In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore what eighteenth-century scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg learned about time in the spiritual world—and what it means for us in the physical world.
Continue ReadingSwedenborg and Life Recap: Are There Animals in the Afterlife? – 10/17/16
In this episode, host Curtis Childs from the Swedenborg Foundation and featured guests explore eighteenth-century scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg’s vivid descriptions of animals in the afterlife.
Continue ReadingSwedenborg and Life Recap: 10 Questions: Anger, Aliens, and the Inverted Trinity – 10/10/16
In this episode, Curtis Childs and featured guests put their heads together with the spiritual writings of eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg to answer these pressing questions.
Continue ReadingSwedenborg and Life Recap: The Last Judgment – 10/3/16
In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests delve into Swedenborg’s fascinating accounts of a spiritual Last Judgment. We won’t find prophecies of fire and brimstone here—instead, he stressed God’s infinite love and mercy.
Continue ReadingSwedenborg and Life Recap: Swedenborg 101: The Basic Nature of Everything – 9/26/16
We’ve spent more than one hundred episodes discussing Emanuel Swedenborg’s writings, so it might be time to step back and examine his work as a whole. His perspectives on the afterlife, God, the Bible, and spiritual growth may already have influenced your life more than you think.
Continue ReadingSwedenborg and Life Recap: How to Understand the Trinity – 9/19/2016
In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore how Swedenborg’s description of the relationship between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit differs from conventional Christian descriptions—and why it matters to religious and non-religious people alike!
Continue ReadingSwedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Questions Answered 7 – 8/29/16
The Swedenborg and Life panel has reconvened to discuss your questions about God, existence, religion, spirituality, the afterlife, and more!
Continue ReadingSwedenborg and Life Recap: Where Thoughts Come From – 8/22/16
According to Swedenborg, the physical world and the spiritual world interact to form thought as we know it.
Continue ReadingSwedenborg and Life Recap: How Angels Take Care of Us When We Die – 8/15/16
In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests explore eighteenth-century Christian mystic and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg’s accounts of how we pass from earthly life to the afterlife.
Continue ReadingSwedenborg and Life Recap: Spiritual Insight Through Gardening – 8/8/16
In this episode, host Curtis Childs and featured guests discuss how the human mind is like soil in which both spiritual and earthly truths can be planted like seeds and can multiply without end.
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