The text of De Hemelsche Leer, or The Epistles for the New Church
see also Spiritual Geography
see also Theistic Science
see also Religious Psychology

CONTENTS OF PART 3

Introduction to Part 3: The Circuit of Consciousness (Matrix 15)
Birthing the Doctrine: How Biography Recapitulates Evolution (Matrix 16)
Tabulation of Discoveries and Inventions by Leon James: Pre-Swedenborgian (1960-1980) and Post-Swedenborgian (1981-2001)
Conceptual Categories in Thinking in Relation to Degrees of Consciousness (Matrix 17)
Ethnosemantic Hexagram in Relation to Degrees of Consciousness (matrix 18)
The Psycho-Dynamics of Regeneration: Using Spiritual Geography Maps
Embedded Recursiveness of the Circuit of Consciousness (Matrix 19)
Discovering the Ennead Matrix from the Literal of the Writings
Dr. Ian Thompson's Formal Rendition of the Ennead Matrix
The Basic Map for Understanding Regeneration (Matrix 20)
How to Use Spiritual Geography Maps (Matrix 21)
Spiritual Blindness--The End of a Puzzle that Lasted 26 Years--My Discovery of BLACK consciousness within WHITE consciousness

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DEGREES
of consciousness

INNOCENCE OF IGNORANCE

GROWTH OF SELF

LOVE OF SELF AND WORLD

LAST JUDGMENT

REDEMPTION

I           N           V           E           R           S           I           O           N

RATIONAL
INTERIOR
NATURAL

SALVATION

REGENERATION

RATIONAL
INTERIOR
CELESTIAL

INNOCENCE OF WISDOM

REGENERATION

  Pre-Swedenborgian Discoveries and Inventions (1960-1980) by Leon James

       See List of Publications and see also Directory of Available Articles Online

(NOTE: Links below lead to a representative article on that topic with entry links to related links)

1. Semantic Satiation and Generation (1960-1962--M.A. Thesis and Ph.D. Dissertation) (see also article 1   ||  article 2 )
2. Applied Ethomethodological Psycholinguistics  ||  Transactional Engineering (1962 onward) (see article 1  ||  article 2  ||  article 3 || article 4 )
3. Developmental Sequence of the Conceptual Statement--DESOCS (1964) (see article 1 )
4. Indeterminacy of Meaning (1967)
5. Communicative Competence (1968) (see article 1  ||   article 2 )
6. Sudden Memory (1968) (see article 1 )
7. Self-Witnessing Methodology (1969 onward)
8. Student-Centered Foreign Language Teaching (1970) (see article 1  ||   article 2   ||  article 3 )
9. Comprehensive Discourse Analysis (CDA) (1971 onward)  ( article 1 || article 2   ||  article 2 || article 3)
10. Daily Round Archives (DRA) (1972 onward) (see article 1   ||  article 2 )
11. Discourse Thinking (1973) (see article 1 )
12. Community-Classroom (1974 onward) (see article 1   ||   article 2  ||  article 3 )
13. Ethnosemantics: Hexagram, Trigram, Color Wisdom, Color Coded Dictionary, Open Cube of Understanding, Reciprocally Ratified Recognitions (RRR),  (1975 onward) (see article 1   ||  article 2  ||  article 3 )
14. The Mobius Strip Book (1976) (see article 1 )
15. Genetic Culture: Psycho-dynamics and Astro-dynamics, Mental Genes, Morphotopology (1976 onward) (see article 1 ||   article 2  || article 3 )
16. Psychology of Knowledge, Metaphysics of Nothingness (see article 1  ||   article 2 )
17. Social Psychology in an Aviary (1977) (see article 1   ||  article 2 )
18. Community Cataloguing Practices (CCPs) (1978 onward) (see article 1  ||   article 2  ||  article 3  ||  article 4 )

Post-Swedenborgian Discoveries and Inventions (1981-2001 and beyond...) by Leon James

1. Comprehensive Discourse Analysis (CDA) (continued) (see article 1  ||  article 2  ||   article 3 )
2. Social Psychology of Song Analysis: Inner Meaning of Popular Songs (1981) (see article 1  ||  article 2 )
3. Ennead Matrix and Graphic Methodology, A/C/S Unit of Behavior, Threefold Self (1982 onward) (see article 1  ||  article 2  ||  article 3  ||  article 4  ||   article 5   ||  article 6   || directory )
4. Religious Behaviorism, Scientific Dualism, Substantive Dualism, Spiritual Psychobiology (1982) (see article 1  ||  article 2  ||  article 3  ||  article 4 ||  article 5 ||  article 6   ||  article 7 ))
5. Spiritual Geography (1982) (see article 1 )
6. Vertical Community (1982) (see article 1 )
7. PLATO Socializing (1982-1993) (see article 1 )
8. De Hemelsche Leer are the Epistles for the New Church (1983) (see article 1 )
9. Doctrine of the Wife (1985) (see article 1 )
10. Swedenborg's Scientific Writings also have an inner sense (1986)
11. Cyber-psychology and Spiritual Psychology (1993 onward) (see article 1  ||  article 2 )
12. Secular vs. Religious Swedenborgianism (1994) (see article 1 )
13. Online Generational Curriculum (1994 onward) (see article 1  ||   article 2   ||  article 3   ||  article 4   ||  article 5 )
14. Swedenborg Glossary (1996 onward) (see directory here )
15. Affirmative Action--Husbands Confess Here, Swedenborgian Marriage Handbook (1996) (see article 1 )
16. Traffic Psychology, Driving Psychology, DrDriving and Threestep Program (1996 onward) (see article 1  ||  Web site )
17. Children Against Road Rage (CARR), Drivers Behaving Badly (DBB Ratings) (1997) (see article 1 )
18. Theistic Science (1998) (see article 1 )
19. The Circuit of Consciousness and the Dynamics of Regeneration (2001) (see article 1 )

See also these autobiographical articles by Leon James:
Community Cataloguing Practices (CCPs) Historical Autobiography in Social Psychology
Radicalist Empiricism: The Universal Modes of Enactment in Human Experience

DEGREES
of consciousness

Ideal Substance, Spiritual Form, Essence, Nominative, Schema, Creative, etc.

Presuppositions
(cf. etymology)

Implications
(cf. syntax)

Function, Quality, Property, Force, Dynamics, Direction, Instruction, etc.

Meanings
(indeterminate reference)

I           N           V           E           R           S           I           O           N

RATIONAL
INTERIOR
NATURAL

Assertion
(types)

Frame, Role, Venue, Guidance, Justification, etc.

RATIONAL
INTERIOR
CELESTIAL

Appearance, Use, Performance, Execution, Product, Accounting, etc.

Text
(sentence, paragraph, title)

62. The times and states of man's regeneration in general and in particular are divided into six, and are called the days of his creation; for, by degrees, from being not a man at all, he becomes at first something of one, and so by little and little attains to the sixth day, in which he becomes an image of God.

(...)

13. Those who are being regenerated do not all arrive at this state. The greatest part, at this day, attain only the first state; some only the second; others the third, fourth, or fifth; few the sixth; and scarcely anyone the seventh.

[8.1.2]

The Hexagram of Sudden Memory. Consider the following downward series of semantic units and their usage in a sample illustration. We refer to such semantic structures by the label hexagram to indicate that it is a whole made up of two parts separated by a double line boundary and ordered in a vertical series. The rationale and structure of the hexagrammatic system are elaborated further in

the Appendix and in a number of places in this Workbook (see Index). Here, we wish to show its use or applicability in methodology.

Let us stipulate that this particular hexagram, called "The Hexagram of Sudden Memory," is a hypothesis about the structure of the units that make up sudden memory just as in the case of short-term memory, we stipulate discrete units underlying the natural flow of actions and events. Having stipulated this, we can now derive from it, a theory about what it is in the mind, since it is not in behavior. Assume therefore that sudden memory is a parameter of the mind and that it has the characteristics given by the above hexagram; these are as follows:

(i) every unit of mind (or gene of intellect) is a hexagram made up of two trigrams;

(ii) in this molecule, the upper trigrarn has three features in descending order; these are: IMPRESSIONS, INTERPRETATIONS, AWARENESS;

(iii) the upper trigram can be represented in behavior as the temporal verbal report: "First you get impressions, then you interpret them, and finally you become aware that you have them."

(iv) the lower trigram can be represented in behavior through the following assertion: "When you start, at first you kind of feel self-conscious but afterwards you sort of get used to it with practice, and then you kind of do it unselfconsciously . Eventually it becomes a routine and you're doing it fully consciously."

(v) the double line separates topical from pre-topical such that the upper sequence is pre-topical while the lower is topical; this can be represented behaviorally by the following verbal argument: "The SOCIO-cultural environment creates two zones: pre-topical and topical. Pre-topical belongs to all societies whether non-verbal, as ant colonies, or verbal, as human communities. But topical belongs only to verbal societies. As a result, impressions, interpretations, and awareness are societal features, not individual, hence ants may be, as a group manifesting the phenomena of impressions, or awareness, but not individually. However, ants are not conscious since they fail to exhibit topical phenomena."

Having assumed the above, let us now explore the consequences. First, it is provocative to say that ants are aware and make interpretations of their impressions, though given the new sociobiology (Wilson, 1976), the idea is no longer disrespectable! The oddity of the assertion disappears when "pre-topical', is seen as its frame, i. e., the awareness of the ants is not of a topical nature, as ours obviously is, given human language; thus we, are led to investigate the nature of a pre-topical element just as genes provide clues to the behavior of a species or, molecular transactions give clues to atomic structure. The hexagram we are investigating proposes that the phenomenon of consciousness is the sixth element in a descending series of which the upper three are pre-topical, i.e., characteristic of pre-literate and non-verbal societies or stages of development (ontology). This leads to the provocative assertion that awareness is pre-topical in the ontology of mind.

In behavior, ontoginy recapitulates phylogeny.; in mind, synchrony recapitulates diachrony. The first assertion establishes the relationship between individual behavior and the inherited gene pool of the species; it gives the biological component to psychology. The second assertion --that synchrony recapitulates diachrony --establishes the relationship between personal experience and the socio-cultural environment; it gives the experiential component of psychology . Now we ask: Is this experiential component as real and amenable to scientific investigation as the biological component? We propose an affirmative solution though it will require a suitable methodology, suitable for the investigation of phenomena that are non-temporal, viz., synchronous. The hexagrammatic approach is the original methodology of synchronic synthesis devised by the first civilizations to invent literacy, i.e., the community practice of publishing knowledge and indexing text. This led to books, manuals, archives, official records (see Section [5. 2. 3] in Chapter 5). This method survives today in the form of the treatise called the "I Ching" and attributed to Confucius and earlier scholars of the Chinese Dynasties (circa 1100 B.C.). The I Ching is a unified theory of social settings and presents an exhaustive system of 64 situational hexagrams corresponding to the modalities of conduct t on the daily round (see Section [6.3.1] in Chapter 6).

Ethnosemantic methodology (ESM, for short) requires a special register just as statistics and experimental methodology involve specialized registers, i.e., vocabulary, syntax, mathematical operations abstract conceptions, formalized argument procedures, explicitness, routine replicability, and so forth. These are essential characteristics of any valid methodology. ESM employs a traditional and well established system of mathematics called hexagrammatic topology. This is a term we are proposing for what appears to have been around since the beginnings of literate civilizations, i.e. , circa 1100 B. C. (e.g., the Chou Dynasty in China which gave us the I CHING; the Mycennaen civilization that led to the Iliad of the Greeks; the Egyptian Book of the Dead; the Babylonian Code of Hammurabbi). The beginnings of literacy were understandably functional evolutionary developments: verbal but preliterate human societies (i.e., 3, 000 years ago and beyond) were dependent on oral rituals of transmission of knowledge, tradition, practice, and ideals. There was thus maintained by necessity a caste system in society in which a few had the contact and conscious relationship with the past and therefore, with the continuity in conception and in awareness of the mechanisms of culture (For a personal view, see Yogananda, 1975; Roberts, 1974; 1976; Rampa., 1963; Jones, 1972. For a scientific view, see Hoggart, 1957; McLuhan, 1964; Jaynes, 1976).

With the evolution of literacy as an ordinary daily round phenomenon, i.e., when education became available to many in a community, there evolved a class of immortals called the classicists whose ideas, words, arguments, and attitudes are perpetrated in print and in translation and in reference, thus enduring in presence long after their author's natural life span. The "Books of Authority" as we might call them, thus constitute the archaeology of the objectified descriptions of the ideas of the past. They are the data needed for the histories of ideas, nations, and people (see Lovejoy, 1955 and Cassirer, 1950).

The methodology that transforms ideas into objective data needs to be presented. ESM is such a methodology. To illustrate its application, we present the following ennead of basic principles about ESM.

1. CONCEPTS are trigrammatic;
2. DISPLAYS are hexagrammatic;
3. ARGUMENTS are double hexagrams;
4. THEMES are electric couples;
5. DUALITY Is the double line;
6. DIALECTICS is to cross the double line;
7. EVENTS are dialectic movements;
8. DRAMA and TALK are media for consciousness;
9. ETHNICITY titles variations in the dynamic properties of a literate consciousness (individual and local ethnographies).

The capitalized terms are technical objects, to be defined presently, and the other terms are operational definitions. The latter may be represented through a geometric notation system or analogy, as follows:

trigram = a composite form made up of three distinct elements, e.g., triangles; triplets; the minimal family unit; any scale made in such a way as to have three positions; etc.

hexagram = a composite of two distinct trigrams ordered linearly such that one trigram assumes a lower order relative to the other trigram;

double hexagrams = a composite of two distinct hexagrams arranged in a 90 degree angle such that one hexagram assumes the horizontal position while the other assumes the vertical position; the double hexagram, forms a Cartesian coordinate system or hexagrammatic matrix In which 36 dyadic intersections are specified;

electric couple = a unit of cycle consisting of a pair of two double hexagrams; electric couples are phrasal units with a value of 48 (one double =2 hexagram s = 4 trigrams = 4 x 3 = 12; hence 2 double hexagrams = 24 and a pair of doubles = 48);

double line = two parallel lines separating the lower from the upper trigram in any hexagram; the gap between the double lines represents the natural break between pre-topical and topical (roughly: matter and psyche, or reactivity and consciousness)

crossing the double line = a natural phenomenon characterizing the laws of phasal motion such that a transformation or metamorphosis is noted when crossing the double line, i.e., the phase between the adjacent constituent parts of the upper and lower trigrams in any hexagram; crossing from the upper to the lower is in the direction of dissolution of topic (topical to pre-topical); from lower to upper, it is in the direction of crystallizing topic;

dialectic movements = units of phasal values charted or plotted by reference to the hexagrammatic positions available; e.g., crossing the double line is a dialectic movement from phase III to IV or vice versa; similarly, going from phase I at one end of the lower trigram, to phase III, the other end, is a dialectic movement;

media for consciousness = distinct channels or manifolds having the property of retaining form or shape, and changes in these; the coding of these changes is possible in terms of topic, topic units, and topic domains or zones;

titles = the referential labeling that identifies a category of event, process, relationship, or experience; titles may be conventional or neologistic; e.g. "bread' and "eating bread with meals" are conventional topic nominals recognizable through the cataloguing practices of a community; "eating bread and thinking that I shouldn't"  is a neologistic topic nominal constructed according to standardized register principles or norms;

Thus far we have specified the operational definitions of the main components of ESM. Now let us introduce some basic technical terms. These are the conceptual elements that enter into the mathematics or geometry of the notation system of ESM.

4. While the mind cleaves to the literal sense alone, no one can possibly see that such things are contained within it. Thus in these first chapters of Genesis, nothing is discoverable from the sense of the letter other than that the creation of the world is treated of, and the garden of Eden which is called Paradise, and Adam as the first created man. Who supposes anything else? But it will be sufficiently established in the following pages that these matters contain arcana which have never yet been revealed; and in fact that the first chapter of Genesis in the internal sense treats in general of the new creation of man, or of his regeneration, and specifically of the Most Ancient Church; and this in such a manner that there is not the least expression which does not represent, signify, and enfold within it these things.

ORDERLY SEQUENCE

EXTERNAL CELESTIAL
OF EXTERNAL CELESTIAL

YELLOW OF WHITE

Zone 2

EXTERNAL SPIRITUAL
OF EXTERNAL CELESTIAL

CHILDHOOD OF INFANCY

EXTERNAL NATURAL
OF EXTERNAL CELESTIAL

Zone 21

INTERIOR NATURAL
OF EXTERNAL CELESTIAL

YOUNG ADULTHOOD OF INFANCY

INTERIOR SPIRITUAL
OF EXTERNAL CELESTIAL

Zone 19

INTERIOR CELESTIAL
OF EXTERNAL CELESTIAL

OLD AGE OF INFANCY

EXTERNAL CELESTIAL
OF EXTERNAL  SPIRITUAL

YELLOW OF YELLOW

Zone 5

EXTERNAL SPIRITUAL
OF EXTERNAL SPIRITUAL

CHILDHOOD OF CHILDHOOD

EXTERNAL NATURAL
OF EXTERNAL SPIRITUAL

Zone 24

INTERIOR NATURAL
OF EXTERNAL SPIRITUAL

YOUNG ADULTHOOD OF CHILDHOOD

INTERIOR SPIRITUAL
OF EXTERNAL SPIRITUAL

Zone 22

INTERIOR CELESTIAL
OF EXTERNAL SPIRITUAL

OLD AGE OF CHILDHOOD

EXTERNAL CELESTIAL
OF EXTERNAL NATURAL

YELLOW OF GREEN

Zone 8

EXTERNAL SPIRITUAL
OF EXTERNAL NATURAL

CHILDHOOD OF ADOLESCENCE

EXTERNAL NATURAL
OF EXTERNAL NATURAL

Zone 27

INTERIOR NATURAL
OF EXTERNAL NATURAL

YOUNG ADULTHOOD OF ADOLESCENCE

INTERIOR SPIRITUAL
OF EXTERNAL NATURAL

Zone 25

INTERIOR CELESTIAL
OF EXTERNAL NATURAL

OLD AGE OF ADOLESCENCE

I           N           V           E           R           S           I           O           N

IV
YOUNG ADULTHOOD
BLUE
RATIONAL
INTERIOR
NATURAL

EXTERNAL CELESTIAL
OF INTERIOR NATURAL

YELLOW OF BLUE

Zone 11

EXTERNAL SPIRITUAL
OF INTERIOR NATURAL

CHILDHOOD OF YOUNG ADULTHOOD

EXTERNAL NATURAL
OF INTERIOR NATURAL

Zone 30

INTERIOR NATURAL
OF INTERIOR NATURAL

YOUNG ADULTHOOD OF YOUNG ADULTHOOD

INTERIOR SPIRITUAL
OF INTERIOR NATURAL

Zone 28

INTERIOR CELESTIAL
OF INTERIOR NATURAL

OLD AGE OF YOUNG ADULTHOOD

EXTERNAL CELESTIAL
OF INTERIOR SPIRITUAL

YELLOW OF BROWN

Zone 14

EXTERNAL SPIRITUAL
OF INTERIOR SPIRITUAL

CHILDHOOD OF ADULTHOOD

EXTERNAL NATURAL
OF INTERIOR SPIRITUAL

Zone 33

INTERIOR NATURAL
OF INTERIOR SPIRITUAL

YOUNG ADULTHOOD OF ADULTHOOD

INTERIOR SPIRITUAL
OF INTERIOR SPIRITUAL

Zone 31

INTERIOR CELESTIAL
OF INTERIOR SPIRITUAL

OLD AGE OF ADULTHOOD

VI
OLD AGE
BLACK
RATIONAL
INTERIOR
CELESTIAL

EXTERNAL CELESTIAL
OF INTERIOR CELESTIAL

YELLOW OF BLACK

Zone 17

EXTERNAL SPIRITUAL
OF INTERIOR CELESTIAL

CHILDHOOD OF OLD AGE

EXTERNAL NATURAL
OF INTERIOR CELESTIAL

Zone 36

INTERIOR NATURAL
OF INTERIOR CELESTIAL

YOUNG ADULTHOOD OF OLD AGE

INTERIOR SPIRITUAL
OF INTERIOR CELESTIAL

Zone 34

INTERIOR CELESTIAL
OF INTERIOR CELESTIAL

OLD AGE OF OLD AGE

13. Those who are being regenerated do not all arrive at this state. The greatest part, at this day, attain only the first state; some only the second; others the third, fourth, or fifth; few the sixth; and scarcely anyone the seventh.

67. CHAPTER 2 As of the Lord's Divine mercy it has been given me to know the internal meaning of the Word, in which are contained deepest arcana that have not before come to anyone's knowledge, nor can come unless the nature of the other life is known (for very many things of the Word's internal sense have regard to, describe, and involve those of that life), I am permitted to disclose what I have heard and seen during some years in which it has been granted me to be in the company of spirits and angels.

68. I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections. But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

69. Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them. But because in process of time men so immersed themselves in corporeal and worldly things as to care almost nothing for ought besides, the way was closed. Yet as soon as the corporeal things recede in which man is immersed, the way is again opened, and he is among spirits, and in a common life with them.

70. As it is permitted me to disclose what for several years I have heard and seen, it shall here be told, first, how the case is with man when he is being resuscitated; or how he enters from the life of the body into the life of eternity. In order that I might know that men live after death, it has been given me to speak and be in company with many who were known to me during their life in the body; and this not merely for a day or a week, but for months, and almost a year, speaking and associating with them just as in this world. They wondered exceedingly that while they lived in the body they were, and that very many others are, in such incredulity as to believe that they will not live after death; when in fact scarcely a day intervenes after the death of the body before they are in the other life; for death is a continuation of life.

5. That this is really the case no one can possibly know except from the Lord. It may therefore be stated in advance that of the Lord's Divine mercy it has been granted me now for some years to be constantly and uninterruptedly in company with spirits and angels, hearing them speak and in turn speaking with them. In this way it has been given me to hear and see wonderful things in the other life which have never before come to the knowledge of any man, nor into his idea. I have been instructed in regard to the different kinds of spirits; the state of souls after death; hell, or the lamentable state of the unfaithful; heaven, or the blessed state of the faithful; and especially in regard to the doctrine of faith which is acknowledged in the universal heaven; on which subjects, of the Lord's Divine mercy, more will be said in the following pages.

THE BASIC ENNEAD MATRIX IN SPIRITUAL GEOGRAPHY

TAXONOMY OF BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES FOR INFORMATION SEARCHING COMPETENCE (ISC)

LEVELS

AFFECTIVE DOMAIN

SENSORIMOTOR DOMAIN

Advanced

Practicing Documentation Routines

C2 Understanding Search

Strategy

S2 Identifying Implicit Features

Level 1 Basic

A1 Showing Acceptance

C1 Decoding Information Displays and Terminology

S1 Recognizing Information Elements and Locations

STAGES OF GROWTH OF THE SELF (Matrix 1)

I=celestial sensual consciousness
II=spiritual sensual consciousness
III=natural sensual consciousness
IV=natural rational consciousness
V=spiritual rational consciousness
VI=celestial rational consciousness

External=immediate influx and sensual consciousness
(experience)

Interior=mediate influx and rational consciousness
(as-of-self)

ORDERLY SEQUENCE

Zone 19        Zone 1

the affective of the external celestial

the cognitive of the external celestial

the sensorimotor of the external celestial

Zone 22          Zone 4

the affective of the external spiritual

Zone 23         Zone 5

the cognitive of the external spiritual

Zone 24            Zone 6

the sensorimotor of the external spiritual

the affective of the external natural

the cognitive of the external natural

the sensorimotor of the external natural

I           N           V           E           R           S           I           O           N

IV
YOUNG ADULTHOOD
BLUE
RATIONAL
INTERIOR
NATURAL

Zone 28            Zone 10

the affective of the interior natural

Zone 29          Zone 11

the cognitive of the interior natural

Zone 30          Zone 12

the sensorimotor of the interior natural

the affective of the interior spiritual