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The wrong kind of Love
Most people feel loved (and affirmed) when others show them kindness. This is because most people are treated like crap most of the time. But how does one come upon deep, sincere, spiritual love when one is calmed only by … Continue reading
Goodness getting a gut-check
Scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg once recounted having stopped by a bookstore and observing the titles that were being most heavily promoted by the enterprise. He caught himself thinking that his own published works were much more valuable to society than those … Continue reading
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Tagged ego, Emanuel Swedenborg, god, good deeds, innocence, love, purification, self-centeredness, self-examination
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Existence is subsistence
The title for this post “existence is subsistence” is an idea that was highlighted by the scientist Emanuel Swedenborg. We can find observable evidence for this “law” in all biological systems in which every living cell (and every part of … Continue reading
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Tagged belief-systems, complexity theory, Emanuel Swedenborg, love, proving God, universal principles
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The irony of spiritual growth
The main driving principle of personal spiritual growth is to challenge one’s egoism and self-centeredness in order to adopt a larger, more inclusive form of love with one’s fellow neighbors. Spiritually speaking, we are to view ourselves from a more … Continue reading
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Tagged cooperation, egoism, God’s scheme, heavenly happiness, love, organizing principle, spiritual growth, transgression, universal law
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Peter discovers universal patterning principles
Once upon a time, a scientist named Peter was contemplating the unity and order of the manifest universe. He wondered if there could be a scientific view of the world beyond “physicalism” and serendipitous “creation.” He marveled that the murky … Continue reading
Harmony collapses the wave function
One of the biggest mysteries in physics is how the probability distributions in a quantum process collapse into a single outcome of measurement. How does one formal outcome emerge from all the possibilities? And what happens to all those other … Continue reading
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