A Story without End
How did a young Swede become, after William Wilberforce, the second most important abolitionist in England’s history? The answer: he read Swedenborg. Read more
The American Yen for Zen Began with Swedenborg . . . Sort of
What’s the story behind a Swedenborgian minister changing his name from Herman Vetterling to Philangi Dàsa, founding and editing the first Buddhist periodical in America, and publishing a fat book called Swedenborg the Buddhist? It’s complicated. Read more
Intimations of Immortality: Three Case Studies
A celebrated philosopher of religion ponders Swedenborg and other evidence of the afterlife. Read more
Is There Really Life on Other Planets?
An acclaimed astronomer, Swedenborg’s deductions about the physical universe were brilliant. Was he also onto something about its spiritual nature? Read more
Swedenborg’s Apocalypse . . . Now?
The Last Judgment is yesterday’s news. But its results are today’s.
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The Swedenborgian Tree Gracing Maurice Nicoll’s Garden of Esoterica
New research shows Swedenborg’s far reach into the Fourth Way movement.
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Asking the Right God Question
A new book shows how a quarter-millennium after his death Swedenborg continues to build effective bridges between science and spirituality. Read more
Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal
Sufism and Swedenborg share similar teachings about a spiritual world senior to this world. Read more
Mundus Imaginalis I: “NĀ-KOJĀ-ĀBĀD,” OR THE “EIGHTH CLIMATE”
Part I of Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal Read more
Mundus Imaginalis II: THE SPIRITUAL IMAGINATION
Part II of Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal Read more