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,…
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Is Your Spirit Rounded or Angular?
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
How Many Hells did Swedenborg Say there Are?
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
Posted in The Afterlife
What is the Source of the Belief that the Deceased become Angels?
In Heaven: A History (1995: Yale University Press) the authors, Drs. Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang, state that Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) had a pivotal role in bringing about a changed view of heaven, including the idea that angels are humans who have died and…
Tagged with: angels, Bernhard Lang, Colleen McDannell, Emanuel Swedenborg, heaven, Heaven and Hell, Heaven: A History, Swedenborg, the Bible, the spiritual world
Posted in The Afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
Can we Keep our Friends in the Afterlife?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Maria: Ever since I encountered Swedenborg, I’ve struggled with the mechanics of the afterlife: it sounds both beautiful and terrible. I’ve been told we…
Tagged with: angels, friends, friendship, heaven, love, relationships, soulmates, the spiritual world, the world of spirits
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife
Pain, Punishment, Prison, and Hell
In the course of a discussion on the recent article, “How Imagination and Fantasy Help our Spiritual Growth,” a reader named Frankly Frank said: “And hell is not a punishment”……. I dunno about that one, Lee. There are vivid accounts…
Tagged with: crime, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, hardened criminals, hell, justice, pain, prison, punishment, recidivism, sin, the spiritual world
Posted in The Afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
Heaven in a Snowbot
Edward Snowden has become a household name as the famous or infamous National Security Agency (NSA) document leaker and whistleblower. He notoriously outed the mass surveillance of ordinary American citizens and people around the world by the United States and…
Tagged with: BeamPro, Edward Snowden, Emanuel Swedenborg, heaven, National Security Agency, science, Snowbot, surveillance, Swedenborg, technology, the spiritual world
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
God, Forgiveness, Freedom, and Hell – Part 4
(Note: This article is the last of a four-part series. The first three parts were edited versions of a series of questions by a reader named Rami, and my answers, in the comments section of the article, “What is the…
Tagged with: Christianity, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, God, heaven, hell, judgment, punishment, sin, the spiritual world
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife
On Pluto, Atoms, and Other Things (such as Heaven) that Just Keep Getting More Complex
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto last week. And wow! What a bonanza! Before this flyby, all we had were very fuzzy images of Pluto only a few pixels wide. Because Pluto is so far away, so small, and…
Tagged with: angels, atomic theory, devils, heaven, images of Pluto, NASA, New Horizons, Pluto, science, space exploration, subatomic particles, the spiritual world
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Afterlife
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Afterlife
Aliens vs. Advent: Swedenborg’s 1758 Book on Extraterrestrial Life
Aliens are very popular these days. Not that we’ve ever actually seen a real one. (No, I don’t go for all the UFO stuff.) But just try to tell Hollywood that! To judge by the movie releases, the galaxy is…
Tagged with: Advent, aliens, Christianity, cosmology, Earths in the Universe, Emanuel Swedenborg, extraterrestrials, Jesus Christ, SETI, Swedenborg, the Bible, the spiritual world, UFO
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Is Heaven Physical? Can Angels Play Tennis?
In a comment on my recent article, “The Afterlife: It’s Not as Different as you Think!” a reader named Richard Neer responded to my statement that angels go through their daily life in much the same way we do here…
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