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A Man of the Field Volume 1: Reformation, The Struggle Against Nonduality

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Dr. Leon James is Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii. His Web site and information on his professional background is located at www.theisticpsychology.org .

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A Man of the Field
Volume 1: The Struggle Against Nonduality and Materialism

by Leon James

This book in three volumes is about regeneration, which is the conscious discipline of character change based on the scientific principles revealed in the Writings of Swedenborg. When we read the Writings we begin to understand regeneration in a medical, psychological, and educational perspective that is unique and beneficial. Our prior understanding is based on the fundamental principle of nonduality, which is that all things exist in the materialistic continuum of the universe or reality. When we begin to see things from the perspective of the Writings, we can replace every concept of nonduality into a duality. Every duality is by reference to the natural and the spiritual as two separate and distinct worlds, tied together by rational laws of correspondence that have now been revealed by God through the mind of Swedenborg. We can then begin our regeneration. This requires us to cooperate with the Lord by shunning our daily mental evils as sins because sins prevent the preparation of our mind for eternal heavenly life.

Volume 1 focuses on the mental discipline of "reformation" which is the first step in regeneration and requires us to dispose of our former beliefs and meanings. that we uncritically  acquired in an educational and intellectual environment of Eastern, Christian, and New Church forms of nonduality and scientific materialism.    More details



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About the author:
Dr. Leon James is Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii. His Web site and information on his professional background is located at www.theisticpsychology.org .

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A Man of the Field
Volume 2: Enlightenment, Extracting the Spiritual Sense of the Writings

by Leon James

This book in three volumes is about regeneration, which is the conscious discipline of character change based on the scientific principles revealed in the Writings of Swedenborg. When we read the Writings we begin to understand regeneration in a medical, psychological, and educational perspective that is unique and beneficial. Our prior understanding is based on the fundamental principle of nonduality, which is that all things exist in the materialistic continuum of the universe or reality. When we begin to see things from the perspective of the Writings, we can replace every concept of nonduality into a duality. Every duality is by reference to the natural and the spiritual as two separate and distinct worlds, tied together by rational laws of correspondence that have now been revealed by God through the mind of Swedenborg. We can then begin our regeneration. This requires us to cooperate with the Lord by shunning our daily mental evils as sins because sins prevent the preparation of our mind for eternal heavenly life.

Volume 2 is an exposition of the systematic techniques of correspondences that are available to us for extracting the spiritual-celestial meaning from the literal rational sentences of the Writings. These techniques are those demonstrated in the Writings that Swedenborg applied to the Word of the Old and New Testaments, and are now applied to the Word of the Writings.                   More details



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Dr. Leon James is Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii. His Web site and information on his professional background is located at www.theisticpsychology.org .

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A Man of the Field
Volume 3: Spiritual Regeneration Disciplines For Daily Life

by Leon James

Volume 3 of A Man of the Field discusses the details of regeneration based on the Writings of Swedenborg (1688-1772). We are born with a natural mind that develops all its concepts and principles from a materialistic environment, culture, and education. Guiding these naturalistic ideas are unregenerate natural loves and interests that cause all our daily willing, thinking, and enjoying to be motivated by self-interest. If we do not become spiritual as well as natural we are unable to break the inherited traits that favor self over others. Swedenborg’s eyewitness accounts of the afterlife prove that the unregenerate character is bound to the hells in the mind and devolves into eternal insanity and misery. Therefore regeneration is critical if we desire to be bound instead to the heavens in our mind and to enjoy its eternal felicities. Regeneration is the spiritual discipline of monitoring our affections, intentions, thoughts, and enjoyments in our daily tasks and roles, and holding up each to the light of the spiritual principles given in the Writings by which we judge whether these favor self over others, binding us deeper to hell, or whether they favor others as well as self, thus binding us to heaven.             More details


An Appeal in behalf of the Views of the Eternal World and State, and the Doctrines of Faith and Life held by the Body of Christians Who Believe that a New Church is Signified (in The Revelation 21) by The New Jerusalem
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An Appeal
in behalf of the Views of the Eternal World and State, and the Doctrines of Faith and Life held by the Body of Christians Who Believe that a New Church is Signified (in The Revelation 21) by The New Jerusalem

Embracing Answers to all Principal Objections

By Samuel Noble

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote extensively how the New Jerusalem indicated in The Revelation, Chapter 21, should be regarded as a New Church, not a replacement Earth. This church, moreover, has already begun, following reorganization of the spiritual world in the mid 1700s. This spiritual rearrangement is responsible for the new freedoms of thought and politics manifest since that time. Most importantly, Swedenborg's writings have made available many new rational insights into the nature of spirituality and religion.
Samuel Noble explains and defends these new doctrines concerning the Second Coming of the Lord, the resurrection, and the last judgement, and relates them the principles of faith and life held by those that now call themselves the New Church. This Church has a new understanding of the Trinity within the Person Of The Lord Jesus Christ, as well as of his Atonement, Sacrifice, and Mediation. He shows how this new framework yields a New Church Doctrine of Life, a Doctrine of Genuine Holiness.           More details


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