![]() I started reading Swedenborg and just found it incredibly fascinating, for the depth and comprehensiveness of the way he approached topics and his thoroughness. I had joined a Unitarian Church at that point myself, along with my kids. So here I was, a fairly secular math/science guy, with an interest in psychology and a desire for some religious education for my children. She shared with me a work of Emanuel Swedenborg, the work Marriage Love. She had grown up in the Swedenborg Church, the New Church in Bryn Athyn, PA. We found we had a lot in common and we formed a very close friendship. It turns out she was also going through the process of divorce. Then, at this point and an old college acquaintance reached out and got in touch with me. I was in a difficult position, about 40 years old. I had to learn a lot, and I had to make a lot of adjustments. For anyone that’s gone through divorce, it’s a very devastating experience. I had the personal experience of the failure of my first marriage. And then there was also the way we were living, in the commercial world - the world around us was not coming together either. I had the feeling that the personal side of my life, what might be called the psychological or spiritual side of life, was really completely separate from the physical world of science and math, the secular aspects of life. Nothing was really coming together in my life or in the literature that I followed. But through this period of time, I discovered that things were kind of in pieces, both in terms of my life not feeling integrated, and then also in the science and math, and the study of all those big ideas. I had a job, actually several jobs in sequence. So, I left the academic field and started looking for work. However, I did have an epiphany at one point – I realized that I wasn’t going to really learn about the meaning of life by studying it in philosophy. In a sense, I was on a quest for that theory of everything that many people have talked about. I loved those really big ideas about what the world was about. I studied science and math in college, as well philosophy. In my 20s, I was fascinated with science and mathematics. This is a place where both science, the empirical side, and the spiritual side fit together. Through a life with its share of ups and downs and spirals, I’ve come to a point where I have a very different sense about the unifying character of life, the meaning of life, and how it all fits together. ![]() I’ve always had this interest in the idea of a theory of everything. ![]() One of the things I’ve written about is my personal journey, from my original fascination with the idea that math and science was the foundation of truth and reality. I’ve spent some time thinking about them, most recently on my blog, spiral inquiry dot org. I’m really happy to be a part of one of their projects. I’m a big fan of “ Off The Left Eye” and the work that the Swedenborg Foundation is doing.
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