Media Reviews – The New Age

A Swedenborg Anthology

Site-Manager · September 15, 2017December 19, 2017

The Swedenborg Centre is delighted to let you know about this new Swedenborg Anthology which is now available either in print copy (printing is done on demand) or online as a pdf download here. Size A5 56 pages Clear-sized print Strong cover with attractive design Further reading links given The Anthology’s main aim is to …

Book Review: “New Jerusalem” New Century Edition, Swedenborg Foundation

Site-Manager · March 15, 2017June 20, 2017

This is the latest theological work of Swedenborg to be issued in the New Century Edition series by the Swedenborg Foundation. It uses the translation by George Dole. It is a remarkable book and it has often been described as a “notebook” of Swedenborg’s spiritual teachings. There are 23 chapters, most of which are thoroughly but briefly dealt …

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Reviewing The ‘Apocalypse of John’ Cards Set

Site-Manager · June 18, 2015September 10, 2015

A set of 64 cards based on the Book of Revelation – the Apocalypse of John – with 64 cards, 2 Handbooks, a Games Booklet. Produced by Spiritual Wisdom with artwork by G Roland Smith The 64 cards are 24 full colour illustrations of events and visions in the Apocalypse and 40 images of single …

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Swedenborg and Jung: A New Book by Brian O’Neill

Site-Manager · December 17, 2014March 20, 2015

My initial urge to write this book wasn’t to simply add more theory to the writing about Emanuel Swedenborg, Carl Jung, Gestalt therapy or spirituality, all of which hold interest for me. While I have written about each of these, at times together at times separate, my approach is to move away from the theory …

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The Map of Heaven

Site-Manager · December 17, 2014March 20, 2015

Many of you may already be familiar with Eben Alexander’s first and best-selling book “Proof of Heaven” in which he describes in great detail his personal experiences of continuing consciousness after the incontrovertible death of his brain. Dr Alexander began as a dedicated neurosurgeon after years of training and preparation. He became highly thought of …

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Why I Believe in God

Site-Manager · November 24, 2014December 17, 2014

Are we and everything else that exists, here by accident or by design? Is there a Super Being or God behind everything that exists maintaining their existence? How we answer this question, and each of us has to answer this question one way or another over the course of our lives, determines how we live …

Some Recent and Different Swedenborg Books

Site-Manager · November 24, 2014December 17, 2014

These are four recent titles from the Swedenborg Foundation who seem to be on to a good thing with their books in the last two or three years. Three of these productions – Our Life After Death, The Lives of Angels and Regeneration are basically extracts from Swedenborg’s Writings, but they are thematic, with simple …

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Two Movies with Spiritual Content

Site-Manager · November 24, 2014December 17, 2014

The BOX office’s obsession with teen-centric dystopian (the opposite of utopian) futuristic tales reasserts itself this week thanks to the release of two new films the The Giver and Maze Runner. It all began with The Hunger Games now waiting on its 3rd and 4th movie sequels and Divergent (so far only the first of three books …