Inside Off The Left Eye

Eight or nine years ago Sheila Robinson-Kiss happened upon a video of Off The Left Eye and her life was profoundly changed. She went on to buy and study as many of Swedenborg’s books as she could and the ideas in them opened new doors in her heart, mind, and life’s work. In this conversation, we talk about the power of Swedenborg’s revelation and what she’s doing with it to help people heal.

Sheila Robinson-Kiss, MSW, LCSW, is the founder of Rebalancing America and Beyond (RAB) which provides mental health and wellness education to individuals, groups, and organizations online, live, and at conferences. Sheila is an author, an MSNBC featured mental health expert, an award-winning orator, and a social entrepreneur whose work focuses on helping people care for themselves and change their lives through balance and empowered solutions. Learn more at rab.solutions. 

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"Inside Off The Left Eye" is an original podcast offering by the Off The Left Eye team with new material every week coming to you on Sundays, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. We study the historical context of Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) life and works and share fresh insights from the New Century Edition translation of Swedenborg's theological works. Joined by translator and Series Editor Dr. Jonathan Rose and Off The Left Eye host and personality Curtis Childs, we follow threads into the past, discovering that what we find often is eminently relevant to the present.

Inside Off The Left Eye is a project of the Swedenborg Foundation—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent, educational organization for those seeking to explore spirituality and faith. Learn more at www.swedenborg.com.

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Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:

3482 

Although the language of Scripture seems to us so plainspoken and sometimes unpolished, it is the angelic language itself in its outermost form. When angelic language, which is spiritual, descends into human words, this is the only kind of diction in which it can express itself, because all of its content represents something, and every word symbolizes something. The ancients had no other language, interacting as they did with spirits and angels. It was full of representation and every element of it held spiritual meaning. Their books were written in the same language, because to speak and write this way was the pursuit of their wisdom.

3301:9  

The youths who said, “Go on up, you baldhead! Go on up, you baldhead!” to Elisha and were mauled by bears from the forest (2 Kings 2:23, 24) represented people who blaspheme the Word as a work devoid of truth. Elisha represented the Lord as the Word. . . .

From this you can also see how much power representations had at that time.

3061:2 

The Lord has existed from eternity, as the Word makes plain . . . , although he was later born in time. After all, he spoke through Moses and the prophets and appeared to many people, and it says there that he was Jehovah. This deep secret, though, cannot be revealed to anyone who does not have divine perception. As a result, it can be revealed to hardly anyone but members of the earliest church, which was heavenly and had divine perception. From them I have heard that Jehovah himself was the Lord in his divine humanity, at the times when he went down into heaven and flowed through heaven. The reason he revealed himself this way is that heaven resembles an individual human being with all the body parts, which is also why it is called the universal human. . . . Divinity itself in heaven, or in the universal human, was the divine human, who was Jehovah himself clothed in this humanity.

Swedenborg claims to have been able to speak to the spirits of the earliest humans on earth. What did he learn? We explore what these people were like, and how much humanity has changed since. We explore these topics right now with Dr. Jonathan Rose, tapping into his insight from his translation work as the Series Editor for the New Century Edition translation of Emanuel Swedenborg's theological works.

Paragraph numbers referenced in this episode: 

Secrets of Heaven §§3419:2, 3432:3, 3428:2

All translations in this episode are sneak peeks of upcoming releases of the New Century Edition project.

Explore Swedenborg's works available for sale and for free download here: https://swedenborg.com/bookstore/new-century-edition/

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Welcome to the NCE Spotlight, a standalone feature of the Inside Off The Left Eye podcast channel, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. It's your home for fresh insights from the ongoing translation of the New Century Edition (NCE) of Emanuel Swedenborg’s theological works. Dr. Jonathan Rose is the Series Editor for the NCE and together we use ideas he's come across in his editing work as springboards for spiritual reflection. 

Inside Off The Left Eye is an original podcast offering by the Off The Left Eye team with new material every week coming to you on Sundays, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. We study the historical context of Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) life and works and share fresh insights from the New Century Edition translation of Swedenborg's theological works. Joined by translator and Series Editor Dr. Jonathan Rose and Off The Left Eye host and personality Curtis Childs, we follow threads into the past, discovering that what we find often is eminently relevant to the present.

Inside Off The Left Eye is a project of the Swedenborg Foundation—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent, educational organization for those seeking to explore spirituality and faith. Learn more at www.swedenborg.com.

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Why are there so many names for God? How come the Bible is so hard to make sense of? What is the key to clarity of mind? We explore the nuances of understanding and perspective with Dr. Jonathan Rose, tapping into his insight from his translation work as the Series Editor for the New Century Edition translation of Emanuel Swedenborg's theological works.

Paragraph numbers referenced in this episode: 

Secrets of Heaven §§3035, 2813:3, 2831:10.

All translations in this episode are sneak peeks of upcoming releases of the New Century Edition project.

Explore Swedenborg's works available for sale and for free download here: https://swedenborg.com/bookstore/new-century-edition/

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Welcome to the NCE Spotlight, a standalone feature of the Inside Off The Left Eye podcast channel, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. It's your home for fresh insights from the ongoing translation of the New Century Edition (NCE) of Emanuel Swedenborg’s theological works. Dr. Jonathan Rose is the Series Editor for the NCE and together we use ideas he's come across in his editing work as springboards for spiritual reflection. 

Inside Off The Left Eye is an original podcast offering by the Off The Left Eye team with new material every week coming to you on Sundays, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. We study the historical context of Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) life and works and share fresh insights from the New Century Edition translation of Swedenborg's theological works. Joined by translator and Series Editor Dr. Jonathan Rose and Off The Left Eye host and personality Curtis Childs, we follow threads into the past, discovering that what we find often is eminently relevant to the present.

Inside Off The Left Eye is a project of the Swedenborg Foundation—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent, educational organization for those seeking to explore spirituality and faith. Learn more at www.swedenborg.com.

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Ever longed for a simple trick to disempower negative thoughts? Curious about the purpose of life itself? Or what angels are really like? We explore the stages of life we go through with Dr. Jonathan Rose, tapping into his insight from his translation work as the Series Editor for the New Century Edition translation of Emanuel Swedenborg's theological works.

Paragraph numbers referenced in this episode: 

Secrets of Heaven §§3175:3, 3183:1, 3039.

All translations in this episode are sneak peeks of upcoming releases of the New Century Edition project.

Explore Swedenborg's works available for sale and for free download here: https://swedenborg.com/bookstore/new-century-edition/

★☆★ABOUT★☆★

Welcome to the NCE Spotlight, a standalone feature of the Inside Off The Left Eye podcast channel, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. It's your home for fresh insights from the ongoing translation of the New Century Edition (NCE) of Emanuel Swedenborg’s theological works. Dr. Jonathan Rose is the Series Editor for the NCE and together we use ideas he's come across in his editing work as springboards for spiritual reflection. 

Inside Off The Left Eye is an original podcast offering by the Off The Left Eye team with new material every week coming to you on Sundays, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. We study the historical context of Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) life and works and share fresh insights from the New Century Edition translation of Swedenborg's theological works. Joined by translator and Series Editor Dr. Jonathan Rose and Off The Left Eye host and personality Curtis Childs, we follow threads into the past, discovering that what we find often is eminently relevant to the present.

Inside Off The Left Eye is a project of the Swedenborg Foundation—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent, educational organization for those seeking to explore spirituality and faith. Learn more at www.swedenborg.com.

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Why is freedom so important to our spiritual development? Do truths we know undergo a process of rebirth? What makes truth true and goodness good? We explore these topics right now with Dr. Jonathan Rose, tapping into his insight from his translation work as the Series Editor for the New Century Edition translation of Emanuel Swedenborg's theological works.

Paragraph numbers referenced in this episode: 

Secrets of Heaven §§3158, 3182, §3186:1.

All translations in this episode are sneak peeks of upcoming releases of the New Century Edition project.

Explore Swedenborg's works available for sale and for free download here: https://swedenborg.com/bookstore/new-century-edition/

★☆★ABOUT★☆★

Welcome to the NCE Spotlight, a standalone feature of the Inside Off The Left Eye podcast channel, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. It's your home for fresh insights from the ongoing translation of the New Century Edition (NCE) of Emanuel Swedenborg’s theological works. Dr. Jonathan Rose is the Series Editor for the NCE and together we use ideas he's come across in his editing work as springboards for spiritual reflection. 

Inside Off The Left Eye is an original podcast offering by the Off The Left Eye team with new material every week coming to you on Sundays, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. We study the historical context of Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) life and works and share fresh insights from the New Century Edition translation of Swedenborg's theological works. Joined by translator and Series Editor Dr. Jonathan Rose and Off The Left Eye host and personality Curtis Childs, we follow threads into the past, discovering that what we find often is eminently relevant to the present.

Inside Off The Left Eye is a project of the Swedenborg Foundation—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent, educational organization for those seeking to explore spirituality and faith. Learn more at www.swedenborg.com.

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Is there a spiritual level to everything? Where does the symbology of sacred scripture come from? How do those symbols connect us to heaven? We explore the nature of correspondences with Dr. Jonathan Rose, tapping into his insight from his translation work as the Series Editor for the New Century Edition translation of Emanuel Swedenborg's theological works.

Paragraph numbers referenced in this episode: 

Secrets of Heaven §§2991, 2763:1, 2763:3.

All translations in this episode are sneak peeks of upcoming releases of the New Century Edition project.

Explore Swedenborg's works available for sale and for free download here: https://swedenborg.com/bookstore/new-century-edition/

★☆★ABOUT★☆★

Welcome to the NCE Spotlight, a standalone feature of the Inside Off The Left Eye podcast channel, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. It's your home for fresh insights from the ongoing translation of the New Century Edition (NCE) of Emanuel Swedenborg’s theological works. Dr. Jonathan Rose is the Series Editor for the NCE and together we use ideas he's come across in his editing work as springboards for spiritual reflection. 

Inside Off The Left Eye is an original podcast offering by the Off The Left Eye team with new material every week coming to you on Sundays, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. We study the historical context of Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) life and works and share fresh insights from the New Century Edition translation of Swedenborg's theological works. Joined by translator and Series Editor Dr. Jonathan Rose and Off The Left Eye host and personality Curtis Childs, we follow threads into the past, discovering that what we find often is eminently relevant to the present.

Inside Off The Left Eye is a project of the Swedenborg Foundation—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent, educational organization for those seeking to explore spirituality and faith. Learn more at www.swedenborg.com.

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Have you ever questioned your belonging? This week I’m joined by George Gantz to reflect on our intrinsic value. He offers us a tool for reflecting on our relationships and sensing what really matters. Together, we tap into a cosmic, spiritual, and tangible sense of our innate belonging.

This interview is inspired by a blog post by George Gantz on the Swedenborg Foundation website: https://swedenborg.com/instrumental-value-vs-intrinsic-value-what-do-we-choose/

George Gantz is a writer and philosopher at Spiral Inquiry. He serves on the board of Long Now Boston, is a fellow of the RSA US, and is a member of the Swedenborg Foundation. 

To read more by George Gantz visit the Spiral Inquiry website: https://spiralinquiry.org/

★☆★ABOUT★☆★

"Inside Off The Left Eye" is an original podcast offering by the Off The Left Eye team with new material every week coming to you on Sundays, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. We study the historical context of Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) life and works and share fresh insights from the New Century Edition translation of Swedenborg's theological works. Joined by translator and Series Editor Dr. Jonathan Rose and Off The Left Eye host and personality Curtis Childs, we follow threads into the past, discovering that what we find often is eminently relevant to the present.

Inside Off The Left Eye is a project of the Swedenborg Foundation—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent, educational organization for those seeking to explore spirituality and faith. Learn more at www.swedenborg.com.

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Have you ever thought of what exactly feeds your spirit, for real? Did you know you actually contain a source of inner light in your own mind? We dig into what knowledge, rationality, and love really are with Dr. Jonathan Rose, tapping into his insight from his translation work as the Series Editor for the New Century Edition translation of Emanuel Swedenborg's theological works.

Paragraph numbers referenced in this episode: 

Secrets of Heaven §§3114, 3057:2, 3147:8.

All translations in this episode are sneak peeks of upcoming releases of the New Century Edition project.

The New Century Edition translation of Volume 3 of Secrets of Heaven is coming out on April 15th! Enjoy a free download of the first chapter of this fresh, modern translation here: https://www.offthelefteye.com/secrets-of-heaven-3-sample/

Explore Swedenborg's works available for sale and for free download here: https://swedenborg.com/bookstore/new-century-edition/

★☆★ABOUT★☆★

Welcome to the NCE Spotlight, a standalone feature of the Inside Off The Left Eye podcast channel, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. It's your home for fresh insights from the ongoing translation of the New Century Edition (NCE) of Emanuel Swedenborg’s theological works. Dr. Jonathan Rose is the Series Editor for the NCE and together we use ideas he's come across in his editing work as springboards for spiritual reflection. 

Inside Off The Left Eye is an original podcast offering by the Off The Left Eye team with new material every week coming to you on Sundays, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. We study the historical context of Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) life and works and share fresh insights from the New Century Edition translation of Swedenborg's theological works. Joined by translator and Series Editor Dr. Jonathan Rose and Off The Left Eye host and personality Curtis Childs, we follow threads into the past, discovering that what we find often is eminently relevant to the present.

Inside Off The Left Eye is a project of the Swedenborg Foundation—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent, educational organization for those seeking to explore spirituality and faith. Learn more at www.swedenborg.com.

★☆★SUPPORT OUR SHOWS★☆★

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How is fear an unavoidable aspect of the human condition? What serves as the basis of true intuition? We explore these topics, and the purpose of knowledge itself, with Dr. Jonathan Rose, tapping into his insight from his translation work as the Series Editor for the New Century Edition translation of Emanuel Swedenborg's theological works.

Paragraph numbers referenced in this episode: 

Secrets of Heaven §§2830:2, 2826:13, 2831:1.

All translations in this episode are sneak peeks of upcoming releases of the New Century Edition project.

The New Century Edition translation of Volume 3 of Secrets of Heaven is coming out on April 15th! Enjoy a free download of the first chapter of this fresh, modern translation here: https://www.offthelefteye.com/secrets-of-heaven-3-sample/

Explore Swedenborg's works available for sale and for free download here: https://swedenborg.com/bookstore/new-century-edition/

★☆★ABOUT★☆★

Welcome to the NCE Spotlight, a standalone feature of the Inside Off The Left Eye podcast channel, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. It's your home for fresh insights from the ongoing translation of the New Century Edition (NCE) of Emanuel Swedenborg’s theological works. Dr. Jonathan Rose is the Series Editor for the NCE and together we use ideas he's come across in his editing work as springboards for spiritual reflection. 

Inside Off The Left Eye is an original podcast offering by the Off The Left Eye team with new material every week coming to you on Sundays, hosted by Chelsea Odhner. We study the historical context of Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) life and works and share fresh insights from the New Century Edition translation of Swedenborg's theological works. Joined by translator and Series Editor Dr. Jonathan Rose and Off The Left Eye host and personality Curtis Childs, we follow threads into the past, discovering that what we find often is eminently relevant to the present.

Inside Off The Left Eye is a project of the Swedenborg Foundation—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent, educational organization for those seeking to explore spirituality and faith. Learn more at www.swedenborg.com.

★☆★SUPPORT OUR SHOWS★☆★

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