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Theistic Psychology
THE SCIENCE
OF IMMORTALITY
In 4 Volumes
by Leon James
(this is Version 33a)
This online book in 4 volumes is still
being written. Please note the version number
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Volume 1: Substantive Dualism
Volume 2: Personality and Development
Volume 3: Applied Theistic Psychology
Volume 4: Religious Behaviorism
Overall Table
of Contents
(see Detailed Table of Contents below)
Preface and Diagram of the
Foundations of Theistic Psychology
Volume 1. Substantive Dualism
Chapter 1.
The Negative and Positive Bias in Science
Chapter 2.
Q&A on Theistic Psychology
Chapter 3.
Developmental Levels of
Thinking About Theistic Psychology
Chapter 4.
The Function of Scientific
Revelations
Volume 2. Personality and
Development
Chapter 5.
Research
Methods in Theistic Psychology
Chapter 6.
Personality Theory
Chapter 7. Character Reformation
Chapter 8.
Learning
Theory
Chapter 9.
Spiritual Development
Volume 3. Applied Theistic Psychology
Chapter 10.
Health
Behaviors
Chapter 11.
The Marriage
Relationship
Chapter 12.
The Heavenly
and Hellish Traits
Volume 4: Religious Behaviorism
Chapter 13.
What is Religious
Behaviorism
Chapter 14. Prayer as Revelation from God
Chapter 15.
Faith and Charity
Chapter 16.
Religious Mysticism
Chapter 17.
Religious Movements
Reading List and
References
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Detailed Table
of Contents
Volume
1. Substantive Dualism
Chapter 1. The
Negative and Positive Bias in Science
1.0
The Negative and Positive Bias in Science
1.0.1
How This Book Is Written
1.0.2
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
1.2
Mystical vs. Rational Approaches to Theistic Psychology
1.2.1
Who was Swedenborg?
1.3
Non-Substantive or Mystical Dualism vs. Rational Substantive
Dualism
1.4
Partial List of Scientific Revelations in the Writings
of Swedenborg
1.5
Some of the People Who Have Acknowledged
Swedenborg
1.6
Swedenborg's Description of How We Are Resuscitated
After Death
Chapter 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 Atheistic 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?
2.12.
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 Psychology
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?
Chapter 3. Developmental
Levels of Thinking About Theistic Psychology
3.0
Developmental Levels of
Thinking About Theistic Psychology
3.1
The First Level--Paraphrasing and Summarizing
3.2
The Second Level--Critical Analysis
3.3
The Third Level--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
3.8
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
Chapter 4. The Function of Scientific
Revelations
4.0
The Function of Scientific
Revelations
4.0.1
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 Laws of Correspondences
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
2. Personality and Development
Chapter 5. Research Methods in Theistic
Psychology
5.0
Research
Methods in Theistic Psychology
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
5.1
Anatomy of Mind and Levels of Consciousness
5.1.1
External Mind and the Internal Mind
5.1.2
Structural and Functional Relations in the Mind or Spiritual
Body
5.1.3
Relationship Between Mind and Culture
5.1.4
Rational Mind Mediates Natural and Spiritual
Information
5.1.5
Rational and Sensuous Consciousness
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
Spiritual
Self-Witnessing
5.4.1
Self-Witnessing Literacy Skills
5.4.2
Cognitive Atlas: Keeping Track of Our Social Life
5.4.3
Self-description Profile
5.5
The Substitution Technique
5.5.1
The Parallelism Technique
5.6
Extracting Dualist Concepts From
Swedenborg's Writings
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
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
5.8
Rise Above It--The Ten Commandments in All
Religions
5.9
Color Wisdom--A Universal Method for Tracking Spiritual Development
Chapter 6. Personality
Theory
6.0
Personality Theory
6.0.1
The Conscious Self and Its Development
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
The Birth of the Self in Infants
6.0.6
The Self in Childhood and Adolescence
6.0.7
The Self or Proprium in Adulthood
6.0.8
Death of Self and Rebirth of the New Proprium
6.0.9
The State of Reformation Begins Regeneration
6.1
The Awesome Power of the Affective Organ
6.1.1
The Affective--Cognitive Integration
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
6.4
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: Love of the Sex vs. Love of One of the
Sex
6.8.1
Feminizing the Marriage Relationship: The Unity Model
6.8.2
Three Levels of Union in the Marriage Relationship
6.8.3
Unity Through Reciprocity and Differentiation
6.8.4
Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Affective Conjunction
6.8.5
Chart of the Three Models in Marriage
6.8.6
Behavioral Indicators of One's Relationship Model
6.8.7
Dr. Laura Schlessinger's Male Dominance Model of Marriage
6.8.8
The Surrendered Wife vs. the Surrendered Husband
6.8.9
The Surrendered Husband is The Ideal Elevated Man
6.8.10
The Self-Entrapment of Male Intelligence
6.8.11
Who Is Going To Do The Bills?
6.8.12
The Spiritual Physiology of Marriage
6.8.13
Her Heaven, Not His
6.8.14
Divine Truth Within Which Is Divine Love
6.8.15
Is The Surrendered Husband Feminized?
6.8.16
The Conjoint Mind Is Both Masculine And Feminine
6.9
Feelings Operate in the Spiritual Fibers of the
Affective Organ
Chapter 7. Character
Reformation
7.0
Character
Reformation
7.1
The Method of Affective Realignment for Character
Self-modification
7.2
The Affective--Cognitive Interaction
7.3
The Role of the Sensorimotor Mind
7.4
The Source of Anxiety, Worry, and Depression
7.5
Struggle Between the Natural and the Spiritual Mind
7.6
As-of Self Principles of Living: The Power of
Self-Regulation
7.7
The Power of Affective Positivity: The Positive Bias Glow
7.8
Anger and the Spiritual Function of Mood
7.9
Sacred Scripture in Relation to the Mental World
7.10
Independent Empirical Confirmation of the Dual Meaning
in Sacred Scripture
7.11
Moral Intelligence and Evolution
Chapter 8. Learning Theory
8.0
Learning Theory
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
Chapter 9. Spiritual Development
9.0
Spiritual Development
9.1
First Step: Infancy Period of Regeneration
9.2
Second Step: Childhood Period of Regeneration
9.3
Third Step: Adolescence Period of Regeneration
9.4
The Inversion
9.5
Fourth Step: Young Adulthood Period of Regeneration
9.6
Fifth Step: Adulthood Period of Regeneration
9.7
Sixth Step: Old Age Period of Regeneration
9.8
The Three Levels of Rational Spirituality
9,8.1
Moses, Paul, and Swedenborg
9.8.2
Test of Rational Spirituality
Volume 3: Applied Theistic Psychology
Chapter 10. Health Behaviors
10.0
Health
Behaviors
10.1
Resistance to Flossing
10.2
Resistance to Medical Compliance
10.3
Medical Daily Round
10.4
Resistance to Exercising
10.5
Intolerance of Feeling Hungry
10.6
Resistance to a Healthy Diet
10.7
The Daily Emotional Spin Cycle
10.8
Supportive Driving
Chapter 11. The Marriage Relationship
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
11.3.2
Unity Through Reciprocity and Differentiation
11.3.3
Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Affective Conjunction
11.3.4
Chart of the Three Models in Gender Relations
11.3.5
Behavioral Indicators of One's Relationship Model
11.3.6
Anatomy of the Mind or Spiritual Body: Male and
Female
11.3.7
Six Phases of Temptations for Husbands
11.3.7.1
Overcoming White Temptations
11.3.7.2
Overcoming Yellow Temptations
11.3.7.3
Overcoming Green Temptations
11.3.7.4
Overcoming Blue Temptations
11.3.7.5
Overcoming Brown Temptations
11.3.7.6
Overcoming Black Temptations
11..4
The Doctrine of the Wife For Husbands
Chapter 12. The
Heavenly and Hellish Traits
12.0
The Heavenly and Hellish Traits
12.0.1
The Writings of Swedenborg (1688-1772)
12.0.2
The Fundamental Formula of the New
Scientific Revelation
12.0.3
The Mind Is Not in Physical Space
12.0.4
Spiritual Substances Out of Which the Mind is Formed
12.05
The Three Anatomical Levels of the Mind
12.0.6
Love and Truth as Substances
12.0.7
The Geography of the Spiritual World
12.0.7.1
First Heaven--Spiritual-Natural Correspondences
12.0.7.2
Second Heaven--Spiritual-Rational Correspondences
12.0.7.3
Third Heaven--Celestial-Rational Correspondences
12.0.8
Three Degrees of Regeneration by Temptations
12.0.9
The Rational is the Beginning of Being Human
12.0.10
We All Meet in the Mind
12.1
Altruism
or the Love of Being Useful
12.2
Character Virtues
12.3
Chastity and Conjugial Love
12.4
Wisdom of Innocence
12.5
Wisdom of Old Age
12.6
Selfishness
or the Love of Domineering
12.6.1
Human Freedom--Heavenly and Hellish
12.6.2
The Necessity of Putting up the Effort As-of Self
12.6.3
Compelling Oneself to Do Good
12.6.4
The Role of Our Vertical Community
12.7
Character Flaws
12.8
Resentment, Envy, Avarice
12.9
The Love of Profanation
12.10
Arrogance, Cynicism, Relativism
12.11
Corporeality
12.11.1
Overcoming the Life of Corporeality
12.11.2
Spiritual Dangers of Sex Outside Marriage
12.12
The Love of Promiscuity and Adultery
12.12.1
Taxonomy of Adulteries
12.13 The Love of Corrupting Innocence
12.14
The Hatred of God and Heaven
12.15
The Love of Abusing Women
12.16
Taxonomy of Behavioral Dysfunctions
Volume 4: Religious Behaviorism
Chapter 13 What is Religious Behaviorism
13.0
What is Religious
Behaviorism
13.0.1
Religious Behaviorism vs. the Psychology of
Religion
13.0.2
The Writings of Swedenborg as Sacred Scripture
13.0.3
Swedenborg's Mission in His Own Words
13.0.4
Levels of Correspondences in Sacred Scripture
13.0.5
Objections to Swedenborg as a Divine Revelator
13.0.6
What Heaven is Like as Told by Eye Witnesses
13.0.7
The
Divine-Human is Universal, Beyond
Christian
13.0.8
Every Religion has the Same God
13.0.9
The Church
13.0.10
God's Incarnation Viewed Scientifically
13.1
Inherited Sin
13.1.1
Inherited Traits From Parents
13.1.2
Salvation and Sacrifice
13.1.3
Correspondential Meaning of Animal
Sacrifices
13.1.4
Salvation and Glorification
3.1.5
Salvation and Resurrection
13..2
Universal Salvation of the Human Race
13..3
Divine Revelation and Sacred Scripture
13..4
Heaven and Hell
13..5
Baptism, Rebirth, Reformation
13..6
Regeneration or Character Reformation
13..7
Doctrine of Life
Chapter 14. Prayer as
Revelation From God
14.0
Prayer as Revelation From God