual writings to learn how much every human life truly matters.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: Does God Control Good Luck? — 11/12/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-does-god-control-good-luck/): Divine providence works to turn everything toward good, but how much is providence really involved in every little thing? Are traffic jams and coin flips, for example, really part of the divine design? In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose explore a series of questions about divine providence that should help give us a better understanding of how it operates.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Do We Reincarnate? 3/6/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-do-we-reincarnate/): Among those who believe in a conscious afterlife, the great dividing question is a simple one—do we stay or do we come back? Emanuel Swedenborg suggests it might be a little bit of both.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Do Spirits Play a Role in Addiction? - 2/13/17](https://swedenborg.com/recap-do-spirits-play-a-role-in-addiction/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore his spiritual writings about how spirits can influence our mental states.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Do Ghosts Exist? — 3/20/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-do-ghosts-exist/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose use the writings of eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg to help gain a new perspective on supernatural experiences.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Divine Providence — 2/11/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-divine-providence/): Why do bad things happen to good people? Eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s Divine Providence can answer that question—come have a look with hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose!
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Divine Love and Wisdom — 2/4/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-divine-love-and-wisdom/): Continuing our journey through the basic nature of everything, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose explore eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s Divine Love and Wisdom.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Apocalypse Revealed — 2/18/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-apocalypse-revealed/): The biblical book of Revelation is confusing to many, but it made sense to eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg. Join hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose as they explore his book on the subject, Apocalypse Revealed.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: Angels and Demons — 1/29/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-angels-and-demons/): With a little help from our viewers, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose spend this episode digging into what eighteenth century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg discovered about angels and demons.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: Angels After Terrorism — 7/16/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-angels-after-terrorism/): Where can you find God in the tragedy of a terrorist attack? When Nicolas Leslie was murdered by terrorists on Bastille Day 2016, his parents Conrad and Paola were devastated. They had no idea how to move forward. With the help of eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, they learned that no one dies alone.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: Angelic Love, Dialogue, and How to Chase Away Devils — 4/9/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-angelic-love-dialogue-and-how-to-chase-away-devils/): Last week, we talked about divisiveness and how to overcome it. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose join with our viewers to explore more tools, techniques, and insights from Emanuel Swedenborg on how to change the dynamics between people who disagree.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: A Protective Barrier from Evil Spirits — 11/5/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-a-protective-barrier-from-evil-spirits/): In our last episode, we looked at the spiritual networks that fuel our thoughts and actions. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Chelsea Odhner go live to learn more from eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s insights into the spirits around us and how we can protect ourselves against those that are evil.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: 7 Laws of Divine Providence — 11/19/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-7-laws-of-divine-providence/): In our last episode, we looked at how everyday luck fit into a divine plan. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose go live to learn more from eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s understanding of divine providence.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: 6 Spiritual Powers of the Lord’s Prayer — 5/27/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-6-spiritual-powers-of-the-lords-prayer/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose look into the Lord’s Prayer and its connection to both our physical and spiritual lives.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: 5 Reunions in the Afterlife — 7/30/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-5-reunions-in-the-afterlife/): When you haven’t seen someone you love for a long time, reunion is just wonderful. Now, imagine that you thought you would never see this person again—that they had completely left the world as you know it. What would reuniting with them be like?
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: 5 Kinds of Spiritual Experiences – 6/19/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-5-kinds-of-spiritual-experiences/): In this episode, Curtis and Jonathan explore Swedenborg’s documented experiences to understand what they are, what they mean—and how to recognize them when they happen.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: 10 Questions: Anger, Aliens, and the Inverted Trinity  – 10/10/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-10-questions-anger-aliens-and-the-inverted-trinity/): In this episode, Curtis Childs and featured guests put their heads together with the spiritual writings of eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg to answer these pressing questions.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: 10 Questions: Astrology, Astral Projection, and Too Much Love  – 2/20/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-10-questions-astrology-astral-projection-and-too-much-love/): While each episode ends with a Q&A, host Curtis Childs doesn’t always get to every question. In this episode, he and featured guests work to rectify that, using the spiritual writings of eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg as a guide.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: 10 Questions: Divine Human, Intoxication, and the Rapture – 8/28/2017 ](https://swedenborg.com/recap-10-questions-divine-human-intoxication-and-the-rapture/): Hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose answer questions about spirituality and the afterlife in every episode, but viewers have more they need to know. To find those answers, our expert panel consults the spiritual writings of eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: 10 Questions: Guardian Angels, Forgiveness, and Self-Improvement – 8/7/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-10-questions-guardian-angels-forgiveness-self-improvement/): Questions pour in during every episode, but hosts Curtis and Jonathan can only take on one at a time. To cover the rest, our expert panel consults the spiritual writings of eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: 10 Questions: Negative Self-Talk, Redemption, and the Size of Angels  – 3/20/17](https://swedenborg.com/recap-10-questions-negative-self-talk-redemption-and-the-size-of-angels/): When host Curtis Childs doesn’t get to a question by the end of the show, the team sets it aside to be answered later. In this episode, he and featured guests take on ten questions with the aid of the spiritual writings of eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: 10 Questions: Psychopaths, Miracles, and Effective Prayer – 5/29/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-10-questions-psychopaths-miracles-effective-prayer/): Do evil spirits work through psychopaths? What does it mean when the Bible says "the meek shall inherit the earth"? Does Swedenborg say anything about the best way to pray? Our panel of Swedenborgian thinkers tackle these questions and more in the latest installment of our "10 Questions" series.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: 10 Questions: Soulmates, Eating Animals, and Spiritual Families - 11/28](https://swedenborg.com/recap-10-questions-soulmates-eating-animals-spiritual-families/): Our host Curtis Childs encourages viewers to send questions every week, but he doesn’t get to every question that’s asked. In this episode, he and featured guests answer those very questions with the help of the spiritual writings of eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: The 12 Disciples in Us — 3/17/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-12-disciples-in-us/): The number twelve has deep spiritual significance in the Bible, but what does that mean for us? In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose reveal what eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg learned about the twelve disciples in each of us.
- [Bearing True Witness to the Warm Color of Mercy: A Parable of “Fake News”](https://swedenborg.com/bearing-true-witness-to-the-warm-color-of-mercy-a-parable-of-fake-news/): Being real is harder than it sounds.
- [Are Thoughts and Prayers Enough?](https://swedenborg.com/are-thoughts-and-prayers-enough/): Proclaiming “thoughts and prayers” often seems to be used to disavow oneself from taking action. And yet, prayer can be part of an engaged response to suffering and tragedy. How do we know the difference?
- [Are Spiritual Connections Real?](https://swedenborg.com/are-spiritual-connections-real/): Is it possible to be connected to other people on a spiritual level? Swedenborg says that the things you love determine who you are—and who you’ll be drawn toward in this life and the next.
- [Are Ghosts Real?](https://swedenborg.com/are-ghosts-real/): As someone who spent years writing about his experiences in the spiritual world, Emanuel Swedenborg had a lot to say about people who have crossed over. But what about encounters with spirits in this world?
- [Annual Meeting 2012: "Moods in Emanuel Swedenborg's Theological Works"](https://swedenborg.com/annual-meeting-2012-moods-in-emanuel-swedenborgs-theological-works/): Swedenborg Foundation 162nd Annual Meeting Glencairn Museum / 1001 Cathedral Road / Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania "Moods in Emanuel Swedenborg's Theological Works: A Musico-Verbal Exploration" with Jonathan Rose May 18th, 2012 Business meeting opens at 7:00 p.m. Program begins at 8:00 p.m. All are welcome to this free event. Please stay after the performance for a
- [Swedenborg & Life Guests to Appear at 2015 Afterlife Awareness Conference](https://swedenborg.com/afterlife-awareness-conference/): We wanted to let you know about an opportunity to see Dr. Raymond Moody in person at the 2015 Afterlife Awareness Conference.
- [A Peek inside Swedenborg’s Garden](https://swedenborg.com/a-peek-inside-swedenborgs-garden/): January 29 is Emanuel Swedenborg’s birthday and we thought we’d celebrate by taking a closer look at one of his favorite places: his garden.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: 3 Simple Ways to Love Everyone 5/9/16](https://swedenborg.com/3-simple-ways-to-love-everyone/): Throughout this live episode, the Swedenborg and Life team uses social psychology, celestial thought patterns, and the idea of the microcosm emulating the macrocosm to try and to correct the human habit of seeing other people as inconsequential, disposable, or adversarial. The episode ends by providing three simple ways to love everyone.
- [2020 Annual Meeting Postponed](https://swedenborg.com/2020-annual-meeting-postponed/): The Swedenborg Foundation's annual meeting of members, which had been scheduled for May 2, has been postponed due to an extension of stay-at-home rules in the state of Pennsylvania.
- [2019 Membership Year Opens: Join or Renew Today](https://swedenborg.com/2019-membership-year-opens/): If you enjoy the faith- and spirituality-based content we offer and want even more people to be touched by Swedenborg‘s uplifting message of divine love and wisdom, then consider joining our mission to promote his life-guiding principles by becoming a member or renewing your membership for the 2019 membership year (June 1, 2019–May 31, 2020).
- [2018 Holiday Book Sale–Enjoy 20% Off & Free Shipping](https://swedenborg.com/2018-holiday-book-sale/): Surround yourself with messages of inner peace and wisdom this holiday season! Whether buying for yourself or loved ones, our holiday book sale is timed perfectly to help you take in the lessons of generosity and service found in Swedenborg’s writings.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Children in Heaven 1/25/16](https://swedenborg.com/children-in-heaven/): In this insightful and comforting episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests review Swedenborg’s beautifully detailed vision of children in heaven. While it may not answer every question you have, it may bring some much-needed clarity and peace to your soul.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: What the Bible Is 2/1/16](https://swedenborg.com/what-the-bible-is/): In this thought-provoking episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests review Swedenborg’s spiritual experiences and resulting philosophies about the deeper, spiritual messages contained within the Bible.
- [Swedenborg’s Influence on Balzac and Strindberg](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-swedenborgs-influence-on-balzac-and-strindberg/): Swedenborg’s doctrine of correspondences can serve the artist as a tool for accessing depth of meaning and understanding.
- [OffTheLeftEye Hits 100,000-Subscriber Milestone](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-hits-100000-subscriber-milestone/): On September 20, the offTheLeftEye YouTube channel reached 100,000 subscribers! With this milestone, we’ve achieved the coveted silver status, a feat accomplished by only half a percent of all YouTube channels.
- [SF Annual Meeting Brings New Slate of Board Members and Officers](https://swedenborg.com/sf-annual-meeting-brings-new-slate-of-board-members-and-officers/): Our 2020 annual meeting was later than usual after coronavirus-induced delays, but life and annual members gathered virtually on September 19 to hear about our activities in 2019.
- [Swedenborg Foundation Launches Revamped Website](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-launches-revamped-website/): We're proud to announce that in mid September, we launched a revamped version of Swedenborg.com after months of research, writing, programming, and design work!
- [Last Chance Sale - 50% Off Select Products](https://swedenborg.com/last-chance-sale-50-percent-off-select-products/): For inventory management reasons, we're sad to report that some of our classic books and DVDs they will soon be out of production and no longer available to purchase. The good news is that you now have a chance to add them to your home collections for 50% off the retail price!
- [The Mysterious Disappearance of the Bust of Swedenborg](https://swedenborg.com/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-the-bust-of-swedenborg/): Click these links to learn about the disappearance of the 1924 bronze bust of Swedenborg sculpted by Swedish artist Adolf Jonsson that once graced Lincoln Park in Chicago. The bust was stolen in 1976, most likely for the value of the metal.
- [What Does a Snake Fossil Tell Us about the Bible?](https://swedenborg.com/snake-fossil-bible/): When news of a four-legged snake fossil hit the news earlier this summer, it was met with excitement by some who regard the Bible as literal history. What would Emanuel Swedenborg say?
- [Smartest Site for Religion on the Web](https://swedenborg.com/smartest-site-for-religion-on-the-web/): Named Smartest Site for Religion by Newsweek magazine (Jan. 2011), Patheos.com connects viewers with like-minded individuals. The site features insightful and inspirational articles while inviting readers to join in stimulating discussions. The Swedenborg Foundation has several book titles featured in the Book Club section of www.patheos.com.
- [Online Interview with author Sylvia Montgomery Shaw](https://swedenborg.com/online-interview-with-author-sylvia-montgomery-shaw/): Online With Andrea interviews Sylvia Montgomery Shaw and her latest novel, Paradise Misplaced.
- [Online Interview with author Grant Schnarr](https://swedenborg.com/online-interview-with-author-grant-schnarr/): Online With Andrea host Andrea Garrison, interviews Grant Schnarr about his latest novel, Ghost Brother Angel.
- [Happy Birthday John Bigelow!](https://swedenborg.com/happy-birthday-john-bigelow/): John Bigelow (November 25, 1817– December 19, 1911) was an American statesman who, as an ambassador to France, helped to win the Civil War for the Union, and later served as Secretary of State under President Ulysses S. Grant. He was also, at various times, editor of the New York Evening Post and one of the founders of the New York Public Library.
- [Happy Birthday Daniel Burnham](https://swedenborg.com/happy-birthday-daniel-burnham/): Architect Daniel Burnham (1846–1912) was the director of works for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (World’s Fair) in 1893. The exposition was also home to the first World’s Parliament of Religions, an interfaith congress that was organized by another Swedenborgian, Charles Carroll Bonney (1831–1903).
- [Curtis Childs Talks Swedenborg to International Audience](https://swedenborg.com/curtis-childs-tha-talks/): On Sunday, February 7th, digital media producer and host of our Swedenborg and Life web series Curtis Childs was a featured guest on THA Talks—a popular UK-based weekly podcast series for “free thought and open minds.”
- [Author Grant Schnarr on The Dr. Oz Radio Show](https://swedenborg.com/author-grant-schnarr-on-the-dr-oz-radio-show/): Grant Schnarr, author of The Guardian Angel Diary discussed his novel on The Dr. Oz Radio Show Friday, June 3rd, 2011. The Dr. Oz Radio Show is available exclusively on Oprah Radio on XM 111 and Sirius 204.
- [Call for Entries: Bridge Book Awards 2013](https://swedenborg.com/call-for-entries-bridge-book-awards-2013/): The General Church of the New Jerusalem and the Swedenborg Foundation, publisher of the theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg, are pleased to announce the third annual Bridge Book Awards competition.
- [Scholars on Swedenborg: Swedenborg and the Present-Day Apocalypse in Blake’s "The Everlasting Gospel"](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-blake-the-everlasting-gospel/): Scholars have debated energetically the nature and extent of Swedenborg's influence on Blake for a century. Rebecca Esterson argues that the most apt metaphor for Blake's relationship to that other seer is sparring partner.
- [What Happens after We Die? Our Life after Death Now Available](https://swedenborg.com/what-happens-after-we-dieour-life-after-death-now-available/): Our Life after Death: A Firsthand Account from an 18th-Century Scientist and Seer is a collection of passages from Emanuel Swedenborg’s classic volume Heaven and Hell that describe the soul’s journey from the moment of death through the stages of self-discovery in the world of spirits.
- [Swedenborg’s Path to Spiritual Growth](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborgs-path-spiritual-growth/): One of the most consistent recurring themes throughout Swedenborg’s writings is regeneration, or the process of rebirth and growth as a spiritual person.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered 12 – 7/10/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-12/): In this installment of our “Spiritual Questions Answered” series, host Curtis Childs and Dr. Jonathan Rose share their insights on good and evil, being Swedenborgian, the afterlife, God's gender, the Kabbalah, and much more!
- [New Book Presents Rare Scholarship on Swedenborg's Life and Influence](https://swedenborg.com/new-book-presents-rare-scholarship-on-swedenborgs-life-and-influence/): Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) has been called a scientist, a seer, a visionary, and a philosopher, and his theological writings have been the inspiration for countless people worldwide. To celebrate the designation by UNESCO of Swedenborg’s archived works as a “world memory,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences organized its international “World Memory” symposium to explore the historical context in which Swedenborg worked and his lasting contributions to world culture.
- [Swedenborg: The Theologian Who Wasn’t](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-swedenborg-theologian-wasnt/): Emanuel Swedenborg believed that conventional Christian theology sets an impossible challenge for believers. Though Christians are traditionally called upon by church doctrine to acknowledge the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as three persons, their religion forbids them to refer to these persons as “three gods.”
- [A New Method for an Old Challenge](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-a-new-method-for-an-old-challenge/): If you put yourself in the shoes of a translator journeying through a work of Swedenborg, you might think that each of the thousands of passages Swedenborg quotes from the Bible would offer you a welcome rest.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Swedenborg’s Influence Game Show! — 9/17/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-swedenborgs-influence-game-show/): When people first learn about eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, they often ask why it took them so long to hear his amazing ideas. But he has actually influenced many of history’s most influential people. In this episode, Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose host a live game show to discuss how his ideas have spread.
- [Showing Up](https://swedenborg.com/showing-up/): The first step in engaging life is being there.
- [The Highest Insight in Hinduism and in Swedenborg](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-the-highest-insight-in-hinduism-and-in-swedenborg/): A renowned psychologist and comparative religion author sees unity at the summit.
- [Swedenborg’s Influence on German Idealism and Mysticism](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-swedenborgs-influence-on-german-idealism-and-mysticism/): Tragedy took Schelling deep into Swedenborg’s spiritual world, and it changed how he viewed our final destiny.
- [Swedenborg’s Apocalypse . . . Now?](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-swedenborgs-apocalypse-now/): The Last Judgment is yesterday’s news. But its results are today’s.
- [Asking the Right God Question](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-asking-the-right-god-question/): A new book shows how a quarter-millennium after his death Swedenborg continues to build effective bridges between science and spirituality.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Purpose of Death — 4/16/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-purpose-of-death/): What is death even for? From our human perspective, it seems pretty terrible. But in reality, it’s an integral part of a much greater machine that’s powered by love. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose examine what eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg discovered about death and what’s beyond.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered 14  – 12/11/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-14/): Our expert panel may not have the answers, but—with the help of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg’s writings—they’re more than willing to help with our viewer’s questions.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered – 12/3/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-12-3-18/): To wrap up #GivingTuesday week, our expert panel convenes to answer any questions the viewers might have about eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg and his writings.
- [New Arrival from the Swedenborg Society of London: Medicine, Mysticism and Mythology](https://swedenborg.com/new-arrival-swedenborg-society-medicine-mysticism-mythology/): We’re excited to now offer Medicine, Mysticism and Mythology: Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg and Nineteenth-Century Esoteric Culture from the UK-based Swedenborg Society in our online bookstore!
- [Is Global Spiritual Evolution Possible?](https://swedenborg.com/is-global-spiritual-evolution-possible/): We are both an individual and part of a collective. And therein lies the promise.
- [How Your Body Can Protect You from Evil Spirits](https://swedenborg.com/how-your-body-can-protect-you-from-evil-spirits/): The Halloween season can harvest a powerful spiritual lesson by learning what evil spirits are up to and what they’re good for.
- [Fame and the Afterlife](https://swedenborg.com/fame-and-the-afterlife/): What would fifteen minutes of fame look like to eternity? How modesty and good intentions can keep us free from self-importance, even in the spiritual world.
- [Enoch—the First Librarians](https://swedenborg.com/enoch-the-first-librarians/): Libraries safeguard knowledge so that it can be passed on to future generations, but there may even be libraries in the afterlife containing spiritual wisdom that dates back to before the Flood.
- ["Getting into Heaven" Review in Library Journal](https://swedenborg.com/getting-into-heaven-review-in-library-journal/): Library Journal Review of Getting into Heaven---and Out Again Swedenborgianism-the General Convention of the New Church-has never been a large religious movement but has made its impact felt via the lives of such notables as Helen Keller and Henry James Sr. (father of the novelist Henry James and the philosopher William James). The movement's founder,
- [Good Question! Recap: The Origin of Evil, Praying to Spirits, and Competition? — 02/10/20](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-origin-of-evil-praying-to-spirits-competition/): Life is complicated, but eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg can help us answer its hardest questions. Our expert panel convenes to respond to viewers.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered: Mediums, Narcissists, and Absolute Truth  – 11/13/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-mediums-narcissists-and-absolute-truth/): Our group of Swedenborg experts gathered to answer your questions about God, spirituality, and eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered – 3/25/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-3-25-19/): To conclude our journey through the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg, our expert panel has come together to answer viewer questions.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered — 2/25/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-2-25-19/): Broadcast live, we're here to share our collective knowledge and experiences in response to your live questions about spiritual growth and more!
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered 13 – 10/9/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-13/): If you have spiritual questions, our expert panel has the answers—or at least they know which of Emanuel Swedenborg’s theological works does.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered 16 – 10/22/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-16-10-22-18/): After almost a year apart, our expert panel has come back together to answer viewer questions about the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered — 1/28/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-1-28-19/): Taking a break from exploring the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg, our expert panel comes together to answer viewer questions.
- [Good Question! Recap: Soul Contracts, Dream Interpretation, and How to Pray? — 11/11/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-soul-contracts-dream-interpretation-pray/): Watch full episode here! Our expert panel has gathered to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg. The panel members are: Curtis Childs, host of Swedenborg & LifeChara Daum, Latin consultant, New Century EditionChris Dunn, community manager for Swedenborg & LifeChelsea Odhner, writer for Swedenborg & Life
- [Good Question! Recap: Purpose, Faith, and Bible Numerology? – 8/19/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-purpose-faith-and-bible-numerology/): Our expert panel has gathered to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [New E-Book Round-Up](https://swedenborg.com/new-e-book-round-up/): We have added a crop of new e-books to our bookstore since the beginning of the year, with new release and backlist titles available for seekers just learning about Swedenborg's ideas to academic explorations of Swedenborg's contributions to the world. Many of our e-books are available to download from our bookstore as a free PDF or EPUB file, or for a low cost through our bookstore, Amazon, iBooks, or the Nook Store.
- [New Book Describes a Vision of Heaven and Its Inhabitants](https://swedenborg.com/new-book-describes-a-vision-of-heaven-and-its-inhabitants/): For decades after his experience of spiritual awakening, scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg visited the afterlife and wrote firsthand accounts of what he saw there. Scattered throughout his writings are descriptions of how angels live—their homes, their communities, and even their romantic relationships. The Lives of Angels brings his most striking insights into these heavenly beings together in one compact volume.
- [Holiday Book Sale: 10% Off & Free Shipping](https://swedenborg.com/holiday-book-sale-10-off-free-shipping/): Take 10% off + get FREE shipping on any print book in our online bookstore! Keep a book, gift a book, and share this offer with friends and family through December 31st. Choose from over 190 thought-provoking print books.
- [Hark! The Herald Angels Sing: New Translations of Divine Love and Wisdom and Divine Providence](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-hark-herald-angels-sing-new-translations-divine-love-wisdom-divine-providence/): Many people ask me, “What’s next?” What they mean is “Which volume of Swedenborg’s is the New Century Edition going to publish next?” There are actually two answers in one: Divine Love and Wisdom and Divine Providence. As I write, these two key titles are going through the final stages of publication.
- [Happy Birthday Johnny Appleseed!](https://swedenborg.com/happy-birthday-johnny-appleseed/): Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman was born on this day in 1774 in Leominster, Massachusetts. He is best known as the gentle man who traveled west through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, planting apple trees and sharing Swedenborg's writings as "good news, right fresh from heaven" as he went. But who was the man behind the myth? Did he really wear a cooking pot on his head?
- [Swedenborg Foundation Kicks Off #GivingTuesday Campaign to Benefit National Compassion Fund](https://swedenborg.com/givingtuesday-campaign-to-benefit-national-compassion-fund/): From Tuesday, November 14, through #GivingTuesday November 28, share a personal experience, quote, or news story that demonstrates the power of love, goodwill, charity, and service to others using the hashtag #ActofCompassion on Facebook or Twitter.
- [Help Swedenborg’s Message Reach the Worldwide Community!](https://swedenborg.com/appeal2015/): If Swedenborg’s spiritually uplifting perspectives on life and the hereafter have provided comfort and guidance for you in times of need, then perhaps you’d be interested in helping more people throughout the world feel the spiritual healing his teachings can provide.
- [Distinguishably One Unity and Diversity in the New Century Edition](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-distinguishably-one-unity-and-diversity-in-the-new-century-edition/): Now that people are looking over the new Heaven and Hell, the first volume of the New Century Edition to appear in print, the question naturally arises how similar or different will be the other volumes in the set. Will they all use exactly the same vocabulary? The same cover color? If there are differences, what will provide unity for the set? Philosophical and practical issues of unity and diversity sparked the following reflections.
- [A Passage of Outstanding Beauty](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-passage-outstanding-beauty/): Our reading group has been currently moving through the NCE version of Heaven and Hell. At times, someone may observe that a word choice in the new translation falls strangely upon the ear. More often, there are comments on how a passage has become clear that was not so clear before. Occasionally, we simply enjoy the beauty of a passage. The passage about “peace” here had outstanding beauty.
- [Gifts](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-gifts/): Emanuel Swedenborg gave many gifts to the world—inventions, scientific discoveries, unique philosophic perspectives—but his final gift to the world was his greatest: eighteen works that conveyed a new theology and a rich panoply of spiritual experiences.
- [Forthcoming in the New Century Edition: Worship and Love of God, An Excerpt](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-forthcoming-new-century-edition-worship-love-god-excerpt/): In rich and colorful Latin that virtually revels in haunting symbolism, this long-neglected prose poem describes the creation of the world and the upbringing of Adam and Eve. Composed in a few months in 1745, it bridges the two main periods in Swedenborg’s life: his career as a scientist and his many years of experiencing the spiritual world on a daily basis. Thus, it touches both on the topics that fascinated him as a scientist and the themes of love and wisdom that illumine his theological works.
- [Into the Heart of the English Galaxy: Translation Theory and the New Century Edition](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-heart-english-galaxy-translation-theory-new-century-edition/): As a full-time translator for the New Century Edition, I read and study Swedenborg’s Latin original and then attempt to recreate that Latin in English. In that process, I have come to find that, although both languages have words, phrases, and sentences, the rules and traditions in Latin are very different from the rules and traditions in English. The two languages are not merely different worlds; they are different galaxies.
- [Interview with Author Ray Silverman on "The Core of Johnny Appleseed"](https://swedenborg.com/interview-with-author-ray-silverman-on-the-core-of-johnny-appleseed/): In The Core of Johnny Appleseed: The Unknown Story of a Spiritual Trailblazer, Ray Silverman shows how we can better understand the myths and facts of John Chapman (aka Johnny Appleseed) by understanding his Swedenborgian faith. We sat down with the author to get a perspective on what it was like to delve into the life of a legend.
- [The Three Pillars of Heaven: Understanding the Themes of The Shorter Works of 1763](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-the-three-pillars-of-heaven/): The year 2019 will see the publication of the New Century Edition’s second deluxe compendium of Swedenborg’s shorter works. The first such volume was The Shorter Works of 1758; the forthcoming volume will contain the five short works Swedenborg originally published in 1763: The Lord, Sacred Scripture, Life, Faith, and Supplements, complete with preface, introduction, annotations, and indexes.
- [Racism and Leadership: Some Spiritual Principles and Personal Reflections](https://swedenborg.com/racism-and-leadership-some-spiritual-principles-and-personal-reflections/): Loving ourselves poisons when not salted by love for neighbor.
- [From Böhme and Swedenborg to Hegel and Schelling: The Role of Mysticism in German Idealism](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-from-bohme-and-swedenborg-to-hegel-and-schelling-the-role-of-mysticism-in-german-idealism/): Swedenborg ripened into being both sophisticated and childlike—a most productive combination.
- [NCE Minute: Talking about Goodness and Truth](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-talking-about-goodness-and-truth/): Among the recurring difficulties faced by translators of Swedenborg’s works are his repeated references to goodness and truth. The difficulties lie not so much in what he has to say about them (though that is certainly extraordinary), but in the way he chooses to say it.
- [NCE Minute: A Community in Spirit](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-a-community-in-spirit/): New Century Edition teamwork and connection continues in spirit, even while the team members are physically separated.
- [Now Available: The Shorter Works of 1763](https://swedenborg.com/now-available-the-shorter-works-of-1763/): The latest translation in the New Century Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg is now available for purchase!
- [Three Worldviews That Paved the Way for Women’s Suffrage](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-three-worldviews-that-paved-the-way-for-womens-suffrage/): This year marks the centennial anniversary of American women winning the right to vote on August 18, 1920. How did their victory come about? What happened in the century leading up to the legalization of women’s suffrage? Where did the idea even come from?
- [New Endowment Honors Rev. Dr. Jonathan S. Rose](https://swedenborg.com/new-endowment-honors-jonathan-rose/): The Swedenborg Foundation is proud to honor New Century Edition Series Editor Rev. Dr. Jonathan S. Rose with an endowment created in his name to help support ongoing research into and translation of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [OffTheLeftEye Launches New Website and New Programming](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-launches-new-website-and-new-programming/): As our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel has grown and the number of videos that we have posted has continued to expand, we’ve been looking for ways to reach an even wider audience and to help our existing fans find videos more easily. On July 13, we took a big step in that direction by launching a dedicated website
- [Preview Our New OffTheLeftEye Format on Inside offTheLeftEye!](https://swedenborg.com/preview-our-new-offthelefteye-format-on-inside-offthelefteye/): This spring the team behind our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel (OTLE) has been hard at work on a new website and a host of exciting new content. While that new content won’t premiere until July, you can get a sneak peek with a teaser episode of our new podcast, Inside offTheLeftEye.
- [Do Evil Spirits Give Us Signs to Lure Us Off Track?](https://swedenborg.com/evil-spirits-signs/): Sometimes we are just looking for a reassuring sign.
- [SF Staff Changes: Promotions and a New Face](https://swedenborg.com/sf-staff-changes-promotions-and-a-new-face/): Welcome and congratulations to our new Director of Digital Marketing for offTheLeftEye, Community Manager, and Marketing Assistant.
- [Annual Meeting Rescheduled for September](https://swedenborg.com/annual-meeting-rescheduled-for-september/): The board has set a tentative new meeting date of Saturday, September 19, 2020. However, because the status of in-person gatherings remains uncertain due to the health considerations of the pandemic, that date is subject to change.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: Ideas to Help You Manage Fear and Anxiety during the COVID-19 Pandemic — 3.23.20](https://swedenborg.com/recap-ideas-to-help-you-manage-fear-and-anxiety-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/): The entire world is going through an incredibly strange and difficult time with the COVID-19 pandemic, and fear and anxiety are everywhere. The whole future feels so unclear and often terrifying, but the works of spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg can still bring us some peace.
- [OffTheLeftEye Viewership Hits All-Time High in 2020](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-viewership-hits-all-time-high-in-2020/): Viewership on our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel hit an all-time high in the first three months of 2020, reaching more than 1 million unique viewers!
- [Let the Coronavirus Adjust Your Spiritual Health](https://swedenborg.com/let-the-coronavirus-adjust-your-spiritual-health/): Spiritually winging it is not a good plan for a time like this.
- [Update: OffTheLeftEye Experience 2020 Cancelled](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-experience-2020-cancelled/): As the board and staff of the Swedenborg Foundation continue to monitor the events surrounding the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we've come to the difficult conclusion that we need to cancel the OffTheLeftEye Experience, originally scheduled for June 5-8, 2020. We understand that many people who had planned to attend have already made travel
- [The offTheLeftEye Experience 2020 Scholarship Recipient Announced](https://swedenborg.com/the-offthelefteye-experience-2020-scholarship-recipient-announced/): In January, the Swedenborg Foundation began accepting applications and essays for The offTheLeftEye Experience 2020 Scholarship sponsored by Bryn Athyn College. After receiving ten submission by the February deadline, a panel of judges that included professors from Bryn Athyn College and staff of the Swedenborg Foundation awarded the scholarship to Janni Roberts, who authored an essay titled "A Blessing."
- [Coronavirus Update: Status of Upcoming Swedenborg Foundation Events](https://swedenborg.com/coronavirus-update-status-of-upcoming-swedenborg-foundation-events/): Like many organizations, we’ve been paying close attention to the news about the spread of the novel coronavirus throughout the United States, including the Philadelphia metropolitan area, where our offices are located. In light of spread of the disease, we’re engaged in ongoing conversation about upcoming events.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: What Happens to Your Mind When You Die? — 3.9.20](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-happens-to-your-mind-when-you-die/): In his spiritual experiences, eighteenth-century scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg learned that the mind has three levels: heavenly, spiritual, and earthly. In this episode, host Curtis Childs talks about these levels so that we might better understand the expansive nature of our mind after death.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: The Difference between Grace and Mercy — 2/24/20](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-difference-between-grace-and-mercy/): What are grace and mercy, and what makes them different? In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose answer that question with the help of eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [OffTheLeftEye Channel Hits 90,000 Subscribers](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-channel-hits-90k-subscribers/): In mid February, our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel passed the 90,000-subscriber milestone! This inspiring achievement is a testament to two things: the ability of Swedenborg's message to bring real change to the lives of all kinds of people all around the world, and the skilled, dedicated, and tireless work of the members of the offTheLeftEye team
- [SF Welcomes New Team Members](https://swedenborg.com/sf-welcomes-new-team-members/): We’re thrilled to welcome not one, but two new people to the Swedenborg Foundation team!
- [Save the Date for Our Annual Meeting May 2](https://swedenborg.com/save-the-date-annual-meeting-2020-may-2/): What has the Swedenborg Foundation been up to over the past year? What’s in store for the future? Come and find out at our annual meeting, to be held Saturday, May 2, 2020, at the Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.
- [New Transcendiots Webcast Episode Debuts February 12](https://swedenborg.com/new-transcendiots-episode-debuts-february-12/): In the season two debut, Transcendiots creator and host Rev. Cory Bradford-Watts interviews Kent Rogers, author of Seven Days of Spiritual Evolution: The Genesis of Personal Transformation, about topics from his book and much more.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: The Symbolism of Water and Wine — 2/3/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-symbolism-of-water-wine/): We know the story of Jesus turning water to wine, but what does it truly mean? In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose use eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s understanding of correspondences to reveal the inner truth of that story.
- [NCE Minute: Percipere](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-percipere/): George Dole, translator for the New Century Edition of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, explores a nuanced meaning of the idea of perception.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: Will Your Body Look the Same When You Die? — 1.27.20](https://swedenborg.com/recap-will-your-body-look-the-same-when-you-die/): Here on earth, our relationships with our bodies can be . . . complicated. We need to take care of them, but keeping them healthy and feeling good in them is a challenge for almost everybody. Will we still have this challenge in the afterlife? When eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg visited the afterlife, he learned what will happen to our bodies after we die.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: The Gates to Heaven and Hell — 01/13/20](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-gates-to-heaven-and-hell/): Everyone has heard of the pearly gates to heaven and the doorway to hell, but in this episode, we ask why there are gates in the spiritual world in the first place. Hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose study eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s accounts of heaven and hell to teach us what these gates truly mean.
- [Bryn Athyn College Sponsors Scholarship Opportunity for The offTheLeftEye Experience 2020](https://swedenborg.com/scholarship-opportunity-for-otle-experience-2020/): Starting January 15, 2020, the Swedenborg Foundation will begin accepting applications and essays for The offTheLeftEye Experience 2020 Scholarship sponsored by Bryn Athyn College. The scholarship will make it possible for one of our loyal supporters with limited resources to attend the conference by receiving lodging, meals, and a weekend pass to the Experience.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: What Does It Feel Like to Die? — 1.5.20](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-does-it-feel-like-to-die/): Death is terrifying to most people. It’s this great big unknown that faces all of us, an event that is difficult to understand based on things that we’ve experienced here on earth. Why do we die? What does it feel like to die? What happens after death?
- [Tune in For a New Season of Swedenborg & Life Starting January 6!](https://swedenborg.com/new-season-of-swedenborg-life-starting-january/): Over the past few months, the offTheLeftEye production team has been hard at work on a brand-new season of our hit webcast Swedenborg & Life, the fourth season since we launched our new format last year. The season's four core episodes will take a deeper dive into different aspects of the afterlife and what life will be like there.
- [News from Heaven Celebrates 100th Episode](https://swedenborg.com/news-from-heaven-celebrates-100th-episode/): In January 2019, we launched a brand-new web series on our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel: News from Heaven, a twice-weekly series where host Curtis Childs takes you on a journey through Swedenborg’s writings, examining passages that are difficult, illuminating, or just plain weird and showing you how they can apply to your daily life.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: The 10 Commandments: What Honoring Father and Mother Really Means — 12/16/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-10-commandments-what-honoring-father-mother-really-means/): When viewer Tor Halstvedt wrote us to share his own struggle with honoring his father and mother, we knew we had to have a deeper look at the inner meaning of that commandment. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Chelsea Odhner reveal how eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s teachings can bring peace where the letter of the law fails.
- [Why Was Swedenborg Chosen?](https://swedenborg.com/why-was-swedenborg-chosen/): Though he was too modest to speak on the matter, the answer is lying in plain sight.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: Who Are the 144,000 in Revelation? — 11/25/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-who-are-the-144000-in-revelation/): Curtis and Jonathan unpack the answer to a viewer question about the significance of the number "144,000" in the book of Revelation.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: What Would a City of Angels Be Like? — 11.18.19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-would-a-city-of-angels-be-like/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs travels to San Pedro in Los Angeles, California to find an answer. He spends time with Reverend Jonathan Mitchell, co-pastor of the Garden Church, to learn more about the experience of an angelic community on earth.
- [A Story without End](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-a-story-without-end/): How did a young Swede become, after William Wilberforce, the second most important abolitionist in England’s history? The answer: he read Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: What Turning the Other Cheek Really Means — 11/5/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-turning-the-other-cheek-really-means/): In terms of correspondences, what is the meaning of “turn the other cheek”? In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose do their best to answer this hard question with the help of the spiritual teachings of eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [SwedenJam Live 2019 Rocks the House](https://swedenborg.com/swedenjam-live-2019-rocks-the-house/): Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us for our first-ever musical gathering! SwedenJam Live 2019, held at the World Café Live in Philadelphia, hosted more than a hundred attendees for an afternoon of offTheLeftEye-inspired music. The afternoon kicked off with Reade McCardell—who composed a lot of the music for the videos on our
- [Swedenborg Foundation Receives Historic Preservation Award](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-receives-historic-preservation-award/): On Thursday, October 19, 2019, Swedenborg Foundation Executive Director Morgan Beard accepted a Bricks and Mortar Preservation Award from The West Chester Downtown Foundation (WCDF) for a restoration project on Fountain Green, the historic building that houses our offices, in 2016.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: The Meaning of Sodom and Gomorrah — 10/14/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-meaning-of-sodom-and-gomorrah/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose explore a viewer question about the meaning of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah—with a little help from eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: The Why Is Everything: A Cellular Blueprint for Life — 10.7.19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-why-is-everything-a-cellular-blueprint-for-life/): Why do our lives so commonly feel out of control? How can our motivations reveal how our mind really works? Swedenborg & Life host Curtis Childs spoke at the Conference for Consciousness and Human Evolution to untangle these very questions.
- [New Century Edition: Where We Are and Where We’re Going](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-where-we-are-going/): NCE Series Editor Jonathan Rose contemplates fractals, formulas, and the future of the translation and publication of Swedenborg's theological works.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Will the Devil Be Released After 1,000 Years? — 9/24/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-will-the-devil-be-released-after-1000-years/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose discuss what our research into eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s works revealed about this question.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: How to Find Lasting Inner Peace — 9.16.19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-to-find-lasting-inner-peace/): We all want inner peace. But how do we feel okay amidst all of life’s chaos? Sometimes we might have a glimpse of the peace we seek, but it doesn’t always last. Peace should be possible most of the time, though, right? In this episode, host Curtis Childs shows us how to find an enduring peace.
- [offTheLeftEye to Debut Season Three of Swedenborg & Life September 16](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-season-three-of-swedenborg-life-september-16/): A new season of Swedenborg & Life is about to begin on Monday, September 16th featuring the following new episodes focused on peace, usefulness, innocence, and how to think like an angel so we can experience heaven in the here and now: September 16: How to Find Lasting Inner Peace, Season 3, Episode 1 Inner peace is something most of
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: The Pentecost, Speaking in Tongues, and Receiving the Holy Spirit — 9/2/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-pentecost-speaking-in-tongues-and-receiving-the-holy-spirit/): In the Pentecostal tradition, speaking in tongues is supremely important—but it’s often debated in other churches. In this episode, hosts Chelsea Odhner and Jonathan Rose look at what eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg wrote about receiving the Holy Spirit.
- [Parallel Passages in Swedenborg’s Works](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-parallel-passages-in-swedenborg/): Anyone who reads Swedenborg for long enough—and that could be for as little as a few minutes—soon discovers that the great Swedish theologian repeats himself. Readers today, both new and long-experienced, find this deliberate practice of his to be somewhat challenging.
- [FAQs on the NCE](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-faqs-on-the-nce/): Over the years that the New Century Edition (NCE) project has been underway, the translators and editors have been asked several questions that may hold interest for the NCE audience in general. Here are answers to a few of these NCE “Frequently Asked Questions” (FAQs).
- [“Read These First”](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-read-these-first/): As people become interested in Swedenborg and what he wrote, a natural question is, “Where do I start?” Should you just begin at the beginning and read sequentially, or is there an alternative?
- [Current Status of the New Century Edition Project](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-current-status-of-the-new-century-edition-project/): The New Century Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg (NCE ) extends to twenty-eight volumes. To date, six of those volumes have been published—Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and Wisdom, Divine Providence, True Christianity volume 1, and Secrets of Heaven volume 1, along with the essay volume that accompanies the set (also known as Scribe of Heaven). Our readers naturally wonder—where are the rest of the volumes? So here is a status update. But to explain that status, first we offer a refresher on some history that every American schoolchild learns.
- [Fleeing Imperfection](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-fleeing-imperfection/): They say that perfection is, like happiness, something that can be pursued but never permanently attained. Or as Swedenborg says, even throughout all eternity we can never be so completely regenerated as to be called perfect (Secrets of Heaven 5122:3). And if we ourselves are not perfect, neither are the products of our hands and minds.
- [Gender in Translation of Swedenborg](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-gender-in-translation-of-swedenborg/): One of the principles of the New Century Edition is to make the English translation of Swedenborg’s Latin as gender-inclusive as the original. For the most part, this is not too difficult. The simplest solution is usually to use plurals; “they” has no gender, and “we” is often even more satisfactory.
- [The Language of Inner Meaning](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-the-language-of-inner-meaning/): All parts of the Word contain an orderly sequence of thoughts, but the actual sequence cannot expose itself in its true nature when each word is explained by itself. Such an explanation makes the words seem disconnected and breaks up the continuity of meaning.
- [To begin with . . . Thoughts on the Place of New Jerusalem in Swedenborg’s Works](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-thoughts-on-the-place-of-new-jerusalem-in-swedenborgs-works/): Swedenborg published two theological overviews, one early in his revelatory career and one at its close. The two works are strikingly consistent in substance and strikingly different in form, but Swedenborgians seem to have paid more attention to the simi­larity than to the difference.
- [Found in Translation: Little and Not-so-little Discoveries in Swedenborg](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-found-in-translation/): We are accustomed to think of meaning being “lost in translation,” but sometimes it is found instead. One of the felicities of being a translator of Swedenborg’s works is discovering some nuance in the meaning of a passage that, for one reason or another, no one has discovered before—or at least, a nuance that none of the previous translators has captured. Usually these discoveries are trivial, but occasionally they com­pletely change the way we understand an important passage.
- [The Gift of Struggle](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-the-gift-of-struggle/): Swedenborg had to struggle in order to find the best way to convey his discoveries about the Bible and the spiritual world; his rough drafts, with their crossed-out lines and blotted paragraphs, prove that Swedenborg wrestled to put his thoughts into language, as indeed any good writer must. The same is true of translators of Swedenborg’s works. They are, after all, writers, and they have the same God-given freedom Swedenborg had to turn from or to follow the work at hand. But they also must remain true to the same charge given to Swedenborg by the Lord: to make the inner sense of the Word known to others.
- [Sample Chapter Reveals Secrets](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-sample-chapter-reveals-secrets/): As a prelude to the forthcoming release of the New Century Edition Secrets of Heaven volume 1, the Swedenborg Foun­dation has printed the first chap­ter of the volume as a stand-alone piece.
- [Present Value, Future Possibilities](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-present-value-future-possibilities/): On May 10, reader Karl Boericke sent the following message through the “Contact the Foundation” page on the Swedenborg Foundation Web site regarding the Swedenborg Foundation’s new series of translations of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg and how they compare with the older translations produced by the Foundation.
- [Some Thoughts on Translating](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-some-thoughts-on-translating/): Meaning and sound are just two of the features that a translator has to consider. Which features to focus on and which features to sacrifice—the translator is constantly faced with those decisions.
- [The Art of Annotation](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-the-art-of-annotation/): Sometimes, we who are working on the New Century Edition are asked, “Why annotate the translations if you are trying to keep them simple? Don’t the annotations just complicate the reader’s experience of the text?” I would like to explore the answer to that question.
- [A Guide for the Quest](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-a-guide-for-the-quest/): Some places in this world we can get to on our own, some we need directions to find, and some we can only reach with a guide. The purpose of the New Century Edition is to make Swedenborg’s works more accessible to a modern readership. Fresh translations into clear modern English comprise the heart of this project, enabling readers to explore these unique and remarkable works “on their own.”
- [Swedenborg’s Sizeable Tomes](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-swedenborgs-sizeable-tomes/): Sometimes people ask why the New Century Edition volumes are so large. The first thing we like to point out is that Swedenborg’s writings themselves are nothing if not rich and ample. The Bible text of Genesis and Exodus fills only ninety-nine pages in the New King James Version; yet Secrets of Heaven, Swedenborg’s exposition of these books, fills 4,559 Latin pages.
- [Holding On and Letting Go](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-holding-on-and-letting-go/): Swedenborg was a persistent person. He had an omnivorous mind and wrote on a wide range of subjects, yet some individual topics seemed to haunt him throughout his life.
- [Wisdom for Our Times](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-wisdom-for-our-times/): “One of the rare and striking features of Swedenborgian theology is its combination of a profound reverence for Jesus Christ as God Incarnate and a profound respect for other, non-Christian faiths. There is no need to downgrade Christ in order to appreciate the beauty of other religions and no need to downgrade other religions in the name of loyalty to Christ. At a time when Christian theologians are wrestling with issues raised through globalization and when faiths are being enlisted in the cause of violence there could scarcely be a more practical message. It is tells us simply that we cannot see the best in our own religion if we are unwilling to see the best in others. In the following passage from Divine Providence (§255), Swedenborg explains how the emergence of Islam shows God’s divine plan.” — George F. Dole
- [Include a Current Photograph of Yourself](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-include-a-current-photograph-of-yourself/): The New Century Edition (NCE) is focused on an extraordinary event that occurred in the past: the writing and publication of the theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg. And the NCE, too, has its “current photo” linking the present world with the moment in time when Swedenborg wrote. That “photo” is the additional volume of newly written essays that accompanies the series.
- [Swedenborg’s Influence in Scandinavia](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-swedenborgs-influence-in-scandinavia/): Last winter’s issue of Logos featured a story about the New Century Edition’s forthcoming companion volume of essays, Scribe of Heaven: Swedenborg’s Life, Work, and Impact. Olle Hjern, the Stockholm pastor of the Lord’s New Church Which Is Nova Hierosolyma, contributed an essay for the volume, titled “The Influence of Emanuel Swedenborg in Scandinavia.” Here are three paragraphs from that essay, highlighting aspects of Swedenborg’s impact on philanthropic pursuits in Sweden. Of particular interest is Hjern’s discussion of the impetus Swedenborg’s teachings gave to Swedish ecumenicism—the promotion of religious unity.
- [Similes in Swedenborg’s True Christianity](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-similes-in-swedenborgs-true-christianity/): Although all eighteen of Swedenborg’s theological titles are consistent with each other in many ways, each has its own personality. True Christianity is intended primarily to present a structured and carefully argued alternative to mainstream Christianity. While this essentially critical topic and the disputatious approach it requires might have rendered the work a bitter and ponderous read, Swedenborg leavens the message throughout with similes and a dash of humor.
- [The Vision of True Christianity](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-the-vision-of-true-christianity/): On an unseasonably pleasant Friday evening in January, the Swedenborg Foundation hosted a talk by Dr. Jonathan S. Rose. In his talk, Dr. Rose expressed what he saw as the vision contained in the work True Christianity, the first volume of which he recently translated for the New Century Edition. The following article is based on that talk.
- [Swedenborg’s Theological Works: A Past and Future Sales Report](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-swedenborgs-theological-works-a-past-and-future-sales-report/): Swedenborg published the first volume of what is certainly his richest trove of spiritual treasures, Arcana Coelestia, or Secrets of Heaven, in September 1749. Around the beginning of November, a letter was sent to him, apparently from his London printer, advising him that the sales had been very poor.
- [The Universality of the Hebrew Scriptures: Reflections on Secrets of Heaven](https://swedenborg.com/nce-minute-the-universality-of-the-hebrew-scriptures/): To comprehend “the spiritual sense of Scripture,” then, Swedenborg had to plumb a depth of meaning that showed cultural and religious differences were irrelevant to a life in heaven. His major work unfolding the meaning of Scripture, Secrets of Heaven, therefore showed the universality of the Hebrew Scriptures.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: How to Get a Home in Heaven—8.6.19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-to-get-a-home-in-heaven/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose show us how heavenly homes get made.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: What Happens to Celebrities in the Afterlife — 8.27.19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-happens-to-celebrities-in-the-afterlife/): Everybody dies—even famous people. So what happens to them in the afterlife? When Swedenborg visited the spiritual world, he met one or two big names.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: What Does It Mean to Be Born of Water and Spirit? 8/12/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-does-it-mean-to-be-born-of-water-and-spirit/): The idea of being “born of water and spirit” may be familiar to Christians, but what it truly means can be relevant to people from all backgrounds. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose explore the true spiritual meaning of that phrase through the lens of eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Was Lucifer Really An Angel Who Fell From Heaven? —  7/22/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-was-lucifer-really-an-angel-who-fell-from-heaven/): Everybody seems to have the idea that Lucifer was an angel who rebelled in heaven, then was cast down and became Satan. But where did this story come from? And what does it really mean for us in our lives today?
- [When Hell Comes to Earth](https://swedenborg.com/when-hell-comes-to-earth/): You don’t have to travel to the spiritual world to find people who embody the nature of hell.
- [The American Yen for Zen Began with Swedenborg . . . Sort of](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-american-yen-for-zen-swedenborg/): What’s the story behind a Swedenborgian minister changing his name from Herman Vetterling to Philangi Dàsa, founding and editing the first Buddhist periodical in America, and publishing a fat book called Swedenborg the Buddhist? It’s complicated.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: How to Connect Spiritually — 7/23/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-to-connect-spiritually/): In last week’s episode, we heard the tragic story of Nicolas Leslie—and how eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg helped Nicolas’s parents through an impossible experience. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose go live to dig in deeper.
- [Swedenborg Foundation Releases New Book Title The Moment Is Now: Carl Bernhard Wadström’s Revolutionary Voice on Human Trafficking and the Abolition of the African Slave Trade](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-releases-new-book-the-moment-is-now/): In this twenty-second installment in the Swedenborg Studies scholarly series, former Harvard history fellow Anders Hallengren leads a multidisciplinary effort with other leading international scholars to demonstrate the influence that abolitionist and author Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746–99) and the leading reformers of his time have had over the years on issues concerning the slave trade, oppression, and racism. The Moment Is Now includes the proceedings of The International Carl Bernhard Wadström Conference on Human Rights and the Abolition of Slavery, which was held in London on June 2–4, 2015.
- [Thanks to Everyone Who Came to Our Los Angeles Event!](https://swedenborg.com/thanks-los-angeles-event/): We had a crowd of more than fifty wonderful people come out for An Afternoon with OffTheLeftEye at the Wayfarers Chapel, just outside Los Angeles, on July 14, 2019.
- [OffTheLeftEye Channel Hits 75,000 Subscribers](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-hits-75000-subscribers/): In early July, our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel passed the 75,000-subscriber milestone!
- [Recalling the Death of My Father](https://swedenborg.com/recalling-the-death-of-my-father/): Swedenborg gives us special insight into what happens after we die, but his teachings also offer comfort for those ready to transition.
- [Meet Us in Los Angeles for An Afternoon with OffTheLeftEye!](https://swedenborg.com/meet-us-in-los-angeles-for-an-afternoon-with-offthelefteye/): If you’re in the Los Angeles area and want to meet other fans of Emanuel Swedenborg and our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel, come on out for an afternoon of food and fellowship!
- [On the Lord’s Prayer](https://swedenborg.com/on-the-lords-prayer/): The world’s best-known prayer speaks anew through Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg & Life Celebrates Five Years of Spiritual Inspiration](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-and-life-celebrates-five-years-of-spiritual-inspiration/): Five years ago, we launched a new webcast on our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel. The premise was simple: host Curtis Childs reads Swedenborg’s writings from text on a screen, stopping to comment on what each piece means for us personally. From those humble beginnings, Swedenborg & Life was born.
- [Storm Season](https://swedenborg.com/event-storm-season/): In this strange summer season, the U.S. is seeing extreme cycles of heat and cold and widespread, violent storms and tornadoes. Just as the weather can be unpredictable and destructive, so can the storms in our lives feel devastating. But even these can serve a purpose, Swedenborg tells us.
- [Intimations of Immortality: Three Case Studies](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-intimations-of-immortality/): A celebrated philosopher of religion ponders Swedenborg and other evidence of the afterlife.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: The Curious Case of Balaam and His Talking Donkey — 5/20/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-curious-case-of-balaam-and-his-talking-donkey/): One of the Bible’s most confusing stories has to do with a man named Balaam and his talking donkey. How in the world can that apply to our lives and uncover spiritual truth? In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose take you through eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s detailed answer.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: How to Change Your Spirit Connections — 5.13.19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-to-change-your-spirit-connections/): Life is full of change, and our own viewpoints and mindsets are no exception. So where does this change come from? Eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg learned that everyone on earth has connections to spirits in the afterlife, and those connections make all the difference.
- [Swedenborg Foundation’s 169th Annual Meeting in Review](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundations-169th-annual-meeting-in-review/): On Saturday, May 4, 2019, members, staff, our board of directors, and the general public convened at Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, for the Swedenborg Foundation’s 169th Annual Meeting. It was a delight to connect with our constituents to review our successes from 2018 and tell them about the many initiatives they can expect to see from us in 2019!
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: What Happened After Noah Got Drunk? — 4/29/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-happened-after-noah-got-drunk/): In Genesis 9, Noah gets drunk and ends up cursing his grandson Canaan. What’s the deal with that? In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose unpack that story with the help of eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: Where Stories Are Kept in Heaven — 4/22/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-where-stories-are-kept-in-heaven/): If you took a stroll in heaven, what would you see? It has to be more than just clouds and churches, right? According to eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg, the spiritual world has libraries, schools, and more. How’d he know? He went for a visit. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose explore Swedenborg’s spiritual travel diaries to learn more about where you can go in heaven.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Why Is God So Angry in the Bible? — 4/8/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-why-is-god-so-angry-in-the-bible/): We’re always talking about God’s enduring love for us all, but the Bible doesn’t make it obvious. In some verses, God just seems angry. Doesn’t that seem a little . . . inconsistent? Eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg didn’t think so. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose discuss why.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: The Secret to Changing Your Life Story — 4/1/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-secret-to-changing-your-life-story/): In our spring 2019 season premiere, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose reveal eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg’s perspective on our personal narratives.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Spiritual Experiences — 3/18/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-experiences/): Concluding our series on eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s writings and his understanding of the nature of everything, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose have a look at his travel journal from the spiritual world—Spiritual Experiences.
- [Tragedy in New Zealand](https://swedenborg.com/event-tragedy-in-new-zealand/): Shootings at two separate mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand left at least forty-nine people dead as shock and mourning spread across the world. Our hearts and prayers go out to the victims and their loved ones. As we contemplate the consequences of this hate crime, we’re reminded of Swedenborg’s teaching that holding hate in ourselves
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: True Christianity —3/11/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-true-christianity/): With True Christianity, eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg presented a blueprint not just for the future of Christianity, but for all human spirituality. Join hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose as they explore our spiritual future.
- [How a Circle Helped My Spirit Become Rooted in Time](https://swedenborg.com/how-a-circle-helped-my-spirit-become-rooted-in-time/): Making a calendar as a mandala is an intuitive way to have the cycles of time align with the cycles of our spiritual journeys.
- [Join Our Author Kent Rogers for a Day of Worship & Workshop in Cambridge, MA](https://swedenborg.com/kent-rogers-workshop-in-cambridge/): The Swedenborg Chapel of Cambridge, MA will welcome Seven Days of Spiritual Evolution author E. Kent Rogers as they wrap up their eight-part spiritual exploration Days of Creation Series based on his new book!
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Marriage Love — 3/4/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-marriage-love/): In his exploration of the fundamental nature of the cosmos, eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg took a moment to have a look at Marriage Love. Join hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose to find out why.
- [The White House is Infested with Flies](https://swedenborg.com/events-the-white-house-is-infested-with-flies/): No, it’s not a political commentary. As this article on the Popular Science website reports, the iconic building has been battling these flying insects for decades. While the White House maintenance staff orders more bug zappers, we contemplate what Swedenborg would say about the spiritual significance of flies. A recent article on the Popular Science website describes a problem
- [Save the Date for Our Annual Meeting](https://swedenborg.com/save-the-date-for-our-annual-meeting/): The Swedenborg Foundation’s annual meeting will feature a special look inside the newest video productions on our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel and an opportunity to meet two of our most popular authors. The meeting will be held Saturday, May 4, 2019, at Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.
- [The Lunar New Year](https://swedenborg.com/event-the-lunar-new-year/): It’s the lunar new year for a number of Asian cultures, and across the world people are celebrating the arrival of the year of the pig (or, in some places, the year of the boar). What significance do pigs (or boars) have astrologically, and how does that stack up to the correspondences that Swedenborg described?
- [Seven Days of Spiritual Evolution E-Book Version Now Available](https://swedenborg.com/seven-days-of-spiritual-evolution-e-book-version-now-available/): We’re proud to announce our newest publication Seven Days of Spiritual Evolution: The Genesis of Personal Transformation by E. Kent Rogers is now available to read on your Kindle or other electronic devices.
- [The Scout from Outer Space](https://swedenborg.com/event-the-scout-from-outer-space/): The chair of Harvard’s astronomy department makes the controversial speculation that an object from outside our solar system could be evidence of extraterrestrial life. Is there life on other planets? It’s a fascinating question . . . one that Swedenborg also weighed in on during his lifetime.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: The Lord, Sacred Scripture, Life, and Faith — 1/21/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-lord-sacred-scripture-life-and-faith/): In this week’s installment of our close look at eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s works, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose take on four of his short works from 1763 (also referred to as the Four Doctrines): The Lord, Life, Faith, and Sacred Scripture.
- [Bird Box](https://swedenborg.com/event-bird-box/): In the movie Bird Box, the world has become filled with monsters that kill anyone who looks at them. In order to survive, people must blindfold themselves every time they go outside. What are the spiritual lessons behind what we choose to see and what we don’t? Swedenborg tells us that seeing can quite literally be believing.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Secrets of Heaven — 1/7/19](https://swedenborg.com/recap-secrets-of-heaven/): To kick off the new year, we’ll be going through the works of eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose go live to explore one of Swedenborg’s most influential works, Secrets of Heaven.
- [Good Government](https://swedenborg.com/event-good-government/): Government shutdown. The border wall. New party leadership in Congress. Questions of national leadership and the public good are dominating the news right now, and divisions are deep. Emanuel Swedenborg offers some thoughts on what makes a good leader: “[Good leaders] do not control and command but minister and serve, for doing good for others out of a love for what is good is serving, and making sure that it happens is ministering.” (Heaven and Hell §218)
- [Seven Days of Spiritual Evolution by E. Kent Rogers Now Available](https://swedenborg.com/seven-days-of-spiritual-evolution-by-e-kent-rogers-now-available/): We’re proud to announce our newest publication Seven Days of Spiritual Evolution: The Genesis of Personal Transformation is now available.
- [Get Your News from Heaven](https://swedenborg.com/get-your-news-from-heaven/): The Swedenborg Foundation is proud to announce a brand-new webcast series from the production team behind Swedenborg & Life.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: The Wise Men, 3 Gifts, and the Star of Bethlehem — 12/18/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-wise-men-3-gifts-and-the-star-of-bethlehem/): In our last episode, we looked at how the Old Testament stories of the patriarchs can help us understand what Jesus went through. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose go live to dive deeper into eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s understanding of what the Christmas story really means.
- [Swedenborg Foundation YouTube Channel to Host New Webcast](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-youtube-channel-to-host-new-webcast/): The Swedenborg Foundation is proud to announce it will soon host Transcendiots, a bi-weekly, interview-style video exploration, on its YouTube channel. Co-hosts Cory Bradford-Watts and Colin Amato were inspired to start the video project while in ministry training at the Center for Swedenborgian Studies of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.
- [Foundation Welcomes New Development Coordinator](https://swedenborg.com/foundation-welcomes-new-development-coordinator/): The Swedenborg Foundation is proud to announce the hire of our new development coordinator, Gwen Williams.
- [Making Sense of Christmas](https://swedenborg.com/making-sense-of-christmas/): What did Swedenborg say about the birth and life of Jesus?
- [Giving Tuesday Week Ends on a High Note](https://swedenborg.com/giving-tuesday-week-ends-on-a-high-note/): Our week-long fundraising campaign that kicked off on Giving Tuesday was a resounding success thanks to a generous response from our supporters, raising a total of $17,443 from new and existing donors.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: The Angels and Evil Spirits With Us — 10/28/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-angels-and-evil-spirits-with-us/): The familiar trope of the angel and devil on your shoulders may actually reveal an essential spiritual truth. Eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg learned that everything, including our most private thoughts and feelings, is part of a larger network. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose explore these ideas, taking us through each part of that gigantic spiritual network.
- [Where Does Swedenborg Fit in Today’s Conversations about the Bible?](https://swedenborg.com/where-does-swedenborg-fit-in-todays-conversations-about-the-bible/): There are three major Christian schools of Bible interpretation. And then there is Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: How to Test a Spiritual Idea — 10/8/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-to-test-a-spiritual-idea/): Studying spiritual things can be frustrating, because it seems like there’s no way to determine what is true. Eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg revealed that we do have one important tool for understanding spiritual things: our mind. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose show us how to weigh the truth of a spiritual idea with a “mental microscope.”
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Neanderthals and the Breathing of the Ancients — 10/1/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-neanderthals-and-the-breathing-of-the-ancients/): In our last episode, we had a look at what spiritual bodies are and how they work. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose go live to talk about what eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg learned about how our physical bodies used to work.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: Your Spiritual Body — 9/24/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-your-spiritual-body/): Look at any animal—every creature’s body is a product of its environment. Birds need wings, fish need gills, and humans need opposable thumbs. But what if our environment changed dramatically? What sort of body would we need in order to cope with a different kind of world . . . like the afterlife?
- [Just Released in Our Online Bookstore: A New Key to the Bible](https://swedenborg.com/just-released-in-our-online-bookstore-a-new-key-to-the-bible/): We’re proud to announce our newest book release: A New Key to the Bible: Unlock Its Inner Meaning and Open the Door to Your Spirit by author Bruce Henderson. In this inspirational introduction to the correspondences of the Bible, Henderson shows how each of us can find a path to a loving God through even the most difficult parts of sacred scripture.
- [Order the Latest NCE Volume Now: Last Judgment / Supplements](https://swedenborg.com/order-the-latest-nce-volume-now-last-judgment-supplements/): The latest release in the New Century Edition translation series is Last Judgment / Supplements, a compilation of three of Swedenborg’s short works on the subject of the Last Judgment.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Why Does the Bible Say People Sleep in the Grave? — 9/10/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-why-does-the-bible-say-people-sleep-in-the-grave/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose go live to discuss what it means when the Bible says that people “sleep in the grave.”
- [The Swedenborgian Tree Gracing Maurice Nicoll’s Garden of Esoterica](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-the-swedenborgian-tree-gracing-maurice-nicolls-garden-of-esoterica/): New research shows Swedenborg’s far reach into the Fourth Way movement.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: Souls Under the Altar — 8/27/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-meaning-of-the-book-of-revelation-souls-under-the-altar/): We all recognize the feeling of being stuck in a holding pattern and waiting for something important to happen that will make things change for us. This is exactly what the souls under the altar in the book of Revelation were going through. Understanding this—and how it relates to us—comes down to correspondences.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: The 10 Commandments: God’s Name Explained — 8/20/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-10-commandments-gods-name-explained/): In last week’s episode, we learned from eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg about the true meaning of names. But there’s one name that matters more than any other—the name of God. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose go live to discuss.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: The Spiritual Meaning of Names — 8/13/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-spiritual-meaning-of-names/): What’s in a name? Maybe it’s just a matter of what sounded nice to your parents . . . but what if it’s connected to something much, much deeper? In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Dr. Jonathan Rose reveal what names could really mean.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Why Don’t People Believe in Life After Death? — 8/6/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-why-dont-people-believe-in-life-after-death/): In last week’s episode, we looked at eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s travels in the afterlife. But for a lot of people, whether there even is an afterlife is up for debate. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose go live to discuss how Swedenborg dealt with this issue.
- [offTheLeftEye Merchandise Now Available on RedBubble](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-merchandise-now-available-on-redbubble/): The new offTheLeftEye logo featured on our offTheLeftEye YouTube page and Facebook page is now available on RedBubble!
- [The Shorter Works of 1758 Is Now an E-Book](https://swedenborg.com/the-shorter-works-of-1758-is-now-an-e-book/): This extensively annotated, internally linked e-book is available for free download through our bookstore.
- [New Swedenborg & Life Live Chat Opportunity on Facebook this August](https://swedenborg.com/new-swedenborg-life-live-chat-opportunity-on-facebook-this-august/): We’re testing a new feature on Facebook that will allow users to chat live while we stream a brand-new episode of Swedenborg & Life.
- [Job Opportunity: New Century Edition Copy Editor](https://swedenborg.com/job-opportunity-new-century-edition-copy-editor/): The Swedenborg Foundation is now seeking an assistant copy editor to work on the New Century Edition translations of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg Foundation Reboots Facebook Group with Focus on Lively Discussion](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-reboots-facebook-group-with-focus-on-lively-discussion/): The Swedenborg Foundation is happy to announce the newly revitalized Watching & Reading Swedenborg Facebook group (formerly the "Swedenborg Online Discussion Team").
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Perception Versus Spin: the Misuse of Reason — 6/25/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-perception-versus-spin-the-misuse-of-reason/): In last week’s episode, we discussed intuition and how it relates to what eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg had to say about perception. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose are live to dig in deeper and discuss intellectual debate versus perception.
- [SF Welcomes New Motion Graphics Designer](https://swedenborg.com/sf-welcomes-new-motion-graphic-designer/): The Swedenborg Foundation is proud to welcome the newest member of our team: Meng Zhang. He’ll be working at our offTheLeftEye studio doing animations and video graphics for our weekly webcast Swedenborg & Life.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: The Spirituality of Aliens - 6/4/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-spirituality-of-extraterrestrials/): According to eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, aliens are real—and they’re not too different from us. How does he know? In his spiritual journeys, he encountered the spirits of beings from across the universe. Sound bizarre? Not if you understand how travel works in the spiritual world.
- [Swedenborg & Life Recap: How to Find True Intuition — 6/18/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-to-find-true-intuition/): When you get a hunch, where do you get it from? Animals seem to be born knowing exactly what they are and what they need to do, but humans are always asking themselves what the right next step might be. So how do we find that intuitive knowledge of the right path in life?
- [The Universe and I Explores Big Questions in Science and Spirituality](https://swedenborg.com/the-universe-and-i-explores-big-questions-in-science-and-spirituality/): We often think of science and spirituality as polar opposites, but in The Universe and I: Where Science & Spirituality Meet, author George F. Dole draws on a lifetime of deep thought and Swedenborgian spirituality to show how they can not only work together, but illuminate each other.
- [New Swedenborg Foundation Membership Year Opens: Join or Renew Today](https://swedenborg.com/new-swedenborg-foundation-membership-year-opens-join-or-renew-today/): If you enjoy the faith-and spirituality-based content we offer, and you find yourself regularly engaging in our online initiatives and print publications, then consider joining us on our mission to promote the life-guiding principles of Emanuel Swedenborg by becoming a member or renewing your membership for the 2018 membership year (June 1, 2018–May 31, 2019).
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: How Humans Can Unite Heaven and Earth - 5/21/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-humans-can-unite-heaven-and-earth/): In our live broadcast last week, Curtis spoke about making life more spiritual at a convention in Austin. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose join with our viewers and eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg to learn more.
- [OffTheLeftEye Reaches All-Time Viewership Milestone](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-reaches-all-time-viewership-milestone/): Just weeks after our best month ever in April with 4.73 million minutes watched, the offTheLeftEye YouTube channel reached an all-time viewership record with 100 million minutes watched. That’s equivalent to about 190 years of viewership time, and we’ve only been creating videos since 2010!
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How to Make Every Experience Spiritual — 5/14/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-to-make-every-experience-spiritual/): All too often, spiritual things feel distant—almost out of reach. It can feel like there’s not enough time in the day for a heavenly mindset. But what if we could connect to the spiritual world all the time? In this special talk at the 2018 Wisdom of the Near Death Experience Symposium in Austin, Texas, Curtis Childs shows us how.
- [Swedenborg & Life Host Curtis Childs to Speak at the 2018 Convention of  Swedenborgian Churches of North America](https://swedenborg.com/curtis-childs-2018-convention-of-swedenborgian-churches-of-north-america/): Swedenborg & Life producer and co-host Curtis Childs will be traveling to San Jose State University in San Jose, CA, to speak at the Annual Convention of the Swedenborgian Church of North America.
- [Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: Spiritual Paths, Holy Principles, and Divine Customization — 5/7/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-paths-holy-principles-and-divine-customization/): In our live broadcast “How God Reaches Us,” we talked about how God tailors messages of divine love and wisdom to every person’s individual needs. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose are joined by Chara Daum, and we learn that Jonathan and Chara were pretty profoundly impacted by the idea that God will always meet us where we are.
- [OffTheLeftEye Breaks Viewership Records in April](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-breaks-viewership-records-in-april/): Just one month into the launch of a new format for our weekly webcast Swedenborg & Life, the offTheLeftEye YouTube channel smashed its previous viewership records. We had our best month ever in April with 4.73 million minutes watched, up 27% over our previous best month, January 2018.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: Serpent Symbolism, Sensory Experience, and Jesus’ Plan 4/23/18](https://swedenborg.com/recap-serpent-symbolism-sensory-experience-and-jesus-plan/): Last week, we talked about the real purpose of death. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose speak with end of life doula Amy Jones to discuss what death looks and even feels like. We’ll learn more as the show goes on—with a little help from the writings of eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Watch Our Annual Meeting and Special Episode of Swedenborg and Life Live](https://swedenborg.com/watch-our-annual-meeting-and-swedenborg-and-life-live/): Can’t make it to our annual meeting? Curious about the new episode of Swedenborg and Life that our audience will be watching live? You can see them both via livestream on YouTube!
- [New Translations of Classic Swedenborg Works Now Available](https://swedenborg.com/new-translations-of-classic-swedenborg-works-now-available/): Other Planets and The Shorter Works of 1758 are ready to order in our bookstore!
- [Job Opening: Motion Graphics Designer](https://swedenborg.com/job-opening-motion-graphics-designer/): Are you a fan of our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel? We’re looking for a full-time motion graphics designer to join our video production team in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Overcoming Divisiveness — 4/2/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-overcoming-divisiveness/): It seems like it’s so easy to get stuck in vicious disagreements with each other, especially in today’s political climate. But what if we aren’t arguing about the topics we think we’re talking about? What if we’re not as divided as we think?
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: What Temptation Is — 3/5/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-temptation-is/): What is temptation? Let’s join hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose to learn what eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg had to say on the topic.
- [True Christianity 2 Now Available on Audio](https://swedenborg.com/true-christianity-2-now-available-on-audio/): The New Century Edition translation of True Christianity vol. 2 is now available as an audiobook. With this release, listeners can now experience the whole of Swedenborg’s classic treatise on Christianity and the new teachings he was bringing into the world.
- [OffTheLeftEye Upgrades Studio, Launches New Show Format](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-upgrades-studio-launches-new-show-format/): Thanks to a substantial contribution from a generous donor, our offTheLeftEye YouTube video production team has been busy over the winter preparing to expand into a new studio space next to their current studio and offices.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: What Married Love Is — 2/26/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-married-love-is/): Eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg had a unique definition of married love—we join host Curtis Childs and guest co-host Chelsea Odhner to learn what this love really is.
- [Former Board Member Jane Williams-Hogan Passes](https://swedenborg.com/former-board-member-jane-williams-hogan-passes/): Dr. Jane Williams-Hogan recently passed away in the comforts of her home while surrounded by her immediate family, after a brave struggle with cancer. The professor of religion and sociology at Bryn Athyn College was seventy-five years old.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: What It Means to Be a "Church" — 2/19/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-it-means-to-be-a-church/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose discover what eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg meant when he said “church.” Spoiler alert: it’s more than just a building.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: What Faith Is — 2/12/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-faith-is/): What is faith? Join hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose to learn eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s answer.
- [Save the Date: Annual Meeting & Live Swedenborg & Life Broadcast](https://swedenborg.com/save-the-date-annual-meeting-live-swedenborg-life-broadcast/): Our 168th annual meeting is fast approaching! You're invited to join Swedenborg Foundation board and staff members for an informative review of the progress we made in 2017 during our annual business meeting.
- [See Curtis Childs at Austin NDE Symposium](https://swedenborg.com/see-curtis-childs-at-austin-nde-symposium/): Fans of the videos Curtis Childs produces and hosts on the offTheLeftEye YouTube channel can see him speak live in Austin, Texas, at the Wisdom of the Near Death Experience Symposium, to be held March 23–25, 2018.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: What Love Is — 2/5/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-love-is/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose dig into what eighteenth century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg discovered about the true meaning of love.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: The Inner and Outer Self — 1/22/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-inner-and-outer-self/): With the help of our viewers, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose work to study what eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg learned about the inner and outer self.
- [What Swamps Teach Us about Spiritual Life](https://swedenborg.com/what-swamps-teach-us-about-spiritual-life/): When it’s time to drain the swamp, look within.
- [Using Swedenborg to Understand the Quantum World II: Desire and Energy](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-using-swedenborg-to-understand-the-quantum-world-2/): The similarities between the way desire affects the human mind and the way energy affects the physical world might give us important insights into quantum mechanics.
- [Swedenborg and Life Live Recap: Will, Understanding, and How to Get into Heaven — 1/15/2018](https://swedenborg.com/recap-will-understanding-and-how-to-get-into-heaven/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose work with our viewers to discover what eighteenth-century philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg thought about will, understanding, and how to get into heaven.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Swedenborg and Life Live: Goodness, Truth and Spiritual Appearance — 1/8/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-swedenborg-and-life-live-goodness-truth-and-spiritual-appearance/): Happy new year! With a new year, we’re bringing in a new format—but don’t worry, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose will guide us all the way through.
- [Share Your Questions and Stories with Swedenborg and Life LIVE](https://swedenborg.com/share-your-questions-and-stories-with-swedenborg-and-life-live/): The crew of our weekly webcast Swedenborg and Life, featured on the offTheLeftEye YouTube channel, is starting off 2018 by going back to basics: a special series of live shows that allows viewers to chat with a like-minded community and brush up on some core Swedenborgian concepts.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Why Did Jesus Come to Earth as a Baby? — 12/18/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-why-did-jesus-come-to-earth-as-a-baby/): Why did Jesus—the all-powerful Lord of the universe—come to earth as a helpless baby in a manger? In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose use the writings of eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg to look for the answer.
- [Curtis Childs Interviewed in Angel Documentary, Solutionary TV](https://swedenborg.com/curtis-childs-interviewed-in-angel-documentary-solutionary-tv/): The Swedenborg Foundation’s own Curtis Childs, digital media producer and host of our weekly webcast Swedenborg and Life, was recently featured in two different interviews.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Is There Art in Heaven? — 12/4/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-is-there-art-in-heaven/): Here on earth, art is a big part of our lives and our spirituality. But will we still need art in heaven? And if we do, what will it look like—and what does it mean?
- [Winners Announced for the Swedenborg Fan Art Contest](https://swedenborg.com/winners-announced-for-the-swedenborg-fan-art-contest/): The votes have been tallied, and we are pleased to announce the winners of the Swedenborg Foundation Fan Art Contest!
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How to Write the Word on Your Heart — 11/20/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-to-write-the-word-on-your-heart/): If we believe that sacred texts are a path to understanding God, how can we more fully engage with them? With the help of Reverend David Millar and the technique he developed called Logopraxis, we’ll learn a new way of interacting with divine revelation.
- [Vote Now for Your Favorite Swedenborg Fan Art](https://swedenborg.com/vote-now-for-your-favorite-swedenborg-fan-art/): Thanks to everyone who submitted their Swedenborg-inspired art in our Swedenborg Fan Art Contest! We were blown away by the quality and quantity of the submissions we received, and it was a tough job to narrow those entries down to just ten finalists. The next step is up to you!
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Rediscovering Forgiveness — 11/6/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-rediscovering-forgiveness/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose seek a better understanding of forgiveness and what it can mean for both the forgiver and the forgiven.
- [Swedenborg Society Books Now Available](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-society-books-now-available/): The Swedenborg Foundation is pleased to announce that it is a distributor of eighteen titles published by the Swedenborg Society located in London, England. The Swedenborg Society has been publishing high-quality books about Emanuel Swedenborg for many years, but those books have been hard to find in North America because of high import costs. Now customers and booksellers on this side of the Atlantic will have easy access to these sought-after titles.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Occult, Swedenborg, & Blondie: An Interview with Gary Lachman — 10/16/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-occult-swedenborg-blondie-an-interview-with-gary-lachman/): In this special episode, host Curtis Childs interviews Gary Lachman, author of twenty-one books on wide-ranging topics—including biographies of Aleister Crowley, Carl Jung, and Emanuel Swedenborg, as well as studies in existentialism and the philosophy of consciousness.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spirals of the Spirit — 10/2/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spirals-of-the-spirit/): Scientists have observed the spiral pattern across the universe, hidden in everything from artwork to the galaxy itself. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose study and share what spirals could mean for us.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: The Four Horsemen — 9/25/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-meaning-of-the-book-of-revelation-the-four-horsemen/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose look at his experiences to find the hidden meaning of the four horsemen of the apocalypse—and the transparency that they truly represent.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Regeneration: How Radical Love is Born — 9/18/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-regeneration-how-radical-love-is-born/): According to eighteenth-century scientist and spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg, rebirth—or “regeneration”—is a process that we all go through as we develop spiritually. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose share how physical birth and spiritual birth reflect each other.
- [New E-Book: Conversations with Angels](https://swedenborg.com/new-e-book-conversations-angels/): The Swedenborg Foundation classic Conversations with Angels: What Swedenborg Heard in Heaven is now available as a low-cost e-book.
- [A Daily Spiritual Practice Based on Swedenborg’s Rules of Life](https://swedenborg.com/daily-spiritual-practice-based-swedenborgs-rules-life/): Swedenborg probably didn’t actually pen his famed “Rules of Life,” but he should have.
- [Swedenborg and Life Host Curtis Childs to Present at The Conference for Consciousness & Human Evolution in London](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-life-host-curtis-childs-present-conference-consciousness-human-evolution-london/): Curtis will take part in a panel discussion titled "Practical Philosophy" with Swiss philosopher Armin Risi and professors Drs. J.J. and Desiree Hurtak on Friday, August 25. His feature presentation, titled “The Origin of Thought,” will take place on Sunday, August 27.
- [Swedenborg and Life Welcomes New Co-Host](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-life-welcomes-new-co-host/): Our weekly webcast Swedenborg and Life, featured on the offTheLeftEye YouTube channel, is excited to welcome a new co-host: Rev. Dr. Jonathan S. Rose.
- [Questions about Swedenborg? Join Our Swedenborg and Life Community Chats!](https://swedenborg.com/questions-swedenborg-join-swedenborg-life-community-chats/): We’ve launched a new series of live community chats to give people a chance to ask questions and interact with each other.
- [Transformational Fire in Nature, Society, and Spiritual Life](https://swedenborg.com/transformational-fire/): As the old proverb says, fire is never a gentle master.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Life Isn’t Fair . . . Or Is It? — 7/31/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-life-isnt-fair/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and co-host Dr. Jonathan Rose explore the writings of eighteenth-century scientist and spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg to see what they can learn about God’s role in the circumstances, both good and bad, that can define our lives.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Repentance: How to Be in Heaven Now — 7/24/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-repentance-how-to-be-in-heaven-now/): In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Dr. Jonathan Rose explore the writings of eighteenth-century scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg to learn about repentance—and how sinners can still make their way into heaven.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Is It Safe To Talk To Spirits? — 7/18/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-is-it-safe-to-talk-to-spirits/): Even though many have encountered spirits, the scientific community has no response to the spirit world—as far as most people are concerned, they don’t exist. So how do people who are having these encounters know whether spirits are safe to talk to, or if it’s even worth trying?
- [New Reprints of Classic Works Now Available](https://swedenborg.com/new-reprints-classic-works-now-available/): The Swedenborg Foundation is pleased to offer the following classic works, now with redesigned interiors, new covers, and editorial updates. Best of all, each reprint can be instantly downloaded in e-book format at no cost or low cost.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Warfare: The Battle Between Heaven and Hell - 6/26/17](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-warfare-the-battle-between-heaven-and-hell/): Eighteenth-century scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg learned that heaven and hell fight over us and for us constantly. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose explore his writings to learn what that spiritual war means for us.
- [Helen Keller's Spiritual Sight](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-helen-kellers-spiritual-sight/): A lesson as old as the sun: tragedy shapes a portal to transformation.
- [Now Available: New Books from the Swedenborg Society](https://swedenborg.com/new-books-swedenborg-society/): We’re excited to announce four new arrivals from the Swedenborg Society in our bookstore!
- [Swedenborg and the Arts International Conference Wraps Up to Applause](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-arts-international-conference-wraps-applause/): This groundbreaking academic conference shed new light on Swedenborg's influence on literature, painting, architecture, music, and how we think about worlds both visible and invisible.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Secrets About Color — 6/5/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-secrets-about-color/): If you're walking through the spiritual world, what does it mean to see someone in red clothes? What about a blue rose? In this episode, we explore the spiritual correspondence of colors and how these can help us be more open to the spiritual in our life.
- [Swedenborg Foundation to Co-Sponsor In Company with Angels Movie Premiere and Reception](https://swedenborg.com/local-event-company-angels-reception/): If you're in the West Chester, PA, area, join us for a reception hosted by In Company with Angels and learn more about the set of seven historic Tiffany windows in their care.
- [Swedenborg and Life Host Curtis Childs Featured on Blog Talk Radio Show](https://swedenborg.com/curtis-childs-featured-blog-talk-radio-show/): In an interview on the audio broadcast Truth Seekers, Curtis tackled subjects ranging from regeneration to angels, spirits, and communication with those who have crossed over.
- [Now You Can Support OffTheLeftEye and Get Behind-the-Scenes Access](https://swedenborg.com/now-can-support-offthelefteye-get-behind-scenes-access/): There's a new way to support our weekly webcast Swedenborg and Life that will also give you access to bonus interviews, making-of videos, and more!
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: The Throne Room — 5/22/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-meaning-book-revelation-throne-room/): Join us as Swedenborg and Life host Curtis Childs explores Swedenborg’s spiritual writings about the inner meaning of the fourth chapter of the book of Revelation—and the powerful relevance it has to our lives right now.
- [New Job Opening: Director of Development](https://swedenborg.com/new-job-opening-director-development/): The Swedenborg Foundation is looking for a new director of development. If you're interested (or know someone who might be), read on!
- [Heaven and Hell Now on Audible](https://swedenborg.com/heaven-hell-now-audible/): Swedenborg's classic Heaven and Hell is now available through online audiobook streaming service Audible.com.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Why Are Spiritual Things Hard to Believe? – 5/1/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-things-hard-believe/): Our eyes and minds are accustomed to taking in and processing information, but optical illusions show that we don’t always get this right. If we can misinterpret things in front of our very eyes, what else might we be missing?
- [There Is Always a Blue Sky](https://swedenborg.com/there-is-always-blue-sky/): Depression can seem enduring, but sometimes there's a spiritual cause whose discovery makes all the difference.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered 11 — 5/8/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-11/): Our expert panel members tackle viewer questions on God and gender, our purpose in life, suicide, the divine nature of the Bible, numerology, seeing loved ones who have crossed over, and much more!
- [Annual Meeting Celebrates Year of Success](https://swedenborg.com/annual-meeting-celebrates-year-success/): Our annual meeting on April 28, 2017 highlighted the organization's progress in 2016, including continued growth across all of our online ventures.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Why Did Jesus Suffer and Die? – 4/17/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-why-jesus-suffer-die/): Is there another way of understanding the meaning of Jesus's life, death, and resurrection? Swedenborg offers some perspectives.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered 10 – 4/10/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-10/): You have questions, they have . . . some perspectives to consider on baptism, angels, loved ones in heaven, and how literally to take Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Spiritual Meaning of Water - 4/3/2017](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-meaning-water/): Swedenborg tells us that water corresponds to truth. In this episode, we take a closer look at all the forms that water can take and what it can teach us about relating to truth and love.
- [OffTheLeftEye Hits 50,000 Subscribers](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-hits-50000-subscribers/): Our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel has reached a new milestone - 50,000 subscribers.
- [Discovering the True Significance of Mary Magdalene: An Easter Surprise](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-discovering-true-significance-mary-magdalene-easter-surprise/): From harlot to seer to first nun to modern feminist, history’s characterization of Mary Magdalene still may not be quite right. Swedenborg is here to help with a more inner and spiritual view.
- [Evolution and Purpose: Re-Running the Tape of Life](https://swedenborg.com/evolution-purpose-re-running-tape-life/): If you want a spirituality that is in harmony with science, there is some good news: the cosmos may not be so random after all.
- [Divine Providence Now on Audible](https://swedenborg.com/divine-providence-now-audible/): The New Century Edition translation of Emanuel Swedenborg’s work Divine Providence is now available on Audible, an online audiobook streaming service.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Why Doesn’t God Prove that He Exists? - 3/13/17](https://swedenborg.com/recap-why-doesnt-god-prove-that-he-exists/): In this episode, explore Swedenborg’s spiritual writings about God, free will, and the purpose of our lives in this often confusing world.
- [Using Swedenborg to Understand the Quantum World III: Thoughts and Forms](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-using-swedenborg-to-understand-the-quantum-world-3/): Swedenborg’s metaphysics helps provide a spiritual understanding of substance and form as they relate to quantum physics.
- [Register Now for the Swedenborg and the Arts International Conference](https://swedenborg.com/register-now-swedenborg-and-the-arts-international-conference/): Registration is now open for the Swedenborg and the Arts International Conference, to be held June 6-9, 2017, at Bryn Athyn College in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.
- [You’re Invited to Our Annual Meeting](https://swedenborg.com/youre-invited-to-our-annual-meeting/): Everyone is welcome at our annual meeting, which will be held on Friday, April 28, 2017 at Pendleton Hall on the campus of Bryn Athyn College, Bryn Athyn, PA.
- [Finding Peace in a World of Violence](https://swedenborg.com/finding-peace-in-a-world-of-violence/): Violence in the world may be in an increasing crescendo, but inner peace does not depend on the world.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Heaven Project – 2/6/17](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-heaven-project/): So what is heaven? We’ll find out in this episode, where host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore Swedenborg’s writings to discover the ever-evolving heaven that gives reason to existence.
- [Heaven and Hell Facebook Page at 400,000](https://swedenborg.com/heaven-and-hell-facebook-page-at-400000/): The Heaven and Hell Facebook page passed 400,000 page likes in mid-February. Thanks to all the fans who have helped make it a success!
- [Swedenborg Foundation Video Featured on Dr. Oz](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-video-featured-dr-oz/): “You Are the Lungs,” our video about the way that individual people form part of a greater whole in heaven, was featured on the February 3 episode of The Dr. Oz Show.
- [Rogue One: The Spiritual Lessons](https://swedenborg.com/rogue-one-the-spiritual-lessons/): What do Star Wars and Swedenborg have in common? More than you might think.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: 7 Churches - 1/9/17](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-meaning-of-the-book-of-revelation-7-churches/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore Swedenborg’s writings about the seven churches discussed in the book of Revelation. What do they represent in the afterlife and on earth for all of us who are working on some kind of spiritual life?
- [OffTheLeftEye Inspires Student Thinkers](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-inspires-student-thinkers/): The weekly webcast Swedenborg and Life on our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel provided inspiration for students taking a brand-new course at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
- [Using Swedenborg to Understand the Quantum World I: Events](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-using-swedenborg-to-understand-the-quantum-world/): For the last hundred years, physicists have been using the quantum theory about the universe, but they still do not properly understand of what the quantum world is made.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered 9  – 1/2/17](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-9/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs from the Swedenborg Foundation and featured guests take questions from viewers and provide insights into spiritual matters with the help of eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg’s spiritual writings.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: What Will You Remember in the Afterlife? - 12/12/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-what-will-you-remember-in-the-afterlife/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore eighteenth-century scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg’s writings about the spiritual component of our memory and how it affects both this life and the next.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Day-to-Day Process of Our Salvation – 12/19/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-day-to-day-process-of-our-salvation/): How does salvation work? Many disagree on this simple question—or whether it’s even worth asking—but eighteenth-century scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg had a unique perspective on the issue.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How to Feel the Presence of Angels - 12/5/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-to-feel-the-presence-of-angels/): Angels are closer than they seem. In fact, they may actually be a part of how you already think and feel. How do we tap into their presence?
- [Parenting in Imitation of God](https://swedenborg.com/parenting-imitation-god/): There are three spiritual parenting principles that can be very helpful habits to develop as we care for our children.
- [Curtis Childs on Find Your New Normal](https://swedenborg.com/curtis-childs-on-find-your-new-normal/): On November 10, 2016, digital media producer and host of Swedenborg and Life Curtis Childs appeared on Find Your New Normal—a weekly broadcast that focuses on finding ways to live in the moment for those seeking peace after crisis.
- [Ten Commandments Book Now on Sale](https://swedenborg.com/ten-commandments-book-now-on-sale/): Ten Commandments: The Secrets of Spiritual Growth Found in God’s Principles for Living is now available from the Swedenborg Foundation.
- [NCE New Jerusalem Now on Sale](https://swedenborg.com/nce-new-jerusalem-now-on-sale/): The New Century Edition (NCE) translation of Swedenborg’s short work New Jerusalem is now available, marking the first time in more than twenty years that the Foundation has published this work as a stand-alone volume.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Revelation: Vision of a God-Centered Life - 11/21](https://swedenborg.com/recap-revelation-vision-of-a-god-centered-life/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests go through the first chapter of the book of Revelation to explore the spiritual meaning of the vision and the symbolism of the seven stars and seven lampstands that John saw.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How to Respect Spiritual Boundaries in Relationships - 11/14](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-to-respect-spiritual-boundaries-in-relationships/): Host Curtis Childs and featured guests take concepts from Swedenborg's spiritual writings and combine them with principles of modern-day psychology to come up with loving solutions to relationship problems.
- [Let’s Make the World a More Spiritual Place Together!](https://swedenborg.com/lets-make-the-world-a-more-spiritual-place-together/): Online and offline, whether in video, print, or in-person—we’ve seen the power Swedenborg’s life-guiding spiritual principles have had on people throughout the world.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered 8  – 11/7/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-8/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs from the Swedenborg Foundation and featured guests take questions from viewers and work together to provide insights into these matters with the help of eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg’s spiritual writings.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How Spirits Are Connected to Your Health - 10/31](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-spirits-are-connected-to-your-health/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore Swedenborg’s fascinating accounts of how the spiritual world can affect our health in the physical world.
- [Spiritual Consequences of the Presidential Election](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-consequences-of-the-presidential-election/): In a mean-spirited public election for the ages, what are the spiritual issues for us as participants?
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How to Live in Eternity Now - 10/24](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-to-live-in-eternity-now/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore what eighteenth-century scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg learned about time in the spiritual world—and what it means for us in the physical world.
- [OffTheLeftEye Hits 40,000 Subscribers](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-hits-40000-subscribers/): The offTheLeftEye YouTube channel, home to our weekly webcast Swedenborg and Life, reached 40,000 subscribers in mid-October, following a month of record high views and minutes watched.
- [Swedenborg and Life Host Curtis Childs to Appear on The Dr. Julie Show](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-and-life-host-curtis-childs-to-appear-on-the-dr-julie-show/): Host of Swedenborg and Life Curtis Childs on "The Dr. Julie Show: All Things Connected" on Empower Radio Wednesday, October 19th 9:00 a.m. PST / 12:00 p.m. EST.
- [Own Your Smile (A Key to Happiness)](https://swedenborg.com/own-your-smile-a-key-to-happiness/): Telling women to smile crosses even a spiritual boundary. Here is one woman’s experience of reclaiming her smile.
- [Foundation Retreat Affirms Strategic Direction](https://swedenborg.com/foundation-retreat-affirms-strategic-direction/): On September 24 and 25, Swedenborg Foundation board and staff held a strategic retreat to determine our direction as an organization over the next three to five years.
- [L. Maria Child: Visionary Antislavery Crusader Changed a Church by Leaving It](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-maria-child-visionary-antislavery-crusader-changed-a-church/): By speaking truth to power, the legendary nineteenth-century author and political activist assisted a surprising outcome.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Last Judgment - 10/3/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-last-judgment/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests delve into Swedenborg’s fascinating accounts of a spiritual Last Judgment. We won’t find prophecies of fire and brimstone here—instead, he stressed God’s infinite love and mercy.
- [New Designs Now on Our Redbubble Store](https://swedenborg.com/new-designs-redbubble-store/): We've just added new designs to our Redbubble store based on the New Century Edition!
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Swedenborg 101: The Basic Nature of Everything - 9/26/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-swedenborg-101-the-basic-nature-of-everything/): We’ve spent more than one hundred episodes discussing Emanuel Swedenborg’s writings, so it might be time to step back and examine his work as a whole. His perspectives on the afterlife, God, the Bible, and spiritual growth may already have influenced your life more than you think.
- [OffTheLeftEye and NCE Move to New Office Space](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-and-nce-move-to-new-office-space/): Two of the Swedenborg Foundation’s creative teams are now sharing a single office space: the production team behind the offTheLeftEye YouTube channel and members of the editorial team responsible for the New Century Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg (NCE) have moved into a new office in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How to Understand the Trinity - 9/19/2016](https://swedenborg.com/recap-how-to-understand-the-trinity/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore how Swedenborg’s description of the relationship between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit differs from conventional Christian descriptions—and why it matters to religious and non-religious people alike!
- [Swedenborg and Life Host Curtis Childs Appears on Wisdom From North](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-life-host-curtis-childs-appears-wisdom-north/): On Thursday, September 15th, digital media producer and host of Swedenborg and Life Curtis Childs was featured on the Wisdom From North show with host Jannecke Oinaes.
- [Deadline Approaching: Swedenborg & the Arts Conference Call for Papers](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-the-arts-conference-releases-call-for-papers/): The Swedenborg and the Arts International Conference, to be held June 6–9, 2017 on the campus of Bryn Athyn College, Bryn Athyn, PA, is inviting scholars to submit proposals by the end of the month for papers to present at the conference.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered 7 – 8/29/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-7/): The Swedenborg and Life panel has reconvened to discuss your questions about God, existence, religion, spirituality, the afterlife, and more!
- [Our Interconnectedness: Our Shared Vision in This Current Web Called Life](https://swedenborg.com/interconnectedness-shared-vision-in-this-web-called-life/): “Man did not weave the web of life. He is merely a strand in it. What he does to it, he does to himself.”—Chief Seattle, 1854
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Where Thoughts Come From - 8/22/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-where-thoughts-come-from/): According to Swedenborg, the physical world and the spiritual world interact to form thought as we know it.
- [The Magical Power of Prayer](https://swedenborg.com/the-magical-power-of-prayer/): Prayer might not change God, but it can still change the world.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Insight Through Gardening - 8/8/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-insight-through-gardening/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests discuss how the human mind is like soil in which both spiritual and earthly truths can be planted like seeds and can multiply without end.
- [Want to Meet Other Fans of Swedenborg and Life? Start a Watch Party!](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-and-life-watch-party/): Starting an offTheLeftEye watch party is a great way to connect!
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Three Kinds of Evil Spirits - 8/1/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-three-kinds-of-evil-spirits/): The more we learn about the dark, the easier it is to move into the light. With those words, host Curtis Childs launches into an episode about the dark side of Swedenborg’s spiritual experiences.
- [It’s No Small Thing to Be Kind: A Response to Dallas, Nice, and Baton Rouge](https://swedenborg.com/no-small-thing-kind-response-dallas-nice-baton-rouge/): In a world of escalating random violence, let us escalate random kindness.
- [How Usefulness Became a Cornerstone Swedenborgian Spiritual Growth Method](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-how-usefulness-became-a-swedenborgian-spiritual-growth-method/): During the height of the human potential movement, prominent "third wave" psychologist Wilson Van Dusen visited Swedenborgian spirituality and spun an essay on usefulness that became a runaway success.
- [Swedenborg Foundation Host Curtis Childs and Author Peter Rhodes on The WHY Blog Podcast](https://swedenborg.com/curtis-childs-peter-rhodes-the-why-blog-podcast/): On Wednesday, July 27, digital media producer and host of Swedenborg and Life Curtis Childs was a featured guest on The WHY Blog—a weekly blog and podcast series that explores life through the personal journeys and life experiences of others.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered 6 - 7/18/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-questions-answered-6/): Our philosophically-minded panel is here to (try to!) answer your questions about God, existence, religion, spirituality, the afterlife, and more. In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests provide insights into questions from viewers with the help of eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg’s spiritual writings.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Spiritual Reality Behind All Faiths 7/11/2016](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-spiritual-reality-behind-all-faiths/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore what eighteenth-century Christian mystic and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg discovered during his mystical explorations of the spiritual world about the value of religious diversity.
- [SF Audiobooks Launch on Audible](https://swedenborg.com/sf-audiobooks-launch-audible/): The Swedenborg Foundation is now making audio versions of Swedenborg’s writings available on Audible, an online audiobook streaming service.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Four Strangest Creatures in Revelation 6/27/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-the-four-strangest-creatures-in-revelation/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests delve into the spiritual truths that correspond with the locusts, red dragon, first beast, and cherubim described in Revelation.
- [Finding Your Inner Freedom](https://swedenborg.com/finding-inner-freedom/): We’re used to thinking of freedom in terms of what we say and do, but what does it mean to be spiritually free?
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Freedom 6/20/16](https://swedenborg.com/recap-spiritual-freedom/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests discuss how God can lead to true liberation from the prisons of earthly pleasures and rational minds. So how can we take full advantage of our freedom and make the right choices?
- [Shooting Down Hatred — A Christian Response to the Orlando Hate Crime](https://swedenborg.com/shooting-down-hatred-a-christian-response-to-the-orlando-hate-crime/): The worst shooting in United States history was an act of violence against the patrons of an LGBT nightclub. Is condemnation of homosexuality by conservative religious groups at least partly to blame for the hatred and violence? And if so, how would love lead us to respond?
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Spiritual Meaning of Numbers 6/13/16](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-meaning-of-numbers/): In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore Swedenborg’s discoveries about numbers, the spiritual world, and the very nature of meaning. We’ll look at every number from 1 to 12 and dig deep into how they can relate to biblical truths—and the sequence of our lives.
- [What Do American Pragmatism, Swedenborg, and Zen Hold in Common?](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-american-pragmatism-swedenborg-and-zen/): Roots for the renowned American work ethic and sense of practicality that have flowered in both American Pragmatism and the nation’s passion for Zen can be traced convincingly to Swedenborg's philosophy of usefulness.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How to Travel in the Afterlife 6/6/16](https://swedenborg.com/how-to-travel-in-the-afterlife/): Nobody loves their daily commute. Even on vacation, we complain about airports or seasickness. When it comes to everyday annoyances, it’s hard to beat the frustration of travel. So does that change in the afterlife? Just as the natural world has laws that it must follow, the spiritual world has its own unique physics and possibilities. In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore what Swedenborg discovered about moving through the spiritual realm—and what it means for life on Earth.
- [Did Swedenborg Study Kabbalah? Part 2: Probing His Historical Context](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-swedenborg-kabbalah-2/): In order to create a more complete picture of Swedenborg’s relationship to kabbalah, a comparison of these two great traditions must be complemented by historical evidence of his intimacy with the Jewish esoteric teaching; and scholars have done so by taking into consideration the prevalence of kabbalistic thought during Swedenborg’s time, citing his connection with its proponents both at home and in the European intellectual community at large.
- [What Quantum Physics Can Tell Us about the Afterlife](https://swedenborg.com/quantum-physics-can-tell-us-afterlife/): Swedenborg’s descriptions of how space and time work in the afterlife parallel new discoveries from the world of quantum mechanics.
- [Swedenborg Foundation Merchandise Store Now Open on Redbubble](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-on-redbubble/): Want to show your Swedenborg pride? Our new shop on Redbubble.com lets you buy a variety of Swedenborg-themed items while helping to support all of our programs.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Power of Heaven's Angels 5/30/16](https://swedenborg.com/the-power-of-heavens-angels/): Every day, incredibly powerful beings wage war on evil to protect us. They have unique abilities, work in teams, and fight solely for the greater good. These aren’t comic book superheroes—they’re real-life angels. It’s hard to talk about angels without talking about power, but exactly how powerful are angels? What can they really do—and why don’t they do more? In this episode, host Curtis Childs takes a look at Swedenborg’s experiences with these beautiful, powerful, loving beings.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Reality of Heaven and Hell with Howard Storm 5/23/16](https://swedenborg.com/the-reality-of-heaven-and-hell-with-howard-storm/): Before his near-death experience (NDE) in 1985, Howard Storm was a passionate atheist. His visit to hell, encounter with Jesus, and visions of heaven transformed him so completely that he became a pastor and authored two books: My Descent into Death and Lessons Learned. In this episode, host Curtis Childs speaks with him about his experiences and where they overlap with those of Emanuel Swedenborg. What can these encounters with death teach us about life?
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: When Religion Went Wrong 5/16/16](https://swedenborg.com/when-religion-went-wrong/): With all the wars, abuse of power, and corruption it can breed, many are left to wonder if religion should exist at all. If religion was initially formed to help people come together in community to learn about the spiritual principles that lead to love and common good, then when did it go so wrong? In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests guide us through Swedenborg’s claim that an answer lies within the one of the most famous ancient architectural stories within the Old Testament of the Bible—the building of the Tower of Babel.
- [Howard Storm to Appear on Swedenborg and Life Webcast 5/23/16](https://swedenborg.com/howard-storm-on-swedenborg-life/): The Swedenborg Foundation’s weekly spirituality and faith-focused webcast will host a live conversation between producer and host Curtis Childs and NDE survivor and author of My Descent Into Death Howard Storm on Monday, May 23, 2016 at 8 p.m. ET.
- [Checking Your Spiritual Scorecard](https://swedenborg.com/checking-your-spiritual-scorecard/): Spiritual growth isn’t really a matter of keeping score, but Swedenborg does offer some practical ways to think about your state of mind.
- [Spiritual Growth for Real Life](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-growth-real-life/): Coauthors Frank Rose and Bob Maginel talk about the Tucson-based program behind their new book, The Joy of Spiritual Living.
- [Swedenborg and Life Celebrates 100th Episode](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-life-celebrates-100th-episode/): The one-hundredth episode of our weekly webcast Swedenborg and Life was broadcast in front of a live audience in Pendleton Hall on the campus of Bryn Athyn College in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. The audience ranged from locals who were experiencing the show for the first time to die-hard fans who drove from as far away as Washington DC.
- [Swedenborg and Life Is Now Streaming Live on Facebook](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-and-life-live-on-facebook/): Swedenborg and Life, a weekly webcast that explores all aspects of Swedenborg’s thought, now has a new outlet: live streaming through Facebook.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered 5 5/2/16](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-questions-answered-5/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs introduces a panel to answer viewers’ spiritual questions. This is the fifth episode that is entirely devoted to answering the questions that the audience brings to the table each and every week.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Infinite in You 4/25/16](https://swedenborg.com/the-infinite-in-you/): In this week’s episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs examines three complex ideas that work together to answer these questions: the evil tendencies of human beings (keep an eye out for the Latin word proprium), the hemispheres of the brain, and the connection of an infinite God with his finite people.
- [Does God Have an Ego?](https://swedenborg.com/does-god-have-an-ego/): Is our sense of self just an illusion, as many religious traditions claim? And if we are one with God on a fundamental level, does that mean that God has the only truly real sense of self?
- [How Spiritual Growth Makes You More You](https://swedenborg.com/how-spiritual-growth-makes-you-more-you/): When we think about spiritual growth, we might imagine becoming something or someone different. Swedenborg says that the more we grow, the more we are truly ourselves.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Renewable Spiritual Energy 4/18/16](https://swedenborg.com/renewable-spiritual-energy/): In this week’s episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs looks into the idea of spiritual energy (comparing it to the energy that human beings get from the sun), converting from a polluting energy source to a clean one, the “energy” of the human soul, and how to maintain a renewable and dependable spiritual energy source.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Fermentation 4/11/16](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-fermentation/): In this episode, the Swedenborg and Life team takes viewers through an exploration of Swedenborg’s spiritual experiences, comparing the process of physical fermentation to a spiritual, mental, and emotional process called “spiritual fermentation” that tells us about the way we grow and adapt to life spiritually.
- [Bringing Comfort and Hope to Others through Swedenborg’s Ideas of the Afterlife](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-lydia-maria-child-swedenborgs-afterlife/): Renowned nineteenth-century American feminist and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child waged fierce battles for human rights in this world yet often turned her thoughts to spiritual justice for those who died young.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Three Conversations with Angels 4/4/16](https://swedenborg.com/three-conversations-angels/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs takes viewers through three conversations between angels about the nature of God, marriage, love, and wisdom according to the written adventures of eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg and Reincarnation: Rebirth in the Body vs. Rebirth of the Spirit](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-and-reincarnation/): While Swedenborg didn’t believe in reincarnation, his descriptions of spiritual growth are strikingly similar to Hindu teachings on the cycle of death and rebirth.
- [Swedenborg Foundation to Air 100th Episode in Spirituality & Faith Series](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-air-100th-episode-spirituality-faith-series/): Each week, Curtis Childs guides YouTube viewers through a different facet of Swedenborg’s interfaith theology in an effort to explore the spiritual nature of everything in life. Swedenborg and Life will broadcast its 100th episode on May 9th.
- [Swedenborg and Life Now Available as Podcast](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-life-podcast/): By popular demand, the Swedenborg Foundation is now offering episodes of our weekly webcast Swedenborg and Life as an audio-only podcast.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Everyday Spirituality 3/28/16](https://swedenborg.com/everyday-spirituality/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, viewers witness a panel of authors, writers, and general life experts talk about the best ways to be a good person in everyday life. Their insights and stories are a great way to invest some time in thinking about the application of lofty spiritual ideas.
- [When Maintenance = Love](https://swedenborg.com/when-maintenance-equals-love/): Swedenborg says that maintenance is constant creation. What lessons can we learn by applying this spiritual principle to our lives?
- [New Release: Secrets of Heaven Vol. 1 Deluxe E-Book](https://swedenborg.com/secrets-heaven-1-deluxe-e-book/): The Deluxe edition of Secrets of Heaven volume 1 is now available as a free e-book download from our bookstore. Includes an introduction that puts the work in historical context and extensive notes explaining words or concepts and providing deeper insight into Swedenborg’s theology.
- [Scholars on Swedenborg - Swedenborgians and the Original Black Lives Matter Movement: How the First George Bush Confronted Racial Justice Passivity in the Churches](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-swedenborgians-black-lives-matter-movement-george-bush/): A direct ancestor to two U.S. presidents, Swedenborgian George Bush emerges today as a courageous voice in the original American Black Lives Matter movement.
- [Just Announced: Academic Conference on Swedenborg and the Arts](https://swedenborg.com/conference-swedenborg-and-the-arts/): Organizers have just announced the first-ever academic conference on Emanuel Swedenborg and his impact on the visual and literary arts. The conference will be held June 6–9, 2017 on the campus of Bryn Athyn College in Bryn Athyn, PA.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Good Thing About Hell 3/14/16](https://swedenborg.com/good-thing-hell/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and special guests lead us through an examination of the uses of hell, focusing on the good things that can come from the order within hell and the way the Lord uses it to protect good things in people.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How to Create Heaven on Earth 3/7/16](https://swedenborg.com/how-to-create-heaven-on-earth/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and special guests lead viewers through an examination of heaven, looking at the specifics that would be needed to create a heaven on earth, as well as examining the pitfalls of human assumptions about heavenly life.
- [Led by the Lord? The Spiritual Questions to Ask Yourself](https://swedenborg.com/led-lord-spiritual-questions-ask/): Wishing for a little divine guidance in your life? Swedenborg points to the answers all around - and inside - us.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Meaning of Noah and the Flood 2/22/16](https://swedenborg.com/the-meaning-of-noah-and-the-flood/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests take us from the literal story about God destroying all of creation with a flood to a story about God’s still-ongoing efforts to provide us with an ark, thereby saving us from self-destruction.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Spiritual Battles of Jesus Christ 8/3/15](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-battles-jesus-christ/): There may be no one whose life has been scrutinized more than Jesus Christ. Much of what he said and did was recorded in detail in the Bible. But you have to wonder: What was going on inside of Jesus? What kind of inner, spiritual battles did he face from birth to his death on the cross? In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests look to Swedenborg’s writings for an explanation.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How to Love 8/31/15](https://swedenborg.com/how-to-love/): Are humans wired for greater love of self or greater love of others? If altruism can be learned, let's study how to love (more selflessly)! In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests look to Swedenborg’s writings to see what they reveal about how altruistic love can deepen our human and spiritual experience in the physical world.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Modern Spiritual Experiences 9/7/15](https://swedenborg.com/modern-spiritual-experiences/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests look to the recorded spiritual explorations of Swedenborg and other modern-day authors to show the timeless commonalities between them.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Nature of Auras 9/14/15](https://swedenborg.com/nature-of-auras/): The concept of auras has been around for a long time. Glowing halos have been depicted around angels, God, and holy people in historical art and religious texts for centuries. Even practitioners of modern spiritual traditions use vibes, colors, and odors to describe their sense of a person’s inner spirit. So what do auras mean to us, then and now? In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs guides us through 18th-century spiritual philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg’s written records about his explorations of the afterlife to see what they say about auras, and, more specifically, what they reveal and how we can cultivate positive auras within ourselves.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: How to Find Your True Self 9/28/15](https://swedenborg.com/how-to-find-your-true-self/): Have you ever wondered if you’re living your truth and fulfilling your purpose? So many of us do, and that’s why advertisers, corporations, and politicians are always trying to sell you the next best thing that will improve your life. But what if the next best thing is already inside of you just waiting to come out? In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs guides us through 18th-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg’s spiritual explorations to see what they reveal about how to discover your true identity.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Different Kinds of Angels 10/5/15](https://swedenborg.com/kindsofangels/): Each year, NASA spends million exploring outer space in an effort to make the unknown, known. Just as we’d like to know about life on other planets, many of us would like to know about life on the other side. Eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg was—in many ways—a human rover of the spiritual world. Lucky for us, he was also meticulous in documenting what he found during his afterlife expeditions. In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs reviews some of Swedenborg’s written accounts about the kinds of angels he encountered in the world of spirits to help us understand what kind of intelligent angelic life is out there!
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The World of Spirits 10/12/15](https://swedenborg.com/the-world-of-spirits/): This idea of a slow transition, with time to adjust to a new state, provides a great comparison to eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg’s ideas about the journey after death to the spiritual world. In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs goes over the path that Swedenborg maps out in his theology, taking us through this detailed transition from the physical world to a spiritual one.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Lies Evil Spirits Tell Us 10/19/15](https://swedenborg.com/lies-evil-spirits-tell-us/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs talks about the lies that evil spirits feed us, examining ideas like the way hellish spirits cover up their lies, the intent behind the lies, and the way evil spirits use negative energy. Curtis ends up showing us ways to defeat and use this knowledge to improve our lives.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: What God Can’t Do 10/26/2015](https://swedenborg.com/what-god-cant-do/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, Curtis Childs takes viewers through all of the things God can’t do, looking at the laws he used to create the universe, and examining the way God follows his own laws, all through the lens of eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Modern Cain and Abel 11/2/2015](https://swedenborg.com/modern-cain-and-abel/): Watch full episode here! How can we apply the Bible story of Cain and Abel to our modern lives? Swedenborg answers this question in his multivolume work Secrets of Heaven, in which he combs through the meaning and symbolism behind the stories in Genesis and Exodus. In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Effect of Gratitude 11/23/15](https://swedenborg.com/effect-of-gratitude/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs reviews some of Swedenborg’s written accounts about how gratitude benefits our relationship with God, ourselves, and others—and offers some practical ways we can use gratitude to enhance our lives and the lives of those we touch.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Light 11/30/15](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-light/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests review Swedenborg’s philosophy on how light and truth correspond to each other based on his explorations of the spiritual world.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Light in the Afterlife 12/7/15](https://swedenborg.com/light-in-the-afterlife/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests review Swedenborg’s written records about his spiritual experiences as well as modern accounts of near-death experiences to see what they can tell us about the form and function of light in the afterlife.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Detoxing 12/14/15](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-detoxing/): According to Swedenborg we can remove toxic elements, not just from the tissues of our bodies, but from the thoughts and impulses of our spirits so the Lord’s Divine love and wisdom can easily pass through us.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Why Jesus Was Born 12/21/15](https://swedenborg.com/why-jesus-was-born/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests review Swedenborg’s written accounts of why God had to take on a human manifestation of the Divine at the time and what it means for us now.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Why Bad Things Happen 1/11/16](https://swedenborg.com/why-bad-things-happen/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests review Swedenborg’s written philosophies on the importance and consequences of free will and God’s role in the good and bad things that happen in our lives.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: The Four Kinds of Love 1/18/16](https://swedenborg.com/four-kinds-of-love/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests review the four kinds of love, the role each type plays in our lives, and how we can rearrange them if they fall out of order so that we can get back on the path of happiness and spiritual fulfillment.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Marriage 2/8/16](https://swedenborg.com/spiritual-marriage/): In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests review Swedenborg’s writings about the union of marriage and how it’s paired with all that is good and true in our world and in the afterlife.
- [Swedenborg and Life Recap: Sensing Your Spiritual Body 2/15/16](https://swedenborg.com/sensing-your-spiritual-body/): Many spiritual traditions claim that humans have a spirit or soul and getting in touch with it can enhance our physical lives. In this episode of Swedenborg and Life, host Curtis Childs and featured guests review Swedenborg’s written philosophies on our inner and outer senses.
- [Scholars on Swedenborg: Did Swedenborg See the Bible as Historically True?](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-bible-as-historically-true/): According to Swedenborg, parts of the Bible’s literal content may be both apparently untrue and yet critically important to the structure of the Bible’s truth. How can this be?
- [Scholars on Swedenborg: Islamophobia, Swedenborg and the Birth of Religious Pluralism](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-islamophobia-swedenborg-religious-pluralism/): The time is right to hark back to the Swedenborgian origins of religious pluralism for some useful reflection as we contemplate where we are today and how to respond to the beast of Islamophobia.
- [Scholars on Swedenborg: Crosscurrents of Swedenborgianism and Zen Buddhism](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-swedenborgianism-zen-buddhism/): Famed Zen Buddhist author and teacher D. T. Suzuki saw Emanuel Swedenborg as the key to mutual understanding between East and West.
- [Scholars on Swedenborg: Homeopathy’s Journey into Swedenborgianism](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-homeopathy-swedenborgianism/): Homeopathy as a vital alternative to traditional medicine since the late eighteenth-century has both parallels to Swedenborg’s philosophy and a vigorous history of Swedenborgian participation.
- [Synchronicities Abound in the World of Emanuel Swedenborg](https://swedenborg.com/synchronicities-abound-in-the-world-of-emanuel-swedenborg/): The February 17th entry in A Swedenborg Perpetual Calendar captures the essence of what is explained in our most recent episode of Swedenborg and Life: the sequence of movement from the inner to the outer.
- [Why Read Swedenborg? Isn’t the Bible Enough?](https://swedenborg.com/why-read-swedenborg-isnt-the-bible-enough/): Swedenborg offers a new way to look at the stories and teachings of the Bible. What might he say to people who were taught to rely on the text of the Bible alone and not read other commentaries?
- [Are Married Couples Still Married in the Afterlife?](https://swedenborg.com/married-couples-in-the-afterlife/): If two people are married on earth, are they still married in the afterlife? What about people who remarry? Or never marry at all? Emanuel Swedenborg offers hope for lovers and lonely hearts alike.
- [Swedenborg Foundation Launches New Logo](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-new-logo/): As the Swedenborg Foundation moved into a new phase of its mission over the past couple of years, expanding its focus outward to include online media of all types, we began the search for a logo that would reflect not only our new ventures but our grounding in Swedenborg’s thought.
- [offTheLeftEye Hits 25,000 Subscribers](https://swedenborg.com/offthelefteye-hits-25000-subscribers/): The Swedenborg Foundation’s offTheLeftEye YouTube channel, which features the weekly webcast Swedenborg and Life, reached 25,000 subscribers in January.
- [What Do Your Cravings Say About You?](https://swedenborg.com/what-do-your-cravings-say-about-you/): It’s human nature to crave things: ice cream, donuts, money, fame. But Emanuel Swedenborg says that what we crave might reveal more about us than we think.
- [More Money, More Members: Thanks to Our Supporters!](https://swedenborg.com/more-money-more-members/): We got a tremendous response to our 2015 annual fundraising appeal, receiving a total of $106,962 from all sources—a 26 percent increase over 2014! We were blown away by the generosity of all of our contributors, and we’re planning to use that money to create even more great content in 2016.
- [Foundation Welcomes New Editor](https://swedenborg.com/foundation-welcomes-new-editor/): We are very pleased to announce that after an intensive search, we have a new editor at the Swedenborg Foundation. John Connolly started at the beginning of January and will work out of the Foundation’s main office in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
- [Achieving Work and (Spiritual) Life Balance](https://swedenborg.com/work-and-spiritual-life-balance/): How do you balance a mundane but financially sustainable working life with a desire for spiritual fulfillment? Does choosing one mean sacrificing the other?
- [Why Swedenborg Says You Don’t Have to Be Christian to Be Good](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-says-you-dont-have-to-be-christian/): Swedenborg writes that Jesus is the one who brings people to heaven. He also wrote that people do not have to be part of the earthly Christian belief system to go to heaven. How do we reconcile these two seemingly opposite statements?
- [Enlightenment, Swedenborg-Style](https://swedenborg.com/enlightenment-swedenborg-style/): Enlightenment isn’t something that we often associate with Christian spirituality, but Emanuel Swedenborg uses that very term throughout his writings to refer to receiving insight from God.
- [Minutes Watched on OffTheLeftEye Doubled Since June](https://swedenborg.com/minutes-watched-offthelefteye-doubled/): In November, the number of minutes watched on our offTheLeftEye YouTube channel hit a new milestone—two million minutes, or 3 years and 299 days, watched in the space of a single month. That figure has doubled since June, when the channel crossed the million-minute-per-month mark.
- [Swedenborg and Life Now in Short Nuggets](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-life-short-nuggets/): On November 19, the Swedenborg Foundation launched a new series of short clips with highlights from our hour-long weekly webcast Swedenborg and Life.
- [Press Release: Morgan Beard Appointed Operations Manager of Swedenborg Foundation](https://swedenborg.com/press-release-morgan-beard-appointed-operations-manager-of-swedenborg-foundation/): The Swedenborg Foundation is pleased to announce several staff appointments at its offices in West Chester, Pennsylvania. These appointments and changes reflect a reorganization of staff responsibilities in order to further the unanimously affirmed strategic goals adopted last year by the board of directors. The goals include increased digital presence and products, free or at-cost distribution of products, expanded membership offerings, and supporting an international engagement with Swedenborg’s writings.
- [Swedenborg Foundation Welcomes New Editor](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-welcomes-new-editor/): The Swedenborg Foundation is pleased to announce the recent hire of Lisa Lapp as its new editor. She brings to this position an extensive background as a communications specialist and editor as well as experience with print and digital media.
- [Swedenborg Foundation Library Open for Research and Reading](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-library-open-for-research-and-reading/): Located in West Chester, PA at the Swedenborg Foundation, the Library offers many resources for scientific, religious, cultural, historical, and spiritual inquiries. Library operating hours are Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wireless internet is available for patrons.
- [Grant Schnarr Interview with Chandra Hoffman](https://swedenborg.com/grant-schnarr-interview-with-chandra-hoffman/): Chandra Hoffman, author of The Chosen, recently interviewed Grant Schnarr about his book The Guardian Angel Diary.
- [Cannot Hear Enough Swedenborg](https://swedenborg.com/cannot-hear-enough-swedenborg/): Read the article: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/vaishali/cannot-hear-enough-sweden_b_891598.html
- [Statue Dedicated to the Heroine of Fall 2011 Publication: "Creating an Orange Utopia"](https://swedenborg.com/statue-dedicated-to-the-heroine-of-fall-2011-publication-creating-an-orange-utopia/): A bronze statue honoring Eliza and her great contribution to the California citrus industry was unveiled in Riverside CA, Friday August 5. The dedication of the statue occurred on what would have been Eliza's 188th birthday.
- [You Haven't Lived Until You've Died: Emanuel Swedenborg and 'The Afterlife'](https://swedenborg.com/you-havent-lived-until-youve-died-emanuel-swedenborg-and-the-afterlife/): Health & wellness speaker, author, and radio host Vaishali, explains Swedenborg's concepts about human life and death in terms that are clear, concise and easy to apply in day to day life. Read the article here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/vaishali/you-havent-lived-until-yo_b_964369.html
- [Bible Study Notes Back in Print!](https://swedenborg.com/bible-study-notes-back-in-print/): Anita Dole's Bible Study Notes is a six-volume set, now available after years of being out of print. It is a classic study tool, perfect for groups and individuals who want a structured approach to learning from the Bible.
- [Swedenborg and Mystical Music](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-and-mystical-music/): Here is an interesting article about the new album by Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch, "Concerning the Entrance into Eternity."The album features the sounds of a lute and song titles inspired by Emanuel Swedenborg.
- [Healing from the Gospels with Author E. Kent Rogers](https://swedenborg.com/healing-from-the-gospels-with-author-e-kent-rogers/): In 12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth: A Path of Healing from the Gospels, author E. Kent Rogers takes the reader on a journey through twelve stories of Jesus’s healing miracles, showing how we can access the deeper wisdom of these accounts to heal and grow as spiritual people. We talked to him to learn more about the story behind the stories.
- [Author Albrecht H. Gralle's Guided Tour of the Afterlife](https://swedenborg.com/author-albrecht-h-gralles-guided-tour-of-the-afterlife/): Getting into Heaven—and Out Again Albrecht H. Gralle takes us on a short but enlightening tour of the afterlife In Getting into Heaven—and Out Again, novelist Albrecht H. Gralle, a native of Germany, invites the reader on a fanciful tour of heaven, hell, and the world of spirits. Despite the light tone, the book takes
- [Annual Meeting of the Swedenborg Foundation](https://swedenborg.com/annual-meeting-of-the-swedenborg-foundation/): The Swedenborg Foundation hosts its Annual Meeting, Friday, May 17, 2013, at 7:00 pm.
- [Photos and Recap of the 163rd Annual Meeting](https://swedenborg.com/photos-and-recap-of-the-163rd-annual-meeting/): The 163rd Annual Meeting of the Swedenborg Foundation was a success! Held at the Glencairn Museum on May 17, 2013, members first attended a business meeting where they heard updates on the finances and recent publications of the Swedenborg Foundation, as well as on the progress of the New Century Edition translation project.
- [The Swedenborg Foundation Goes to Convention](https://swedenborg.com/the-swedenborg-foundation-goes-to-convention/): The Swedenborg Foundation attended the 189th session of the General Convention of the New Jerusalem from June 26 through June 30, 2013. Convention this year was held at Urbana University in Urbana, Ohio.
- [Weekly Online Livestream Doctrinal](https://swedenborg.com/weekly-online-livestream-doctrinal/): Rev. Dr. Jonathan Rose has created and holds a weekly Bible study program, live on-line. Every Wednesday evening from 7:30-9:00 PM ET, he teaches the Scriptures from a New Church perspective. https://www.ustream.tv/channel/nunclicetbiblestudy
- [What We Can Learn from Johnny Appleseed (A Blog Review)](https://swedenborg.com/what-we-can-learn-from-johnny-appleseed-a-blog-review/): Read a blog review of "The Core of Johnny Appleseed" from Ellen Painter Dollar
- [Interview with Author Grant Schnarr on "Ghost Brother Angel"](https://swedenborg.com/interview-with-author-grant-schnarr-on-ghost-brother-angel/): In his supernatural memoir Ghost Brother Angel, Grant Schnarr describes how a terrifying brush with death intersects with memories of a ghost from his childhood to lead him on a spiritual journey. We sat down with the author to get an inside perspective on the story.
- [Swedenborg Foundation at Book Expo America](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-foundation-at-book-expo-america/): Here is a short write-up from Publishers Weekly about the Swedenborg Foundation at Book Expo America (BEA).
- [Art from "Getting into Heaven—and Out Again"](https://swedenborg.com/art-from-getting-into-heaven-and-out-again/): Getting into Heaven—and Out Again Albrecht Gralle Illustrations by Sally Blakemore Packaged set of six signed illustrations from the book Getting into Heaven—and Out Again $55 plus $5.50 shipping 8 x 10 inch Canon prints on archival paper To Order Please email orders to: artyprojects@cybermesa.com PayPal account artyprojects@cybermesa.com or mail a check with your order
- [E. Kent Rogers in Publishers Weekly: Starred Review and Interview](https://swedenborg.com/e-kent-rogers-in-publishers-weekly-starred-review-and-interview/): Another interview with author E. Kent Rogers in Publishers Weekly, Religion Bookline about his new book, 12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth: Paths of Healing from the Gospels.
- [Bridge Books Award Ceremony 2012](https://swedenborg.com/bridge-books-award-ceremony-2012/): The Award Ceremony for the 2012 Bridge Book Awards took place on April 5, 2012 at Cairnwood Estate in Bryn Athyn. After a wine, cheese and dessert reception, participants and guests settled in to honor the three first place winners.
- [Explore Paradise with Author Sylvia Montgomery Shaw](https://swedenborg.com/explore-paradise-with-author-sylvia-montgomery-shaw/): In Paradise Misplaced, author Sylvia Montgomery Shaw follows the lives of two lovers caught in the throes of the Mexican Revolution of the early 1900s. We sat down to learn more about her inspiration for this book, the first of a trilogy.
- [Summertime and the Readin' is Good! Part 1](https://swedenborg.com/summer-reading-1/): Looking for a different kind of summer reading to expand your spiritual horizons? Check out our selection of books to get you thinking and learning while you enjoy the sun and waves, or cool off inside with the air conditioning. Most of these titles are available in print and as low-cost or free e-books!
- [Summertime and the Readin' is Good! Part 2](https://swedenborg.com/summer-reading-2/): More recommendations for a different kind of summer reading to expand your spiritual horizons, now including audio books! If you missed it, part one recommends fiction and books that will introduce you to Swedenborg's ideas. Most of these titles are available in print and as low-cost or free e-books!
- [Happy Birthday D.T. Suzuki](https://swedenborg.com/happy-birthday-d-t-suzuki/): Born on this day, Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966) is credited with introducing the West to Zen Buddhism. Suzuki pursued his religious and philosophical studies at Tokyo University. He spent ten years living in the United States, where he worked as an oriental studies editor for Open Court Press. It was during that time that he was introduced to Emanuel Swedenborg's writings, and upon his return to Japan, he undertook the translation of Heaven and Hell, The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine, Divine Love and Wisdom, and Divine Providence into Japanese
- [Eben Alexander Visits Bryn Athyn: Talk highlights the spiritual side of near-death experiences](https://swedenborg.com/eben-alexander-visits-bryn-athyn-talk-highlights-the-spiritual-side-of-near-death-experiences/): Eben Alexander, the neuroscientist whose near-death experience (NDE) became the basis for the bestselling book Proof of Heaven, spoke to a packed audience in Bryn Athyn on April 6, 2014.
- [Happy Birthday George Inness!](https://swedenborg.com/happy-birthday-george-inness/): Today is the birthday of American landscape painter George Inness (May 1, 1825-August 3, 1894). Born in New York and raised in New Jersey, Inness has been called "the father of American landscape painting." He is sometimes categorized as a Tonalist because of his moody dark scenes and his work often emphasizes the connection between nature and spirit.
- [Swedenborg on Social Inequality](https://swedenborg.com/swedenborg-social-inequality/): Pope Francis recently created a stir with a Latin tweet (yes, the pontiff has a Twitter account) that read “Iniquitas radix malorum,” or, in the English version, “Inequality is the root of social evil.” While fiscally conservative Catholics expressed discomfort with the economic implications of the statement, it’s firmly in line with Pope Francis’s emphasis on ministering to the poor. What would Swedenborg say?
- [Wadström Conference Explores Swedenborgianism and Abolition](https://swedenborg.com/wadstrom-conference/): The International Carl Bernhard Wadström Conference on Human Rights and the Abolition of Slavery was held in London on June 2-4.
- [Updated Classics for Your Collection](https://swedenborg.com/updated-classics-for-your-collection/): We are pleased to offer you the following classic works now with redesigned interiors, new covers, and editorial updates! Best of all, each reprint can be instantly downloaded at no cost or low cost in e-book format.
- [Free Swedenborg Gift Books Are In; Become a Member Today!](https://swedenborg.com/gift-book-membership-2015/): It's not too late to join the Swedenborg Foundation for our 2015 membership year! Learn more about exclusive membership benefits.
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- [Excerpt from The Lives of Angels pages 124-127](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/excerpt-from-the-lives-of-angels-pages-124-127/): When angels and spirits talk with us, it sounds just as audible as when we talk with each other, but it is not audible to people who are nearby, only to ourselves. This is because the speech of an angel or spirit flows first into our thought and then by an inner route into our
- [Excerpt from The Lives of Angels pages 131-133](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/excerpt-from-the-lives-of-angels-pages-131-133/): There are good spirits and evil spirits with every individual. We have our union with heaven through the good spirits and our union with hell through the evil ones. These spirits are in the world of spirits, which is intermediate between heaven and hell. When these spirits come to us, they come into our whole
- [Excerpt from The Lives of Angels pages 7, 10-12](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/excerpt-lives-angels-pages-7-10-12/): [Swedenborg tells the story of six groups of people in heaven who are sharing their ideas of what life in heaven is like. Each group is then allowed to experience what it would be like if their preconceptions were true.] After this speech, the second group from the north gave the following interpretation based on
- [Worship of the Lord is Being Useful](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/worship-of-the-lord-is-being-useful/): An excerpt from Secrets of Heaven by Emanuel Swedenborg, section #7038 True worship consists in the performance of useful functions, thus in the exercises of charity. Anyone who believes that serving the Lord consists solely in frequenting a place of worship, in hearing preaching there, and in praying, and that this is sufficient, is much
- [Whatever We Aim at Is Our Life](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/whatever-we-aim-at-is-our-life/): An excerpt from Secrets of Heaven by Emanuel Swedenborg, section #1317 The Lord regards nothing in us but our goal. No matter what thoughts we have thought or deeds we have done in all their countless permutations, as long as our purpose is good, these things are all good. When our purpose is bad, on
- [We Are Still Human after Death](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/still-human-death/): An excerpt from Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg, section #456 Years and years of daily experience have witnessed to me that after separation from the body the human spirit is a person and is in a similar form. I have seen this thousands of times, I have heard such spirits, and I have talked
- [True Repentance Is Examining Not Only Our Actions But Our Intentions](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/true-repentance-examining-actions-intentions/): Excerpt from Regeneration, pages 33-36 The reason why true repentance is to examine not only the actions of our life but also the intentions of our will is that our understanding and our will produce our actions. We speak from our thought and we act from our will; therefore our speech is our thought speaking,
- [The Wisdom of Heaven's Angels](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/wisdom-heavens-angels/): An excerpt from Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg, sections #268–69 and 272–74) We may gather how great angels’ wisdom is from the fact that in heaven there is a communication that involves everyone. The intelligence and wisdom of one individual is shared with another: heaven is where everyone shares everything of value. This is
- [The Power of Heaven's Angels](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/power-heavens-angels/): An excerpt from Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg, sections #229–33 In the spiritual world angels have so much power that if I were to highlight everything I have seen, it would strain credulity. If anything there is in the way and needs to be removed because it is opposed to the divine design, they
- [The Lord's Nature is Love](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/lords-nature-love/): An excerpt from Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg, sections #17–19 All my experience in heaven bears witness to the fact that the divine nature that comes from the Lord, affects angels, and constitutes heaven, is love. In fact, all the people there are forms of love and thoughtfulness. They look indescribably beautiful. Love radiates
- [The Inner Self and the Outer Self](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/inner-self-outer-self/): An excerpt from New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine by Emanuel Swedenborg, sections #36-46 We are created in such a way that we are in the spiritual world and the earthly world at one and the same time. The spiritual world is where angels are and the earthly world is where we are. And since
- [Task 6: Stop Giving Advice](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/task-6-stop-giving-advice/): Excerpt from The Joy of Spiritual Living, pp. 77–80, by Frank Rose and Bob Maginel Spend the next twenty-four hours observing your impulse to give advice, directly or indirectly. After that first day of self-observation, stop giving advice for a whole week. Keep in mind that you are doing this task for the sake of your
- [Our Ruling Love](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/ruling-love/): Excerpt from Regeneration pages 5-9, originally from New Jerusalem sections 54-61, 65-71 Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings. It is, however, specifically our ruling or dominant love that makes us who we are. That love has
- [Our Revival from the Dead and Entry into Eternal Life](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/entry-into-eternal-life/): An excerpt from Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg, sections #445–52 When someone’s body can no longer perform its functions in the natural world in response to the thoughts and affections of its spirit (which it derives from the spiritual world), then we say that the individual has died. This happens when the lungs’ breathing
- [Joy in Heaven](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/joy-in-heaven/): An excerpt from Secrets of Heaven by Emanuel Swedenborg, sections #452–54 I spoke with some spirits who thought heaven and heavenly joy consisted in being greatest. But I told them that the greatest in heaven is the one who is least. Whoever wants to be least has the greatest happiness. Since the person with the
- [How Heaven is Connected to Us](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/heaven-connected-us/): An excerpt from Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg, sections #303-6 People who think from their deeper rationality can see that there is a connection of all things, through intermediate ones, with a First, and that anything that is not so connected will disintegrate. When they think about it, they know that nothing can exist on
- [Excerpt from The Lives of Angels pages 80-84](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/excerpt-from-the-lives-of-angels-pages-80-84/): In most cases, two partners will meet after death, recognize each other, and resume their relationship by living together for a while. This happens in their first state, when they are focused on external matters the way they were in the world. We undergo two states after death, one outer and one inner. We enter
- [Excerpt from Our Life After Death pages 50-53](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/excerpt-from-our-life-after-death-pages-50-53/): Love is what makes us who we are; faith does so only to the extent that it arises from love, and deeds and works come from both. It follows from this that love or intent is the actual person, for the things that come forth belong to the person they come forth from. To come
- [Excerpt from Our Life After Death pages 47-52](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/excerpt-from-our-life-after-death-pages-47-52/): We can see that our outward life consists of our works and deeds, and that the quality of our inner life is manifested through them. “Works and deeds,” though, does not mean works and deeds solely the way they look in outward form. It also includes their deeper nature. Everyone knows, really, that all our
- [Excerpt from Our Life After Death pages 15-19](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/excerpt-from-our-life-after-death-pages-15-19/): When someone’s body can no longer perform its functions in the natural world in response to the thoughts and affections of its spirit (which it derives from the spiritual world), then we say that the individual has died. This happens when the lungs’ breathing and the heart’s systolic motion have ceased. The person, though, has
- [Excerpt from Our Life After Death pages 109-111](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/excerpt-from-our-life-after-death-pages-109-111/): Some people believe it is hard to lead the heaven-bound life that is called “spiritual” because they have heard that we need to renounce the world and give up the desires attributed to the body and the flesh and “live spiritually.” All they understand by this is spurning worldly interests, especially concerns for money and
- [Excerpt from Our Life After Death pages 104-108](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/excerpt-from-our-life-after-death-pages-104-108/): First, though, let me state what divine mercy is. Divine mercy is a pure mercy toward the whole human race with the intent of saving it, and it is constant toward every individual, never withdrawing from anyone. This means that everyone who can be saved is saved. However, no one can be saved except by
- [Evils Are Permitted for a Purpose](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/evils-are-permitted-for-a-purpose/): An excerpt from Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg, sections #275–8 If we were born loving, as we were when we were created, we would not be prone to any evil. We would not even know what evil is, because if we have not been drawn to evil and therefore are not inclined to evil, there is no
- [Communities in Heaven](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/communities-heaven/): An excerpt from Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg, sections #41–50 The angels of any given heaven are not all together in one place, but are separated into larger and smaller communities depending on differences in the good effects of the love and faith they are engaged in. Angels engaged in similar activities form a single community.
- [Children in Heaven](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/children-in-heaven/): An excerpt from Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg, sections #329–45 (download a booklet here) Some people believe that only children born in the church get into heaven, not children born outside the church. They say this is because children born in the church are baptized and are introduced into the faith of the church by this
- [Charity Consists in Being Useful](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/charity-consists-in-being-useful/): An excerpt from Secrets of Heaven by Emanuel Swedenborg, section #997 People who have charity inside, that is, love for their neighbor (which is the source of any living kind of appeal in the lower pleasures) look at the enjoyment of pleasure solely in terms of its usefulness. Charity, after all, is nothing without the work of
- [Amazing Sights in Heaven](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/amazing-sights-heaven/): An excerpt from Secrets of Heaven by Emanuel Swedenborg, sections #1620–30 There are more objects to be seen in the world of spirits and heaven than can be listed. As the present subject is light, let me tell about the things that arise directly out of the light, such as atmospheres, parks, rainbows, palaces, and
- [All of Heaven is in a Human Form](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/all-of-heaven-is-in-a-human-form/): An excerpt from Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg, sections #29-77 There Are Three Heavens The Heavens Are Made Up of Countless Communities Each Community Is a Heaven in Smaller Form and Each Angel a Heaven in Smallest Form The Whole Heaven, Grasped as a Single Entity, Reflects a Single Individual Each Community in the Heavens Reflects
- [Short Excerpts and Downloads](https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/writings/short-excerpts-and-downloads/): Excerpts from Swedenborg’s Writings Entry into Eternal Life (Heaven and Hell #445-52): Swedenborg describes the experience of dying in this world and being reawakened in the next. We Are Still Human After Death (Heaven and Hell #456): Humanity is preserved in the afterlife. Children in Heaven (Heaven and Hell #329-45): What happens to children when they cross over? Evils are Permitted
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## Quotes

- [November 17th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/november-17th/): The inmost recesses are where heavenly joy comes from.
- [November 15th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/30104/): No one receives comfort from anything but what she or he loves.
- [May 27th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-27/): The indications that our sins have been forgiven are as follows: we take pleasure in worshiping God for his sake, in serving our neighbors for their sake, and therefore in doing good for the sake of good and believing truth for the sake of truth.
- [October 24th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-24/): We can look evil even when we are good inside. That is why no one is ever allowed to judge the quality of another’s spiritual life. Again, only the Lord knows this. Everyone, though, is allowed to judge the quality of another’s private and public life, since this is a matter of concern to human
- [December 31st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-31/): Heaven’s union with us and our union with it are of such a nature that each relies on the other.
- [December 30th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-30/): I can assert positively that spirits are much better at seeing than are people in their bodies, and at hearing, smelling (which must come as a surprise), and particularly feeling, since they do see, hear, and touch each other. This is a conclusion that anyone who believes in life after death would reach by considering
- [December 29th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-29/): There was a numerous crowd of spirits around me that sounded like a sort of chaotic stream. The spirits complained that everything was now going to ruin, because everything seemed disconnected among them, which made them fearful that the end was coming. They thought there would be total destruction, as is usual in these situations.
- [December 28th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-28/): According to the pattern that everything in the next life follows, evil actually punishes itself, as does falsity, so that evil and falsity carry their own punishment.
- [December 27th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-27/): The Lord denies heaven to no one. What makes it impossible for people to be in heaven is rather their life force and the communication of this life force, sensed there the way a smell is sensed on earth by people exposed to it. The evil of their life tortures such people more in heaven
- [December 26th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-26/): There is a communication of everyone in heaven with each individual and of each individual with everyone.
- [December 25th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-25/): Angels engaged in similar activities form a single community. There is an infinite variety of good activities in heaven, and each individual is, so to speak, his or her own activity.
- [December 24th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-24/): The whole of heaven and its individual inhabitants without exception trace their origin to the Lord alone, in general and in the smallest particulars. This is the source of order, of unity, of mutual love, and of happiness, because this is what causes individuals to look to the health and happiness of all, and all
- [December 23rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-23/): All the inhabitants of heaven are led by means of goodness, because such leading is in accord with the divine plan. Everything they think and do therefore flows spontaneously and freely. The case would be entirely different if they based their thoughts and deeds on truth, because they would then wonder whether they should act
- [December 22nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-22/): Heaven’s inhabitants do not command or order anyone but communicate their thinking, and the other person acts on the thought voluntarily. To communicate one’s thoughts, while wanting the other person to wish for something specific to happen, is influence. On the part of the person receiving the message, it is perception. In heaven their words
- [December 21st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-21/): In heaven, I have seen people who had subscribed to nontruth and even to falsity, and this includes both Christians and non-Christians. The reason was that although they had held to nontruth in their theology, they had exhibited goodness in their lives.
- [December 20th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-20/): There are so many heavens, which the Word refers to as homes (John 14:2). The individuals there are each in their element when they are in their heaven and come under the influence of heaven as a whole. Everyone there is a focal point for the influence of all and is therefore in perfect balance.
- [December 19th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-19/): Angels have in their present both past and future. For this reason, they do not worry about events that are yet to come. They never think about death but only about life. Thus for them, every present moment contains the Lord’s eternity and infinity.
- [December 18th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-18/): Because there is no physical space in the spiritual world— there is only apparent space—an angel or a spirit can be visibly present with another in a moment, provided she or he comes into the same state of love and thought as that other, since love and thought create the appearance of space.
- [December 17th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-17/): There are two things that seem indispensable to us while we are living in the world, because they are hallmarks of our nature. Those two are space and time. To live in space and time, then, is to live in the world—the physical world. Both disappear in the other life. In the world of spirits
- [December 16th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-16/): Because the upright, when they go to the next life, at first return to the life they had in this world and so to what they loved and relished during that life, they cannot associate with angels yet, not even in their breathing. First they have to be prepared. In the course of preparation they
- [December 15th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-15/): When people go to the other world, external shackles no longer hamper them, because such shackles are then removed from them so that each individual’s nature can reveal itself.
- [December 14th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-14/): If we think about something without putting it into act— especially if we think about it without any desire to act—it lies entirely outside us and blows away like straw scattered by a puff of wind. In the other world, too, it scatters away.
- [December 13th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-13/): We are not born with actual evils but only with a tendency toward them. We may have a greater or a lesser tendency to a specific evil. Therefore after death no one is judged on the basis of his or her inherited evil; we are judged only on the basis of our actual evils, the
- [December 12th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-12/): We each take the memory of all our deeds with us into the other life, so we take the book of our life. However, the Lord alone and no one else can judge us all by our actions. This is because everything we do proceeds from final causes that lie deeply hidden inside. It is
- [December 11th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-11/): Few of us go right to heaven when we arrive in the next life. Instead we spend some time below heaven being wiped clean of the taints left by earthly and bodily types of love, brought with us from the world.
- [December 10th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-10/): The only relationships and kinships and friendships in the other life are spiritual ones, and are therefore matters of love and faith.
- [December 9th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-09/): In the spiritual world where we all arrive after death, no one asks what our faith has been or what our beliefs have been, only what our life has been, whether we are one kind of person or another. They know that the quality of our faith and the quality of our beliefs depend on
- [December 8th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-08/): In an inner sense, old age does not mean old age, because our inner self or spirit does not know what old age is. As our body, or outer self, ages, we pass on to a new stage of life. Our spirit improves with age while our body deteriorates, and it improves even more in
- [December 7th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-07/): Our life awaits each of us after death, not our theology, or at least no more of it than partakes of our life.
- [December 6th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-06/): Our life awaits each of us after death—not our public life, which lay on the surface, visible to the world, but our spiritual life, which lay inside, invisible to the world.
- [December 5th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-05/): Separation or death occurs when the body either by disease or by trauma reaches a state when it can no longer act in concert with its spirit. In this way, the correspondence ceases; and when the correspondence ceases, so does the union. This is not when the breathing alone stops, but when the heartbeat stops,
- [December 4th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-04/): Our spirit appears in human form in the next life, just as it did in the world.
- [December 3rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-03/): Regarding the soul, which is said to live on after death: it is nothing but the real person, who lives inside the body, or in other words the inner self, which operates in the world through the body and enables the body to live.
- [December 2nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-02/): Heaven is not in any set, specific place, so it is not on high, as most people believe. No, heaven is where the Deity is. So it is present with and within everyone who has neighborly love and faith. Neighborly love and faith are heaven, because they are from the Deity and provide a dwelling
- [December 1st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/12-01/): The spiritual world is right where we are, not distanced from us in the least. In short, as far as the deeper levels of our minds are concerned we are all in that world, surrounded by angels and spirits there. We think because of the light of that world and love because of its warmth.
- [November 30th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-30/): The brain, like heaven, exists in an environment of purpose, useful purpose. Anything that flows in from the Lord embraces as its aim the salvation of the human race. This is the goal that reigns supreme in heaven and therefore in the brain as well. After all, the brain, where the human mind resides, has
- [November 29th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-29/): Before the organic forms of the body came into being, their purpose existed, and this purpose brought those forms into being and adapted them to itself, rather than the other way around. It looks as though the forms or organs precede their purpose, but they do not.
- [November 28th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-28/): Love has service as its goal.
- [November 27th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-27/): In love for our fellow humans there is life, but never in truth without that love.
- [November 26th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-26/): Knowledge must have usefulness as its goal. When it has usefulness as its goal, it has life as its goal, since life has everything to do with being useful, because it has everything to do with purpose. If we do not acquire knowledge for the sake of a useful life, the knowledge lacks any importance,
- [November 25th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-25/): The soul should be our purpose. Except that the soul should not be a final, but only an intermediate purpose. We should take care of our soul not for its own sake, but for the sake of services we then perform in both worlds. And when being useful is our goal, the Lord is our
- [November 24th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-24/): The reason the aim determines whether a desire is real, feigned, or deceitful is that our purpose is our very life. What we live for—in other words, what we love—is what we hold as our goal. When the welfare of our neighbor, the larger community, the church, and the Lord’s kingdom forms our goal, our
- [November 23rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-23/): If you take the love away, there is no longer any intention, so there is no action.
- [November 22nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-22/): The purposes we have are actually the different kinds of love we feel, because what we love, we hold as our purpose. And since the things we love constitute the core of our life, so do our goals.
- [November 21st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-21/): This shows why our purpose determines our happiness or unhappiness in the next life. The purpose is the core of every cause. In fact, if the purpose is not present in the cause—is not the all-in-all of the cause—it is not a cause. The purpose is likewise the core of every effect, because the effect
- [November 20th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-20/): The very purpose we love circumscribes our life and distinguishes us from others.
- [November 19th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-19/): The purpose makes the person, and the nature of the purpose determines the nature of the person and therefore the nature of the person’s humanity after death.
- [November 18th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-18/): Because angels love the Lord and share in that love with others, they also possess all truth. As a result they possess all wisdom and understanding, covering not only heavenly and spiritual subjects but also rational and earthly ones. Love puts angels at the actual origins or source of these things; that is, it makes
- [November 16th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-16/): When we gain our most profound joy, we are in our own heavenly joy; we cannot bear any deeper variety, which would only end up turning painful for us.
- [November 14th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-14/): We are all distinguished from each other in the next life according to our type of freedom. To put the same thing another way, we are distinguished according to what we love and desire. Consequently, we are distinguished according to the pleasures of our life, which is the same as saying we are distinguished according
- [November 13th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-13/): All of our freedom has our life at its center, because it has our love at its center. Whatever we do out of love seems free to us. Heavenly love is present within that freedom when we force ourselves to resist evil and falsity and to do good. At such a time, heavenly love is
- [November 12th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-12/): The emotions involved in real love draw us out of our bodily and worldly concerns, lifting our mind toward heaven and freeing us from the restraints of time. Time is an appearance we fall into when we reflect on things we do not feel moved by or love—in other words, things that are tedious. When
- [November 11th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-11/): Neither time and the passage of time nor space and extension in space can be used to describe our inner depths, or our feelings and the thoughts they produce. They do not exist in time or in a place, even though they seem to do so, as far as our worldly senses can tell. Rather
- [November 10th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-10/): There are two things that seem indispensable to us while we are living in the world, because they are hallmarks of our nature. Those two are space and time. To live in space and time, then, is to live in the world—the physical world. Both disappear in the other life. Instead they have states. States
- [November 9th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-09/): I was shown what the form of heaven is like in its lowest realm; it resembled the pattern of folds seen in human brains. A perceptible view of its flow or circular motion was granted to me, the demonstration lasting several days. From this experience I could tell that the form of the brain matches
- [November 8th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-08/): When people who are several hundred or several thousand miles apart appear before the inner senses, they can be so close (depending on their spiritual location) that they sometimes touch. As a result, if several people were to have their inner eyes opened on earth, they could congregate and talk together, even if one were
- [November 7th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-07/): In the spiritual world one individual is present to another if only that presence is intensely desired. This is because one person sees another in thought in this way and identifies with that individual’s state.
- [November 6th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-06/): Even if the human population grew indefinitely, no one would have the same face as another. No one would have the same inner face, that is, the same personality as another, or even the same voice. This variation is even more unbounded when it comes to truth and goodness, which belong to the spiritual world.
- [November 5th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-05/): People who are in correspondence—whose outer self harmonizes with their inner self—have a spirit that is radiant and beautiful, as heavenly love is when embodied.
- [November 4th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-04/): A human being is nothing else but an organ or vessel that receives life from the Lord; we do not live on our own. The life that flows into us from the Lord comes from his divine love. This love, or the life that radiates from it, flows in and bestows itself on the vessels
- [November 3rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-03/): It is from the core essence of Jehovah, or the Lord, that every human is human and can be called human. The heavenly trait that makes us human is loving the Lord and loving our neighbor. To love others is to be human, because for one thing, to love them is to be an image
- [November 2nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-02/): Everything good and true comes down from the Lord and goes up to him. In other words, he is the first and the last. Humankind was created so that the Lord’s divine qualities could descend through us right to the outermost level of the physical world and climb from the outermost level of the world
- [November 1st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/11-01/): Every one of our ideas, every one of our feelings, and indeed every shred of feeling in us, no matter how small, is an image and portrait of us. To put it another way, each of these contains an element—whether closely or distantly related—of every thought in our intellect and every impetus of our will.
- [August 8th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-08/): In earliest times, there was no Word. Instead there was direct revelation to the people of the church, and through it, union. When humankind turned aside from the goodness it had possessed, this direct revelation died. It was replaced by another kind. When all this happened, the Lord provided for a Word to be written
- [October 31st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-31/): When our inner self unites with our outer self, day breaks on us, because we then enter a state that is spiritual, or heavenly. We can even see a dawnlike glow, if our state allows us to perceive it. If not, our intellect is at least enlightened, and we seem to ourselves like one who
- [October 30th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-30/): Truth comes into its proper light when love comes into its proper clarity.
- [October 29th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-29/): When bodily concerns have been removed, our inner levels are bathed in light.
- [October 28th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-28/): Affirmation and acknowledgment are the first general step in a person who is being reborn, but the last in a person who has been reborn. A person who is being reborn, you see, starts with affirmation that sacred faith and goodness of life exist, but a regenerate person, who is spiritual, possesses real spiritual goodness
- [October 27th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-27/): The situation is that when the earthly self adopts spiritual qualities, everything produced by evil cravings and false convictions—and so everything that disquiets us— goes away. Everything involved in a desire for what is good and true—and so everything that creates peace— approaches. All disquiet is the result of evil and falsity, while all peace
- [October 26th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-26/): I have also seen angels scatter some hundreds of thousands of evil spirits and cast them into hell. A vast multitude is powerless against them. The skills and wiles and alliances of evil spirits amount to nothing.
- [October 25th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-25/): People undergoing this kind of devastation or purging are reduced even to the point of despair, and when they reach that stage, they then accept comfort and help from the Lord. Eventually they are taken from that state to heaven, where among the angels they essentially relearn what there is to know about religious goodness
- [October 23rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-23/): And took bread and a flask of water symbolizes what is good and true. The text speaks of a flask of water because the amount of truth we are given is very small to start with. Specifically, we are given as much as we can handle at that point, which is what putting it on
- [October 22nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-22/): The issue in spiritual challenges is dominance, or which is going to be in charge—the inner or the outer self, which is to say the spiritual or the earthly self, since they oppose one another. When we are being tested, the Lord governs our inner, spiritual self through angels, and our outer, earthly self through
- [October 21st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-21/): The main purpose of devastation and desolation is to shatter the veneer of self-serving dogmatism. Another purpose is to make it possible for people to receive a perception of goodness and truth, which they cannot do until the self-serving dogmatism is softened up, so to speak. A state of distress and grief that intensifies to
- [October 20th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-20/): The evil spirits who are with us—and through whom we communicate with hell—think of us as nothing more than contemptible slaves. They pour their appetites and delusions into us and so lead us wherever they want. In contrast, the angels through whom we communicate with heaven consider us sisters and brothers. They instill in us
- [October 19th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-19/): Trial brings with it doubt concerning the Lord’s presence and mercy and concerning salvation. The evil spirits then present with us, who bring on the crisis, inspire strong negativity. Good spirits and angels, however, on behalf of the Lord, use every method they can to do away with this doubt, keep hope always alive in
- [October 18th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-18/): At first when we are being reborn, we experience a tranquil state, but as we enter into our new life, we also enter a disquieted state. The evil and falsity we previously absorbed emerge into the open and agitate us. In fact, we eventually suffer trials and harassment inflicted by the Devil’s crew, which constantly
- [October 17th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-17/): It takes wisdom to know what our own aims are. Sometimes our goal seems selfish when it is not, because out of custom and habit we naturally ponder what something means for us at every step. However, if you want to know what your ultimate goal is, simply notice the kind of pleasure you feel
- [October 16th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-16/): The love that is a matter of intent is raised only by abstaining from evils as sins and then by those good activities of thoughtfulness that are acts of service, acts that we are then performing from the Lord.
- [October 15th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-15/): The act comes first; our will to do it comes afterward. What we do at the urging of our intellect we eventually do with our will and finally take on as a habit. At that point it is infused into our inner, rational self. Once it has been infused we no longer do what is
- [October 14th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-14/): If we believed the way things really are, that everything good comes from God and everything evil from hell, then we would not take credit for the good within us or blame for the evil. Whenever we thought or did anything good, we would focus on the Lord, and any evil that flowed in we
- [October 13th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-13/): The primary time for trials to occur is when we are becoming spiritual, because we then understand doctrinal truth in spiritual terms. Often we are unaware that we do, but the angels with us see something spiritual in our earthly preoccupations, because our inner levels then lie open to heaven. That is why we end
- [October 12th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-12/): Times of trial occur when we are actively regenerating (no one can be reborn without undergoing trial), and they are brought about by the evil spirits around us. At such times we are brought into the state of evil that is ours, or rather the state of evil characterizing the part of us that is
- [October 11th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-11/): Trials are the divine means for removing falsity.
- [October 10th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-10/): We ought to compel ourselves to do good, obey what the Lord has commanded, and speak truly. In so doing we are humbling ourselves under the Lord’s hands, or in other words, submitting to the authority of divine goodness and truth. This fact embraces more hidden information than can possibly be explained in a few
- [October 9th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-09/): We cannot undergo times of trial unless we have a goodness based on truth—that is, unless we have a love or desire for truth. If we do not love or desire truth as we know it, we do not care about it; but if we do love it, we are anxious that it not be
- [October 8th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-08/): The last part of a state means when a previous state ends and a new one begins. A new state begins in a person being reborn when things turn upside-down, which happens when inner attributes take control of outer attributes, and outer attributes start to serve inner ones, in the area both of the intellect
- [October 7th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-07/): It is generally recognized that we perceive within ourselves the things that our eyes see and our ears hear, that these things more or less pass from the world through our eyes or ears into our thoughts and so into our intellect. If it is something we love, it passes from there into our will
- [October 6th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-06/): The purpose of spiritual crisis is to subdue bodily concerns.
- [October 5th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-05/): People have three overall dimensions: the bodily, the earthly, and the rational. The bodily dimension is on the outside, the earthly is in the middle, and the rational is inside. To the extent that one dimension dominates over another in us, we are described as being body-centered, earthly, or rational.
- [October 4th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-04/): It is an eternal truth that life is not ours; but if it did not seem to be, we would have no life at all.
- [October 3rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-03/): If we abstain from evils as sins and turn to the Lord, the spiritual level is opened, and ultimately the heavenly level. This opening is accomplished by a spiritual life, a life in accord with divine precepts, and that unless we live by those precepts, we remain centered on the physical world.
- [October 2nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-02/): In anyone who is reforming and becoming spiritual the dead part is buried, so to speak, and a new, living part rises again. So in place of the night in such a person, or in place of the dark and cold, morning dawns with its life and warmth.
- [October 1st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/10-01/): The death of what we consider during our worldly existence to be the all-in-all of life is when we actually first start to live. The life we then take up is indescribable and unlimited, by comparison, and we are totally unaware of it as long as we are involved in evil.
- [September 30th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-30/): The church is an image of heaven, because it is the Lord’s kingdom on earth. Heaven is divided into many overall communities and into smaller subgroups, but goodness still unifies them. Religious truth there accords with goodness, because it has goodness as its origin and its goal. If heaven were divided up along the lines
- [September 29th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-29/): The Lord’s church is plainly not “here or there” (Luke 17:12) but everywhere where people live by the commandments of neighborly love. That is why the Lord’s church lies scattered throughout the globe and yet is one church. When religion consists in life, not in theology separated from life, the church is unified.
- [September 28th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-28/): The Lord’s church exists with everyone who is in a state that welcomes neighborly love and faith from him. Such an individual is actually a church, and individuals in larger numbers who have the church in them make up a composite church.
- [September 27th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-27/): The Lord is omnipresent; and everywhere he is present, he is present with his entire essence. It is impossible for him to take out some of his essence and give part of it to one person and another part to another. He gives it all. He also gives us the ability to adopt as much
- [September 26th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-26/): We are all given the means of salvation, and the nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
- [September 25th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-25/): The Lord’s mercy is universal.
- [September 24th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-24/): When goodness and truth have formed a bond in us, we have a new will and a new intellect, so we have new life. When that is the sort of person we are, there is worship of God in every deed we do. This is because at every point we are then looking to the
- [September 23rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-23/): The reason we do not become rational to the highest degree we are capable of is that our love, which is a matter of our intent, cannot be raised up in the same way as our wisdom, which is a matter of our discernment. The love that is a matter of intent is raised only
- [September 22nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-22/): A life of neighborly love involves thinking well of people, wanting what is good for them, and feeling personal joy in the notion that others too are saved. If we wish to see no one saved but those who believe as we do, and particularly if we resent any other arrangement, our life is not
- [September 21st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-21/): Mutual love is the foundation of heaven. Heaven itself abides and consists in mutual love, as does all its good fellowship and like-mindedness. Anything in the other world that destroys unity violates the pattern of heaven itself and consequently aims at the destruction of the whole.
- [September 20th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-20/): When there is a will for evil, goodness and truth divide rather than unite. When there is any will for goodness, though, they do not divide but unite, even if they are arranged upside-down, because they are the means of our rebirth. So arranged, they serve to regenerate us in the beginning.
- [September 19th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-19/): People who live good lives do not condemn anyone with a different opinion but leave it up to that person’s beliefs and conscience. They extend the same tolerance even to people outside the church.
- [September 18th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-18/): Just as an earthly love can rise up by levels and become spiritual and heavenly, it can also go down by levels and become sensory and physical. It goes down to the extent that it loves being in control with no love of service, simply for love of ourselves.
- [September 17th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-17/): People do not know what the spiritual and earthly planes are, let alone how they differ, what correspondence is, or what inflow is. They do not know that when the spiritual level acts on the organic forms of the body, it enables them to function in a living way, to all appearances; or that without
- [September 16th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-16/): Whatever the goodness in us is like, such is the community of angels with us; and whatever the evil in us is like, such is the community of evil spirits with us. We ourselves summon these communities to us, or place ourselves in the company of such beings, because like associates with like. Changes in
- [September 15th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-15/): We have spirits and angels around us, our inner self lives among them, and the Lord governs us through them. As to our inner levels, or as to our thoughts and feelings, we each exist in community with these beings, even though we are unaware of it. Everything we think and will comes from there—so
- [September 14th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-14/): Worship of the Lord actually consists in useful behavior. To be useful while living in the world means to do your job properly whatever your position is, and in this way serve your country, its communities, and your neighbor from the heart; to deal honestly with your companion; and to help others in a prudent
- [September 13th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-13/): All the people in heaven who are engaged in being of service because they enjoy doing it derive from their collective body a wisdom and happiness greater than that of others. As far as they are concerned, being of service means being honest, fair, proper, and faithful in whatever task is appropriate to their station.
- [September 12th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-12/): Not only does the whole of heaven in general breathe like one person, but individual communities that are in contact with each other breathe together, as do any angels and spirits who are in contact with each other.
- [September 11th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-11/): The whole of heaven is such that each member is like a focal point for all the others, since each is a focal point for influences coming from all the others by way of heaven’s form. This brings the image of heaven out in everyone, causing each individual to resemble heaven—in other words, to be
- [September 10th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-10/): A form is more perfect as its constituents are distinguishably different but still united in some particular way. In support of this, angels have cited the communities in the heavens. Taken all together, these communities make up the form of heaven. They have also cited the angels in each community, saying that the more clearly
- [September 9th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-09/): Love and charity are the essential ingredients of all theology and worship. If we took this as a premise, our minds would then be enlightened by vast numbers of passages in the Word that otherwise lie hidden in the murk of false assumptions. In fact, heresy would then vanish. All the churches would join into
- [September 8th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-08/): The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves—that is loving.
- [September 7th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-07/): Mutual love and charity bring such people together into one despite the variety among them, because it draws unity out of variety. When everyone practices charity, or loves each other, then no matter how many people there are—even if they number in the hundreds of millions— they share a single goal: the common good, the
- [September 6th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-06/): Everything in us, whether in our outer or inner self, corresponds with the universal human. Nothing ever comes into existence or remains in existence if it lacks correspondence with that human—or in other words, with heaven, or in other words, with the spiritual world— because it has no link with anything prior to itself. So
- [September 5th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-05/): In brief, the whole arises from the parts and the parts are sustained by the whole.
- [September 4th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-04/): Not one form or part of a form resembles another precisely enough to be substituted for it without some kind of adjustment, however small. —Secrets of Heaven 3745 Infinite variety could occur only as the result of God the Creator’s infinity. —True Christianity 32
- [September 3rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-03/): All unity is formed out of harmony among many. The way that the many harmonize determines what kind of unity they have. No monolithic unity lasts, only the unity created by harmony.
- [September 2nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-02/): First, there was a marriage of goodness and truth in the universe and in absolutely everything in it that the Lord created. Second, this marriage was broken up in us after creation. Third, it is a goal of divine providence that what has been broken apart should become a whole and therefore that the marriage
- [September 1st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/09-01/): The grand purpose, or the purpose of all elements of creation, is an eternal union of the Creator with the created universe.
- [August 31st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-31/): The Lord’s Word is such that the narratives have their logical sequence and the spiritual contents of the inner meaning have theirs. Our outer self looks at the former; our inner self, at the latter. So the two—the outer self and the inner—correspond to one another, and the Word provides the link. The Word is
- [August 30th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-30/): The Lord’s Word contains real truth. Its literal meaning, though, contains truth adapted to the comprehension of people whose worship is shallow, while its inner meaning contains truth adapted for people with depth—people whose theology and life are both angelic. The rational minds of the latter consequently brim with so much light that it rivals
- [August 29th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-29/): There are two dimensions to the inner meaning of the Word: the spiritual and the heavenly. The spiritual dimension is to decipher the inner message as drawn out of the literal meaning (which serves as a springboard for the message, just as objects of sight sometimes serve as springboards for loftier thoughts). The heavenly dimension
- [August 28th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-28/): The inner meaning is not only the sense hidden within the outer meaning but is also the sense that springs from a range of passages in their literal meaning properly compared with each other.
- [August 27th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-27/): Those who read the Word in order to become wise—that is, to do good and understand truth—receive instruction matched to their goals and desires. The Lord flows into them unawares, enlightening their minds. When they become stuck on a problem, he helps them understand it from other passages.
- [August 26th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-26/): When people stay with Scripture’s literal meaning alone and do not seek out an inner meaning from other passages in the Word to explain it, they are delusional.
- [August 25th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-25/): We can train our mind or thoughts on the symbolism if only we believe that the divinity of scriptural narrative is due not just to the story but to something spiritual and divine in the story. If we believed this, we would see that the spiritual, divine component has to do with goodness and truth
- [August 24th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-24/): A wilderness symbolizes a state of trial, and the number forty symbolizes the length of time it lasts, however long that is. —Secrets of Heaven 6828 When the notion of time is laid aside, there remains the notion of the state that things were in at that time. —Secrets of Heaven 488:3
- [August 23rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-23/): The reason neatening means preparing and being filled is that the only thing required of us is to clean house, or in other words, to reject evil cravings and the distorted convictions they spawn. When we do, we are filled with good, because good is constantly flowing in from the Lord. What it flows into
- [August 22nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-22/): “Those who have bathed have no need except to have their feet washed” means that people who have reformed need only to have their earthly dimension cleaned. In other words, they need to have evil and falsity removed from there. The Lord then restructures everything through an inflow of spiritual qualities. Besides, washing other people’s
- [August 21st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-21/): The reason being buried means rising again, in an inner sense, is that when the body has died, the soul rises again. When the Word mentions burial, then, angels do not think about the body that is cast off but the soul that rises again. They are immersed in spiritual thinking and therefore in matters
- [August 20th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-20/): All the early churches were churches that represented spiritual things in symbolic ways. Their worship was established with rituals and rules that consisted entirely of correspondences. The same was true for all aspects of the church among the children of Israel: their burnt offerings, sacrifices, food offerings, and drink offerings were correspondences down to the
- [August 19th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-19/): It is common for the Word (particularly the prophetic part) to express a single concept twice, changing only the words. Someone who does not know the mystery involved might suppose it to be empty repetition, but that is not the case. One expression relates to goodness; the other, to truth. Since goodness has to do
- [August 18th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-18/): To say that salvation is to be found in no name but the Lord’s is to say it is found in no other theology—none other than that of mutual love, which is the true theology.
- [August 17th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-17/): When the focus is on truth the name God is used, and when it is on goodness the name Jehovah is used. —Secrets of Heaven 2826 The Lord’s dual name Jesus Christ embraces the same idea. “Jesus” means divine goodness, and “Christ” means divine truth. —Secrets of Heaven 5502
- [August 16th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-16/): When the Word says, “Your name will be,” it means a quality, or “This is what you will be like.” Because a name symbolizes a quality, it embraces everything in the person at once. —Secrets of Heaven 2009 The people of the ancient church took God’s name to stand collectively for every means of worshiping
- [August 15th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-15/): Another piece of evidence that the Word is like this and is therefore different from every other piece of literature has to do with symbolism. Not only do the names have symbolic meaning but every word also has a spiritual sense, so that it means something else in heaven than on earth. This symbolism is
- [August 14th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-14/): There are three categories of ideas that disappear from the Word’s literal meaning when it becomes an inner meaning: those relating to time, to space, and to an individual. This is because there is no time or space in the spiritual world. Both qualities are proper to Nature. The reason the spiritual world does not
- [August 13th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-13/): The inner meaning is not about physical life but about the life of the human soul, or the spiritual life we are destined to live forever. What the Word in its literal meaning does is to depict this life by reference to the substances of bodily life: flesh and blood.
- [August 12th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-12/): The inner meaning that sanctifies the Word is heavenly and divine, and it unites heaven with earth; in other words, it unites angelic minds with human ones and in the process unites human minds with the Lord.
- [August 11th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-11/): The representation and symbolism in the Word come from the representations that emerge in the other world. The people of the earliest church, who were heavenly, and who interacted with spirits and angels while they were still alive in this world, acquired them from there. These representations they handed down to their descendants and eventually
- [August 10th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-10/): The earliest church, which came before the Flood, did not have a written Word but one revealed to all who were in the church. They were heavenly people, so they had a perception of goodness and truth, as do the angels, with whom they also interacted. As a result, they had the Word written on
- [August 9th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-09/): Concerning the Word: In earliest times, when the church was heavenly, there was no Word, because the people of that church had the Word written on their hearts. The Lord taught them directly through heaven what was good and therefore what was true, enabling them to perceive both concepts from love and charity and to
- [August 7th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-07/): The Word finds its fullest expression and power in its literal meaning. There are three meanings in the Word answering to the three levels—a heavenly meaning, a spiritual meaning, and an earthly meaning. Since the Word contains these three meanings by the three vertical levels and their union is through correspondence, the final meaning, the
- [August 6th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-06/): The Word is divine—mainly because everything in it relates not to one nation or one people but to the entire human race as it is, as it was, and as it will be.
- [August 5th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-05/): The Word—which was present with God in the beginning, was God, and was that by which everything was created and the world was made—is divine truth.
- [August 4th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-04/): When we gain access to inward sight (the sight of our spirit), we see the objects of the other world, which could never be presented to the sight of our physical eyes. This is exactly what the visions of the prophets were.
- [August 3rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-03/): Terms or expressions mostly trace the origin of their inner symbolism to the inner self, which mingles with spirits and angels. In every one of us, the spirit, or the actual person that survives the body’s death, lives in community with angels and spirits, even though our outer self is unaware of it. Because our
- [August 2nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-02/): Scripture was written in such a way that the words in it, in sequence, imply a sequence of spiritual concepts invisible to any but those who are knowledgeable about correspondence. It is in correspondence that the divinity of Scripture lies hidden.
- [August 1st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/08-01/): In an ordinary sense, a word is that which the mouth utters, or speech. Since speech is a thought of the mind uttered in words, a word symbolizes the matter being thought about. So in the original language, anything that actually exists and is something is called a word. In an exalted sense, a word
- [July 31st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-31/): Correspondence is all-powerful. In fact, anything that happens on earth in keeping with correspondence prevails in heaven, because correspondence comes from the Deity.
- [July 30th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-30/): Gold symbolizes heavenly good, silver symbolizes spiritual truth, bronze earthly good, iron earthly truth, and stones stand for truth gained through the senses.
- [July 29th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-29/): Water symbolizes matters of intellect. —Secrets of Heaven 2161:2 A sea symbolizes facts in general. —Secrets of Heaven 9653
- [July 28th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-28/): Heaven, or the sky, symbolizes the inner self.
- [July 27th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-27/): Honey stands for a relatively shallow goodness; and oil, for deep goodness.
- [July 26th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-26/): Everything sweet in the physical world corresponds to something pleasant and delightful in the spiritual world.
- [July 25th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-25/): Why does war mean a fight between truth and falsity, and in a negative sense, a fight of falsity against truth? Because that is exactly what war is in a spiritual sense.
- [July 24th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-24/): Ashes symbolize elements left behind in our outer, earthly memory after their purpose has come to an end, elements that need to be removed so as not to block their replacements, which serve a new purpose.
- [July 23rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-23/): To speak generally, wind instruments express various emotional responses to goodness, and stringed instruments, responses to truth.
- [July 22nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-22/): The east corresponds to a state of dawning goodness; the west, to a state of goodness in decline; the south corresponds to a state of truth well lit; but the north, to a state of truth in shadow.
- [July 21st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-21/): The symbolism of length is goodness and of width is truth. —Secrets of Heaven 10179 Corners symbolize strength and firmness. —Secrets of Heaven 9494
- [July 20th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-20/): Three in the Word has the spiritual meaning “being complete and perfect" and also "containing all aspects at once.”
- [July 19th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-19/): Clothes symbolize truth, because truth acts as a garment for goodness.
- [July 18th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-18/): Arms symbolize strength and hands symbolize power. —Secrets of Heaven 4934 The feet and the parts adjoining them represent physical elements and everything connected with them. The foot itself and the heel, then, symbolizes the very lowest physical elements. —Secrets of Heaven 2162:2
- [July 17th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-17/): A neck symbolizes union and communication between higher and lower planes, so it symbolizes spiritual influence.
- [July 16th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-16/): Inner attributes are each allotted their own region of the face. Those having to do with love belong to the area of the forehead; those having to do with wisdom and understanding, to the area of the eyes; those having to do with perception, to the area of the nostrils; those having to do with
- [July 15th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-15/): The sense of touch in general corresponds with a desire for good; the sense of taste, with a desire to know; the sense of smell, with a desire to perceive; the sense of hearing, with a desire to learn, and with obedience; while the sense of sight corresponds with a desire to have understanding and
- [July 14th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-14/): On a physical level, spirit means the life imparted by human breath. The breathing of the lungs corresponds to the vital energy of truth, which is the vital energy of faith and so of the intellect, while the beating of the heart corresponds to the vital energy of the will and so of love.
- [July 13th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-13/): The reason a head stands for the whole of a person’s humanity, or the whole person, is that everything in a person descends from the head. It is from the head that the body originally develops, so when we form a thought or intention (which happens in our head), the effect of the thought or
- [July 12th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-12/): The angels of the deepest heaven correspond to that activity of our body that is governed by the heart and cerebellum.
- [July 11th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-11/): The workings of the organic substances of the body are physical and the workings of the organic substances of the mind are spiritual. The two act as a unity by means of responsiveness to each other.
- [July 10th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-10/): Our individual viscera and parts—the motor and sensory organs—correspond to communities in heaven, each virtually a separate heaven. From these communities (or rather through them) come heavenly and spiritual influences on us, which act on the forms adapted and fitted to them, bringing about effects that we are able to see. The effects seem completely
- [July 9th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-09/): Our body is a microcosm, since every secret in the physical world is stored in it. Every secret regarding the ether or modified forms of the ether is stored in the eye, and every secret regarding the air is stored in the ear. Whatever invisible elements float and stir in the air are taken into
- [July 8th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-08/): All representative objects in the physical world relate to the human form, and have a symbolism determined by their relationship to that form.
- [July 7th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-07/): The whole of nature is a theater representing the Lord’s kingdom. Divinity is in every part—so much so that there is a representation of eternity and infinity as well. There is a representation of eternity because plants propagate to eternity, and there is one of infinity because seed multiplies to infinity. These tendencies could never
- [July 6th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-06/): Bear in mind also that the Lord is everywhere, is in fact omnipresent. Then consider that the Lord cannot make himself manifest to any angel or to us as he really is and as he is in his sun. This is why he makes himself manifest by means of things that can be accepted, doing
- [July 5th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-05/): A corresponding spiritual concept or corresponding symbolic meaning is bound up with the object to which it corresponds. It is like the bond between our eyesight and our eye, or between our hearing and our ear. It is like the bond connecting our thoughts (which are spiritual) with the form of our interiors and through
- [July 4th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-04/): We cannot think anything without some idea taken from what is knowable by us or perceptible to our senses. What is more, we do not think properly, even about matters of faith and love, until we think in terms of corresponding objects. Corresponding objects are earthly realities, which act as mirrors reflecting spiritual realities.
- [July 3rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-03/): The two worlds, the spiritual one and the physical one, are so distinct from each other that they have nothing in common, and still they have been created in such a way that they communicate with each other and are actually united through their correspondences.
- [July 2nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-02/): There is nothing in the physical world that does not correspond to some attribute of the spiritual world.
- [July 1st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/07-01/): What is spiritual wears what is physical the way we wear clothes.
- [June 30th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-30/): People with a perception of the Lord’s presence perceive that all events in their life without exception contribute to their welfare. They also perceive that evil does not touch them. So they are tranquil.
- [June 29th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-29/): The Lord operates through charity, wherever it exists.
- [June 28th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-28/): Divinity itself, like a sun that radiates all the light there is, causes everything to be seen as immediately present.
- [June 27th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-27/): I have said several times before that heaven or the universal human is divided into countless communities, equaling overall the number of organs and viscera in the body, and that each community relates to one of them. Although the communities are numerous and varied, they still act as one, just as all the parts of
- [June 26th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-26/): When we are united with the Lord, we unite not with his actual, supreme divinity but with his divine humanity. We cannot form any idea at all of the Lord’s most sublime divinity, which soars so far above our thoughts that it dies out completely and disappears; but of his divine humanity we are able
- [June 25th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-25/): We cannot be united to the Lord unless we are spiritual; we cannot be spiritual unless we are rational; and we cannot be rational unless we are physically whole. These aspects are like a house, with the body as its foundation, the structure of the house as our rational functioning, and the contents of the
- [June 24th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-24/): The union is reciprocal because no union or partnership between two exists unless each party moves closer to the other. Every partnership in the entirety of heaven, in all the world, and throughout the human form is the result of two parties moving into a closer relationship with each other until both parties intend the
- [June 23rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-23/): What else is faith but a partnership with God by means of truths that shape our understanding and thought? What else is love but a partnership with God through goodness that shapes our intentions and desires?
- [June 22nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-22/): When we are being reborn—that is, when we have yet to form a bond with the Lord—we move toward that bond by means of truth, or accurate religious concepts. No one can be reborn without learning what religion teaches, and this religious knowledge is the truth that enables us to move toward union.
- [June 21st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-21/): There are many spirits today who want to influence not only the thoughts and feelings of people on earth but also our words and deeds, which is to say our bodily level. However, our bodily level is immune to a narrowly targeted influence from spirits and angels, being governed instead by their general influence. When
- [June 20th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-20/): When people with perception feel compassion, they know they are being advised by the Lord to help.
- [June 19th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-19/): People who have the gift of perception have no need to learn by way of doctrinal formulas what they already know. People who recognize what is good and true on the basis of perception receive that intuition from the Lord by an internal route.
- [June 18th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-18/): Everything we consider true and consequently allowable forms our conscience.
- [June 17th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-17/): People who are to have perception in spiritual matters must have a desire for truth based on goodness and will always be longing to know truth. This sheds light in their intellect, and when their intellect has been enlightened, they are able to perceive something inwardly. People without a desire for truth, on the other
- [June 16th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-16/): People who want to be enlightened by the Lord must be especially careful not to adopt any religious teaching that fosters evil.
- [June 15th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-15/): Ceasing to do wrong is left up to our free will. We then receive an inflow of good from the Lord, which is never absent, because it is present in the very life the Lord gives us. The amount of good we receive with our life, however, depends on the amount of evil that is
- [June 14th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-14/): The Lord does not force us to accept what flows in from him. Rather, he guides us in our freedom, and so far as we let him, he uses our freedom to guide us to what is good. So the Lord leads us in harmony with our pleasures and also in harmony with our illusions
- [June 13th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-13/): Direct influence of truth imparted by the Lord does not provide an actual perception of truth; it provides light that enables the person to understand.
- [June 12th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-12/): Divinity itself cannot teach us and talk with us or even with angels directly, only indirectly through divine truth.
- [June 11th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-11/): Something more needs to be said about people who wait for something to flow in. The only people of this kind who actually receive anything are the few who deeply long for it. They occasionally receive a kind of answer through a vivid impression or a subtle voice in their thinking, but rarely through anything
- [June 10th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-10/): The Lord is present with us through our human freedom, in that freedom, and with that freedom, constantly urging us to receive him but at the same time never removing or taking away our freedom. Therefore you could say that our freedom is where the Lord dwells with us in our soul.
- [June 9th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-09/): There is a general and a particular influence exerted by the Lord through the spiritual world on recipients of that influence in the natural world. The general influence is exerted on recipients that follow the code ordained for them; the particular influence is exerted on recipients that do not. Animals of every kind live by
- [June 8th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-08/): A vision is a profound revelation received through perception. —Secrets of Heaven 1786 Genuine visions mean the vision or sight of things that really do exist in the other life. They truly are objects that can be seen with the eyes of the spirit, not the eyes of the body. People on earth see them
- [June 7th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-07/): Inflow happens by means of correspondences, and cannot happen as a result of continuity.
- [June 6th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-06/): We are led by the Lord through an inflow and taught by being enlightened. The reason we are led by the Lord through an inflow is that both the being led and the flowing in are connected to our love and volition. The reason we are taught by the Lord by being enlightened is that
- [June 5th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-05/): Only through humankind is there a descent from the heavens into the world, and an ascent from the world to the heavens. The brain and its inner depths provide the means of descent and ascent.
- [June 4th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-04/): A stream of influence progresses from the divine level and continues in order until it comes to rest on the bottom level of the earthly dimension—the worldly and bodily level.
- [June 3rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-03/): Spiritual influence, or the influence of the spiritual world on the physical world, is possible, but not the reverse.
- [June 2nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-02/): Narrowly speaking, we each have a spiritual and natural world inside us. Our inner self is our spiritual world, and our outer self is our natural world.
- [June 1st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/06-01/): The Lord governs everyone, not only in a comprehensive way, but also in the smallest details. He exerts this influence directly from himself and indirectly through the spiritual world too.
- [January 31st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-31/): People intent on goodness and therefore on truth—and especially on the goodness that comes from loving the Lord—have revelation from perception. People not intent on goodness and therefore on truth can have revelation but not from perception, only through a living voice they hear inside them, that is, through angels from the Lord. Audible revelation
- [January 30th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-30/): All revelation comes either from dialog with angels through whom the Lord speaks or from perception.
- [January 29th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-29/): In heaven, morning is a state of enlightenment regarding questions of goodness and truth. This state comes into being when we acknowledge, and particularly when we perceive, that goodness is good and truth true. Perception is inner revelation, so morning symbolizes what is revealed. Since what was formerly obscure then becomes clear, morning also symbolizes
- [January 28th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-28/): We should all look out for our body by providing it with food and clothing. This has to come first, but the goal must be a healthy mind in a healthy body. And we should also look out for our mind by providing it with food— that is, with ideas that nourish understanding and wisdom—so
- [January 27th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-27/): It is the spirit within us that thinks, and thought and affection together make us the people we are.
- [January 26th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-26/): It needs to be known that our spirit is in our body, in the whole and in every part of it. It is our purer substance, in both our motor and our sensory organs and everywhere else. Our body is the matter attached to it at every point and suited to the world in which
- [January 25th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-25/): It is when we are being reborn, as adults who possess knowledge, that goodness comes out into the open. Then we want not so much to know truth as to act on it. Up to that point, truth existed in the intellect, but afterward it exists in the will, and when it exists in the
- [January 24th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-24/): The Lord’s foresight and providence concerns itself with the smallest possible aspects in human affairs—so small that we cannot in any way comprehend one out of millions. Every split second of our life carries with it a series of consequences that continues forever. Each moment is like a new starting point for another series, and
- [January 23rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-23/): A moral life may be lived either to satisfy the Divine or to satisfy people in this world. A moral life that is lived to satisfy the Divine is a spiritual life.
- [January 22nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-22/): Our earthly self, as it relates to our reasoning self (or our outward self as it relates to our inward) resembles the manager of a household. Everything in us works the way a single household does, or in other words, the way a single family does. There is the part that functions as the head
- [January 21st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-21/): Every person born has an inner part; our outer part is the means by which we actually do what faith and love (and consequently our inner part) urge us to do. The inner part is what is called the soul, and the outer part is what is called the body.
- [January 20th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-20/): Our spirits are our minds and whatever comes from them. Our “spirit” really means nothing else but our mind.
- [January 19th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-19/): It is willing that makes a person human, and not so much knowing and understanding.
- [January 18th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-18/): Our genuine will is our inmost core, because it forms out of our love. Whatever we love, we will, and what we love most of all, we will the most deeply. Our intellect, on the other hand, [merely] serves to reveal to others what we will, or what we love.
- [January 17th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-17/): We were created to have an intellect and will that compose a single mind, which is what happens when our intellect is at one with our will—that is, when our thoughts and words match our intent and deeds. Then the contents of our intellect are forms manifesting our will. The contents of the intellect are
- [January 16th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-16/): Evil and sin viewed in themselves are nothing but a rift with goodness. Evil actually consists in disconnection.
- [January 15th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-15/): Goodness and truth resemble babies, in that they are conceived, grow in the womb, are born, grow up, and increase in age until they reach full maturity. Conception, gestation, and birth belong to their rise; growing up and aging till they reach full maturity belong to their progress. The stage of progress, in which goodness
- [January 14th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-14/): People do their thinking based on some love. Take away the love: can they think anything at all? It is exactly the same as taking the sound out of speech. If you take away the sound, can you say anything at all? In fact, sound comes from a desire related to some love, and speech
- [January 13th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-13/): Even though the word “love” is so commonly on our tongues, still hardly anyone knows what love is. We are wholly unaware that it is our very life—not just the general life of our whole body and of all our thoughts, but the life of their every least detail.
- [January 12th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-12/): One of the most important kinds of intelligence angels have is to know and perceive that all life comes from the Lord, that heaven as a whole corresponds to his divine humanity, and consequently that all angels, spirits, and people correspond to heaven. It is also to know and perceive how they correspond. These are
- [January 11th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-11/): There is only one life force, which is the Lord’s, and it flows in and causes us to live—both those of us who are good and those of us who are evil.
- [January 10th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-10/): The inner self in us lies above our rational mind and is the Lord’s.
- [January 9th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-09/): It is because the very essence of the Divine is love and wisdom that we have two abilities of life. From the one we get our discernment, and from the other volition. Our discernment is supplied entirely by an inflow of wisdom from God, while our volition is supplied entirely by an inflow of love
- [January 8th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-08/): There is only one life, the Lord’s life, which flows into everyone. But we receive that life in various ways, according to the character we have stamped on our soul by the way we lived in the world. Note that life from the Lord is a life of love for the entire human race.
- [January 7th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-07/): When we love what is good, we love the Lord, because the Lord is the source of goodness, the presence within goodness, and identical with goodness itself.
- [January 6th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-06/): Nothing that is essential in an absolute sense exists anywhere in creation, only in the Supreme Being, that is, in the Lord.
- [January 5th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-05/): In the Divine-Human One, reality and its manifestation are both distinguishable and united. These two are one entity in such a way that although they can be distinguished in thought they cannot be distinguished in fact; and since they can be distinguished in thought and not in fact, we refer to them as “distinguishably one.”
- [January 4th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/dailyquote/): Divine truth is the same as divine humanity.
- [January 3rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-03/): The Infinite itself, which is high above all the heavens and high above our inmost reaches, cannot be revealed except through divine humanity, which exists only in the Lord.
- [January 2nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/01-02/): Two things constitute the essence of God: divine love and divine wisdom; or, what is the same, divine goodness and divine truth.
- [May 31st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-31/): Rebirth is continual because we start regenerating but never stop. We are constantly being perfected not only while we live in the world, but also in the other life forever. Yet we can never arrive at such perfection that we can be compared to the Deity.
- [May 30th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-30/): We always long to move from nonliberty to liberty, because this is central to our life.
- [May 29th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-29/): When we have been regenerated, we have a new will and a new intellect.
- [May 28th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-28/): If we look even to the lowliest creatures on earth, we see an image of the process of regeneration in the miraculous transformation of silkworms, and of many other grubs and caterpillars into nymphs and butterflies, and of other creatures that in time are embellished with wings. In brief, the whole world on every level
- [May 26th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-26/): Thought saves no one. It is the life we have acquired for ourselves in the world by means of religious knowledge that saves us. This life remains, but any thinking that does not harmonize with our life dies away until it disappears. In heaven people associate with each other on the basis of the way
- [May 25th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-25/): Real things—truths—interconnect the same way communities in heaven do, and they correspond to the communities of heaven as well. So far as our inner dimensions are concerned, each of us is a miniature heaven. Realities (or truths) that have not formed connections modeling the interconnection of heaven’s communities have not yet come alive. Until they
- [May 24th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-24/): Once our earthly self has been reborn, our whole self has been reborn.
- [May 23rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-23/): In a person reborn, external traits respond to internal values, which is to say that they are obedient to them.
- [May 22nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-22/): After this state comes a second one, the state of being in a partnership with God. In this second state we do basically the same things, but now we do them with God. We no longer need to attribute to God everything good that we intend and do and everything true that we think and
- [May 21st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-21/): Regeneration is exactly like human development. When babies are born, they live in great mental darkness, know- ing almost nothing, so at that stage general impressions enter their minds first. By degrees, as specifics are introduced into the general ideas, those ideas grow more distinct, and still more distinct when the specifics acquire even greater
- [May 20th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-20/): When our previous way of life breaks down in times of trouble, we cannot help faltering between truth and falsity after the trouble has passed. Truth belongs to the new life, falsity to the old. Unless the earlier way of life is destroyed and this uncertainty takes hold, spiritual seed cannot possibly be sown in
- [May 19th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-19/): We hover between denial and affirmation during our inward struggles. When we fail, we continue to doubt, and sink into pessimism. When we win, on the other hand, we do still have doubts, but those of us that allow hope to set us on our feet remain optimistic.
- [May 18th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-18/): People who are regenerating and becoming spiritual usually have tremendous difficulty seeing truth. Good coming from the Lord influences them, but the influence of truth is not as strong. So a parallelism and correspondence exists between the Lord and the goodness in us, but not between the Lord and the truth we know. The main
- [May 17th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-17/): Anyone who is being tested is unsure of the end. The end is love, and love is what evil spirits and evil demons attack, throwing the end into doubt. The more love the victim has, the more doubt they cast. If the cherished end did not become doubtful, even to the point of despair, there
- [May 16th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-16/): All trial carries with it some kind of despair; otherwise it is not a trial. So consolation follows. Anyone who is being tested becomes anxious, and the anxiety causes a state of despair over the outcome. The actual struggle is nothing else.
- [May 15th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-15/): One purpose of our trials is to subdue our external qualities and make them obedient to inner qualities.
- [May 14th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-14/): Everyone who is being reborn undergoes trying times. Trials are struggles against evil and falsity, and when we are in the thick of them, the Lord exerts his influence on us from within and fights for us. This we can tell by the fact that when we are being tested, deep inside us we stand
- [May 13th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-13/): We are never tested until we are capable of contemplating what is good and true and perceiving it on our own terms.
- [May 12th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-12/): When truth is being incorporated into earthly goodness, it hurts to begin with. It weighs on our conscience and worries us, since we have cravings that spiritual truth fights against. But this initial pain slowly lessens and finally disappears. It is like a sick and feeble body that can be restored to health only by
- [May 11th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-11/): During the phase called our reformation, we come to mentally see and admit that evil is evil and goodness is good, and make the decision to choose what is good. When we actually try to abstain from evil and do what is good, the phase called our regeneration begins.
- [May 10th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-10/): A state of understanding does not commence in us till we think for ourselves instead of being guided by a teacher. It is at this time that faith commences, because faith is not our own until we have confirmed our beliefs by means of our own thoughts and ideas. Prior to that, our faith is
- [May 9th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-09/): Very few today realize that doing good deeds without seeking repayment contains heavenly happiness. They do not know there is any other kind of happiness than rising to high position, being waited on by others, abounding in riches, and living a life of sensual pleasure. That there is a higher happiness than those, a happiness
- [May 8th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-08/): The goal of rebirth is for us to develop a new inner self and therefore a new soul, or spirit, but our inner self cannot be remade or reborn unless our outer self is too. Although we are spirits after death, we take with us into the other life aspects of our outer self: earthly
- [May 7th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-07/): In people who are being reborn, the Lord implants the heavenly qualities of love and the spiritual qualities of faith not all at once but gradually. When these qualities turn our rational mind into something that is open to receiv- ing them, we are first reborn—largely through inner struggles in which we win. When this
- [May 6th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-06/): If we could be reformed by force, there would not be a single soul in the universe who would not be saved. The means are countless. But since what is done under compulsion is not wedded to us and therefore does not become part of us, it is absolutely alien to the Lord to force
- [May 5th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-05/): We ought to force ourselves to do good and speak truth. The secret here is that when we do, the Lord grants us a sense of autonomy that is heavenly in nature.
- [May 4th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-04/): What does not come of freedom, of voluntary choice or willingness, is in no way pleasing to the Lord.
- [May 3rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-03/): The whole process of rebirth exists in order for us to receive new life, or rather to receive life at all. It exists in order that from being nonhuman we may become human, or from being dead may become alive.
- [May 2nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-02/): There are two states that we all inevitably enter into and go through if we are to turn from an earthly person into a spiritual person. The first state is called reformation, the second is called regeneration. The first state is a state of thought that occurs in our intellect; the second state is a
- [May 1st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/05-01/): The old self must die before the new self can be conceived.
- [April 30th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-30/): Heavenly or angelic peace occurs in us when we are attuned to wisdom because of the union of the good and the true and therefore see ourselves as contented in God.
- [April 29th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-29/): Intellectual matters can be compared to constantly varying forms, and matters of will can be compared to harmonies that result from the variation.
- [April 28th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-28/): The reason the wisdom and love within us seem to be two separate things is that our ability to understand can be raised into heaven’s light, while our ability to love cannot, except to the extent that we act according to our understanding. So any trace of apparent wisdom that is not united to our
- [April 27th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-27/): Charity is a union of desires felt by the will and a resulting harmony of thoughts in the intellect, so it is a meeting of minds involving both sides of the mind.
- [April 26th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-26/): Enlightenment is possible only for people who long to know truth, not for the sake of reputation and glory but for the sake of living by it and putting it to use.
- [April 25th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-25/): Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.
- [April 24th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-24/): Our discernment can accept what is good and what is evil, what is true and what is false, but our essential volition cannot. This must be focused on what is evil or what is good and not on both, because our volition is our essential self. It is where our life’s love is. In our
- [April 23rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-23/): There are three levels to the contents of the human intellect. The lowest has to do with factual knowledge, the middle with reason, and the highest with understanding. These levels are so clearly distinguished from each other that they never blur. The Lord exerts an influence on our rational thinking through the things we truly
- [April 22nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-22/): The role of the intellect grows and increases from childhood to adulthood and consists in the development of insights on the basis of experience and learning. It also consists in tracing causes from effects, and consequences from a chain of causes. It is the influence of light from heaven that brings about activity in the
- [April 21st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-21/): To think with the higher mind is to separate our thoughts from the material realm. —Secrets of Heaven 9407:4 The intellect is nothing but a subtle awareness of one’s inner depths. —Secrets of Heaven 4622:3
- [April 20th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-20/): A person’s intellect receives whatever is spiritual, meaning that it is a container for spiritual truth and goodness. Nothing good (no neighborly love) and nothing true (no faith) can be instilled in anyone whose intellect is not at work; no, these entities are instilled in proportion to the workings of one’s intellect.
- [April 19th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-19/): Evil that comes only from our will and accordingly without forethought is evil we incline to by heredity, or perhaps from having already acted on our hereditary inclinations. For this kind of evil we are not blamed unless we have justified it in the intellectual half of our mind. Once we have justified it there,
- [April 18th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-18/): Evils cannot be set aside unless they come to light. This does not mean that we have to act out our evils in order to bring them to light but that we need to look carefully not only at our actions but also at our thoughts, at what we would do if it were not
- [April 17th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-17/): Goodness and truth that flow out from the intellect and not at the same time from the will are not good or true, however much they may appear so on the outside. When there is a will for evil, goodness and truth divide rather than unite. When there is any will for goodness, though, they
- [April 16th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-16/): Goodness accompanied by truth makes its way from the intellectual side of the mind into the voluntary side, and we adopt it as our own. In the first stage, the mind falls into doubt. In the second, reasoning puts the doubt to flight. The third stage is affirmation. The final is action.
- [April 15th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-15/): The intellect comes from the will and reveals the will in a visual form, so to speak, just as faith issues from neighborly love and reveals that love in a form, so to speak. The outward covering of the will, then, is the intellect, and the outward covering of charity is faith. To put the
- [April 14th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-14/): All the things we learn, store away in our memory, and are able to call up from our memory to examine with our intellect are called facts. Properly speaking, they are the elements composing the intellect of our outer, earthly self. It is the same with memorized knowledge, which is likewise stimulated by the beloved
- [April 13th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-13/): There are two abilities within us, gifts from the Lord, that distinguish us from animals. One ability is that we can discern what is true and what is good. This ability is called “rationality,” and is an ability of our discernment. The other ability is that we can do what is true and what is
- [April 12th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-12/): If our intellect were incapable of being perfected on its own and of then perfecting our will, we would not be human at all; we would be animals. If there were no separation between our will and our intellect and if the intellect could not rise above the will, we would be unable either to
- [April 11th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-11/): Anything that we have justified both volitionally and intellectually lasts forever, but not what we have justified only intellectually. Anything that is only in our discernment is not within us but outside us. It is only in our thought, and nothing really comes into us and becomes part of us except what is welcomed by
- [April 10th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-10/): The human cerebrum serves the intellect and its wisdom, whereas the cerebellum serves the will and its love.
- [April 9th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-09/): Our life is found in its primary forms in our brains and in secondary forms in our bodies. “In its primary forms” means in its beginnings, and “in secondary forms” means in the things that are produced and formed from these beginnings. “Life in its primary forms” means volition and discernment. It is these two
- [April 8th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-08/): The desire for good (doing good because you love good) is really a matter of will. The desire for truth, though, (doing good because you love truth) is really a matter of intellect. At first glance, these two kinds of desire look as though they were the same, but they are inherently different, both in
- [April 7th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-07/): We need to realize that we are all our own will and our own intellect. This is how one person is differentiated from another. —True Christianity 263 From all this three points emerge: that our life finds its home in our intellect; that that life is only as good as our wisdom; and that that
- [April 6th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-06/): People find it hard to distinguish between thought and will. When we want something, we say we think it, and when we think something, we often say we want it. Yet the two differ the way truth and goodness do. —Secrets of Heaven 9995:2 The intellectual side influences the will side when truth turns into
- [April 5th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-05/): The life of the will always comes first and the life of the intellect second.
- [April 4th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-04/): We have two faculties for receiving life from the Lord. One is called will, and the other, intellect. These two faculties must constitute a single mind if we are to be truly human.
- [April 3rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-03/): Intellect and volition are our spiritual person.
- [April 2nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-02/): Everything that happens in the physical world is an effect and everything that happens in the spiritual world is a cause of such effects. Nothing happens in nature that does not have its cause in the spiritual realm.
- [April 1st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/04-01/): Something that appears like a soul and a body exists in every facet of our being—in every facet of our feelings and in every facet of our thinking.
- [March 26th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-26/): Faith is a deep emotional response that consists in this: that we sincerely want to know what is true and good, not for the sake of theology as our ultimate goal but rather for the sake of our life.
- [March 31st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-31/): The goodness of love and the truth of faith are more than abstractions devoid of the power to make anything happen. In reality the opposite is true: all perception and sensation, all force and action rise out of love’s goodness and faith’s truth, even in people on earth.
- [March 30th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-30/): Ability is assigned to truth, whereas beingness is assigned to goodness. Goodness acquires power through truth, because it is through truth that goodness drives everything that happens.
- [March 29th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-29/): The reward for people who have neighborly love is the ability and opportunity to do good and the reception of the good they do.
- [March 28th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-28/): Charitable deeds consist in our doing what is just and fair, each of us in our own job, from a love of justice and fairness and of goodness and truth.
- [March 27th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-27/): A life of faith consists in following the Commandments out of obedience, and a life of neighborly love in following them out of love.
- [March 25th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-25/): Neighborly love is a deep emotional response that consists in this: that we sincerely want to do good to our neighbor, that this is our highest pleasure, and that we want to do it without being repaid.
- [March 24th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-24/): The goodness in us does not become spiritual until it has been given form by truth.
- [March 23rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-23/): True religious concepts are the actual vessels that receive goodness, and they receive goodness so far as we move away from evil. What is good is always streaming into us from the Lord, but what is evil in our lives keeps it from being received in the truth we memorize or know. So the more
- [March 22nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-22/): Absolutely everyone in the heavens and on earth has a different sort of goodness. One and the same kind of goodness can never exist in two people; it has to vary in order for each kind to remain in existence separately.
- [March 21st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-21/): Sometimes things look evil even when they do not well up and flow out from evil within, from an evil intention or aim, but they are not evil if the aim is not.
- [March 20th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-20/): In all unions there is action and reaction. The active force is goodness, and the reactive force is truth. Yet truth never reacts on its own, only under the power of goodness.
- [March 19th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-19/): Love or volition does not do anything without wisdom or discernment. Since love has neither sensory nor active life apart from discernment, and since love leads discernment into all the functions of the mind, it follows that love or volition does not do anything apart from discernment. What would it be to act from love
- [March 18th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-18/): As soon as goodness takes control in us, our earthly, outer self surrenders and we become a spiritual church. The validity of this statement can be recognized from the fact that inclination then leads us to do what truth teaches us to do; we do not violate that inclination, no matter how intensely our earthly
- [March 17th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-17/): The truth in us can never be purified of falsity without virtual leavening, or so-called fermentation—that is, without a fight put up by falsity against truth and by truth against falsity. After the fight is finished and truth has conquered, falsity drops away like the waste products of fermentation, and truth stands purified, like wine,
- [March 16th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-16/): All spiritual purification is brought about by truth. We do not recognize the earthly and worldly types of love from which we need to be purified except through truth.
- [March 15th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-15/): To possess goodness and truth is not merely to know them, or hold them in our memory and carry them on our lips, but to respond to them from the heart. Nor are they ours when we seek them for the sake of amassing prestige and wealth. In that case it is not goodness and
- [March 14th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-14/): No one can know what is good without also knowing what is not good, and no one can know what is true without knowing what is not true.
- [March 13th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-13/): Truth is introduced and united to goodness when we love God and love our neighbor, because truth then takes up residence in goodness, since goodness and truth acknowledge one another. All truth comes from goodness, and truth looks to goodness as its ultimate aim and its soul and so as the source of its life.
- [March 12th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-12/): Unless it is married to wisdom, love cannot accomplish anything.
- [March 11th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-11/): All God’s strength, force, and power belong to the divine truth that comes from divine goodness.
- [March 10th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-10/): Truth is what power is attributed to, because goodness works through truth when wielding power. —Secrets of Heaven 4402:5 That is why goodness has potential but a potential that is not focused on an object except through truth. —Secrets of Heaven 9643
- [March 9th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-09/): What is good contains the Lord, you see, and consequently contains heaven, so it contains life and therefore a living, driving force. Truth lacking in goodness contains none of this force.
- [March 8th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-08/): Goodness flows in along an inner route unknown to us, but truth is acquired by an outer route that we know about.
- [March 7th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-07/): In order to exist, everything good or true must be within something for which it forms the underlying substance. Goodness and truth cannot exist as abstractions, since if they did they would have nothing in which to reside and could not be even fleetingly visualized.
- [March 6th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-06/): All goodness has its related truth, and all truth has its related goodness. Goodness without truth is invisible, and truth without goodness has no existence. Truth is the tangible form of goodness, and goodness is the vital essence of truth. From the tangible form, goodness acquires visibility, and from the vital essence, truth acquires its
- [March 5th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-05/): We are all born human, which means that we have the image of God within us. The image of God within us is our ability to discern what is true and to do what is good. Our ability to discern what is true comes from divine wisdom and our ability to do what is good
- [March 4th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-04/): Truth can come from anyone, but truth that is good can come only from the Lord.
- [March 3rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-03/): There is a union of love and wisdom in every divine work. This is why it endures, even to eternity. If there were more divine love than divine wisdom or more divine wisdom than divine love in any created work, nothing would endure in it except what was equal. Any excess would pass away.
- [March 2nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-02/): Overall, the human mind has nothing else to focus on besides matters of truth and goodness. Its intellect focuses on matters of truth, and its will on matters of goodness.
- [March 1st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/03-01/): In everything created there is some image of the divine love and wisdom that are a whole in the Lord and that emanate from him as a whole. This is why everything in the universe is based on what is good and what is true and in fact on their union, or (which amounts to
- [February 29th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-29/): No one can be united to the Lord except through love and charity. Love is spiritual union itself, as the very nature of love shows.
- [February 28th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-28/): We can tell that divine love is in all of us, the evil and the good alike, and that therefore the Lord who is divine love must treat us with as much love as an earthly father treats his children—with infinitely more love, in fact, because divine love is infinite. Further, he can never withdraw
- [February 27th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-27/): Our voluntary activity is always leading us away from the divine design, but our involuntary activity is always leading us back to it. That is why the motion of the heart, which is involuntary, is completely outside the province of human will, as is the action of the cerebellum. It is also why the motion
- [February 26th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-26/): We prepare ourselves to receive God and to forge a part- nership with him by following the divine design in our lives. The laws of that design are all God’s commandments.
- [February 24th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-24/): Since the deeper levels present themselves together on the outermost level, then, the outermost level (as I said) is considered holier than the inner levels (provided the entire pattern is complete) because the holiness of the in- ner depths finds its fulfillment there.
- [February 25th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-25/): There are always two forces that keep everything con- nected and hold it together, one acting on the outside, and one on the inside. Between them is the object being maintained. There absolutely have to be two forces for anything to emerge and survive. There are earthly forces working on the outside that are not
- [February 23rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-23/): The earthly goodness that we acquire (or that the Lord gives us as a gift) has a spiritual impulse in it, so that spir- itual goodness is within the earthly. This goodness is the real earthly, human kind.
- [February 22nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-22/): Good on the earthly level is everything connected with earthly emotion, called pleasure. Truth there is every- thing qualifying as secular knowledge, called fact. The earthly dimension must embrace both if it is to be itself. Facts by themselves, without the pleasure that forms our emotional response to them, are nothing. The earthly lev- el
- [February 21st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-21/): When we are engaged in earthly love and spiritual love together, then we are rational people.
- [February 20th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-20/): A desire for facts is the mother that gives birth to the kind of rationality that has a spiritual core.
- [February 19th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-19/): We acquire justice the more we practice it. We practice justice the more our interaction with our neighbor is motivated by a love for justice and truth. Justice dwells in the goodness itself or the useful functions themselves that we do.
- [February 18th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-18/): When we undergo inner challenges—that is, when our inner self undergoes challenges—the earthly level acts as a midwife. Unless the earthly level helps, no birth of inner truth ever takes place. The earthly level is what takes inner truth into its arms upon birth, since it gives truth the opportunity to make its way out.
- [February 17th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-17/): When the spiritual mind is open, the state of the earthly mind is entirely different. Then the earthly mind is inclined to obey the spiritual mind and be subservient.
- [February 16th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-16/): If the outer self is to be reduced to order, it must become subordinate to the inner self, and it does not become subordinate until it becomes obedient. The more obedient and subordinate the outer self becomes, the wiser it also becomes.
- [February 15th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-15/): Our inner dimension comes to life in our outer dimension through what we actually do. If what we do does not conform to what is inside us, it indicates one of two things. Either it does not come from something internal but instead is a motion we repeat by custom and habit, or it is
- [February 14th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-14/): Our soul is one with our body; our inner core is one with our outer shell, even though they are distinct from one another. Sometimes the distinction between them is so great that one fights the other, as commonly happens in times of trial. At those times, our inner core upbraids our outer shell and
- [February 13th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-13/): There are several levels (like steps on a ladder) between the intellect and the senses, but no one can begin to understand them without knowing something about them and the fact that the different levels are utterly distinct from each other. In fact, they are so distinct that the inner levels can emerge into lasting
- [February 12th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-12/): A word about heavenliness and spirituality: Heavenliness itself and spirituality itself, which flow into heaven from the Lord’s divinity, reside mainly on our inner rational plane, the forms that exist on that plane being more perfect and suited to receiving the inflow. However, heavenliness and spirituality also flow from the Lord’s divinity into our outer
- [February 11th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-11/): The divine plan is for the Lord to influence our outer levels through our inner levels and consequently our actions through our will.
- [February 10th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-10/): Hardly anyone today knows what the outer self is, because people think that everything making up the outer self is connected with the body, such as its senses (touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight), appetites, and pleasures. These constitute the most external self, however, which is purely physical.
- [February 1st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-01/): We are one with spirits and angels. In fact, we ourselves are spirits clothed in flesh.
- [February 2nd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-02/): It is essentially human and therefore angelic to base our thoughts on the truth; and the truth is that we do not think on our own but that the Lord enables us to think, to all appearances autonomously.
- [February 3rd](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-03/): The divine design is that we arrange ourselves for receiving God and prepare ourselves as a vessel and a dwelling place where God can enter and live as if we were his own temple. We have to do this preparation by ourselves, yet we have to acknowledge that the preparation comes from God. This acknowledgment
- [February 4th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-04/): Sights seen in the threefold kingdom of the physical world are the outermost elements of the divine design, because they form a perimeter for all the elements of heaven, which are called spiritual and heavenly.
- [February 9th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-09/): In us we have vital energy on the sensory level and vital energy on the earthly level, both kinds of energy being located in our outer self. The sensory-level energy is relatively shallow and draws its truths from objects in the physical world and in our body, while the earthly-level energy is deeper and draws
- [February 8th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-08/): True humanity consists of rationality (which is the same as the inner self) and earthliness (the outer self). It also includes the body, which serves the earthly level as a means or outermost organ for living in the world. Through the earthly level it serves the rational level, and through this, the divine level.
- [February 7th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-07/): For angels, these three levels are called heavenly, spiritual, and earthly; and for them, the heavenly level is the level of love, the spiritual level the level of wisdom, and the earthly level the level of useful functions.
- [February 6th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-06/): Knowing about levels is a kind of key to unlocking the causes of things and probing into them. “Gradual levels” is the name we give to declines or decreases from coarser to finer or denser to rarer, or better, to gains or increases from finer to coarser or from rarer to denser. They are just
- [February 5th](https://swedenborg.com/quote/02-05/): Heaven’s union with us is not like the union of one person with another, but is a union with the deeper levels of our minds and therefore with our spiritual or inner person.
- [January 1st](https://swedenborg.com/quote/30021/): Infinite divinity cannot be described as anything but goodness and truth itself.

## Events

- [Curtis Childs: The Five Secrets of Heaven](https://swedenborg.com/events/curtis-childs-the-five-secrets-of-heaven/): Creator and host of the spirituality-focused brand Off The Left Eye, with over 160,000 YouTube subscribers and more than 40 million views, International speaker, influencer, and the Chief Visionary Officer at the Swedenborg Foundation, Curtis Childs uses spiritual concepts to solve problems that were previously unsolvable.
- [Death Discussion Group](https://swedenborg.com/events/death-discussion-group-594-147-792-658-232-857-624/)
- [Book Release - Secrets of Heaven Vol. 8 (tentative)](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-release-secrets-of-heaven-vol-8-tentative-2/): Portable paperback
- [2024 IANDS Conference](https://swedenborg.com/events/2024-iands-conference/)
- [TCCHE 2024](https://swedenborg.com/events/tcche-2024/): Curtis will be lecturing at this event and we will be having a small gathering.
- [Community Chat](https://swedenborg.com/events/community-chat-2/)
- [LIVE Q&A](https://swedenborg.com/events/live-qa-2/)
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- [Book Discussion - Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion/): Sacred Scripture 98-103
- [Book Discussion - Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-wednesday-3/): Sacred Scripture 114-118 & White Horse 1-5
- [Book Discussion - Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-tuesday-2/): Sacred Scripture 114-118 & White Horse 1-5
- [Book Discussion - Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-wednesday-2/): Sacred Scripture 104-113
- [Book Discussion - Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-tuesday/): Sacred Scripture 104-113
- [Book Discussion - Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-wednesday/): Sacred Scripture 98-103
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- [Swedenborg Speaker Series: Gina Cavalier](https://swedenborg.com/events/swedenborg-speaker-series-gina-cavalier/): Promo Video:
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesday-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-396-743-755-261-387-718-383-333-139-399-628-900-521-589-365-592-476-908-532-255-116-509-401/): Sacred Scripture: 91-97
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-779/): Secrets of Heaven 1114-1129 and 1265-1272 Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631-445-243-969-346-934-410-685-921-450-989-805-538-331-179-842-263-678-110-577-883-900-761/): Sacred Scripture: 80-90
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- [Book Release - Surviving Suicidal Ideation](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-release-surviving-suicidal-ideation/): Paperback
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- [Swedenborg Speaker Series: Sheila Robinson-Kiss](https://swedenborg.com/events/swedenborg-speaker-series-sheila-robinson-kiss/)
- [Five Secrets of Heaven: Curtis Childs](https://swedenborg.com/events/five-secrets-of-heaven-curtis-childs/): Join Curtis as he discusses the Five Secrets of Heaven
- [May LIVE Q&A](https://swedenborg.com/events/27120-178-520-462-226-298-813-804-297-400/)
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631-445-243-969-346-934-410-685-921-450-989-805-538-331-179-842/): Sacred Scripture: 14-17
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631-445-243-969-346-934-410-685-921-450-989-805-538-331-179/): Sacred Scripture: 9-13
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631-445-243-969-346-934-410-685-921-450-989-805-538-331/): Sacred Scripture: 1-8
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- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631-445-243-969-346-934-410-685-921/): The Lord 37-44 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631-445-243-969-346-934-410-685/): The Lord 33-36 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631-445-243-969-346-934-410/): The Lord 29-32 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-582/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ We will be reading: "The Lord" 1-7
- [March LIVE Q&A](https://swedenborg.com/events/27120-178-520-462-226-298-813-804/)
- [February LIVE Q&A](https://swedenborg.com/events/27120-178-520-462-226-298-813/)
- [January LIVE Q&A](https://swedenborg.com/events/27120-178-520-462-226-298/)
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesday-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-396-743-755-261-387-718-383-333-139-399-628-900/): The Lord 62-65 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesday-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-396-743-755-261-387-718-383-333-139-399-628/): The Lord 55-61 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesday-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-396-743-755-261-387-718-383-333-139-399/): The Lord 50-54 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesday-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-396-743-755-261-387-718-383-333-139/): The Lord 45-49 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesday-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-396-743-755-261-387-718/): The Lord 29-32 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesday-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-396-743-755-261-387-616/): The Lord 18 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631-445-243-969-346-934/): The Lord 19-28 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesday-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-396-743-755-261-387/): The Lord 19-28 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631-445-243-969-346/): We’ll be Studying “The Lord” 18 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631-445-243-969/): We’ll be Studying “The Lord” 15-17 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesday-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-396-743-755/): We’ll be Studying “The Lord" 12-14 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631-445-243/): We’ll be Studying “The Lord” 12-14 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631-445/): We’ll be Studying “The Lord” 8-11 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesday-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-396-743/): We’ll be Studying “The Lord" 8-11 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesday-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-396-743-755-261/): This weeks reading: The Lord 15-17 Get your copy of The Lord here
- [Book Release - Secrets of Heaven Vol. 7 (tentative)](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-release-secrets-of-heaven-vol-7-tentative/): Portable paperback
- [Book Release - Flight of the Trogon](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-release-flight-of-the-trogon/): Flight of the Trogon
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesdays](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesdays-667-783-928-274-209/): Tuesday 8PM EST Zoom Link We'll be Studying "Life / Faith: New Century Edition" Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ We will be reading: Life 42-61
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ We will be reading: Life 62-73
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ We will be reading: "Faith" 61-72
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ We will be reading: Life 74-91
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ We will be reading: Life 92-114
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ We will be reading: "Faith" 1-24
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesday-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-899-122-914-734-778-636-433-332-396/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ We will be reading: "Faith" 44-60
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-631/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ "Faith" 44-60
- [Death Discussion Group](https://swedenborg.com/events/death-discussion-group-594-147-792-658-232-857/)
- [December LIVE Q&A](https://swedenborg.com/events/27120-178-520-462-226/): Submit your questions here
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475/): Wednesday, September 13, 4pm EST: We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ We'll be Reading: Life 42-61
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ We'll be Reading: Life 62-73
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ We'll be Reading: Life 74-91
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ We'll be Reading: Life 92-114
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ "Faith" 1-24
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ "Faith" 1-24
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ "Faith" 61-72
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555-475-568-193-428-978-405-410-469-326-253/): We’ll be Studying “Life / Faith: New Century Edition” Get your copy here: https://swedenborg.com/product/life-faith-nce/ "The Lord" 1-7
- [Community Chat](https://swedenborg.com/events/community-chat-501-750-821-251-300/)
- [Death Discussion Group](https://swedenborg.com/events/death-discussion-group-594-147-792-658-232/)
- [Community Chat](https://swedenborg.com/events/community-chat-501-750-821-251/)
- [2023 Donor Appreciation Celebration](https://swedenborg.com/events/27120-178-520-462/)
- [2023 Community Member Holiday Book Event](https://swedenborg.com/events/2023-community-member-holiday-book-event/): 30% Off All Books & Free Shipping Your Code: HOLIDAYCM23 (US Domestic ONLY)
- [TCCHE San Diego](https://swedenborg.com/events/tcche-san-diego/)
- [Death Discussion Group (Cancelled for this Month)](https://swedenborg.com/events/death-discussion-group-594-147-792-658/)
- [Community Chat](https://swedenborg.com/events/community-chat-501-750-821/): Zoom Discussion Group
- [October LIVE Show!](https://swedenborg.com/events/27120-178-520/): Post Zoom Discussion Link
- [Death Discussion Group](https://swedenborg.com/events/death-discussion-group-594-147-792/): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6914545848 No Password!
- [Swedenborg Speaker Series: Dr. Jonathan Rose](https://swedenborg.com/events/swedenborg-speaker-series-dr-jonathan-rose/): Click here for the YouTube Presentation: “Emanuel Swedenborg and the Tides of Spiritual History”
- [Community Chat](https://swedenborg.com/events/community-chat-501-750/): Join us on Zoom (no password required!) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6914545848
- [September LIVE Show!](https://swedenborg.com/events/27120-178/): Post Zoom Discussion Link
- [Death Discussion Group](https://swedenborg.com/events/death-discussion-group-594-147/): Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6914545848?pwd=NnpMRnl5dGFmSjA2STZ3eHQvNmE0dz09 Meeting ID: 691 454 5848 Passcode: gu@7YK24
- [Maryland Meet-up](https://swedenborg.com/events/maryland-meet-up/)
- [Book Discussion Group – TUESDAY (normally Wednesdays!)](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488/): Continuing studying “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven 1521-1534, 1619-1633 Wednesday 4pm EST Zoom Link
- [Swedenborg Live!](https://swedenborg.com/events/swedenborg-live-867/): Post Zoom Discussion Group: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6914545848?pwd=NnpMRnl5dGFmSjA2STZ3eHQvNmE0dz09 Meeting ID: 691 454 5848 Passcode: 19380
- [IANDS Conference](https://swedenborg.com/events/iands-conference/): The Nature of Love in Heaven According to Swedenborg Fri. 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm ET
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766-555/): Continuing studying “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven 1634-1650, 1757-1764 Wednesday 4pm EST Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesdays](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesdays-667-783-928-274/): Continuing studying “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven 1767-1777, 1869-1885 Tuesday 8PM EST Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401-488-766/): Continuing studying “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven 1634-1650, 1757-1764 Wednesday 4pm EST Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesdays](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesdays-667-783-928/): Continuing studying “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven 1634-1650, 1757-1764 Tuesday 8PM EST Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesdays](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesdays-667-783/): Continuing studying “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven 1521-1534, 1619-1633 Tuesday 8PM EST Zoom Link
- [Death Discussion Group](https://swedenborg.com/events/death-discussion-group-594/): Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6914545848?pwd=NnpMRnl5dGFmSjA2STZ3eHQvNmE0dz09 Meeting ID: 691 454 5848 Passcode: 19380
- [Community Chat](https://swedenborg.com/events/community-chat-501/): Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6914545848?pwd=NnpMRnl5dGFmSjA2STZ3eHQvNmE0dz09 Meeting ID: 691 454 5848 Passcode: 19380
- [Community Chat](https://swedenborg.com/events/community-chat/): Zoom Link Click Here Zoom Passcode: 19380
- [Book Release - Secrets of Heaven Vol. 6 (tentative)](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-release-secrets-of-heaven-vol-6-tentative/): Portable paperback
- [Swedenborg Live!](https://swedenborg.com/events/swedenborg-live/): Post Zoom Discussion Group: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89156785446?pwd=SHRvSUVaSWp6aUxkcm1ZM1prNDVndz09
- [Ebook Summer Sale!](https://swedenborg.com/events/ebook-summer-sale/): Code for 75% off ebooks: EBOOK75 You can only use one code at a time - so choose wisely!
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504-401/): Continuing studying “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven 1383-1400, 1504-1520 Wednesday 4pm EST Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesdays](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesdays-667/): Continuing studying “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven 1383-1400, 1504-1520 Tuesday 8PM EST Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621-504/): Continuing studying “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven 1273-1278, 1376-1382 Wednesday 4pm EST Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesdays](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-744/): Continuing studying "inter-chapter material" in Secrets of Heaven 814-831, 938-970, 1106-1113 Tuesday 8PM EST Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesdays](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-744-811/): Secrets of Heaven Secrets of Heaven 1114-1129 and 1265-1272 Monday (just this once!) 8PM EST Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group – Tuesdays](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-tuesdays/): Continuing studying “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven 1273-1278, 1376-1382 Tuesday 8PM EST Zoom Link
- [Death Discussion Group](https://swedenborg.com/events/death-discussion-group/): Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-5-621/): Wednesday 4pm EST: 814-831, 938-970, 1106-1113 Zoom Link
- [Summer Free Shipping EVENT!](https://swedenborg.com/events/summer-free-shipping-event/)
- [Book Release -The Essential Swedenborg](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-release-the-essential-swedenborg/): The Essential Swedenborg (new edition with NCE translation)
- [Swedenborg Speaker Series: Chara Daum](https://swedenborg.com/events/swedenborg-speaker-series-chara-daum/): "Stretch, Release, Breathe: How My Work Works on Me."
- [Death Discussion Group - Monthly](https://swedenborg.com/events/death-discussion-group-monthly-981/): Zoom link for Group: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6914545848?pwd=NnpMRnl5dGFmSjA2STZ3eHQvNmE0dz09#success
- [Swedenborg Foundation Annual Meeting](https://swedenborg.com/events/swedenborg-foundation-annual-meeting/)
- [TCCHE Conference](https://swedenborg.com/events/tcche-conference-2/): Further dates/times forthcoming
- [Book Release - Enlightenment All the Way to Heaven](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-release-enlightenment-all-the-way-to-heaven/): Enlightenment All the Way to Heaven (by Stengel)
- [Book Release - A Swedenborg Perpetual Calendar](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-release-a-swedenborg-perpetual-calendar-2/)
- [Test Template](https://swedenborg.com/events/test-template/): This is a test event for the book discussion group
- [Book Discussion: Secrets of Heaven (Entering the Afterlife) WEDNESDAY](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-secrets-of-heaven-entering-the-afterlife-319-125/): Wednesday Group Zoom Link What to Read: SOH Volume 1 numbers 168-189 and 315-319 in Secrets of Heaven volume one, about the process of entering the afterlife after death. We'll focus on what is known as the "inter-chapter material" in Secrets of Heaven -- the chapters about the afterlife that fall between the Bible interpretation
- [Book Discussion: Secrets of Heaven (Entering the Afterlife) THURSDAY](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-secrets-of-heaven-entering-the-afterlife-2-294-457/): Zoom Link for Thursday Group What to Read SOH Volume 1 numbers 168-189 and 315-319 in Secrets of Heaven volume one, about the process of entering the afterlife after death. We’ll focus on what is known as the “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven — the chapters about the afterlife that fall between the Bible
- [Book Discussion: Secrets of Heaven (Entering the Afterlife) THURSDAY](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-secrets-of-heaven-entering-the-afterlife-2-294/): Zoom Link for Thursday Group What to Read SOH Volume 1 numbers 168-189 and 315-319 in Secrets of Heaven volume one, about the process of entering the afterlife after death. We’ll focus on what is known as the “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven — the chapters about the afterlife that fall between the Bible
- [Book Discussion: Secrets of Heaven (Entering the Afterlife) WEDNESDAY](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-secrets-of-heaven-entering-the-afterlife-319/): Wednesday Group Zoom Link What to Read: SOH Volume 1 numbers 168-189 and 315-319 in Secrets of Heaven volume one, about the process of entering the afterlife after death. We'll focus on what is known as the "inter-chapter material" in Secrets of Heaven -- the chapters about the afterlife that fall between the Bible interpretation
- [Book Discussion: Secrets of Heaven (Entering the Afterlife) THURSDAY](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-secrets-of-heaven-entering-the-afterlife-2/): Zoom Link for Thursday Group What to Read SOH Volume 1 numbers 168-189 and 315-319 in Secrets of Heaven volume one, about the process of entering the afterlife after death. We’ll focus on what is known as the “inter-chapter material” in Secrets of Heaven — the chapters about the afterlife that fall between the Bible
- [Death Discussion Group - Monthly](https://swedenborg.com/events/death-discussion-group-monthly/): Zoom link for Group: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6914545848pwd=NnpMRnl5dGFmSjA2STZ3eHQvNmE0dz09
- [2022 Florida Event](https://swedenborg.com/events/2022-florida-event/): We had an amazing event in sunny Florida, February 2022! We are so grateful to everyone who attended in person - a big thank you to everyone! If you missed out, we have you covered (or if you want to watch again) - click below for the full video!
- [Book Discussion Group – Thursdays](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays/): Thursday, February 23. 8pm ET, 7pm CT, 6pm MT, 5pm PT Zoom Link
- [Giving Tuesday](https://swedenborg.com/events/giving-tuesday/): Give Today!
- [San Diego CA Regional Event](https://swedenborg.com/events/san-diego-ca-regional-event/): San Diego Wyndham 1355 N. Harbor Dr San Diego, CA 92101 This event is held in association with Curtis' appearance at The Conference for Consciousness & Human Evolution, for more information on that event visit the website.
- [San Francisco Regional Event](https://swedenborg.com/events/san-francisco-regional-event/): The Swedenborgian Church of San Francisco 2107 Lyon St San Francisco, CA 94117
- [Book Discussion Group - Wednesdays](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-wednesdays-2/): Wednesday 4pm ET, 3pm CT, 2pm MT, 1pm PT Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group – Wednesdays](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-wednesdays-3/): Wednesday 4pm ET, 3pm CT, 2pm MT, 1pm PT Zoom Link
- [Book Discussion Group - Thursdays](https://swedenborg.com/events/book-discussion-group-thursdays-2/): Thursday 8pm ET, 7pm CT, 6pm MT, 5pm PT Zoom Link
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