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Swedenborg: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas

Swedenborg: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas


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It is difficult to imagine modern Western alternative spirituality without the influence of Swedish scientist and mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). Every movement in alternative spirituality - from mental-healing and Spiritualism to New Age mysticism and the twelve-step recovery movement - owes an immeasurable debt to the ideas he exploded upon the Western world. Yet Swedenborg's work can be challenging for modern readers. His influence, everywhere at once, is difficult to get a handle on. Now, however, Gary Lachman provides an accessible, lively and masterful introduction to the life and ideas of this spiritual giant. Lachman takes us to Swedenborg's roots as brilliant rationalist and scientist who, well into mid-life, began to experience visions of other realms. From this point Swedenborg produced an extraordinary range of writings based on his out-of-body experiences, in which he related encounters with angels, other-planetary beings and "the world of spirits." As Lachman explores, Swedenborg's work opens up a radically liberal and refreshing ideal of religion. The great mystic saw humanity and all of nature, as phenomena emerging from the "spiritual world" and man as a vessel for divine influences. This vision inspired Western seekers to see man as a product of spiritual phenomena and thus a being intimately connected with the cosmos. From this perspective grew bold new ideas about channelling, spiritual healing, mystical experience, mediumship - a litany of concepts that prefigured the revolutions in alternative and therapeutic spirituality. "Lachman identifies all the roles Swedenborg inhabited (spiritual thinker, psychic, scientist, inventor, statesman, traveller and possibly even spy) and does an exceptionally good job of suggesting why this little-known polymath deserves more substantial critical attention." - The Independent on Sunday

About the Author :
Gary Lachman is one of today's most widely read and respected writers on esoteric and occult themes. His books include Jung the Mystic, Rudolf Steiner, Turn Off Your Mind and A Secret History of Consciousness. In his musical career, Lachman has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a founding member of Blondie. He was born in New Jersey and currently lives in London.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781585429387
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: TarcherPerigee
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1585429384
  • Publisher Date: 12 Apr 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas


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