July-December 2011
In This Issue
Editorial Remarks
As is customary in the July–December issue, this one opens with the
transactions of the 2011 Annual Meeting and the reports given there.
Several threads of thought are addressed in the articles in this issue:
the influence of Swedenborg on the development of a philosophy of
medicine, osteopathy, and the interactions and exchanges of ideas between
people important in that development in two articles by David B.
Fuller...
Transactions of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Annual Meeting
Publisher/Editor's Report
Treasurer's Report
Swedenborg's Paradigm of the Brain
David B. Fuller
Swedenborg wrote extensively on the brain and developed a unique
paradigm of brain-body interconnection as part of a greater anatomically-
based theory of soul-body interaction. He worked on and developed
these ideas of fluid and fascial connections throughout the years of his
anatomical studies, especially during preparation for his The Economy of
the Animal Kingdom...
Scientifics and Cognitions
Douglas M. Taylor
There must be a difference in meaning between these two terms,
otherwise why would they so often be used together in Swedenborg’s
theological writings? If they both meant the same thing, that would be a
redundancy.
Throughout this paper I will be using the term scientifics for what are
usually translated “memory-knowledges” or even “facts;” and cognitions
for what are usually translated “knowledges” or “Knowledges.”
Robert C. Fulford, D.O.
David B. Fuller
Robert C. Fulford was born on September 12, 1905, in Cincinnati, Ohio,
to a middle class family with a father who worked as an attorney and
a mother who worked as a school teacher. Young Robert was a “sickly
child,” so as he got older the family moved out to the country to improve
his health, relocating to a farm in Mt. Washington, Ohio, near Cincinnati.
Robert quickly learned the discipline of farm life, doing early morning
chores, caring for cows, horses, pigs, and chickens. This discipline would
serve him well the rest of his life...
Swedenborg, Paracelsus, and the Dilute Traces: A Lyrical and Critical Reflection on
Mysticism, Reform, and the Nature of Influence
James Wilson
The mystic treads a lonely path. Onlookers from one side sling the
profane at him, those watching from the other side sling the sacred.
The mystic is bespattered, caked in a mixture that permeates through all
his words and deeds. Followers and detractors are lured with equal ease
(or difficulty), attracted and disgusted by the claims of insight and privileged
knowledge. Both sets are passionate and problematic. As year is
plastered over year, and the grass grows green above the mystic’s grave,
support might increase, but so might the original message become distorted
or diluted. Meanwhile the detractors might fade away, train their
gaze on a different mark—shooting a moving target is more rewarding.
But perhaps, more worryingly for the devotees, these mockers and scoffers
may move on because they feel the foundations have been blown
asunder and leveling rubble is too much of a chore. Whatever it is that
transpires—adoration, neglect, degradation, respect—it is somehow irrelevant,
for the mystic is forever a man of the elsewhere and the subjunctive,
whose intended audience is never realized, but always in realization...
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