Our Scholars on Swedenborg blog features articles written by Swedenborgian academics with an emphasis on how religious pluralism has been used to solve some of the most pressing issues of the past and present.

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

Mundus Imaginalis III: TOPOGRAPHIES OF THE “EIGHTH CLIMATE”
Part III of Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal Read more

Swedenborg’s Influence on German Idealism and Mysticism
Tragedy took Schelling deep into Swedenborg’s spiritual world, and it changed how he viewed our final destiny. Read more

The Highest Insight in Hinduism and in Swedenborg
A renowned psychologist and comparative religion author sees unity at the summit. Read more