A Man of the Field

Forming The New Church Mind In Todayís World

 

 

Volume 1: Reformation

The Struggle Against Nonduality

 

Volume 2: Enlightenment

The Spiritual Sense of the Writings

 

Volume 3: Regeneration

Spiritual Disciplines For Daily Life

 

Volume 4: Uses

The New Church Mind In Old Age

 

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By Leon James

October 2002

(draft 17a)

 

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A ìfieldî means doctrine (AC 368)

A "man" signifies faith and truth (AC 427; 4823)

 

Volume 1

Reformation

The Struggle Against Nonduality

 

Chapters 6 and 7

 

Table of Contents

 

Access to other Chapters and Volumes here: 3

Chapter 6. 4

Disconfirming Nondualist Propositions In The New Church Mind. 4

1. Introduction. 4

1. Only The Writings Have Spiritual Truth. 5

2. The Notion That ìSelf Is An Illusionî 8

3.The Notion ThatÝ îAll Great Religions Are Equivalentî 8

1. The Lordís New Revelation Regarding All Religions. 11

4. The Notion ThatÝ ìMeditation Is Spiritualî 13

6. The Notion ThatÝ ìWe Are Already Perfectî 16

7. The Notion That ìBeing One With Nature Is Spiritualî 16

8. The Notion Of ìUnconditional Loveî 17

1. Spiritual Events In The Inner Mind. 19

2. Everyone Is Born Into The Slavery Of An Addiction. 21

3. Good Loves And Genuine Truths. 23

4. Whatís Wrong With Unconditional Self-acceptance. 25

5. Spiritual Dualities From the Writings Are To Be Loved And Lived. 27

6. Shunning Evils As Sins. 29

7. What Is Loving The Neighbor?. 31

8. What About Self-Esteem?. 33

9. A Poisonous Serpent And Cockatrice. 35

9. The New Church View On Forgiveness. 36

1. Forgiveness Is Always Granted Immediately by the Lord. 38

10. The Secular View On Forgiveness. 40

11. The Christian View On Forgiveness. 42

1. Evil Returns To The Evil 45

2. Willing And Thinking According To The Letter 48

Chapter 7. 49

Introduction: Key Concepts In the New Church Mind. 49

1. Introduction. 49

1. New Church Education. 50

2. Teaching Integrated Concepts. 54

3. A Few Key Concepts From The Writings. 59

2. Discrete Degrees In Successive And Simultaneous Order 60

Ghosts, Vampires, Aliens, ìEnergiesî And ìVibrationsî. 61

1. ìAfter The Completion Of This Bookî. 64

3.The Idea of ìAs-of Selfî 66

1. The Source Of Evil 70

4. The Idea of ìSalvation is by Means Onlyî 70

5. The Idea of ìConjugial Loveî 72

1. Achieving An Internal Union. 74

2. Discrete and Reciprocal Relationship Between Man And Woman. 77

3. Conjugial Love Vs. Pornography And Adultery. 77

4. The Fire Of That Organ. 79

5. Casting Out Unchaste Love. 81

6. Pornography Is Adultery. 83

6. The Mind Is In The Spiritual World. 84

1. The Corporeal Sensuous Mind Tends Toward Hell 86

2. Only Rational Loves Exist In Heaven. 88

3. Revelation Of Interior Rational Truths. 90

4. Where The Spirit Is. 95

5. Genuine Images and Maps Of The Spiritual World. 97

7. The Vertical Community: Spiritual Influx From Heaven And Hell 99

1. We Are Created Dual Citizens In Two Worlds. 101

2. A More Effective Self-Management Technique. 104

3. Spirituality Is Not Visible In The Letter 106

4. Spirituality Reenters The Human Race. 108

5. Hearing But Not Understanding.