Here at Spiritual Insights we have watched with concern the debate raging in the United States over the saying “Black Lives Matter.” For many years we’ve been appalled by the systemic abuse of the police power against our black and…
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Black Lives Matter
Tagged with: Alicia Garza, Black Lives Matter, diversity, George Floyd, justice, Patrisse Cullors, race relations, racial equality, racial politics, racism
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Coronavirus: Act Sensibly for Everyone’s Good
In The New Jerusalem #100 Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) wrote: Kindness is doing things sensibly so that good will come from them. As I write this, fear and panic are spreading around the world about the coronavirus, which has been declared…
Tagged with: coronavirus, COVID-19, death, disease, flu, influenza, kindness, natural disasters, pandemics, SARS-CoV-2, suffering
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Are We Headed for an AI Apocalypse?
It’s a staple of science fiction. 2001: A Space Odyssey; The Terminator; The Matrix; I, Robot. The plot: Humans create machines with artificial intelligence (AI). The machines become conscious. The machines turn on their human creators and kill or enslave…
Tagged with: AI, artificial intelligence, consciousness, human brain, machine learning, mind-body problem, philosophical zombie, robots, science
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Who is Emanuel Swedenborg? Did He Start a New Church?
Dear Readers, Since Annette and I began this blog in 2012, we have received many expressions of surprise and excitement about the beliefs and ideas presented here. Perhaps it would be helpful, then, to provide more specific information about the…
How does God Speak to Us, Before and After the Incarnation?
This is the first of a series of articles following up on the previous post, “How did the Incarnation Change God’s Relationship with Us?” In the comments on that article, several readers asked questions that led to some fairly detailed…
Tagged with: angels, Christianity, God, heaven, Jesus Christ, priests, prophets, relationship with God, the Bible, the Incarnation
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Jesus Changed Paul’s World
(Note: This post is an edited version of one of my responses in an ongoing conversation with a reader. Click here to see the original version within its thread.) Hi Ben, Thanks for sticking with the conversation. I wish I…
Tagged with: ancient Judaism, Christianity, faith alone, Islam, Jesus Christ, Judaism, monotheism, pagan gods, Paul, polytheism, religion
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Bible Re-Viewed
Do God and Spirits Influence People and Things in the Physical Universe?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named AJ739: Dear Lee, Your website has massively helped me overcome my anxiety that was brought on by the New Age Movement and their beliefs,…
Tagged with: angels, evil spirits, freedom, fundamentalism, Gibeon, God, miracles, science, spirits, the Bible, the Exodus
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Thoughts on Seeing the Eclipse
Where were you for the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017? Annette and I, plus several visiting family members, were camping at Glendo State Park, 100 miles north of where we live in Cheyenne. Our campground was right on…
Tagged with: eclipse, eclipse of the sun, Glendo State Park, God, science, solar eclipse, spirituality, total solar eclipse of August 21 2017, totality, Wyoming
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Is Your Spirit Rounded or Angular?
As I was browsing headlines the other day, this title at LiveScience.com caught my attention: “A Politician’s Name & Face: Why a Good Match May Win Votes” How does someone’s name match their face, I wondered? As it turns out,…
Tagged with: angels, Emanuel Swedenborg, faces, heaven, language, names, science, spirituality, Swedenborg, the spiritual world, vowels
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Afterlife
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Afterlife
God: Puppetmaster or Manager of the Universe?
Back when Isaac Newton reigned supreme in the world of physics, it was popular among scientists and philosophers to think of the universe as a vast machine grinding along on an inevitable path that could be fully predicted into the…
Tagged with: Albert Einstein, Creation, Emanuel Swedenborg, Erwin Schrödinger, God, Isaac Newton, Max Planck, natural disasters, Niels Bohr, physics, Werner Heisenberg
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
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