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 3

Regeneration

Spiritual Disciplines For Daily Life

 

Chapter 1

Self-Witnessing Your Life

 

 

Table of Contents

 

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Preface to Volume 3. 3

DEDICATION.. 7

Chapter 1. 9

Self-Witnessing Your Life. 9

1. Introduction: The Spiritual Dimension Within The Natural 9

1. The Inherited Self Vs. The Innate Idea Of God. 10

2. What Is Being Regenerated? ñ The Proprium.. 13

3. No Yoga In The Church Hall?. 16

4. How The Spiritual Can Be Approached. 17

5. Regeneration Requires Rational Consciousness. 21

6. The Two Phases Of Regeneration. 23

7. Turning A Moral Discipline Into Spiritual 26

8. If Iím A Good Man, Why Do I Need To Be Regenerated?. 28

9. The Physical Body Hides The Spiritual Devil Within. 29

10. Spiritual Insanity Chains Us To Hell 30

11. Spiritual Sanity Is To Return To God And To The Word. 34

12. Macro-Behaviors Are Regenerated By Means Of Micro-Behaviors. 36

13. Self-Witnessing Our Micro-Behaviors. 37

14. Overlap Between The Mind And The Spiritual World. 40

15. The Mind And The Brain. 42

16. Controlling Influx. 44

17. Metanoid Self-Witnessing. 46

18. Enlightenment From The Letter Of The Writings. 49

19. Regeneration Disciplines Are Spiritual 51

20. Innumerable Things In Every Evil 55

21. Relationship Between Interior Evils And Exterior. 58

22. Do We Need To Confess Our Sins?. 60

23. Without Self-Monitoring Our Evils They Cannot Be Removed. 64

24. Six-Phased Process of Removing Evils. 66

25. Conditions That Prevent Removing Evils. 67

26. ìTo Give No Thoughts To Sinsî. 69

27. ìWhat Have I To Do With Thisî. 71

28. Five Summary Steps In Regeneration. 74

2. Snatching Things From Sudden Memory. 76

1. What Makes Our Life Moments Spiritual 79

2. The Most Ancients Prior To The Split-Brain Evolution. 82

3. Self-Witnessing Sudden Memory As A Spiritual Discipline. 87

4. Filled With Blasphemous Thoughts And Curiosities. 90

5. The Natural Mind Must Be Compelled To Realign Itself 94

3. Conscience And Temptations Are The Methods Of Regeneration. 97

1. Creating More And More Angels. 99

2. External And Internal Methods Of Cooperation. 102

4.The remains of good and truth in the afterlife. 106

5.The Regeneration Of The Threefold Self: Willing, Thinking, And Acting Out 109

1. Self-Examination: Monitoring The Threefold Self 111

2. Keeping Track Of The Motives We Have. 114

3. The Agony And Ecstasy Of Regeneration. 116

4. Head In Heaven, Feet In Hell 118

5. Seeing The Ugly Scary Proprium.. 120

6. Regeneration Is By Spiritual-Rational Correspondences