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Death and Rebirth: Conclusion

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Lee — 2 Comments

For Chapter 4, click here. As the rock group The Police say in their song of the same title, “We are spirits in the material world.” While the hope of an afterlife certainly fuels our fascination with near-death experiences, we…

Tagged with: death and dying, Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell, near-death experiences, rising from death, spiritual rebirth, Swedenborg, the spiritual world
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife

Death and Rebirth, Chapter 4: Our Third Stage After Death

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Lee — Leave a comment

For Chapter 3, click here. Near-death experiencers who meet the being of light say that this being emphasizes love and learning as the most important things in life. The love must come from within, but much of our learning comes…

Tagged with: angels, death, death and dying, Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell, near-death experiences, spiritual rebirth, Swedenborg, the spiritual world, the world of spirits
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife

Death and Rebirth, Chapter 3: Our Second Stage After Death

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Lee — 2 Comments

For Chapter 2, click here. After we die we initially go back to an outward lifestyle similar to the one we had before we died. But that doesn’t last long. Soon our outer layers start getting peeled away one by one,…

Tagged with: death, death and dying, Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell, near-death experiences, spiritual rebirth, Swedenborg, the spiritual world, the world of spirits
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife

Death and Rebirth, Chapter 2: Our First Stage After Death

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Lee — 2 Comments

For Chapter 1, click here. In his Forward to The Tibetan Book of the Dead John Woodroffe says: Life immediately after death is, according to this view, as Spiritists assert, similar to, and a continuation of, the life preceding it.…

Tagged with: death, death and dying, Emanuel Swedenborg, near-death experiences, spiritual growth, spiritual rebirth, Swedenborg, the spiritual world, the world of spirits
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife

Death and Rebirth, Chapter 1: The Experience of Dying

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Lee — 6 Comments

For the Introduction, click here. There is a difference between Swedenborg’s experience and the experiences of people who have come close to dying and have returned. When Swedenborg described the spiritual world and the process of dying in Heaven and…

Tagged with: angels, death, death and dying, Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell, near-death experiences, rising from death, spiritual growth, spiritual rebirth, Swedenborg, the spiritual world
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife

Death and Rebirth: Introduction

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Lee — 2 Comments

In 1975 Raymond Moody published his book Life After Life. It became an instant bestseller, sparking an intense popular interest in near-death experiences (NDEs) that has continued to grow ever since. Suddenly there was new light shining on a part…

Tagged with: Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell, Life After Life, near-death experiences, Raymond Moody, spiritual growth, spiritual rebirth, Swedenborg, the spiritual world
Posted in The Afterlife

Is There Sex in Heaven?

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Lee — 6 Comments

Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by “Heart broken and worried”: Hi Lee I recently lost my fiancé a month ago we just got engaged on Christmas Eve. We were together for 6yrs and…

Tagged with: angels, heaven, love, marriage, sex, sexual intercourse, sexuality, soulmates, Swedenborg, the Bible
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife

Is Your Spirit Rounded or Angular?

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Lee — 6 Comments

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

How Many Hells did Swedenborg Say there Are?

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Lee — 8 Comments

Question: In his essay “The Red Angel,” the British writer and literary critic G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936) wrote: If you keep bogies and goblins away from children they would make them up for themselves. One small child in the dark can invent more…

Tagged with: children, Emanuel Swedenborg, G.K. Chesterton, goblins, heaven, Heaven and Hell, hell, monsters, Swedenborg, the spiritual world
Posted in The Afterlife

Will Sick or Disabled People Return to Good Health in the Spiritual World?

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Lee — 2 Comments

Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named A. Watson: My father suffered a stroke before he died and was left unable to speak and paralysed. I would like to know if…

Tagged with: disabled people, disease, handicapped people, health, heaven, illness, mental illness, physical health, sickness, spiritual health, strokes
Posted in Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife

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