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25.01.2022 Heaven is infinitely greater than say nice gardens. Heaven as not so much a place we are trying to reach, rather it is a state we are trying to unfold from within ourselves. The Kingdom of heaven is within you. Check out what Swedenborg had to say about what Heaven feels like.

24.01.2022 Here is a short video on the value of mutual love and kindness in relation to the world religions with excellent comments such as "the truth inherent in all of these different viewpoints is in a divine power that we all came from, that we all return to, and that we must connect with in this life and for whatever comes next."

22.01.2022 Charity is mentioned often in Swedenborg's Writings. Here's a lovely description of what is meant by charity from Dr Philip W Groves, to help us appreciate its significance. Charity is performing what you love doing, most of all because you like doing it. And you do it on the basis of all the knowledge about it that you’ve accumulated. You do it to the best of your ability, because you like it to be as perfect as possible. And you do it in such a way that: a) you feel within ...yourself that you’re actually helping the whole cosmic scheme to run smoothly. You’re helping the divine anticipation, the divine trust placed in you as a living being capable of doing things, that you’re going to fulfil a creative purpose. And you try to carry out your action in such a manner that it’s of benefit, use, value and service to other people. And also, there comes the enormous satisfaction that you’ve done your very best, and it is fulfilling. And that you somehow bring out of yourself your best capacities and expressions. That is charity. See more

19.01.2022 Art by Michael J Wright and talk by Dr Andrew Heslop

16.01.2022 The Swedenborgian clinical psychologist Dr Wilson van Dusen would be very pleased to see the establishing of Care Farms to help people improve their mental health. He worked with mentally ill people throughout his working life and saw work as a great recovery process. He wrote insightfully on the connection of sanity and usefulness and his booklet titled Usefulness is a classic.

11.01.2022 SAA Event: Sydney psychologist Roshanak Vahdani presents The Mysticism of Rumi

10.01.2022 Divine Providence works in a thousand ways, some most mysterious, in each of us, and that its constant effort is to purify us. This is because it is focused on the goal of saving us; and all that is required of us is that we set aside the evils in our outer self. The Lord takes care of the rest, if we ask. Emanuel Swedenborg, Divine Providence 296:15 Here's a lovely presentation conveying the message that Divine Providence is active in your life.

04.01.2022 Here's a quick, insightful overview of why spiritual awakenings exist, what happens during them, and our part in it all.

02.01.2022 The Swedenborg Road Map provides a bridge for the reader who wonders where to begin and where to find the central concepts in Swedenborg's writings. It first appeared in 1994 and has just been enhanced with a major update. It now covers a whole stack of Swedenborgian teachings in fair detail along with references given to passages from Swedenborg’s works. Here's the link to the latest online version. http://www.swedenborg.com.au//boo/presentingswedenborg.pdf One of the ne...w sections is Swedenborg's Topics and Source references. The references are linked to the New Christian Bible Study website giving immediate access to the relevant passage. A treasured resource for spiritual seekers. See more

02.01.2022 Here's an insightful perspective on why bad things happen to good people.

01.01.2022 During the first years of our life the Lord plants experiences and memories which pass into our unconscious, which are essential for our later spiritual growth. They are called ‘remains’ by Swedenborg because they remain with us, dormant. In childhood, such remains of both good and truth continue to be laid down. Remains continue to be given us in adult life but the deepest are those of childhood. Here's an example told by Barbara Blackman in conversation with Caroline Jones,... that illustrates this. "The little inner voice said, 'Lie upon the landscape of your country'. Probably this had come up from the depths, from something very early in my life. My father died when I was three. He was a surveyor and, when he knew he hadn't long to live, he took my mother and me to camp with Aboriginal people, whose ways he loved, out on Pumicestone Creek, Caloundra. We went fishing and cooked round camp fires, and I think we were deeply happy. So that must have been what spoke to me now at this time of bereavement which the end of a marriage is. So that's what I had to do. People had said to me, 'You'll get bruised from lying on the ground. You'll get the trots from bush tucker, you'll get sores.' But I knew. I knew from the very first night when I lay down under the stars upon the sands of a dry river bed under the sky, I felt happy - happy in a way I had never felt happy before. Then, the more I got to feel myself one with the old slow time of rock and the near fast time of birds flitting by, the deeper that happiness became. We stayed out for six months. Oh, the remote places we went to, the silences - the way we were able to pull fish out of the sea and eat them - and the crabs, the wallabies, goannas ... I had never been part of nature like that before. And I was healed. Healed of the sorts of fears I might have had as a middle-aged blind person living by myself for the first time." The image below is by Mark Polsen titled 'Tranquility Base'.