Throughout the ages, the afterlife has been pictured in many different ways—more ways than we can possibly list here. Christians alone have pictured heaven as: The endless pleasure of intelligent and witty conversation with other angels Perpetual feasting with Abraham,…
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The Afterlife: It’s Not as Different as you Think!
Tagged with: angels, Emanuel Swedenborg, heaven, Heaven and Hell, near-death experiences, the Bible, the spiritual world
Posted in The Afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
Your Crowdsourced Mind
Have you ever had a mean, angry, or impure thought and beat yourself up about it, thinking that you are the worst person ever? Have you ever done a good deed, or had a brilliant idea and patted yourself on…
Tagged with: angels, community, crowdsourcing, ego, God, guilt, psychology, spirits, spirituality, the human mind, the spiritual world
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife
What is a Real Apology and How does it Help Your Soul?
Apologies have been in the news lately. Many apologies by celebrities and other public figures fall seriously short in sincerity and believability. They’re more of a CYA response than a real apology. But sometimes apologies are real. Last Thursday in…
Tagged with: angels, apologies, apologizing, apology, Giancarlo Stanton, Jacintha Saldanha, Jonah Hill, Mel Greig, Mike Fiers, repentance, spiritual rebirth, spirituality
Posted in Current Events, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Current Events, Spiritual Growth
Robin Williams, 1951-2014
Annette and I are saddened to hear of the death of Robin Williams yesterday, August 11, 2014, at the age of 63. He was a great and compassionate soul. His humor lightened the lives of millions of people around the…
Tagged with: angels, comedy, death, depression, heaven, hell, Robin Williams, Robin Williams 1951-2014, Robin Williams suicide, suicide, What Dreams May Come
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
If You’ve been Married More than Once, Which One will you be With in the Afterlife?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Anna: If a widow remarries after Death of her husband, which one will she be with in her afterlife? Thanks for the good question,…
Tagged with: angels, death, eternal marriage, heaven, love, marriage, marriage in heaven, relationships, remarriage, soulmates, spiritual marriage, the spiritual world
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife
The Mother of All the Living
In Genesis 3:20, after Adam and Eve have earned themselves a one-way trip out of the Garden of Eden, we read: The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. I am struck by…
Tagged with: Adam, angels, Eve, God, honor your father and your mother, Mitochondrial Eve, Mother's Day, spirituality, the Bible, the bride of Christ, the Divine Feminine, Y-chromosomal Adam
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Must We Answer in Heaven for Misbehavior we have Confessed To on Earth?
In the article, “The Bible, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Reincarnation,” I wrote this: In the spiritual world, it is not only possible for us to re-experience events in our own lives from the records of it in our spiritual memory, but…
Tagged with: angels, confession, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, heaven, justice, near-death experiences, punishment, repentance, spiritual rebirth, statute of limitations, Swedenborg, the Bible
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife
Visions of Heaven, by Lisa Miller
Released just in time for Easter is this new book published by TIME: (We picked up a copy at the local supermarket checkout stand under a different title: Discovering Heaven: How Our Ideas About the Afterlife Shape How We Live Today.)…
How does Jesus Appear to Us? Can We See God Face to Face?
Last month a Swedenborg reader named Nevada Sample submitted a spiritual conundrum about how Jesus appears to human beings and to angels. Here is a shortened version of what he wrote, focusing on his questions: I have just read your…
Tagged with: angels, Christianity, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, God With Us, Jesus Christ, religion, spiritual sun, spirituality, sun of heaven, the Bible, the Transfiguration, vision of Christ
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Wrestling with Angels: When “Good Enough” is Not Good Enough
Huh? Wrestling with angels? Aren’t angels supposed to be the good guys? Don’t they go around spreading love and light and all that wonderful stuff? Yes, angels are beings of love and light. But as portrayed in the Bible, angels…
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