Category: Spiritual Life And Practice

What we experience as our sense of self isn’t fixed but instead is something brought into being moment to moment. We’ll explore two key concepts integral to this concept: Proprium (the feeling that ‘I am me’), and Influx (all life flows in). Also, what implications this has for the self that we think is being saved versus the self that we are saved from. And finally, the concept of an ‘as of self’, the process in which this comes about and our role in giving form to our soul for reception of this.

A 20-minute reflective video experience of Jesus Christ as the Logos that is living. Jesus Christ and the Word, are one and the same. Each offers a different manifestation of the Divine Human but presents the same origin. This presentation explores the distinction of origin and manifestation in more depth, specifically in relation to Divine revelation as it unfolds and is perceived in the finite experience, and of how a confounding of the two is at the root of all human suffering.

Hope, from the perspective of Spiritual Christianity, is not the same kind of hope that is spoken of in day-to-day life. It is not the hope that we have grown accustomed to. The places that each type of hope leads us to are quite different.  Natural hope and spiritual hope however, both begin with a state of grief and loss – a lack of hope.

A deeper look into the four Hebrew letter names Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey (YeHoWaH or Y-H-W-H) of the One who spoke to Moses from the burning bush – and what it reveals and calls us to in terms of our spiritual work.

What is it about a spiritual body that makes it a substantial body in contrast to a physical body and why does it matter? An exploration of the nature of spiritual substance and how a clearer understanding of this can transform our participation in life.

Some simple tips on how to split our attention as we read the Text and why… If we can approach the Text with an openness to receiving what it is the Lord has to say to us, then what we observe, what is reflected back, what catches our attention, what we are drawn to… will give us an indication about where our specific work lies in terms of our spiritual regeneration.

On the surface this is a story of the young boy Jesus astonishing the teachers in the temple courts with his understanding of the Text. But when examined from a spiritual perspective it offers us a story about how truth first enters the holy space within us, and teaches and astonishes. This article also introduces the reader to the concepts of the Logopraxis approach, both individually and within group life.

In a continuation on from Part 1, we look at how this story offers an image of how truth works when we seek to apply it to life of our mind, and of how this then informs us of how we might then be in spiritual community with others, and in particular of how it might unfold in a Life Group Meeting.

As with all spiritual material, the work Heaven and Hell deals with mental structures and processes that we experience as states of mind i.e., states of thinking and feeling. In recounting the “things heard and seen” Swedenborg offers us a psycho-spiritual map that can guide us on our own inner journey. Using the Logopraxis approach we can come to appreciate the Heaven and Hell text in a way that opens up profound insights into the evolution of human consciousness and the laws that govern its organisation and development.

The Word offers us a new body to be the instrument that allows the spirit to perform its function. When then, is there harmony between what is inner and outer?