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. Read more
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? Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more