Read also part one: Black and white. We live in a universe that is expanding, growing. We are part of this universe. We are expanding and growing too. That is the basis for our life, and the reason we are here. There is no set goal, no finish line that God has designed that we [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Contrast
Posted in Flashes, tagged Abraham, balance, contrast, equilibrium, evil, heaven, hell on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Black and white
Posted in Flashes, tagged black, evil, God, good, Swedenborg, white on January 30, 2012 | 2 Comments »
In preparation for a workshop on “evil.” I have two cotton blindfolds, one white, one black. I ask for a volunteer. I say, now I am going to show you experientially the difference between good and evil. Volunteer says,OK. First I ask him to put the black blindfold on, snug, he can’t see around the [...]
Travels
Posted in Flashes, tagged Ahlberg, Inka, soul, Soulcraft, travel on January 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I am reading, “Resar börjar alltid med ett ja” (Irene Ahlberg). Travels always begin with a yes. These are travels of the soul. They require a yes first. Why does it look like some people do not have this wish to travel, and have no yes in them for such a thing. Why is it [...]
Pyramids
Posted in Flashes, tagged construction, Drunvalo, Giza, Great Pyramid, pyramid on January 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I watched a film tonight with Drunvalo Melchizedek. At one point in this film he says that the Great Pyramid at Giza was built very rapidly. In fact within a matter of hours. Not only that, it was built from the top down. What makes it possible for someone to claim this, without blinking an [...]
The law of all laws
Posted in Flashes, tagged attraction, judgment, law, love on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged.” (Matthew 7:1-2) Strip away all opinions for a moment. Strip away all memories. Strip away all expectation. What is left as the basic law underneath it all? What is it that can never be argued with, never be [...]
Drumming
Posted in Flashes, tagged drum, group work, native Americans on January 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I have begun to experiment using a hand drum in group meetings, in the men’s group and in volunteer work I do with immigrants. The idea is to get each person to “talk” through the drum, and not use words. Also makes it easier in case English is not their best language. It is great [...]
The door
Posted in Flashes, tagged Abraham, door, gravity, love, Swedenborg on January 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Gravity pulls. It is a one-way force. The only known form of energy in the universe that seems to have no opposite. It pulls, never pushes. According to Swedenborg gravity corresponds spiritually to love (AE 159). And so gravity also corresponds to the law of attraction. There is only attraction, and no assertion. Everything is [...]
Marriage vows – the next level
Posted in Flashes, tagged Abraham, marriage on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I can make all kinds of promises to do for you, to do with you, to take care of you. I can make those, because I know that external actions are not in my power. So if I can’t keep the promise, well, that was outside of my power then. External promises are easy that [...]
Kicking and screaming
Posted in Flashes on January 22, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I have just come back from a New Church study weekend, an hour south of Stockholm. Reflecting on the weekend I would like to quote Eckhart Tolle. He once said that in these transition times people are being dragged into the kingdom of heaven kicking and screaming. I think God is winning.
The quickest remembering
Posted in Flashes, tagged angel, creation, moment, Neale Donald Walsch, now on January 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Reading some really deep thoughts today. Thoughts that make me breathe a little deeper, in order to be able to think them. Here is one: “Each soul creates the situation and the circumstance for its own highest purpose and its own quickest remembering – in each moment called now.” (Neale Donald Walsch – Conversations With [...]
Life is like a bowling ball
Posted in Flashes, tagged bowling on January 20, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Life sometimes bowls us over. But who is throwing the bowling ball?
Misfortunes
Posted in Flashes, tagged divine providence, God, misfortunes, reconnection on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I believe that if I blame someone else for the fortunes of my life, then I am chucking God out the window. If Divine providence is in all the details, then it *is* *in* *all* *the* *details.* So when I see someone else do just that (chucking God out), I feel no compassion for their [...]
Angel of fear: part three
Posted in Flashes, tagged angels, Drunvalo, fear, heaven, Swedenborg on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Part two here. I found a striking insight on fear in Drunvalo’s book The Flower of Life, vol 2. “If emotions and feelings are not in balance within the initiate, this imbalance will stop us from evolving. Egyptian initiations a perfect example of the importance that the Egyptians placed on overcoming fear, one of the [...]
Angel of fear: part two
Posted in Flashes, tagged angel, angel of death, Angel of the Lord, fear on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Part one here. Continuing with this intriguing theme… fear, inspired by a messenger from God. There is a set of words that occur frequently in the Bible: “Do not be afraid.” And who says these words? God does. Like in Genesis 15: “The LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not be afraid, [...]
Angel of fear
Posted in Flashes, tagged angels, fear, God, panic, paranoia, Truth on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I come across short, baffling descriptions in Swedenborg. Suddenly he is reporting on something, maybe something he saw with his own eyes. This is what it looked like to him. No analysis or further questioning is given. “Truth from God sometimes appears to evil people. It does this through the presence of an angel [...]
Other revelations
Posted in Flashes, tagged Abraham, revelation, Swedenborg on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This post was actually published somewhere else, on the New Church Perspective site. So I’ll just link to it: http://www.newchurchperspective.com/essays/2012/1/13/other-revelations.html
Approach the soul
Posted in Flashes, tagged Christianity, mother, person, soul, Swedenborg on January 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I felt the need for oracle guidance this morning. It is raining outside, the whole of Stockholm is wet. A wet, but warm, January. This is 2012 alright. Oracle guidance means for me, for example, grabbing a book of the shelves and randomly picking a line from somewhere on one of the pages. My hand [...]
Feeling better
Posted in Flashes, tagged board meeting, fountain, Jesus, living water, problem, spirit on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A fountain of living water that rises up in us and that never runs out. The water of the spirit. “Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38). Heart, belly, guts. All are apparent synonyms in the old languages. It is all about feeling better. First I need to raise myself [...]
Words of wisdom
Posted in Flashes, tagged Jeremy Finkeldey on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I would like to honor a friend of mine here. He wrote the following lines today in a Facebook post. My response to reading these was, “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes (repeat 400 times…)” The organized and so-called “New Church” will remain small, insignificant, and without influence on the planet until it learns to connect [...]
Endless revelation
Posted in Flashes, tagged Christianity, Course in miracles, God, Schucman, Swedenborg, teacher, Thetford on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Some years ago, when I first started reading Swedenborg, I also came across the book A Course In Miracles. I remember having the following reaction. Swedenborg is written impersonally, in the third person, and tries hard to keep to a straight course in the stormy seas of a historical Christianity. A Course In Miracles (CIM) [...]
