This is the 30th-anniversary edition of a groundbreaking work. It has introduced more modern readers to Emanuel Swedenborg than any other single volume. Psychologist Wilson van Dusen examines Swedenborg’s findings through the lenses of philosophy, science, mysticism, and psychology. Extraordinary mystical experiences are explained on the level of everyday understanding and experience, leading to a more ethical way of living.
An account of the monumental journey of eighteenth-century scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg into the depths of his own mind and to spiritual worlds beyond.
ForewordixIntroductionxv1The Man32Going Within213Opening the Inner World394Worlds within Worlds: Heaven and Hell715The Gentle Root of Existence1076The Presence of Spirits in Madness1357Minor Miracles1578Existence Itself as Symbolic1779Inner Meanings19910The One Present225Afterword251References255Bibliography of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg263