The country of spirit: Selected writings

by Wilson Van Dusen

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962679526
• ISBN13: 9780962679520
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: J. Appleseed & Co
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 8.0"

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Foreword and Contents

From the Foreword: Wilson Van Dusen occupies a unique and effective position among the large field of writers who have explored that tantalizing mountain of spirituality wrought and bequeathed by Emanuel Swedenborg. Dr. Van Dusen's own diverse areas of experience and expertise--science and religion, poetry and psychology--provide him a wide lens for taking in the full terrain, or at least a goodly portion of it. As a self-described mystic, he has made his reputation by approaching Swedenborg's writings boldly and with fearless reliance upon self-reference. The result has been a "voice" in Swedenborgiana emphasizing personal spiritual experience that has gained an enthusiastic following which appears to be even stronger outside the several walls of the organized Swedenborgian groups than within them. Contents * Foreword * A Mystic Looks at Swedenborg * The Mystery of Ordinary Experiencing * Reincarnation: The Universal Return * The Soul, Hidden and Manifest * Uses: A Way of Personal and Spiritual Growth * Self-Reflection in the Forging of a Person * Exploring Swedenborg's Dream Journal * Meditation * The Psalm of What Is