Is dedicated to discovering the true nature of Reality, and our relationship to that Reality, as individuals, and as a society, with the goal to experience our best, most fulfilling, and harmonious experience possible. Metaphysical truth is not to be confused with religious dogma. (please read the blog post titled Religion vs. Spirituality) Metaphysical Truth may be found everywhere, in all the traditions, and schools of thought that humanity has developed through the ages, and the freedom to explore and take freely from any source, is our sacred right as spiritually autonomous beings. These days, many are fearful of traditional religious dogmas, because many churches have failed to live up to their own creeds, and many reject the Bible, because of the fantastic nature of its content. However, these two forces, historical religious dogmas, and the Bible, are both in our spiritual heritage, and so they remain powerfully imprinted on the collective subconscious, so there is a need for a reckoning. If the religions of the past are failing to serve our current spiritual state of development, we need to look deeper. The Bible is the foundation of western religion and spirituality, including most New Thought spiritual approaches. So getting a grip on the Bible is an important issue. Do we find sense in it? part of it? Do we read it literally or symbolically? Historically? Scientifically? Start by asking: Who was Jesus? This is a tremendous mystery, because he certainly did live briefly in a small obscure corner of the world, during a dark time in our history, but his impact on the subsequent course of human development is inexplicable, unless an event of deeper spiritual significance was unfolding. The solution to the mystery is to transcend the nonsensical creeds of failed organized religions, and personally discover Jesus as our own inner light, which will intuitively unveil spiritual truth that is within the book of nature, within the book of our own life experiences, and within books written by imperfect women and men through the centuries of our collective spiritual evolution. We must leave no stone unturned.

(1688-1772) was the harbinger of a new age rational, intellectual, spiritual freedom for humanity. His published theological and metaphysical books mark the very beginning of the New Age of human spirituality, and the end of false religious authorities grip on the collective consciousness. During an age of religious despotism, he ruthlessly dismantled the irrational dogmas of both the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, and presented a entirely new way to understand who Jesus was, and how our own personal inner light is related to the Infinite Divine, and he also explained that to find spiritual truth in scripture, one should look deeper than the literal level; the Bible must be understood as a symbolic spiritual parable, and his systematic approach to interpretation is flawless. Additionally, he was a mystic, who through to development of his own gifted and penetrating consciousness discovered for us the inner (higher) levels of reality which transcend the physical senses, rationally describing how those spiritual levels give rise to all physical phenomena, and giving practical insight as to how we may experience mystical/rational spirituality for ourselves. So we no longer must be slaves to externally based philosophies, which fall far short in their ability to make sense of the world in which we live. We can realize the essential power of our own inner level of being, and transform our entire relationship with life. However, his books are challenging for modern minds which have been biased against Bible based theology by the churches of the past who have dominated scriptural interpretation with irrational teachings; his books require patient analysis by truth seekers who are undaunted by reading in the semantic of traditional religious vocabularies. Swedenborg rationally demonstrates that there is a hidden, inner level of the Bible, containing powerful metaphysical concepts that will free the mind. Also in his catalog are systematic descriptions of the world beyond the grave, and straight rational philosophical metaphysics that provides a foundational framework for us to interpret the events we experience in the course of life, allowing us to adjust our spiritual position as we evolve to attain ever higher states of wisdom and peace.

1834 - 1916

George Holmes Howison (29 November 1834 – 31 December 1916) was an American philosopher who established the philosophy department at the University of California, Berkeley and held the position there of Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity. He also founded the Philosophical Union, one of the oldest philosophical organizations in the United States.

Howison's philosophy is set forth almost entirely in his volume entitled The Limits of Evolution, and other essays, illustrating the metaphysical theory of personal idealism. Scrutinizing the idea of evolution that had come to the fore, he proved not only that no Person can be wholly "the product of 'continuous creation'", evolution, but went on also to show that, rooted in the very same (a priori) reason, fulfilled philosophy necessarily ends in the "Vision Beatific", "that universal circle of spirits which, since the time of the stoics, has so pertinently been called the City of God". - Wikipedia

Born in 1967. I’ve had a serious interest in religious/metaphysical topics from the start. Raised in the Catholic tradition initially; when I was 12, my family passed through the Southern Baptist approach into charismatic nondenominational Christianity. I was very aware of the theological issues at hand, because my parents debated vigorously during the transition. So very early in life, I developed a serious, independent, introspective attitude toward religion, with a conviction that God’s love is present universally. I have been studying Swedenborg’s Biblical interpretation and esoteric metaphysical philosophy since 1991. I completed a Masters degree in Metaphysical Science, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy, specializing in Bible interpretation.