Spirituality in Practice

Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) made abstract works inspired by her occult practices. The results overflow with spiritual insight.

Seeing the inherent value in one another would help to heal our world. Writer and philosopher George Gantz offers a way to access such a perspective.

In the April 29 Netflix release Things Heard and Seen, a young professor and his wife (George and Catherine Claire) move from New York City to the Hudson Valley, where he has just landed a job at the fictional Saginaw College. George promptly runs into a professor who declares that he is a believer in Emanuel Swedenborg, one of a group of people in the area who follow Swedenborg’s teachings. But how much of what’s in the move reflects what Swedenborg actually wrote?

Angels commune with us constantly, but it works even better when we collaborate.

Conscious dying reveals lessons about living and graces those around us.

Loving ourselves poisons when not salted by love for neighbor.

Sometimes we are just looking for a reassuring sign.

Is it possible to be connected to other people on a spiritual level? Swedenborg says that the things you love determine who you are—and who you’ll be drawn toward in this life and the next.

Though he was too modest to speak on the matter, the answer is lying in plain sight.