Mini Course: Swedenborg on Prayer

 

 

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What is Prayer?

Emanuel Swedenborg did more than write about spiritual concepts; he lived a spiritual life. His life was filled with prayer, meditation, dreams, and mystical experiences.  It can be difficult to find the words to discuss one's prayer life, but Swedenborg left us some poignant passages.

When Swedenborg wrote about prayer, he was NOT referring to our taking a "wish list" to God of things we wanted in our life. He emphasized that true prayer came from our depths.

To which there answers something like an influx into the perception or thought of the mind, so that there is a certain opening of the man's interiors toward God; .... If the man prays from love and faith, and for only heavenly and spiritual things, there then comes forth in the prayer something like a revelation (which is manifested in the affection of him that prays) as to hope, consolation, or a certain inward joy. It is from this that to "pray" signifies in the internal sense to be revealed. .

 

When we pray from the sincerity of our heart, God responds to us with an influx which allows us to open more fully to God. God gives us a "revelation" which brings up hope and even joy

 

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Healing Ourselves Prayer Service

Interview with Rev. Catherine Lauber

Wholistic Healing Practices and how they are grounded in Swedenborgian theology

 

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Healing with Quimby Prayer Service

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby was a most effective healer in the mid-19th century who used techniques of Mesmerism; as well as tools of a psychology that hadn't yet been developed in his time. We have many written accounts of his work from his patients.

Quimby had a number of famous patients in his room on Exchange St. in Portland, Maine. They included Mary Baker Eddy, Warren Felts Evans, Julius Dresser, Annetta [Seabury] Dresser and Horatio Dresser. Both Annetta Dresser and her son, Horatio, who was a Swedenborgian minister, wrote books on Quimby. 

 

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Shamanic Soul Healing Prayer Service

Mini Course: Swedenborg & Healing

 

 

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Faith of our Mothers Prayer Service

The commitment of his parents - and especially his Mother - brought many experiences of healing into Bob Keck's life right from the beginning.  That was fortunate, as he had many obstacles to face, as he discusses in his book: Healing as a Sacred Path:  A Story of Personal, Medical, and Spiritual Transformation, published by the Swedenborg Foundation in 2002.

His parents - and especially his Mother -- were a major support to him through all of his ups and downs in childhood.

Today, we honor Mothers - birth Mothers, foster Moms, and adoptive Moms.  We also honor "mothering" - a deeply compassionate way we support each other on our lives' journeys.

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Swedenborg & Healing Prayer Service

A helpful book to look at is: Swedenborg, Mesmer, & the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complimentary Medicine by Dr. John S. Haller Jr., emeritus professor of history and medical humanities at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He has written a numbers of books, especially on the history of medicine.

In this book, Haller looks at both Emanuel Swedenborg [1688-1772] and Anton Mesmer [1734 – 1815] as possible roots of today’s wholistic healing movements. Swedenborg was 46 years old when Mesmer was born, and Mesmer was 38 years old when Swedenborg died. 

Haller says of Swedenborg:

He has been viewed as a genius whose vision and visions were marks of seminal importance. Along with Leonardo da Vinci, he is one of the great geniuses known to the Western world, a man whose abilities crossed a multitude of disciplines—from science and mechanics. 

On the spiritual side, Swedenborg had no equal. 

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Susan Wood is our special guest. 

Member of the Swedenborgian Church for 45 years, currently living in Florida.   Avid recycler, friend of the earth.  One of the birthing mothers of the Swedenborgian Community!

Also, regarding the importance of clean air and water, I'd highly recommend the documentary "COWSPIRACY".  Eye-opening to the extreme.

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