Personality And Afterlife Lifestyles: Getting Ready For Eternity (Theistic Psychology - Expanding The Narrative Series A Modern Synthesis Of The Ideas of Jung And Swedenborg)

Leon James has authored a series of books on what he calls theistic psychology. He describes his ideas as a new modern synthesis of the works of Carl Jung (1875-1961) and Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) . He has been Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii since 1971. Today he teaches all his psychology courses online. In the attempt to synthesize Jung and Swedenborg, Dr. James made the discovery that the "psychic world" of Jung and the "spiritual world" of Swedenborg refer to the same world. He then came to the conclusion that the psychic world and the spiritual world are the same world as the "mental world" in which we all live as human beings. There is only one mental world and all human beings are born into it. Since there is no physical time or space in the mental world it is called the mental world of eternity. You are in it now! A significant consequence of this identification between psychic world, spiritual world, and mental world, is to realize that we are born into the mental world of eternity with our immortal spiritual body, and therefore we are not really on earth, as it appears to be. The existential illusion that we are on earth, and that our mind is in the physical body comes from the fact that our natural mind in eternity receives all its sensory input by correspondence from the physical body on earth. Our immortal spiritual body with which we are born into the mental world of eternity is connected by correspondence to our temporary physical body on earth. This is the source of our belief that we are on earth. We are disconnected from the physical body through the two-day dying-resuscitation procedure. When this occurs we lose all contact with earth and we begin immortal life in the afterlife of mental eternity. Dr. James' current work involves showing the details of how God instructs us in Sacred Scripture regarding the psychology of regeneration, which is the systematic modification of our personality from the inherited personality that is based on self-love and self-interest, to a new acquired personality that is based on altruism and mutual love. Dr. James shows that Jung's idea of "symbolism" is the same as Swedenborg's idea of "correspondences". As well, Jung's idea of "archetype" is the same as Swedenborg's idea of "ruling love" that characterizes the personality of the people in each afterlife society. Further, the symbolism that we use in our dreams is the same symbolism that God uses in Sacred Scripture to instruct us about the psychology of regeneration. Without regeneration we cannot develop a personality that is able to live in a heavenly afterlife society. How we can be successful in regeneration is of deep interest to everyone. Dr. James presents the current Series on theistic psychology in 12 volumes.