Selections From Theistic Psychology by Leon James
which is online at
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/theistic
That I Summarized in My Report 2
which is online at
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leon/459f2005/xx/459-g23-report2.htm

 6.3.1.1.1  Symbiosis-  we can say that it is our thinking operations in the cognitive organ and our motivational operations in the affective organ, when acting together, that are then moving the eyes, or the legs, hands, or throat and tongue while talking. There is therefore a connection that must exist between our mental operations of thinking or intending, and the operations of the physical body. This operational connection between the mental and the physical worlds can be called symbiosis. The symbiotic connection between mental states and the physical world is part of human biology.

2.13  What is "substantive dualism" in theistic psychology?

Swedenborg was given the special and unique ability of "dual citizenship," which means he was able to be conscious in both the physical body and the spiritual body. 

So the essence and basis of substantive dualism is the direct evidence from Swedenborg that there is a spiritual world and that our mind or spiritual body is born there and stays there. The physical body and the spiritual body, or mind, develop together and mature together. But whereas the physical body gets old and deteriorates to death, the spiritual body remains as a young adult, and forever so.  When the physical body is dead, the conscious mind switches during resuscitation into the spiritual body and from then on our sensory input is solely from the events in our spiritual (or mental) environment. This life then continues to eternity outside time and place.

5.1.1 The Mind's Three Discrete Degrees

the three discrete degrees are locked into each other by "the laws of correspondences." There is a one to one relation between an event in the natural world and an event in the spiritual and celestial worlds. No event can occur solely in just one degree. All events that exist must exist simultaneously in all three degrees. An event is really three events called source, cause, and effect. These three are in discrete degrees.

Whatever God created was done using this order of successive and simultaneous degrees. First, God had a desire or love (celestial source) to share eternal happiness and immortality with created human beings. Divine Love is therefore the source event in the celestial degree. Second, God had the wisdom and intelligence (spiritual cause) to create human beings with whom He could share His qualities of immortality and happiness. Third, God created the natural world to provide events of uses (natural effect) that satisfied or fulfilled the originating desire.

6.3.1.1.1  (II) God's Omnipotence and the As-of-Self Free Will

Within this context of absolute determinism, God creates free will in our affective organ, and calls it the "as-of-self."  We must have freedom to choose what we desire or intend. We must have the freedom to think whatever thoughts we want to think. God will maintain this real freedom for us. God cooperates in the background, never letting you see directly that you are being managed. This allows us to maintain the as-of-self freedom we sense we have. This is not an illusion. It is a real freedom and we sense that reality. But we do not sense all the reality. God does not let us sense the reality of His Co-Presence and total management procedures. But we would not be human unless God revealed to our rational understanding that these mental operations that appear to be our won, are not.