Monthly Archives: March 2008

Will Fido And Frisky Go To Heaven?

Posted on March 29, 2008 by thegodguy

A simple strategy to ensure financial success in the world of publishing is to give people what they want. As a philosopher/theologian, I could make a big pile of money writing a book assuring pet owners that Fido and Frisky … Continue reading →

Posted in god, Inner growth, Life after death, love, metaphysics, psychology, Reality, religion, spirituality | Tagged adopting spiritual values, angels, animal instinct, animal lovers, Emanuel Swedenborg, God’s tenets, metaphysics, pet lovers, pets in heaven, salvation, souls, spiritual measurement, spiritual principles, spiritual spaces, states of mind, the Holy Word, the spiritual path, true worship, walking with God | 26 Comments

The Problem With Creating Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Posted on March 27, 2008 by thegodguy

The stumbling block in creating Artificial Intelligence has everything to do with the predominant scientific stand that “purpose” (teleology) is a big no-no. This bias shows itself most conspicuously in the academic world’s attempt to view intelligence as essentially computational … Continue reading →

Posted in god, Inner growth, love, metaphysics, psychology, Reality, religion, science, spirituality, unity | Tagged academia, Artificial Intelligence, consciouusness, Emanuel Swedenborg, emotion and affection, father of neuron theory, god, hierarchy of love, higher brain operations, human mind, love taking form in thought, mind-brain correlation, multi-level cognitive theory, neural basis of religion, neuroscience, person-level experience, psychology, synaptic pathways, teleology, thoughts, values | Leave a comment

Divine Symbolism 101

Posted on March 26, 2008 by thegodguy

Over several of my posts I have mentioned that the Holy Word contains a hidden quantum language whereby all the “terrestrial” words of its narratives can be elevated and expanded to communicate more profound spiritual secrets. The scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg … Continue reading →

Posted in god, Inner growth, Life after death, love, metaphysics, psychology, Reality, religion, science, spirituality, symbolism | Tagged angels, authority of Scripture, Bible symbolism, bio-complexity and higher-level structure, Divine order, Divine symbolism, Emanuel Swedenborg, flowers, fruit, Garden of Eden, growth cycle, psychology, psychoscapes, seeds, spiritual flora, sweetness of unselfish acts, the human intellect, the science of correspondences, the spiritual world, the Tree of Life, tree growth and mental growth, trees | 3 Comments

The Easter Bunny Spills the (Jelly) Beans

Posted on March 23, 2008 by thegodguy

The morning sun was just coming up. The early light revealed a world waking up from its long winter slumber. The grass was turning a vibrant green, fragrant yellow daffodils were blooming, and swelling buds were about to burst open … Continue reading →

Posted in god, Inner growth, Life after death, love, metaphysics, Parenting, psychology, Reality, religion, science, spirituality, symbolism, unity | Tagged angels, Easter candies, Easter colors, Easter egg decoration, Easter Sunday, heaven, innocence of children, Kingdom of Heaven, little children, metaphor, new beginnings, rabbit, Reality, rebirth, spiritual symbolism, Springtime, the Easter basket, the Easter bunny, the Easter egg, The Lord’s Resurrection, the spiritual world | 3 Comments

The Purpose of Creation

Posted on March 21, 2008 by thegodguy

Science is not concerned with the purpose of creation. Religion is. Science focuses its attention on the “how” rather than on the more philosophical question of “why.” This is simply an extension and outcome of science’s interest in facts and … Continue reading →

Posted in god, Inner growth, Life after death, love, metaphysics, psychology, Reality, religion, science, spirituality, unity | Tagged bio-complexity, blessedness, Conjunctive Design, conscious love, creation, Creationism, Divine Creator, Divine love and wisdom, Emanuel Swedenborg, eternal life, evolution, Evolutionary Science, genes, heaven, Holy Word, human race, Intelligent Design, purpose of creation, reciprocal love, religion as evolutionary strategy, the biosphere, the Divine covenant, the neo-Darwinian synthesis, Theistic Evolution | 4 Comments

The New Jerusalem And Its Metaphysical Light

Posted on March 19, 2008 by thegodguy

I have been maintaining through my various posts that Sacred Scripture contains a quantum vocabulary within the literal meaning of its narratives. As further evidence, I offer you the following “strange” verse concerning the Holy City, the New Jerusalem: And … Continue reading →

Posted in god, Inner growth, metaphysics, psychology, Reality, religion, spirituality, symbolism, unity | Tagged consciousness, deeper levels of Scripture, eschatology, eyesight, human mind, human understanding, inner being, metaphysical light, new doctrine, paradigm shift, physical light, Quantum vocabulary, Revelation, spiritual enlightenment, spiritual growth, the New Jerusalem, The Second Coming, truth | 2 Comments

Lent, Fasting, And The Hierarchy Of Love

Posted on March 17, 2008 by thegodguy

Growing up in a world of different religions has taught me that God tailors religion to the particular psyche and bent of various people. However, I instinctively felt that at the core of each religion there was a similar universal … Continue reading →

Posted in god, Inner growth, Life after death, love, metaphysics, psychology, Reality, religion, science, spirituality, unity | Tagged core values, eternal welfare, faith systems, fasting, god, hierarchy of love, human emotion, inner reality, intention, Lent, neuroscience, ordering of experience, paradigms and world-views, personal transformation, purpose of religion, qualities of love, rationality, Ruling Love, sacrifice, similarity of religions, spiritual beings, strategy of religions, wisdom | 1 Comment

Physics And The Easter Miracle

Posted on March 15, 2008 by thegodguy

The Lord’s resurrection on what is now celebrated as Easter Sunday certainly challenges our modern assumptions about physics. Not only did this miraculous event require radical reverse entropy (the reversal of disorder and decomposition), the Lord’s restored physical body seemed … Continue reading →

Posted in god, Life after death, love, metaphysics, Reality, religion, science, spirituality, unity | Tagged actualization, crucifixion, David Bohm, Easter, Einstein, Emanuel Swedenborg, emergence of complexity, fulfilling Scripture, higher and lower level realities, love as ultimate substance and science, macroworld, measurement outcomes, microworld, Newtonian physics, ontology, quantum indeterminism, Quantum Physics, quantum tunneling, self-organization, superposition principle. Love and altruism, supervenience, teleology, the disciples, The Lord’s Resurrection, the science of correspondences, the Word made flesh, top-down causality, uncertainty principle, universal laws of nature, virgin birth | 4 Comments

How Harry the Snake Became God’s Favorite Pet

Posted on March 13, 2008 by thegodguy

This short story is dedicated to St. Patrick’s Day and the saint who chased all the snakes out of Ireland. Perhaps there was a better solution. One morning, a snake named Harry woke up in a most depressed state of … Continue reading →

Posted in god, Inner growth, psychology, Reality, religion, science, spirituality, symbolism, unity | Tagged caduceus, corporeal and sensual mind, god, health, Ireland, Moses, myth, regeneration, scripture, serpents, spiritual mind, spiritual well being, spiritual wings, St. Patrick, St. Patrick’s Day, staff of truth, symbolism, transformation, true health | Leave a comment

The Divine Rope-a-Dope

Posted on March 12, 2008 by thegodguy

With Easter approaching I was inspired to share a new “detail” with my readers concerning what the Lord actually accomplished on earth by his life and death. His coming into the world involved a most unique strategy that is not … Continue reading →

Posted in god, Life after death, love, psychology, Reality, religion, science, symbolism, unity | Tagged angels and devils, crucifixion, Divine strategy, Easter, Emanuel Swedenborg, free will, glorification, Hell, humiliation, Jehovah, Jesus, mother Mary, Quantum vocabulary, salvation, self-love, spiritual warfare, temptations, the Divine Essence, the Divine Human, the passion of the cross, the spiritual world, the Word made flesh | 2 Comments

Monthly Archives: March 2008

Will Fido And Frisky Go To Heaven?

The Problem With Creating Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Divine Symbolism 101

The Easter Bunny Spills the (Jelly) Beans

The Purpose of Creation

The New Jerusalem And Its Metaphysical Light

Lent, Fasting, And The Hierarchy Of Love

Physics And The Easter Miracle

How Harry the Snake Became God’s Favorite Pet

The Divine Rope-a-Dope

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