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    • Physical Dispositions
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    • Emanuel Swedenborg
      • Swedenborg's Philosophy
    • Swedenborg & Science
      • Preliminary questions and (brief!) answers
        • papers/METHMAT3.htm
        • Myths of Skepticism
    • Divine Love and Wisdom
      • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 7 ff
      • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 28 ff
      • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 44 ff
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      • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 432 ff
      • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 433 ff
      • Divine Love and Wisdom (whole book)
      • Divine Love and Wisdom
    • Heaven and its Wonders and Hell - Abstract
      • Heaven and its Wonders and Hell -- Title Page
      • Heaven and its Wonders and Hell - Chapter 1
• Physics Approach
  • Dispositions in Quantum Physics
    • Form, Substance and Dynamics
  • Difficulties in Understanding Quantum Physics
  • A Quantum World of Propensity Forms
  • Derivative Dispositions and Multiple Generative Levels
  • Virtual Processes as Prior Generative Levels
  • Formative Processes as Another Prior Generative Level?
  • All in the Mind?
    • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 209 ff
  • Analogies between Quantum and Mental Processes
  • Are QUANTUM PHYSICS and SPIRITUALITY related?
    • Are QUANTUM PHYSICS and SPIRITUALITY related?
      • Are QUANTUM PHYSICS and SPIRITUALITY related?
      • Are QUANTUM PHYSICS
        • Are QUANTUM PHYSICS
      • Some(!) of the
        • Some(!) of the
      • Quantum Nature:
        • Quantum Nature:
      • Suggested means for getting one definite actuality:
        • Suggested means for getting one definite actuality:
      • Related ideas sometimes held
        • Related ideas sometimes held
      • From Swedenborg’s revelation,
        • From Swedenborg’s revelation,
      • Aims of this talk:
        • Aims of this talk:
      • Recapitulate: spirit & nature from new revelation -
        • Recapitulate: spirit & nature from new revelation -
      • “Soul acts by the mind in the body”
        • “Soul acts by the mind in the body”
      • Three degrees in the natural:
        • Three degrees in the natural:
      • Energy: a pivotal concept
        • Energy: a pivotal concept
      • Understanding the quantum
        • Understanding the quantum
      • Energy, Tendency and Action: the scheme of quantum physics
        • Energy, Tendency and Action: the scheme of quantum physics
      • Example:
        • Example:
      • Potentials from
        • Potentials from
      • Examples of virtual processes
        • Examples of virtual processes
      • Propensities for Virtual Processes
        • Propensities for Virtual Processes
      • What about Gravity?
        • What about Gravity?
      • A prior ‘Formative Degree’
        • A prior ‘Formative Degree’
      • How there can be Partial Views
        • How there can be Partial Views
      • Termination of spirit in nature
        • Termination of spirit in nature
      • Full ennead of discrete degrees
        • Full ennead of discrete degrees
      • This talk hopes to have shown:
        • This talk hopes to have shown:
      • Conclusions
        • Conclusions
      • References to more details
        • References to more details
  • Freeing Imagination
  • A Modular Model of Mind/Matter Manifestations (M⁵)
    • papers/m5.pdf
  • So what's it all about?
• Biology Approach
  • Creationism and Theistic Science?
    • Antony Flew and Deism
  • The third Source (Swedenborg: A Physical & Metaphysical Revelation)
    • The third Source (Swedenborg: A Physical & Metaphysical Revelation)
    • Swedenborg - 2.0 The interpretation of Swedenborg'sDreams and Visions: their Keys.
    • Swedenborg - 3.0 The interpretation of Swedenborg'sDreams and Visions: their Keys.
    • Swedenborg - 4.0 On Absolute Certainty and Flashes of Illumination
    • Swedenborg - 5.0 Nature and Role of Swedenborg's Dual Revelation:Physical and Metaphysical
    • Swedenborg - 6.0 A Re-examination of Swedenborg's Journal of Dreams and his Theory of Localizations and of the Functions of the Cerebral Cortex.
    • Swedenborg - 7.0 The Rabies Virus
    • Swedenborg - 8.0 Corollaries and final comments
    • Swedenborg - Index of Swedenborg's works quoted
    • The third Source (Swedenborg: A Physical & Metaphysical Revelation)
• Psychology Approach
  • Development Stages
  • Layered Cognitive Networks
  • Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness
  • Primacy of the Affective over the Cognitive
  • Spiritual Psychobiology
    • Writing Abbreviations
  • Religious Behaviorism
• Philosophy Approach
  • Cognitive Theism
• Spirituality Approach
  • Mysticism & Work
  • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 10
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 11
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 12
    • Heaven and its Wonders and Hell
      • Heaven and its Wonders and Hell - Index
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 2
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 3
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 4
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 8
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 14
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 15
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 17
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 18
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 19
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 20
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 22
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 23
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 26
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 27
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 30
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 31
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 35
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 36
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 37
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 38
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 39
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 43
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 44
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 48
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 49
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 50
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 51
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 52
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 53
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 54
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 55
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 56
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 57
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 59
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 60
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 61
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 62
      • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 63
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 9
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 7
  • Huston Smith
    • spirituality/DivBull2002winter-Smith.pdf
  • Unhappy moods
  • NDEs
    • Heaven and its Wonders and Hell - Abstract
  • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 46
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 47
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 45
  • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 33
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 34
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 32
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 6
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 16
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 5
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 28
  • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 41
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 42
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 40
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 25
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 24
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 21
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 29
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 58
    • Heaven and Hell, Chap. 13
  • How to distingush the Natural and Spiritual
    • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 1 ff
    • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 40 ff
    • What are Discrete Degrees?
      • What are Discrete Degrees?
        • What are Discrete Degrees?
      • Importance of Discrete Degrees
        • Importance of Discrete Degrees
      • Our ideas of Discrete Degrees
        • Our ideas of Discrete Degrees
      • Kinds of Explanations we like?
        • Kinds of Explanations we like?
      • How we Form our First Ideas
        • How we Form our First Ideas
      • Imagining Discrete Degrees
        • Imagining Discrete Degrees
      • What are Discrete Degrees?
        • What are Discrete Degrees?
      • Natural things with discrete units: Are these discrete degrees?
        • Natural things with discrete units: Are these discrete degrees?
      • Discrete, or Images of Discrete?
        • Discrete, or Images of Discrete?
      • The whole and its parts
        • The whole and its parts
      • Expanded Consciousness
        • Expanded Consciousness
      • Elevated Consciousness
        • Elevated Consciousness
      • The Fourth Dimension?
        • The Fourth Dimension?
      • Another Spatial Dimension?
        • Another Spatial Dimension?
      • New Vibrational Frequencies?
        • New Vibrational Frequencies?
      • Harmonics and Resonances
        • Harmonics and Resonances
      • Infinite Time — No Time ?
        • Infinite Time — No Time ?
      • Successive Stages?
        • Successive Stages?
      • States of Matter?
        • States of Matter?
      • Inside and Outside
        • Inside and Outside
      • Self-similarity
        • Self-similarity
      • Are ANY pictures suitable?
        • Are ANY pictures suitable?
      • To understand discrete degrees:
        • To understand discrete degrees:
      • Heat and Light (?)
        • Heat and Light (?)
      • Discrete Pairs from Physics
        • Discrete Pairs from Physics
      • Form and Substance
        • Form and Substance
      • End, Cause and Effect
        • End, Cause and Effect
      • Affection, understanding, action
        • Affection, understanding, action
      • Soul, mind and nature
        • Soul, mind and nature
      • Love, Wisdom and Use
        • Love, Wisdom and Use
      • Conclusions
        • Conclusions
      • References to more details
        • References to more details
      • What are Discrete Degrees?
  • Nondualism
  • Loving Others?
    • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 47 ff
  • Esoteric Knowledge?
  • Spiritual Growth
  • Without Paradox?
    • andrew cohen's teachings
• Religion Approach
  • What is Spirituality?
  • The Bible's Deeper Meaning
• Theology Approach
  • The Consistency Of Physical Law With Divine Immanence
• Beginning
• Basic Principles of Theistic Science
  • Brief Overview: Creation as a Representation of the Divine
    • Introduction to Theistic Science
      • Methods of Theistic Science
      • Emanuel Swedenborg: synopsis
        • Swedenborg's Spiritual Philosophy
    • Site Map
      • Swedenborg's Revelations of Duality and Nonduality
        • Swedenborg's Revelations of Duality and Nonduality
        • Swedenborg’s Revelations of Dualism and Nondualism
          • Swedenborg’s Revelations of Dualism and Nondualism
            • Swedenborg’s Revelations of Dualism and Nondualism
          • Need for Esoteric Perspectives
            • Need for Esoteric Perspectives
          • Emanuel Swedenborg
            • Emanuel Swedenborg
          • How you may have heard of Swedenborg:
            • How you may have heard of Swedenborg:
          • What Swedenborg thought he was doing after 1744
            • What Swedenborg thought he was doing after 1744
          • What do we really want to know?
            • What do we really want to know?
          • Permanent Spiritual Change?
            • Permanent Spiritual Change?
          • What is NOT permanent!
            • What is NOT permanent!
          • Receiving Love and Wisdom
            • Receiving Love and Wisdom
          • Esoteric Science of Consciousness?
            • Esoteric Science of Consciousness?
          • What is the Spiritual?
            • What is the Spiritual?
          • Spiritual as ‘Internal Human’
            • Spiritual as ‘Internal Human’
          • Stages of Regeneration
            • Stages of Regeneration
          • What is Temptation?
            • What is Temptation?
          • Examples of Temptation
            • Examples of Temptation
          • Temptation in the Will
            • Temptation in the Will
          • Freely?
            • Freely?
          • Resisting by Means of Truths
            • Resisting by Means of Truths
          • Temptations about temptation
            • Temptations about temptation
          • Basic Spiritual Principles:
            • Basic Spiritual Principles:
          • Love and Wisdom acting Jointly
            • Love and Wisdom acting Jointly
          • What to do and not to do!
            • What to do and not to do!
          • What to do and not to do (2)
            • What to do and not to do (2)
          • Inner and Outer actions
            • Inner and Outer actions
          • Duality and Nonduality
            • Duality and Nonduality
          • Necessary Distinctions!
            • Necessary Distinctions!
          • Degrees and Correspondences
            • Degrees and Correspondences
          • What is NOT regeneration!
            • What is NOT regeneration!
          • What is not regeneration (2)
            • What is not regeneration (2)
          • Conclusions
            • Conclusions
          • References & Resources
            • References & Resources
          • Framework for a Science of Consciousness
            • Framework for a Science of Consciousness
          • Framework for a Science of Consciousness
            • Framework for a Science of Consciousness
          • God as the Divine Source
            • God as the Divine Source
          • Persons Receive this Life
            • Persons Receive this Life
          • Three-Fold Structures in Nature
            • Three-Fold Structures in Nature
          • Recursive Wholes and Parts
            • Recursive Wholes and Parts
          • Triads and Enneads, in us:
            • Triads and Enneads, in us:
          • Ennead in the Exterior Mind
            • Ennead in the Exterior Mind
          • Ennead in the Natural World
            • Ennead in the Natural World
          • Cognitive & Affective Stages
            • Cognitive & Affective Stages
          • Linking Correspondences
            • Linking Correspondences
          • Human Correspondences
            • Human Correspondences
          • Parapsychology & Miracles
            • Parapsychology & Miracles
          • Swedenborg’s Revelations of Dualism and Nondualism
        • Swedenborg’s Revelations of Dualism and Nondualism
          • talks/esoscience/newppt_files/filelist.xml
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          • talks/esoscience/newppt_files/oledata.mso
          • talks/esoscience/newppt_files/pres.xml
    • What are Discrete Degrees?
  • How Purposes can be Powerful
  • Theism: Basic Postulates
    • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 14 ff
    • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 34 ff
    • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 4 ff
    • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 23 ff
    • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 17 ff
    • Divine Love and Wisdom, sections 11 ff
  • Divine Immanence and Transcendence
  • Outline Theology: The Divine and Creation
  • Discrete Degrees
    • Recursive degrees
  • Series and Correspondences
• Consequences for Mind and Spirit
  • Connection between Mind and Body
  • The Limbus in Swedenborg
    • On Immortality
  • Speculation
  • Parapsychology and Miracles
  • Evolution
  • The General Human Form
  • Theistic Psychology
    • The third Source (Swedenborg: A Physical & Metaphysical Revelation)
  • Affective and Cognitive Development Stages
  • Regeneration
  • Partial Views of the Multiple Generative Levels
  • Distortions of the Divine Image
• Theistic Physics
• Theistic Biology
  • PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCES
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Supra-Renal Capsules
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Cartilages
  • Lips, Tongue & Teeth
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Kidneys
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Skin
  • PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCES: Saliva
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Peritonaeum
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Hair
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Oesophagus
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Heart & Lungs
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Hands
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Stomach
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Nose
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Feet
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Intestines
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Organs of Speech
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Ear
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Mesentery
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Pleura
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Eye
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Liver
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Diaphragm
  • Physiological Correspondences: Generation and Regeneration
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Spleen & Pancreas
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Muscles in General
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Brain
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Omentum
  • Physiological Correspondences: the Bones
  • books/worcester/worcester.zip
• Theistic Psychology
  • Discrete Degrees in Successive and Simultaneous Order
    • Contents
    • Colour in the Diagrams.
    • PART I. The Regeneration of Man.
    • Chapter I. The Spiritual and the Natural.
    • Chapter Il. The Spirit Two-fold, Mind and Spiritual Body.
    • Chapter III. The Inmost or the Soul Proper.
    • Chapter IV. The Mind: - Its Two Faculties, Will and Understanding.
    • Chapter V. Will and Understanding. - Another View.
    • Chapter VI. The Internal and the External Mind.
    • Chapter VII. Internal Will and Understanding, and External Will and Understanding.
    • Chapter VIII. The Mind in Three Degrees.
    • Chapter IX. The Mind in Three Degrees. - Another View.
    • Chapter X. The Spiritual or Internal Mind in Three Degrees.
    • Chapter XI. Illustration of Passages.
    • Chapter XII. The Mind as the Two Kingdoms.
    • Chapter XIII. Relation of the Degrees of the Natural Mind to those of the Spiritual.
    • Chapter XIV. Each Degree of the Spiritual Mind in Three Planes.
    • Chapter XV. The Limbus.
    • Chapter XVI. The Limbus Retained After Death.
    • Chapter XVII. All the Degrees in Trines.
    • Chapter XVIII. Man at Birth.
    • Supplement.
    • Chapter XIX. Growth During Infancy.
    • Chapter XX. Growth During Childhood.
    • Chapter XXI. Growth During Youth.
    • Chapter XXII. Adult Life. - First Degree of Regeneration.
    • Chapter XXIII. The Second Degree of Regeneration.
    • Chapter XXIV. The Third Degree of Regeneration.
    • Chapter XXV. The Wicked.
    • PART II. Assumption and Glorification of the Human by the Lord.
    • Chapter XXVI. The Human of the LORD before the Incarnation.
    • Chapter XXVII. The Degrees of the Human, and whence taken.
    • Chapter XXVIII. State of the Human at Birth.
    • Chapter XXIX. The Glorification; Its First Stage-Infancy.
    • Chapter XXX. The Glorification; Its Second Stage-Childhood.
    • Chapter XXXI. The Glorification; Its Third Stage-Youth.
    • Chapter XXXII. The Glorification; Its Fourth Stage-The First Period of Adult Life.
    • Chapter XXXIII. The Glorification; Its Fifth Stage-The Second Period of Adult Age.
    • Chapter XXXIV. The Glorification; Its Sixth Stage-The Third Period of Adult Life.
    • Chapter XXXV. The Glorification Complete; Its Seventh and Last Stage, Accomplished during the Fourth Period of Adult Age.
    • Addendum.
    • Abbreviations Titles of the Works Referred to in this Volume.
• Theistic Religion
• Theistic Philosophy
  • Why Must Homunculi Be So Stupid? by Elliott Sober
• Further Resources for Theistic Science
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Contents and Search page

• Emanuel Swedenborg: Heaven and Hell, 1758
• Emanuel Swedenborg: Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763
• Emanuel Swedenborg: Divine Providence, 1764
• Emanuel Swedenborg: True Christian Religion, 1771
• N.C. Burnham: Discrete Degrees in Successive and Simultaneous Order, 1887
• John Worcester: Physiological Corresponences, 1889.

Online Talks

• Ian Thompson: 'Are Quantum Physics and Spirituality related?'
• Ian Thompson: 'What are Discrete Degrees?'
• Ian Thompson: 'Swedenborg’s Revelations of Dualism and Nondualism'