Articles by Leon James

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Selected papers (also in Annotated List):

Affective & Cognitive Processes

• The Height and Breadth of Discourse
• Spiritual Psychobiology
• Theological and Psychological Aspects of Mental Health: The Marriage of Good and Truth
• The Awesome Power of  the Affective Organ
• Moral Intelligence and Evolution

Science and Revelation

• Two Perspectives on Swedenborg's Writings: Secular and Religious:
• The Reciprocal Relation Between Science and Revelation:  Part 1 and Part 2

Swedenborg's Revelation

• Spiritual Psychology Based on the Writings of Swedenborg
• Swedenborg's Description of How We Are Resuscitated After Death
• Can There Be a Scientific Proof that the Threefold Word is Divine
• Extracts from Swedenborg

Dualism

• Overcoming Objections to Swedenborg's Writings Through the Development of Scientific Dualism
• Swedenborg's Theory of Trisubstantivism as a Basis for the Science of Human Behavior
• Substantive Dualism -- The New Paradigm for Science
• The Dimensions of the Mind According to Emanuel Swedenborg
• A Man of the Field: Forming The New Church Mind in Today’s World (book)
• What is "Substantive Dualism" in Theistic Psychology?

Structure of the Mind

• Theistic Science and Theistic Psychology: Introduction and Overview
• The Genes of Consciousness
• Lecture Notes on Swedenborg's Religious Behaviorism: Vols 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
• Spiritual Psychology: Groundwork for our Science
• Theistic Psychology: The Science of Immortality (book)
• The Scientific Meaning of Genesis Chapter 22
• Anatomy of the Mind
• Preface and Diagram of the Foundations of Theistic Psychology
• Personality Theory in Theistic Psychology
• Ethical Issues in Theistic Psychology
• What's the difference between religion and  theistic psychology?
• Q&A on Theistic Psychology
• The Making of Theistic Psychology

Rationality

• Moses, Paul, and Swedenborg: Three Steps in Rational Spirituality
• How We Learn and Develop Rationality

The Internal Sense

• Out Of Egypt Have I Called My Son
• The Substitution Technique:  A Method for Extracting What the Writings Say About Themselves as the Word

Education

• New Church Education With Dualist Concepts
• The Fourteen Scientific Fallacies in Swedenborg's AC 5084: Implications for Science Education
• Selections from Student Reports On Douglas Taylor 'A Spirituality that Makes Sense'
• What Students Say About Personality and the Afterlife (1983)

Self Witnessing

• Religious Psychology or Theistic Psychology: A Guide to Spiritual Self-examination
• Spiritual Psychology: The Mental Technology of Self-Witnessing
• Spiritual Self-witnessing
• Diagnostic Test of Rational Spirituality

Marriage

• Sexuality: Love of the Sex vs. Love of One of the Sex
• The Doctrine of the Wife
• The Doctrine of Wife for Husbands
• Marriage Handbook for Husbands
• I'm Yours More and More: The Unity Model of Marriage
• The Wife's Role in Heavenly Marriages

Applications

• Heaven on Wheels: Principles of Christian Driving Psychology
• Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Theology

Community

• Spiritual Geography:  The Horizontal and Vertical Communities of our Dual Citizenship
• The Perizonius Thesis:  How Regeneration of the New Church Mind Affects the Grand Human
• Bryn Athyn: The City of Levites  in the New Canaan

Theology

• Theoretical Implications of God's Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence
• Human Freedom,  God's Omnipotence,  and the As-of Self
• Swedenborg's Argument of Why Miracles Are Not Allowed Today
• The Conjunction of the Lord with Men, by Phillip Odhner

Early Papers
Student Work

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