This Sunday, Feb 26, 2012, at the Swedenborgs Minneskyrka. 11.00. Tegnérlunden 7, Stockholm, near Rådmansgatan T-bana. The service is in Swedish! Interlude music: Native American flute. Summary of this Sunday’s talk: We all know more than we live up to. We all want more than we have. Knowledge is a map, not a key. Walking [...]
Posts Tagged ‘spiritual growth’
You Cannot Force Heaven
Posted in Flashes, tagged high expectations, small steps, spiritual growth on February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Shift program in Stockholm in Swedish
Posted in Flashes, tagged Shift, spiritual growth on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
http://youareanotherme.wordpress.com/shift/ This course is meant for people who have no previous knowledge of the New Church or of Swedenborg.
New men’s group
Posted in Flashes, tagged circle of men, human growth groups, men's work, spiritual growth, spiritual warfare, Stockholm, SWET Sweden on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Finally. After a lot of “finding my ground” in this strange new city, I am launching an open men’s group here in Stockholm. The theme or name of the website is: You Are Another Me. The link is here, with dates and address: youareanotherme.wordpress.com Laying the ground for SWET Sweden 2012
Getting settled
Posted in Flashes, tagged Down The Rabbit Hole, growth, insurance, kingdom of god, Micael Ledwith, purpose of life, regeneration, spiritual growth, What the Bleep on September 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Miceal Ledwith has an additional interview clip in the extra material of the DVD Down The Rabbit Hole. He’s quite a character. Maybe even an eccentric in the old sense of the word. But he makes a point that I have been dying to hear. He says that we are not here, in life on [...]
A four part harmony
Posted in Flashes, Workshops, plans, themes, tagged council, medicine wheel, process, retreat, sermon, spiritual growth, spiritual retreat on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thinking about the flow of a day of spiritual work and instruction. Instruction – experience – engagement – embodying Instruction: a lesson, reading, or sermon. (Medicine wheel language) Black to white, autumn to winter. Chaos. Experience: process, guided meditation. White to yellow, winter to spring. Light. Engaging oneself: group work, council, circle. Yellow to red, [...]
Spiritual knowledge
Posted in Flashes, tagged Bible, God, Jesus, revelation, spiritual growth, spiritual knowledge, Swedenborg on February 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
There is a place in Swedenborg that points out the difference between knowledge gained from the senses and knowledge gained from revelation. It is used to argue that religion, or really any ideas concerning God and the afterlife, must have a source of knowledge that comes direct from God and the afterlife. Using nature as [...]
Soul growth
Posted in Flashes, tagged Abraham, Arcana Coelestia, external, Hicks, internal, law of attraction, manifestation, resistance, spiritual growth, Swedenborg, Truth on November 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The following text is from Swedenborg’s Arcana Coelestia # 4247.3. I have parallelized it with understandings from the teachings of Abraham, to show how these interrelate and correspond with and add to each other. … Good flows into truth and makes it its own. The Source energy that made me, makes everything, every thought, feeling, [...]
The internal meaning of the Bible
Posted in Sermon writing and preaching, tagged Bible, creation, Genesis, God, inner truth, spiritual growth, Swedenborg, water, Word on November 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In today’s culture the Bible is on the way out. Quite understandably so, since no one is sure what it means, or even believes that it in fact means something. That is our message: the Bible means something. Its meaning is unknown, but not secret. The teachings of the New Church go a long way [...]
Uniqueness of New Church teachings
Posted in Flashes, tagged Bible, change, heaven, New Church, spiritual growth, Swedenborg, Word on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The uniqueness of New Church ideas concerning the Word, i.e. the Bible, starts with accepting that there is an internal, spiritual meaning inside the Word. There are correspondences with individual images and words that deepen the literal meaning into a much more spiritual meaning. Water corresponds to truth. So every time water is mentioned it [...]
Borders
Posted in Flashes, tagged borders, desert, God, Jabez, Kohanov, Lord, prayer, spiritual growth, vision quest, visions on October 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Borders are limitations, or opportunities to extend myself. In the prayer of Jabez God is asked to enlarge my borders: “Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land.” (1 Chron. 4:10) Borders can of course also [...]
Coming alive
Posted in Flashes, tagged Abraham, God, Lord, regeneration, spiritual growth, Swedenborg on October 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I like this quote a lot: Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. (Howard Thurman) Or this one from the same guy: Howard Thurman asked, “What is the greatest enemy that Jesus [...]
Actions have a peculiar power
Posted in Flashes, tagged God, healing, Jesus Christ, Lord, spiritual growth, Truth on September 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these.” (John 14:12) What things was Jesus talking about? Well, healings, miracles, freeing people from the spirits that possessed them, and the teaching of a truth in such a way [...]
Do we do spirituality? (part two)
Posted in Flashes, tagged church, God, Lord, regeneration, spiritual growth, Swedenborg on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Back to part one. So… do we do spirituality in the New Church? Can I answer YES to all of the statements from the definition? Do I refer to the reality of the spiritual world, including heaven and hell? Am I on a path of regeneration, in order to become fully human? Do I live [...]
Do we do spirituality? (part one)
Posted in Flashes, tagged church, heaven, Lord, religion, spirit, spiritual growth, Swedenborg on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is the New Church spiritual? Or is it a religion, or even (just) a church? How do I know if I am in the New Church? Is a New Church person religious, or a church member, or spiritual? Or all of these? Does the modern understanding of spirituality match at all with a New Church [...]
The wake
Posted in Flashes, tagged church, God, growth, Jesus Christ, Lord, spiritual growth on September 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A wake. Not when somebody’s dead. No, when a boat sails across the water. Look at this ultra-interesting definition of a wake: “A wake is the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving solid body, caused by the flow of surrounding fluid around the body.” (From Wikipedia, of course) This reads to me like [...]
What are people looking for?
Posted in Flashes, tagged church, faith, healing, Lord, spirit, spiritual growth on September 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From a New Church outreach document describing goals in evangelization: “We believe that people are looking for us – they just don’t know us by name.” That is an incredible and powerful statement. What’s more, I personally do believe it is true. However, the question of what people are looking for is a little hard [...]
New Church web sites
Posted in Flashes, tagged church, religion, spiritual growth on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have been looking at New Church web sites. They are mostly very nice. Lots of information. A smooth, almost corporate look. But what is the impression they leave on a person that comes across them? One of these two… How am I going to climb this wall? OK, looks rough but let’s give it [...]
The four emotions
Posted in Flashes, tagged anger, church, fear, healing, joy, love, reality, religion, sadness, spiritual growth on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We are alive and feel things. If we didn’t feel things, we wouldn’t be alive. Even if the feelings are unconscious. These are the four basic emotions that each person feels: 1. Fear 2. Anger 3. Sadness 4. Joy This means that I feel one of these, at least, every moment of the day. When [...]
Part one: fear
Posted in Flashes, tagged fear, spiritual growth on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you feel fear? What things are you afraid of? AC 390: “Fear above all else takes hold of them because no one is protecting them.” So, feeling fear is feeling unprotected. Do you want to run away? Lev. 26: 33-37 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and [...]
Part two: anger
Posted in Flashes, tagged anger, spiritual growth on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you feel anger? What things or people are you angry at? AC 5034: “For anger is excited when anyone or anything is opposite to one’s love. Because this love links us to people and things. When this link is broken, you become angry or wrathful, as if something were lost from the delight of [...]
