Theistic Psychology: The Scientific Knowledge of God Extracted From the Correspondential Sense of Sacred Scripture Volume 18 Index by Dr. Leon James, University of Hawaii

Note: Quotations from the Writings of Swedenborg are given with parenthetical notes in italics that I insert in square brackets throughout the quoted text. These do not appear in the original. As well, longer paragraphs are arbitrarily sub-divided in smaller paragraphs.

For the original text of Swedenborg's Writings please consult the online copies available free in various places on the Web :

http://www.e-swedenborg.com/writings/booklist.htm

www.heavenlydoctrines.org

http://www.smallcanonsearch.com/

http://biblemeanings.info/

http://www.swedenborgproject.org/

http://www.sacred-texts.com/swd/index.htm

http://www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org/index1a.html#can

Volume 1. Introduction to Theistic Psychology

1.0 The Psychology of God: Overview of Basic Topics

1.0.1 Topic 1. The Negative Bias in Science vs. The Positive Bias in Science

1.0.1.1 Dualism: Natural Science and Rational Science

1.0.1.2 Theism in Theistic Science: Universe Created and Managed by God

1.0.1.2.1 Born Into Eternity

1.0.1.2.2 Male Mind, Female Mind, and Conjoint Mind

1.0.1.2.2.1 The Mental Origin of Semen

1.0.1.3 Revelation: Divine Speech Exteriorizing as Sacred Scripture

1.0.1.3.1 What are Spiritual Temptations

1.0.2 Topic 2: The Spiritual World of Eternity

1.0.3 Topic 3: Divine Speech, Sacred Scripture, and Conjunction With God

1.0.3.1 Part A: Some Propositions to Remember

1.0.3.2 Part B: Degrees of Conjunction with God

1.0.3.3 Part C: Why This Is a Perfect World Despite Evil

1.0.4 Topic 4: Forms of Divine Speech in Our Conscious Natural Mind

1.0.5 Topic 5: Sensuous vs. Rational Spirituality

1.0.5.1 Part A (i): Why Doesn't God Make an Appearance at the United Nations?

Part A (ii): What About the Paranormal, Miracles, Telepathy, Magic?

1.0.5.2 Part B: Sensuous Consciousness of God Does Not Remain in the Afterlife

1.0.5.3 Part C: We are Dual Citizens in Discrete Layers

1.0.5.4 Part D: There is Only One Mental World in the Human Race

1.0.5.5 The Daily Discipline of Rational Spirituality

1.0.5.5.1 Recognizing Our Dual Existence

1.0.5.5.2 The Mental World is the World of Eternity

1.0.5.5.3 Our Life in Eternity

1.0.5.5.4 Why We Need Sacred Scripture

1.0.5.5.5 The Hidden correspondential sense of Sacred Scripture

1.0.5.5.6 Why We Need Theistic Psychology

1.0.5.5.7 The New Evolution in Rational Consciousness of God

1.0.6 The Negative and Positive bias in Science

1.0.7 What is Substantive Dualism in Science

1.1 Three Levels of Thinking About God

1.1.1 Level 1: Materialistic Science (Monism)

1.1.2 Level 2: Mystical Religion

1.1.3 Level 3: Theistic Psychology

1.1.4 Ten Rational Conclusions Derived From the Proposition That God Exists

(A) First Conclusion: God is a Person, at once Divine and Human

(B) Second Conclusion: God�s Omnipotence Must Control Every Event

(D) Fourth Conclusion: There are Two Worlds, One in Time-Space, the Other in Eternity

(E) Fifth Conclusion: Humans are Born Dual Citizens, In Time and in Eternity

(F) Sixth Conclusion: The Eternity of the Afterlife is Our Mental World Now

(G) Seventh Conclusion: We Are Born With Heaven and Hell in Our Mind

(H) Eighth Conclusion: Heaven is a State of Marriage Between Soul Mates

(I) Ninth Conclusion: Divine Speech as Sacred Scripture Produces
Consciousness and Enlightenment

(J) Tenth Conclusion: Salvation, Liberation, Peace, and Wisdom Are
Attained By Spiritual Discipline

1.1.4.1 How the Idea of God Makes Us Immortal

1.1.4.1.1 The Incarnation Event: God Enters the World of History and Science

1.1.4.1.1.1 Completion of the Creation of the Human Race

1.1.4.1.1.2 A Brief History of God and Humanity

1.1.4.2 The Three Benefits of Rational Spirituality:
Enlightenment, Empowerment, Rational Ecstasy

1.1.4.2.1 Spiritual Enlightenment

1.1.4.2.2 Spiritual Empowerment

1.1.4.2.3 Rational Ecstasy

1.1.4.3 How Divine Speech Descends In the Human Mind Through
Discrete Layers and Keeps It Functioning

1.1.4.3.1 Conceptual Charts of the Physiology of God and the Human Mind

1.1.4.3.2 Extracting the Content of Divine Speech Through Correspondences

1.1.4.3.2.1 What are Correspondences in Sacred Scripture?

1.1.4.3.2.2 Drinking Blood and Other Examples of Correspondences
in Sacred Scripture

1.1.4.3.2.3 Metaphors, Symbolism, Simile, Figurative Speech -- Are Not
Correspondences

1.1.4.3.3 Three Levels of Thinking About God: Energy, Person, Truth From Good

1.2 Mystical vs. Rational Approaches to Theistic Psychology

1.2.1 Who was Swedenborg?

1.2.1.1 Swedenborg's Autobiographical Letters

1.3 Rational Substantive Dualism

1.3.1 Substantive Dualism and Theism in Science

1.3.1.2 The Psychology of Religion in Nontheistic Psychology

1.3.2 Discrete Layers of Substances

1.3.3 The Substances of the Mental Organs

1.3.4 God's Mental Substances as the Framework of the Universe

1.3.5 Benefits of Understanding Theistic Psychology

1.4 Partial List of Scientific Revelations in the Writings of Swedenborg

1.5 Some of the People Who Have Acknowledged Swedenborg

1.5.1 Students Speak Out on Swedenborg

1.5.1.1 The Swedenborg Reports

1.5.1.2 The Negative Bias in Science

1.5.1.3 Outline of Swedenborg's Spiritual Psychology

1.6 Spiritual Psychobiology

1.6.1 Three Levels of Behavior

1.6.2 Swedenborg's Laws of the Spiritual World

1.6.3 Criteria for a Scientific Theory in Psychology

1.6.4 The Organic Basis of All Phenomena

1.6.5 The Method of Psycho-Biological Correspondence

1.6.6 Applications of Swedenborg's System

1.6.7 Behavioral Consequences of Swedenborg's System

1.6.7.1 The Anatomical Layers of the Mind

1.6.8 Sacred Scripture as the Source of Scientific Revelations

1.6.9 History of the Concept of Dualism in Science

1.6.9.1 Substantive Dualism

1.6.9.2 Prior Versions of Dualism in the Negative Bias

1.6.9.3 Dualism and Consciousness

1.6.9.4 Dualism in Descartes and Swedenborg

1.7 Swedenborg's Description of How We Are Resuscitated After Death

1.8 The Rationale For Theistic Psychology as Science

1.8.1 The "Bible Code" vs. the Method of Correspondences With Enlightenment

1.8.1.1 Horizontal vs. Vertical Extraction

1.8.2 Divine Speech and Its Functional Properties

1.8.3 The Content of Divine Speech

1.8.4 Three Types of Research in Theistic Psychology --
Extractive, Predictive, and Applied

1.8.4.1 Levels of Extractive Research

1.8.4.2 What is God Talking to Us About?

1.8.5 Why Study Theistic Psychology?

1.8.6 About Swedenborg

1.8.7 Should One Believe Swedenborg?

1.8.8 Scientific Proof that Sacred Scripture is Divine

1.8.8.1 The Secret Presence of Correspondences in Sacred Scripture

1.8.8.2 Cause-Effect Control by God

1.8.8.2.1 The Correspondential Sense of CL 270

1.8.8.2.2 The Correspondential Sense of CL 42

1.8.8.2.2.1 The Power of the Literal Sense that
Contains the Correspondential Sense

1.8.8.2.3 The Correspondential Sense of Pharaoh's Dream

1.8.8.2.4 The Correspondential Sense of DP 30

1.8.8.3 Correspondences in Our Thinking and Language

1.8.8.4 Daily Life Correspondences of Body Parts, Activities, and Functions

1.8.8.5 Numbers in Sacred Scripture

1.8.8.6 Types of People in Sacred Scripture

1.8.8.7 Geographic Terms in Sacred Scripture

1.8.8.8 Animals in Sacred Scripture

1.8.8.9 The Divine Origin and Power of Correspondences

1.8.8.10 The Scientific Status of Correspondences

1.8.8.11 Perception of The correspondential sense of Scientific Revelations

1.8.8.12 Natural vs. Spiritual Understanding of Correspondences

1.8.8.13 True Science -- Divine Scientific Revelations of Absolute Truth

1.8.9 Theistic Science: The Scientific Alternative to Creationism and Intelligent Design

1.8.9.1 Recent Court Decision in Pennsylvania on Teaching Religion
in the Public School Curriculum

1.9 Life in the Mental World of Eternity

Volume 2. Q&A on Theistic Psychology

2.0 Q&A on Theistic Psychology

2.1 What�s the difference between religion and theistic psychology?

2.2 What about evil, sin, hell, devil, and heaven in relation to theistic psychology?

2.3 Is theistic science really science?

2.3.1 Criteria for non-theistic Psychology as Science

2.3.2 Criteria for Theistic Psychology as Science

2.3.3 Can an atheist be an expert in theistic science?

2.3.4 Who is to tell us what are good traits and what evil?

2.4 What about the spiritual world and the afterlife�how can that be researched?

2.5 Is it possible that Swedenborg made it all up or was delusional?

2.6 What's the relation between the body, the mind, and the spiritual world?

2.7 Theoretical Implications of God's Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence

2.8 What is God's Role in the Evolution of the Human Race

2.9 What is Divine Truth in relation to scientific revelations in theistic psychology?

2.10 How is the mind or consciousness related to the spiritual world?

2.11 What do surveys show about beliefs in God, heaven, hell, miracles, afterlife?

2.12 What About Creationism and evolution?

2.13 What is "Substantive Dualism" in theistic psychology?

2.14 What is Applied Theistic Psychology?

2.15 How is Theistic Psychology different From Mysticism, Spiritism, Psychic Research?

2.16 How is Spiritual Psychology Related to Theistic Psychology?

2.17 How Can You Do Research on God in Psychology?

2.17.1 The As-of Self Revealed to Humankind

2.18 Swedenborg's Rational Psychologychy

2.19 In What Style did Swedenborg Write the Writings?

2.20 Christian Psychology vs. Theistic Psychology

2.20.1 The Inner Scientific Sense of Divine Speech

2.21 Where can I read Swedenborg�s Writings and collateral works?

2.22. Why doesn't God Give Proof of His Existence by Showing Himself Regularly at Conferences and on TV?

Volume 3. Developmental Levels of Thinking About Theistic Psychology

3.0 Developmental Levels of Thinking About Theistic Psychology

3.1 The First Level of Comprehension--Paraphrasing and Summarizing

3.2 The Second Level Comprehension--Critical Analysis

3.3 The Third Level Comprehension--Spiritual Enlightenment

3.4 The Spiritual Sun

3.5 Consciousness as Substance

3.6 Choosing the Heaven or the Hell in our Mind

3.7 The Nature and Character of God: A Scientific Perspective

3.7.1 The Science of Correspondences

3.7.2 Evolution of Correspondences in Sacred Scripture and Divine Speech

3.7.2.1 The Most Ancient Sacred Scripture

3.7.2.2 The Old Testament Sacred Scripture

3.7.2.3 The New Testament Sacred Scripture

3.7.2.4 Sacred Scripture and the Mental Development of the Divine Child

3.7.2.5 Consciousness Raising Through Correspondences in Sacred Scripture

3.7.2.6 The Incarnation Event and the Evolution of Human Consciousness

3.7.2.7 The Stages of Theistic Psychology

3.7.2.8 Levels of Descent of Divine Speech

3.7.2.9 How Divine Speech Unifies the Human Race

3.7.2.10 A Level 3 Description of Co-Presence With God

3.7.3.0 Extracting the Hidden Higher Correspondences

3.7.3.0.1 Correspondences and Representatives (passages form the Writings Sacred Scripture)

3.7.3.1 The Scientific Content of the Creation Story in Genesis

3.7.3.1.1 Phase 1: The Mental States Prior to Regeneration

3.7.3.1.2 Phase 2: The Mental States That Start Reformation

3.7.3.1.3 Phase 3: The Mental States of Reformation

3.7.3.1.4 Phase 4: The Mental States That Start Regeneration

3.7.4 The Function and Power of Correspondences

3.7.4.1

3.8 Divine Speech or Sacred Scripture as the Source of Scientific Revelations

3.9 Three Experimental Proofs

3.10 Observational Facts About the Spiritual World

3.10.1 God, the Divine-Human

3.10.2 The Mind-Body Connection

3.11 The Purpose of Creation

3.11.1 God, Heaven, Hell, Mind, Body

3.12 Divine Love and Divine Truth as Substances

3.13 The Infinite Within the Finite

3.14 The Spiritual Within the Natural

3.15 The Universal Laws of Correspondences

3.16 The Origin of Species

Volume 4. The Derivation and Function of Scientific Revelations

4.0 Why the Writings Sacred Scripture Are Written in Correspondences

4.0.1 Methodological Issues About Enlightenment

4.0.2 Why Spiritual Meanings Cannot be Conveyed by Natural Expressions

4.0.3 The Method of Correspondences With Enlightenment

4.0.4 Methods of Extraction

4.0.4.1 The Method of Substitution

4.0.4.2 The Method of Rational Series

4.0.4.3 The Method of Mapping

4.0.5 External and Internal Revelation

4.1 Divine Management Principles

4.1.1 Divine Providence

4.1.2 The Laws of Permissions

4.2 The Grand Human

4.3 The Perizonius Thesis

4.3.1 Individual Thinking and Willing Affects the Entire Human Race

4.3.2 The Special Role of Science in the Salvation of Humankind

4.3.3 The Mechanism by Which the Race is Conjoined to God

4.3.4 Rational Consciousness and Levels of Regeneration

4.3.5 The Greatest of All Uses

4.4 The Method of Extracting Theistic Psychology From Sacred Scripture

4.4.1 The Process of Enlightenment and Regeneration: The Scientific
Meaning of Genesis 24 -- Rebekah and Isaac

4.4.2 The Topics of Genesis 24 in Relation to Theistic Psychology

4.4.3 Setting the Natural Mind Into Correspondence

4.4.4 The Spiritual-Rational Mind Is in Charge

4.4.5 Table Illustrating the Extraction Process

4.4.5.1 The Divinity of Doctrine Extracted From Sacred Scripture

4.4.6 Spiritual-Rational Mind Enlightens Our Conscious Natural Mind:
The Case of the Divine Child or Incarnation Event

4.4.6.1 Why the Divine Child Was Male

4.4.6.2 The Divine Marriage in the Divine Child's Mind

4.4.7 The Empowerment of the Conscious Natural Mind

4.4.7.1 The Basic Ennead Chart For Spiritual Geography and Mental Anatomy

4.4.7.2 Affective-Cognitive Integration Mechanisms: The Method of Trigrams

4.4.7.3 The Trinity as the Source for Being Human

4.4.7.4 The Operational Effect of Truth in the Thinking Process

4.4.7.5 The Process of Initiation in Truth

4.4.7.6 Spiritual Food

4.5 Scientific Revelations in Sacred Scripture

4.6 Sacred Scripture or Divine Speech

4.7 Dying and Resuscitation

4.8 The Second Death

4.9 Immortality or Life in Eternity

4.10 God, the Divine-Human

Volume 5. Research Methods in Theistic Psychology

5.0 Extractive, Predictive, and Applied Research

5.0.1 The Unique Properties of Sacred Scripture

5.0.2 Analyzing Divine Speech: The Scientific Sense of Genesis 22

5.0.3 The Binding of Isaac on the Altar

5.0.4 The Mental Struggles of the Divine-Human on Earth

5.0.5 The Meaning of Sacrifices in Worship

5.0.6 The Passion of Christ

5.0.7 Evolutionary Footsteps for the Human Race

5.0.8 The Scientific Meaning of Sin and Sacrifices

5.0.9 Three Types of Spiritual Perception

5.0.10 The Elevation of Consciousness

5.0.11 Thy Seed Shall Inherit the Gate of Thine Enemies

5.0.12 Invasion of the Hells

5.0.13 Universal Salvation of Everyone

5.0.13.1 Extracting Theistic Psychology From Sacred Scripture --
an Illustration

5.0.13.2 The Stage of Doctrinal Acquisition From the Writings Sacred Scripture

5.1 Anatomy of Mind and Levels of Consciousness:
illustration of Applied Research

5.1.1 The Mind's Three Discrete Degrees -- Burnham's Charts

5.1.1.1 The Mind's Two Organs--Will and Understanding

5.1.1.2 Three Degrees of Mind--Celestial, Spiritual, Natural

5.1.1.3 Internal and External Within Each Degree of Mind

5.1.1.4 Corresponding Degrees--Natural and Spiritual Minds

5.1.1.5 Anatomy of the Mind at Birth

5.1.1.5.1 The Incarnation Event and Regeneration

5.1.1.5.2 Thinking With Angels: Our Virtual Heavens

5.1.1.6 Altruism or the Love of Uses

5.1.1.6.1 The Method of Self-witnessing

5.1.1.7 The Genuine Human Shape and Form

5.1.1.8 Life in the Embryo

5.1.1.9 The Growth of the Mind

5.1.1.9.1 The Mind's Growth During Childhood

5.1.1.10 The Role of the Unconscious Spiritual Mind

5.1.1.11 Regeneration of the Adult Mind

5.1.1.12 The Adult Unregenerate Hellish Mind

5.2 The Two Forces Acting on Every Object

5.3 Ethical Issues in Theistic Psychology

5.3.1 Ethics of Science and Religion

5.3.2 Theistic Psychologists and Morality

5.3.3 Theistic Psychology and Media Content

5.3.4 Censorship and Theistic Psychologists

5.3.5 Theistic Psychologists View on War, Death Penalty, Abortion

5.4.0 The Mental Technology of Spiritual Self-Witnessing:
Predictive Research in Theistic Psychology

5.4.0.1 Cataloguing the Components of the External and Interior Social Environment

5.4.0.2 We Are Never Alone�The Vertical Community

5.4.0.2.1 The Universal Language in the Afterlife

5.4.0.3 Self-Witnessing Of The Threefold Self: Affective, Cognitive, Sensorimotor

5.4.0.4 Self-Witnessing As A Spiritual Discipline

5.4.0.5 Without Self-Witnessing Our Own Evils, They Cannot Be Removed

5.4.0.6 Metanoid Self-Witnessing Or Being An Audience To Yourself

5.4.0.7 Macro-Behaviors Are Regenerated By Means Of Micro-Behaviors

5.4.0.8 Examples From The Daily Round Archives

5.4.0.9 Teaching Self-Witnessing: Protection of Privacy Issues

5.4.0.10 Grading and Assessment Approaches

5.4.0.11 The Daily Round Archives Classification Scheme (DRA)

5.4.0.12 References on Self-witnessing Articles

5.4.1 Self-Witnessing Literacy Skills

5.4.1.1 Discovering Our Social and Mental Environment

5.4.1.2 Mental Literacy Skills

5.4.1.3 We Are Never Alone�The Vertical Community

5.4.1.4 Self-Witnessing Of The Threefold Self

5.4.1.5 Self-Witnessing As A Spiritual Discipline

5.4.1.6 The Motive of Spiritual Charity

5.4.1.7 Metanoid Self-Witnessing and Sudden Memory

5.4.1.8 Macro-Behaviors Are Regenerated by Means of Micro-Behaviors

5.4.1.9 The Daily Round Archives

5.4.1.10 Some Passages Concerning Self-witnessing and Regeneration

5.4.2 Cognitive Atlas: Keeping Track of Our Social Life

5.4.3 Discovery of Sudden Memory

5.4.3.1 Foreword One: Awakening and Re-awakening

5.4.3.2 Introduction One: Oscillation of Awareness

5.4.3.3 Experiment 1: Merely Witnessing Doing Nothing

5.4.3.4 Experiment 2: Observing the Process of Experiential Contraction

5.4.3.5 The Evidence: Navigational Performances

5.4.3.6 Reflective Awareness: Distinction Between Consciousness and Experiencing

5.4.3.7 Introduction Two: Self-Actualizing

5.4.3.8 Thinking as a Scanning Operation

5.4.3.9 Modes of Captivity Through the Daily Schedule

5.4.3.10 Memory and Social Identity

5.4.3.11 The Register of Captivity

5.4.3.12 The Consequences of the Daily Schedule: Things We Forget

5.4.3.13 Standardized Imaginings and the Reconstruction of Record

5.4.3.14 Sudden Memory: A New Discovery

5.4.3.15 Epilogue One: Rex's Wisdom

5.4.3.16 Epilogue Two: the Mode of Enactment in the Radicalist Register

5.4.3.17 Afterward

5.4.4 Origin and Analysis of Dreams

5.5 The Substitution Technique

5.5.1 The Parallelism Technique

5.5.2 The Alignment of Trines From Sacred Scripture

5.6 Constructing Dualist Concepts From Swedenborg's Writings: Illustration of
Applied Research in Theistic Psychology

5 .6.1 Full Text Searching of the Writings Online

5.6.2 Indexical Concordance Technique: The Writings vs. the Web

5.7 The Scientific Meaning of the Ten Commandments:
Illustration of Extractive Research

5.7.1 First Commandment: God is the Source of Everything

5.7.2 Second Commandment: Do Not Take the Name of God in Vain

5.7.3 Third Commandment: Keep the Sabbath Day Holy

5.7.4 Fourth Commandment: Honor Your Father and Mother

5.7.5 Fifth Commandment: Do Not Murder

5.7.6 Sixth Commandment: Do not Commit Adultery

5.7.7 Seventh Commandment: Do Not Steal

5.7.8 Eighth Commandment: Do Not Lie

5.7.9 Ninth and Tenth Commandments: Do not Covet

5.7.10 Summary Table For the Scientific Meaning of the Ten Commandments

5.7.11 Rise Above It--The Ten Commandments in All Religions

5.8 What the Bible Says: Illustration of Applied Research

5.9 Color Wisdom--A Universal Method for Tracking Spiritual Development:
Illustration of Applied Research

5.10 Spiritual Linguistics

5.11 Spiritual Numerology

5.11 Spiritual Discourse Analysis

Volume 6. Personality Theory

6.0 Personality Theory

6.0.1 The Conscious Self and the Development of the As-of Self

6.0.2 Woman Built From the Man's Rib

6.0.3 The Rebirth of the Fallen Proprium or Self

6.0.4 Innocence and the Choice of Salvation

6.0.5 Spiritual Growth: How the New Will is formed

6.0.5.1 The Role of Divine Speech in Building Up the New Will

6.0.5.2 Flow Chart of How the New Will is Created by Divine Speech

6.0.5.3 Self-assessment Using the Ten Commandments Chart

6.0.5.4 Spiritual Growth Method Based on Swedenborg and Gurdjieff

6.0.5.4.1 The Ugliness of the Proprium or What Is Our Own

6.0.6 The Birth of the Self in Infants

6.0.7 The Self in Childhood and Adolescence

6.0.8 The Self or Proprium in Adulthood

6.0.9 Death of Self and Rebirth of the New Proprium

6.0.10 The State of Reformation Begins Regeneration

6.1 The Awesome Power of the Affective Organ

6.1.1 The Affective--Cognitive Integration: The Circle of Love

6.2 What Determines Our Ultimate Fate in Eternity?

6.2.1 Wanting to Know the Future Through Psychic Prophecies

6.3 The Vertical Community of Minds

6.3.1 Human Consciousness and Mediated Divine Influx

6.3.1.1 The Formation of Habits

6.3.1.1.1 The Vertical Community and Mental Biology

(I) Mental Biology

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

(III) God's Omnipresence -- Not in Space, But Within It

(IV) Free Will, Heaven and Hell in the Levels of Our Mind

Part B: Where Am I Evil?

Part C: Born into Eternity

(V) The Divine Psychologist and Our Character Reformation

(VI) Societal Consequences of Individual Effort

(VII) The Spiritual Economics of Immortality

(VIII) Divine Speech Descends Through Discrete Degrees of Mind, and Forms Them

(IX) Correspondences to Divine Speech in Sacred Scripture

(X) Character reformation and the Psychology of Cooperation

Part A: The Process of Reformation

Part B: The Role of Temptations

Part C: In What Way Do We Need God?

Part D: The Role of the As-of-Self

(XI) Creating Our Own Hell and Heaven

(XII) Psychology -- Theistic or non-theistic

(XIII) Spiritual Consequences Within Our Natural Actions

(XIV) The Grand Human and the Grand Monster

(XV) Theistic Psychology Expressed in One Formulaic Idea

6.3.1.1.1.1 Passages from the Writings on the Vertical Community and Mental Biology

6.3.1.2 The Establishment of Habits and Personality Disorders

6.3.1.2.1 Anxiety and Depression

6.3.1.2.2 Taxonomy of Behavioral Disfunctions

6.3.1.2.3 Psychotherapy as Spiritual Geography:: The Grand Human [Grand Man]

6.4 Love of Self and the World for the Sake of Self

6.5 Love of Self and the World for the Sake of Others

6.6 Love of Ruling Over Others for the Sake of Self

6.7 Love of Ruling Over Others for the Sake of Others

6.8 Sexuality: Non-exclusive Love of the Sex vs. Exclusive Love of One of the Sex

6.9 Feelings Operate in the Spiritual Fibers of the Affective Organ

6.10 Will Power and the Affective-Cognitive Connection

6.11 Relationship, Biography, and Psychohistory

6.12 Theistic Astrology or Astronomica by David Chambers

6.13 The Limbus

Volume 7. Character Reformation

7.0 Character Reformation

7.0.1 The Method of Affective Realignment for Character Self-modification

7.0.2 The Affective--Cognitive Interaction

7.0.2.1 What is "Charity"?

7.0.2.2 Double State: Inwardly a Devil and Outwardly an Angel

7.0.3 The Role of the Sensorimotor Mind

7.0.4 The Source of Anxiety, Worry, and Depression

7.0.4.1 Psychobiology of Conscience

7.0.5 Struggle Between the Natural and the Spiritual Mind

7.0.5.1 The Law of Karma of Good and Evil

7.0.6 As-of Self Principles of Living: The Power of Self-Regulation

7.0.7 The Power of Affective Positivity: The Positive Bias Glow

7.8 Anger and the Spiritual Function of Mood

7.0.9 Sacred Scripture in Relation to the Mental World

7.0.10 Independent Empirical Confirmation of the Dual Meaning in Sacred Scripture

7.0.10.1 Extracting the Inner Sense of Deuteronomy Chapter 1

7.0.11 Moral Intelligence and Evolution

7.0.12 Self-Witnessing Exercises

7.1 Focusing or Attending to Corporeal Wisdom

7.2 Swedenborg's Character Reformation

7.2.1 Swedenborg's Journal of Dreams

7.3 Collective Behavior

7.3.1 The Vertical Community

7.3.2 Emotional Contagion

7.3.2.1 The Media -- Information, Entertainment, Advertising

7.3.2..2 Inherited Tradition -- Ritual, Song, Dance, Food

7.3.2..3 God Substitutes -- Idols, Gurus, Saints

7.3.3 The Grand Human

7.3.4 Leadership Qualities

7.3.5 The Hexagram of Consciousness and Reality

7.3.5.1 Level 1 Consciousness (Infancy) � Sensuous Incorporation

7.3.5.2 Level 2 Consciousness (Childhood) � Sensuous Absorption

7.3.5.3 Level 3 Consciousness (Adolescence) � Sensuous Belonging

7.3.5.4 The Inversion

7.3.5.5 Level 4 Consciousness (Young Adulthood) � Rational Acknowledgment of God

7.3.5.6 Level 5 Consciousness (Adulthood) � Rational Conjunction with God

7.3.5.7 Level 6 Consciousness (Old Age) � Rational Love of God

7.3.6 The Heavenly Law of Diversity and Unity

7.3.7 Subject Spirits

7.3.8 The Spirits of Mercury

7.3.9 Earths in the Universe

7.3.10 The Perizonius Thesis

7.3.1 1 The Perfection of the Created Universe

Volume 8. Learning and Cognition

8.0 Learning and Cognition

8.1 Thinking From Natural Ideas vs. Thinking From Spiritual Ideas

8.2 Thinking About God From Spiritual Ideas Rather Than Natural

8.3 How We Learn and Develop Rationality

8.3.1 Degrees of Truth and Levels of Mind

8.3.2 Test Your Logical Thinking

8.3.3 Literacy: The Universal Hierarchy of Basic Skills

8.3.4 Religious Curriculum

8.3.5 Individual Growth Recapitulates History and Evolution

8.3.6 Thinking From a Knowledge of the Three Degrees

8.3.7 The Trigrammatic Construction of the Universe

8.4 External and Interior Memory

8.5 Sudden Memory

8.6 Perception: Natural, Rational, Spiritual

8.6.1 Spiritual-Rational Perception

8.6.2 Wisdom and Perception

8.7 Inherited Spiritual Traits

8.7.1 Remains and the Levels of Good in Human Development

8.8 Universal Spirit Language and Thought

8.9 Anatomy of Mind and Levels of Consciousness

8.10 Principles of Theistic Psychology Education

8.10.1 Education With Dualist Concepts

8.10.2 Constructing Integrated Dualist Concepts

8.10.2.1 External and Interior Portions

8.10.2.2 Uses

8.10.2.2 Discrete Degrees

8.10.2.3 Correspondences

8.10.2.4 Top Down Integration Through Intermediaries

Volume 9. The Genes of Consciousness in Spiritual Development

9.0 Geography of the Spiritual World = Anatomy of the Mind

9.0.1 Discovering The Genes of Consciousness in Sacred Scripture

9.0.1.1 Duality Gene Structures

9.0.1.2 Trigrammatic Gene Structures

9.0.1.2.1 Graphic Concepts for Trigrammatic Genes

9.0.1.2.2 Rational Sets of Trigrammatic Concepts

9.0.1.3 Enneadic Gene Structures

9.0.1.4 Hexagrammatic Gene Structures

9.0.1.4.1 Mapping the Divine Child's Mental States

9.0.1.4.2 Using the Ennead Chart to Map the Mental Steps
to Unity in Marriage

9.1 Models of Spiritual Development Based on Sacred Scripture

9.1.1 Correspondences Hidden Within the Writings Sacred Scripture

9.1.2 The Scientific Meaning of Heaven

9.1.2.1 Heavenly Robotics -- In the Image and Likeness of God

9.1.3 The Divine History of Theistic Psychology

9.1.3.1 Individual Spiritual Development Recapitulates New Church History

9.1.3.2 New Church History and Degrees of the Mind

9.1.4 The Double Ennead Matrix -- Plotting Spiritual History and Individual Development

9.1.5 The Law of Recursiveness in the Growth of Consciousness

9.1.6 The As-of-self or Proprium

9.1.7 The Phases of Consciousness in Theistic Psychology

9.1.8 The Birth of the Rational--The Beginning of Being Human

9.1.9 The Doctrine of the Church and Theistic Psychology

9.1.10 Stages of Development in Theistic Psychology

9.1.11 Levels of Extraction from Sacred Scripture

9.1.11.1 List of Additional Diagrams in Theistic Psychology

9.1.12 The Two Heresies Possible in Relation to De Hemelsche Leer

9.1.13 What About the Dangers of Literalism

9.1.14 What is Theistic Psychology

9.1.15 Spiritual Styles of Writing

9.1.16 Intellectual Content in Relation to Degrees of Consciousness

9.1.17 Religious Phases of Behavior in Relation to Consciousness

9.1.18 Rational Consciousness is within Sensual Consciousness

9.1.19 Embedded Progression of the Six Degrees

9.1.20 The Four Ages of Ancient History

9.1.21 Summary Statements of the Style of Writing of Sacred Scripture

9.1.22 Spiritual Stumbling Blocks in Theistic Psychology

9.1.23 How to Use Spiritual Geography Maps

9.1.24 The Harmonizing Matrix

9.1.25 Jacob's Ladder

9.1.25.1 Descending and Ascending Paths

9.1.26 The Affective Mind, Cognitive Mind, and Sensorimotor Mind

9.1.27 Successive and Simultaneous Relations

9.1.27.1 First Step: Infancy Period of Regeneration

9.1.27.2 Second Step: Childhood Period of Regeneration

9.1.27.3 Third Step: Adolescence Period of Regeneration

9.1.27.4 The Inversion

9.1.27.5 Fourth Step: Young Adulthood Period of Regeneration

9.1.27.6 Fifth Step: Adulthood Period of Regeneration

9.1.27.7 Sixth Step: Old Age Period of Regeneration

9.1.28 Psycho-Dynamic Movements in Regeneration

Volume 10. Health Behaviors

10.0 Physiological Correspondences

10.1 The Daily Emotional Spin Cycle

10.1.1 Negative Emotions and the Vertical Community

10.1.1.1 The Sting and Torment of Conscience

10.1.1.1.1 How We are Regenerated

10.1.1.2 The Vertical Community: Laws of Social Interaction Among Spirits

10.1.2 The Threefold Self

10.1.3 Our Four Options

10.1.4 Getting to Know What the Options Are

10.1.5 The Negative Spin Cycle

10.1.6 The Positive Spin Cycle

10.1.7 The Others-Self Negative Spin Cycle

10.1.8 The Others-Self Positive Spin Cycle

10.1.9 The Two Bridges

10.1.10 Self-Regulatory Prompts for the Red Bridge

10.1.11 Self-Regulatory Prompts for the Blue Bridge

10.1.12 Option 1: Negative towards others and the world

10.1.13 Option 2: Positive towards others and the world

10.1.14 Option 3: Negative towards self

10.1.15 Option 4: Positive towards self

10.1.16 Design of Your Experiment

10.2 Supportive Driving -- Facing the Culture of Disrespect

10.3 Getting a Grip on Anger

10.4 Resistance to Flossing

10.5 Resistance to Medical Compliance

10.6 Medical Daily Round

10.7 Resistance to Exercising

10.8 Intolerance of Feeling Hungry

10.9 Resistance to a Healthy Diet

10.10.1 The Wisdom of Yoga Sayings

10.10.1.1 The Correspondential Meaning of Asanas (Postures)

10.10.1.2 The Correspondential Meaning of Mudras

10.10.1.3 The Correspondential Meaning of Breath and Breathing

10.10.1.4 Breathing Explained in the Writings Sacred Scripture

10.10.2 The Wisdom of Hindi Sacred Scripture Contained in Its Correspondential Sense

10.10.2.1 Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita and Their Spiritual Meaning

10.10.2.2 The Correspondential Meaning of the Upanishads

Volume 11. The Marriage Relationship and The Doctrine of the Wife

11.0 The Marriage Relationship

11.1 Marriages in Heaven or Conjugial Love

11.2 Marriages in Hell or Infernal Concubinage

11.3 The Conjoint Self and The Unity Model of Marriage

11.3.1 Three Levels of Unity in Gender Relationship

11.3.1.1 Mental Anatomy of Women and Men

11.3.2 Unity Through Reciprocity and Differentiation

11.3.3 Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Affective Conjunction

11.3.4 Unity Model in Marriage: Ennead Chart of Growth Steps

11.3.5 Male Dominance Model of Marriage

11.3.5.1 How does the husband develop mental intimacy with his wife?

11.3.5.2 Political Semantics of the Male Dominance Model

Principles of Theistic Psychology:
The Scientific Knowledge of God
Extracted from the
Correspondential Sense of Sacred Scripture

Online Books by Leon James

See also:

This is Volume 18 The Index Volume to Principles of Theistic Psychology

Principles of Theistic Psychology: The Scientific Knowledge of God Extracted from the Correspondential Sense of Sacred Scripture

Online Books by Leon James

See also:

This is Volume 18 The Index Volume to Principles of Theistic Psychology

Principles of Theistic Psychology:
The Scientific Knowledge of God
Extracted from the
Correspondential Sense of Sacred Scripture