Date and location
October 25, 2025 9am – 5pm at the Bryn Athyn College, Bryn Athyn PA 19009
Videos
Opening, Dr. Reuben Bell
Opening the symposium and remembering Ron Horvath
The Burning Bush – Seeing the Sacred in Science and remembering Ron, Rev. Andrew Heilman
The signification of the bramble burning with fire seeing scientific truth full of Divine love and wisdom.
The Sacred in the Brain, Rev. Clark Echols
The Sacred in the Brain – Seeking an understanding of the capabilities of the brain that are not reasonably explained by a materialistic view, using curiosity and our shared experience of joy in this life.
A Dynamic Model of the Mind with References to Swedenborg and Peirce, Dr. Stephen Smith
A Dynamic Model of the Mind with References to Swedenborg and Peirce – Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), was a philosopher and polymath, best known as father of the signature American philosophy of Pragmatism, became familiar with the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg through Henry James, Sr.. Both Swedenborg and Peirce had extensive and advanced ideas about the human mind and consciousness, having many remarkably similar concepts, often with deep metaphysical resonance.
New and Useful Ideas in Physics and Psychology from Swedenborg, Ian Thompson, Ph.D.
New and Useful Ideas in Physics and Psychology from Swedenborg – Discovery of new correspondences to resolve long-standing puzzles in quantum physics and in the psychology of cognition and its development.
Goethe, Swedenborg, and the Scientific Worldview, Angela Rose, Ph.D.
Goethe’s Swedenborgian Worldview – Goethe’s approach to understanding nature bridges the sensory and the ideal through developing the capacity for perceiving the qualitative aspects of phenomena. Practicing Goethean observation can be thought of as an experiential integration of science and the sacred.
Finding a new Physics Course in the Four Laws Revealed in AE 1146, Rev. Andrew Heilman
Finding a new Physics Course in the Four Laws Revealed in Apocalypse Explained 1146 – A non-Newtonian approach which emphasizes endeavor, conservation, and equilibrium with the end in view of freedom.
Intelligent Default 2.0, Dr. Reuben Bell
This presentation reexamines the pre-Darwinian concepts of morphological archetypes and the inheritance of acquired characteristics as potentially valid, and attempts to see how they comport with the Heavenly Doctrines. It will help me point my thoughts to another book to follow my Intelligent Default of 2019. These ideas serve to better explain the most difficult question of where and how a preexisting spiritual use might be transmitted to a natural form and come into correspondence with it.
My Testimony to Theistic Science – from the Classroom, Maxwell Blair
My testimony to Theistic Science – from the Classroom greets students in a New Church Physics class with a sample lecture that is substantial, teachable, and relevant to a meaningful life. I can hope there is interest in building curriculum for a New Church Physical Science Major.
