²Wilson Van Dusen, "The Distinctiveness of the Church of the New Jerusalem" New Church Life March 1994, 112-114.

³See for example the July 1993 issue of New Church Life.

⁴Wilson Van Dusen, The Natural Depth in Man and The Presence of Other Worlds , both published by the Swedenborg Foundation.

⁵Van Dusen, The Distinctiveness of the Church , p.114.

⁶Wilson Van Dusen, "Spiritual Practice That Makes Religion of the Life: Open Letter to the General Church" New Church Life July 1993, 314-319.

⁷For example, "There are certainly other maps of the same territory" and "I compliment Buddhism as having the only other spiritual map of comparable scope" passim, p.114.

⁸See for example, Leon James, "Swedenborg's Religious Psychology: The Marriage of Good and Truth as Mental Health" in Studia Swedenborgiana December 1993, Vol.8, No.3, pp. 13-42.

⁹Erland J. Brock, "New Church Epistemology Part VIII" New Philosophy October-December 1988, Vol.. XCI, No.4, pp. 683-695.

¹⁰David R. Simons, "Philosophy of History: From a New Church Perspective" New Philosophy April-June 1989, Vol. XCII. No.2, pp. 67-74.

¹¹Linda Simonetti Odhner, "The Bread of Life With Honey From the Rock: A Chaste Union of religion and science" New Church Life March 1989, pp.117-122.

¹²Passim, p.119.

¹³Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 1962. See the discussion on Kuhn in what follows.

¹⁴Mark Carlson, "Evolution, the Limbus, and Hereditary Evil (Part 2)" New Church Life June 1990, pp.259-275..

¹⁵See for example two recent volumes widely available in academic libraries: Robin Larsen (ed.), Emanuel Swedenborg: A Continuing Vision (New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1988); Erland J. Brock et. al. (eds.), Swedenborg and his Influence (Bryn Athyn, PA: The Academy of the New Church, 1988).

¹⁶William Ross Woofenden, "Swedenborg's Philosophy of Causality," New Philosophy July-September 1990, p.357.

¹⁷Alfred Acton II, "Paradigms of Revelation," The New Philosophy January-June 1991, pp. 489-506; Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962).

¹⁸A useful review may be found in Gregory L. Baker, Religion and Science: From Swedenborg to Chaotic Dynamics (New York: The Solomon Press, 1992 (with a Foreword by Robert W. Gladish); A humorous and instructive view may be found in the current bestseller, Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams: A Novel (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993).

¹⁹Details relating specifically to my field are documented in: Jakobovits, L.A. The psycholinguists: Whither now? A review of G.A.. Miller's "The Psychology of Communication." Contemporary Psychology, 1969, 14, 156-57; Steinberg, Danny and Jakobovits, L.A. (Eds.), Semantics: An Inter-disciplinary Reader in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. (Reprinted paperback editions in 1972 and again in 1974.); Jakobovits, L.A. and Miron, M.S. (eds.). Readings in the Psychology of Language. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: 1967.

²⁰Alfred Acton II, Paradigms of Revelation, p.497.

²¹Passim, p.497.

²²Rev. Acton uses the expression "the catholic paradigm," an expression I hesitate to use just in case it might be objectionable to those holding this perspective.

²³As well, the scientists may be wrong. Erik Sandstrom cites the example of British Nobel Prize laureate Stephen Hawking who puts God back into Big Bang cosmology in his recent book A Brief History of Time, see Erik E. Sandstrom, "Dos and Don'ts in the New Church" New Church Life July 1992, pp.305-313.

²⁴Lawson Smith, Letters to the Editor, "Paradigms of Revelation" The New Philosophy July-December 1991, pp.639-641. See also Acton's reply, pp.641-643.

²⁵This point is also made by Erik E. Sandstrom, Do's and Don'ts, p.18.

²⁶Peter Rhodes, "Gurdjieff and Swedenborg" General Church Sound Recording Library, Bryn Athyn, 1976.

²⁷Van Dusen, The Distinctiveness of the Church, p.112.

²⁸See for instance the August and October issues of 1993.

²⁹See Leonard Fox, "Gurdjieff: Guide to Heaven or Hell?" New Church Life June 1993; see also his reply in the October 1993 issue.

³⁰Ruth Zuber, New Church Life August 1993, p.372.

³¹Donnette Alfelt, ibid, p.373.

³²Gray Glenn, ibid, p.374-375.

³³Paul Hammond, ibid, p.375.

³⁴John Kane, New Church Life October 1993, p.466.

³⁵Tiny Francis, New Church Life October 1993, p.467.

³⁶Leonard Fox, New Church Life October 1993, p.469-472..

³⁷Leonard Fox, passim, p.471.

³⁸V.C. Odhner, Jr., Letter to the Editor, New Church Life, April 1994, pp.179-181.