Contents
Acknowledgments | v | |
List of Illustrations | ix | |
I. | Why Swedenborg | 1 |
II. | Stockholm Shocked | 7 |
III. | Parent Extraordinary | 14 |
IV. | Undergraduate at Upsala | 30 |
V. | Discovery of England | 43 |
VI. | Engineer and Mining Expert | 59 |
VII. | Physicist and Physiologist | 71 |
VIII. | Dissecting Rooms Abroad | 80 |
IX. | Anatomy of the Mind and Body | 96 |
X. | Anatomy of Soul | 112 |
XI. | Strange Dreams and "Temptations" | 124 |
XII. | The Great Vision | 136 |
XIII. | Swedenborg's Sanity | 156 |
XIV. | Psychical Research | 168 |
XV. | Swedenborg's Clairvoyance | 180 |
XVI. | Automatic Writing | 201 |
XVII. | "What is a Spirit?" | 217 |
XVIII. | "Arcana Celestia" | 230 |
XIX. | Space, Time and Memory | 250 |
XX. | Speech, Odors, Auras | 262 |
XXI. | Gardener, Statesman, Author | 271 |
XXII. | Interworld "Correspondence" | 285 |
XXIII. | Stories from Beyond | 302 |
XXIV. | Marriages in Heaven | 314 |
XXV. | Swedenborg in Daily Life | 325 |
XXVI. | Amsterdam Report | 336 |
XXVII. | Balm in England | 344 |
XXVIII. | Swedenborg's Religion | 352 |
XXIX. | A Happy End | 360 |
General Sources | 364 | |
Notes and References | 365 | |
Index | 383 |