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Abstract
This chapter introduces the fourth dream journalist, Emanuel Swedenborg. Born in 1688 in Sweden to a prominent family with connections to the Church, Swedenborg began his life as a talented scientist and engineer with wide-ranging interests. In the middle of his life, he shifted his interests from the natural world to the spiritual world. For the pivotal years during this transition, he kept a dream journal in which he chronicled his spiritual awakening. Due to the revelatory power and inspiring energy of these dreams, along with other paranormal experiences, Swedenborg went ahead to found a new church of mystical Christianity. The dream journal represents a remarkable first-person account of the emergence of a new religious outlook on life.
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Abstract
This chapter introduces the fourth dream journalist, Emanuel Swedenborg.
Born in 1688 in Sweden to a prominent family with connections to the Church, Swedenborg began his life as a talented scientist and engineer with wide-ranging interests.
In the middle of his life, he shifted his interests from the natural world to the spiritual world.
For the pivotal years during this transition, he kept a dream journal in which he chronicled his spiritual awakening.
Due to the revelatory power and inspiring energy of these dreams, along with other paranormal experiences, Swedenborg went ahead to found a new church of mystical Christianity.
The dream journal represents a remarkable first-person account of the emergence of a new religious outlook on life.
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