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The Dimensions of the Mind
According to Emanuel Swedenborg

by Leon James
1982-1987

Contents

LEVELS OF AWARENESS (interior/synthetic) LEVELS OF RESPONDING (exterior/analytic)

DOMAINS OF AWARENESS (interior/synthetic) DOMAINS OF RESPONDING (exterior/analytic) Double jkl;ld Structure of the Mind According to Swedenborg: Double jkld Structure of the Mind

                        INTERIOR/SYNTHETIC                                       EXTERIOR/ANALYTIC
                        AWARENESS                                                      RESPONDING
                        INFLUX/INNER STIMULUS                                 AS OF SELF POSTURING
                        INNER SENSATION

Outline

Rel 1: TITLE & APPROACH

---> ? "The Future of Psychology & the Bible"

Sw. in two works totaling 18 volumes did a word by word content analysis of the imagery in 3 blah of the Bible. His attempt is to prove that the Bible is first & oldest. Hndn. of Psychology

---> threefold imager of self: A, C, SM (Abr In Jacob)

---> three levels of mind: 1,2,3 (Egypt, Ampria, Israel)

---> ennead of matrix

---> applications

    - Kelliuai
    - Koller
    - h. Tax (Bloom)
    - discourse analysis==driving health

add---> OUTLINE FOR ---> Rel. 1

---> Sw.'s Importance: Why the Science of Q Needs to Claim Him

1.] New meaning for Q therapy, includes God & life after death & regeneration (mental health)

---> authenticity imme for Qs...

2.] Explain emergent ideas}---> PTO Sw. gives a Q biological mechanism for it ("influx" "inherited affections" "sprits we're in association with")

3.] His real relationship to Q vs. his reputation

    ---> the James, and others (influences)
    ---> the Bible as Q Handbook
    ---> his empiricism and behaviorism

Genetic Culture:{ instinctive ideas / inherited

4.] Implications

a) the New Dualist Therapies

        -God-man relation is mental health (reformation and regeneration)
        -inherited notions and affections
        -self-discipline and self-exam
        -lifestyle honesty (faith + charity)
        -conjugal love (eternal couples)
        -abnormal behavior (spirits)

b) the New Q Biology

        -inherited behavior syndrome
                {--affective (character weakness)
                {--cognitive (emergent ideas)
                {--spiritual (enjoyments)

        -spiritual behaviorism
                --correspondence
                --levels of internal
                --

Towards a More Religious Q: The Future Behaviouristic Dualism

Swedenborg's:

---> A, C, S-M: antedates behaviorism

---> hearing model: see Fig. 1

---> Relation to W. James

---> Contempt Swedenborgism Education and Curriculum

---> Sw. therapy sermons (General Church)

2-- Historical image: on the rise in US suppressed
    --in encyclopedia
    --traalksdjflakdjf
    --influence on American Thinking
    --@#%@#%@#%
    --philosophy & therapy
    --Emersion, Kant, Blake

---> contemporary writers & journals e.g. Larsen, New Philosophy, Odhores, Physical Con. (Cody's history book in WC?)

Marr

HH 232 QQ on Good & True

add Rel 1

QQ p16. etc HH intro (!)

re: interprets of Swedenborg by a non religious dualist

e.g. that Sw. experienced (like Jung, Van Dusen, Blake) are real immerse state we experience after death

Dualism Yields Better Therapy Approaches:

1. Does not separate the inmost of the Q from the inmost of the religious of spiritual: --> more authentic, more valid less hypothetical, less schizophrenic more dignified and honorable

2. May be more effective with lifestyle habits & learning objective self-awareness

---> fight lower drives with higher drive

---> interprets lower thoughts with higher thoughts

---> fits within traditional culture

---> resolves the issue/ problem of the religion once and for all

Titles??? A Particle Rel. 1

---> SWEDENBORG'S SCIENTIFIC DUALISM AND THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOLOGY

---> TOWARDS A MORE RELIGIOUS SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY

---> PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION VS RELIGIOUS Q

---> SWEDENBORG'S RELIGIOUS BEHAVIORISM: WHY PSYCHOLOGY NEEDS IT

--> WHY PSYCHOLOGY NEEDS SWEDENBORG

---> PROPOSAL FOR THE SPIRITUALIZATION OF PSYCHOLOGY

---> CAN THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY CONTINUE TO IGNORE GOD?

---> THE ADVANTAGES OF DUALISM

---> CAN PSYCHOLOGY SURVIVE WITHOUT DUALISM?

Genetic Culture ("influx")

add: ---> Sw. Underlying Relation to Q

Sw. is not a replacement of older theory. It is not a parody. Not a scientific evaluation.

Because: SW helped form the science of Q

Therefore: SW's function in Q will be to integrate oppositely conflicting systems unify by forging rational bonds between occasionally independent. discipline ("science of conspd"), & expand the science of Q to human behavior after death and take into relation the reality of vertical community (universally of think and feel)

Rel 1 on Dualism for Q

1. Show that tradition of excluding the mention of God in scientific writing is recent. QQ from Plato, Arist, Kepler, Copernicus, Galieleo, Kant, Darwin, Einstein--- all dualists.

2. Consciousness; Death; Healing
    What to do about the topics?
        a) ignore them in your theories
        b) reduce them to absurdity
        c) dualism

3. New Topics:
    Spiritual biology (topics, info)
    Morality
    cultural genetic
    Religious Behaviorism
    Regeneration
    Life after death

Consciousness

a) congenial evidence{	---> I see what you mean, very clearly ---> I don't see, I'm confused ---> After I thought about it for a while, I understood ---> It's too complicated. I can't see it. ---> I understand very well. I can see through your scheme. ---> etc.
b mechanism: 3 minds (DP 147) (AC 1953)