Half a Century of Science in Psychology

Scientific Neologisms Coined by Leon James

For the Period 1958-2008

Including an Analysis of the Natural and Spiritual Properties of Neologisms

Dr. Leon James

University of Hawaii

2008 (version 26a)

With the collaboration, since 1976 of
Dr. Diane Nahl

Part I   ||   Part II   ||   Part III  ||   Master Neochart

This is Part III

Meta-Neos in Education and Training

Neologistic Discourse Analysis

The Divine Neo Fulfills Itself in the Reality of Conjoint Neocharts 

Conjoint Neos

Intimacy Neos

The Impossibility of Keeping Track of All Our Neos

Neos, Words, and Correspondences

Appendix

Scientific Activity and Research About Neologisms

Related Links to Leon James

Go to Part I

Preface General Introduction  ||  A Definition of Neologism  ||  Consider this little experiment  ||  Syntactic Levels of Neologisms  ||  Sentential Neos  ||  The Spiritual Poetry of Neologisms  || The Spiritual Dimension of Neologisms  ||  Where are neologisms located? Where do they come from?

Go to Part II

The Indeterminacy of Meaning || Bio-Geographical Taxonomy of Spiritual Neologisms || The Trinity of Neos || Discourse Thinking Neo Production Procedures || The Spiritual Ladder of Ascending and Descending Neologisms || Neo-Biology || The Un-reality of the Grand Monster || The Non-existence of Evil Neos || Neo-Communication Theory || Throwing Neos at One Another – The Spiritual Neo Ball Game || The Descent of the Divine Neo Through the Mental Layers || The Utility of Scientific Neologisms

 The Master Neochart  (overall)  ||  Neochart by Sub-Categories ||  My Favorite and Major Neos by Year

Part III starts here

Meta-Neos in Education and Training

Teaching children about all the neos they produce helps them to prepare the mental ground for the open up the human rational mind, and preparing it for its adult maturation. Meta-neo talk is the register of perception in self-witnessing. In other words, when we practice monitoring our thoughts and feelings (self-witnessing) we need to find an observation perch, or climb up to higher ground, in order to gain perspective on the mental scene or topic focus. This new higher ground of self-witnessing is mental anatomical layer 7Ce, discussed throughout this article. Layer 7 is called the rational mind (C=cognitive organ), and has an external component (e) which is based in materialistic and abstracted thinking that we do in layer 6C, anatomically just below. From conscious awareness in layer 7C we can observe the operations going on in our layer 6C, like from mental balcony or first floor window. We can see our thoughts with our rational mind. You have done this whenever you corrected yourself about thinking something. You realize that that’s wrong or incorrect, and you change your thinking as a result. Instead of going, you might decide to stay. Instead of getting mad at your boss, you decide to keep quiet about it. Etc. You are on your rational self-witnessing perch whenever you talk to yourself in a reasoned manner, for instance planning an encounter with someone, or judging an action as to whether it is good or bad, fair or unfair.

We operate our daily round from mental layer 8C, which is called the external natural layer, the materialistic self. Social and ecological adaption and survival require that we be practical in our thinking. Our moving around in physical space with a physical body that we must protect, requires our external natural mind to be materialistic. Layer 8C controls layer 9C below it, which gets to control the physical body (layer 12), for as long as it lasts. So there is a chain of downward anatomical mental command structure in place. At the top sits our external rational thinking (7Ce). This is the part that needs to be instructed in childhood and prepared for young adulthood when we fully become conscious in layer 7Ce. We know what we are thinking and think what we believe, doing so from our own reasoning as an independent human being. This mental state begins our adulthood.

Teaching children the mental architecture of neo production on the daily round of living makes a lot of sense. Meta-neo literacy in education should form part of the series of literacy skills we now take for granted that they ought to be universally taught to children – math literacy, reading literacy, writing literacy, information literacy, computer literacy, science literacy, civics literacy, driving literacy, and spiritual literacy. Of all these, neo-literacy and spiritual literacy are the slowest to be recognized and developed. Spiritual literacy is the ability to apply correspondences to all Sacred Scripture and to derive theistic psychology from it. This spiritual literacy operates in our mental anatomy layer 7Ci. This is the interior rational layer in the natural mind (“i” is for interior). The interior-rational portion of the natural mind is our highest level of conscious thinking that we are capable of in this world prior to our resuscitation in the spiritual mind. Layer 7Ci thinking and consciousness is purely rational from the world of rationality itself, which is the Grand Human in the mental world of eternity into which we are born with a spiritual body, and where we awaken upon the separation from the physical body through the dying process. Our conscious understanding of rational meaning is pure in mental anatomical layer 7Ci (the interior rational). This is because its knowledge and concepts are sourced in layer 6, 5, and 4, which are the spiritual layers in which we operate after our resuscitation.

Layer 7Ce (external materialistic thinking) does not fully accept the dualism, two worlds, eternity, Heaven and Hell, God, Sacred Scripture. Many people don’t think about these things, especially those who are not fond of rational thinking as a permanent way of being. Many other people accept these things on persuasive teachings or blind faith, following the notion that spiritual mysteries cannot be penetrated by the human rational mind, hence it’s useless to try. But this is a materialistic thinking and consciousness of reality. It is based on the idea that what the physical senses bring us can be the basis for figuring out reality. This monism in the external rational mind (7Ce) restricts our humanity to the highest animal level on the planet.

Our true humanity begins with the pure rational thinking in layer 7Ci which takes its information not from the appearances of the natural world, but from the realities of the spiritual world of eternity accessible through the correspondential meaning of all Sacred Scripture. Spiritual literacy is the stairway to heaven. Meta-neo instruction prepares the ground for all of layer 7, external and internal, cognitive and affective, and sensorimotor.

Affective neos are feelings and intentions attracted to our consciousness by means of the offer for suitability for conjunction. This is the called the spiritual marriage of the affective with the cognitive. Every operation of our affective organ (“the will”) is experienced in consciousness as a feeling and as an intention. It is the source of all motivation in daily life, and in our immortal eternity. A feeling or an intention means a love. All feelings are the result of loves. All intentions are the result of the affections of love that long to be consummated by conjunction. Love is consummated by conjoining, as in a marriage, with a suitable thought or idea or plan or principle. To put it in a way that children might think of it, we make a wish and it comes true. The wish is a love conjoined to an idea, which is the hope that might come to pass even if it is only wish. It is in this spiritual union between love and hop that the child now lives and feels enthusiasm and energy and motivation to do this or that, which might be merely to wait in patience.

The spiritual union of the affective with the cognitive can be encouraged in affective education. Consider: “What do I need to think of, in order to feel better?” This is the principle that one can feel better by thinking different thoughts. Conversely, if one thinks of critical or negative or cruel thoughts in the cognitive operations, the only conjunction that takes place is with scary feelings, destructive loves, evil intentions, hateful wishes. This union is called the infernal marriage or concubinage.

It is clear then that thoughts attract feelings and moods that correspond to the thoughts and are compatible with them. The instruction of affective neos involves learning the details of the heavenly and hellish marriage in our mind, and in the mind of every human being. This is what it means to be a human being. This is how human beings function as organic units of eternity and substance.

Affective neo education is not only by verbal neologisms involving thoughts and reasoning. It is also involves the sensorimotor domain. All human senses can be used to perform expressions of harmony, rhythm, and pattern, and each of these sensorimotor neos attract an affective partner. The love is consummated when the physical expression is an offspring, as it were, of the spiritual marriage between love and understanding, between longing and fulfilling performance or act.

In this way morality and civics become the practice ground and avenue for the affective loves, intentions, and satisfactions from consummation. In other words, to feel the intensity and sincerity of patriotism in our heart, we not only recite in our cognitive mind the meanings and symbols of patriotism, but we also act out and perform the appropriate sensorimotor and physical movements, gestures, and recitations. These outward acts are spiritual offspring of the spiritual marriage between the affective and the cognitive operations in our mind. The Swedenborg Reports indicate with emphasis that “nothing is more important” in life than to know how the will and the understanding conjoin. This is the key to reformation of character and regeneration, for without these, we are drawn into the source of our selfish and hurtful loves, which is the Grand Monster of hell eternity.

The goal of affective neo instruction is to enable emotionally intelligent neo productions. Children will be able to feel the motivation for being kind, compassionate, and civil. They will consummate their love of showing kindnesses and acting peacefully. They will be empowered to experience the satisfactions of being public spirited, altruistic, and orderly. Emotionally unintelligent neos will gradually lose their value and attractiveness.

Neologistic Discourse Analysis

Consider a case in point, this paragraph that appears in the Preface:

/Neologistic records/, graphs, and /charts of a group or community/, /make visible the topic focus/ of its people. It /is their very consciousness/ -- /their preoccupations, their interests, their values/, their desires. Neolgistic records create a /spiritual geography/ of our /vertical community/ depicting thought and meaning/, idea and truth. No doubt a “Human Atlas of Neologisms” may eventually be derived from world-wide /neologistic databases/, which can show the /mental unity of the human race/, and possibly, the /directionality of its spiritual destiny/.

 There are different ways of systematically parsing text for its neologisms. Here I have followed the rule of parsing minimally, that is, including the minimum number of words in an expression, as we go through the paragraph cumulatively from beginning to end, and counting each neo only once (even if used again). I have indicated the parsings above with a slash (/) where a neo begins and ends. Note however that any of these neos may appear multiple times in an article or adjacent paragraphs. For the article count they should be counted only once. In My Neochart I have counted a neo only once in my career regardless of how often I have used it in various articles and at various times.

Using the minimal cumulative parsing technique on the paragraph under analysis, we obtain 12 neos. The paragraph length is 82 words so that the neo/word ratio is 82/12 or 7 (rounded off). A neo/word ratio of 7 in scientific text indicates that it is fairly complex in conceptual structure, which raises the cognitive load of “following the meaning” or sticking with the topic focus of the writer. I have seen complaints by some authors in the literature on neologisms that some of them are not necessary and merely increase cognitive load on the reader for the mere sake of vanity of the writer. Of course we want to avoid producing unnecessary neos in text whose purpose is to communicate new scientific content and information. We also want to avoid using an old expression for a new perception, since this would vitiate the writer’s discovery and interfere with the diffusion of this previously unknown idea, concept, focus, or perception. So we must reach a practical and reasonable balance. Hopefully I will be seen as striving for that balance in my writings.

Now let us take another look at the parsing issue and what’s involved in the implications. The first two neos in the paragraph when taken together, express a more complex concept than the two separately:

(1) /Neologistic records/ (2) /charts of a group or community/

/Neologistic records, graphs, and charts of a group or community/

 The second, longer neo is the result of combining two sub-neos and including the in-between words as part of the longer new neo. Note the collection of separate sub-neos contained semantically within the longer neo:

Neologistic records || Neologistic graphs || Neologistic charts

And then:

Neologistic records of a group || Neologistic graphs of a group || Neologistic charts of a group

And also:

Neologistic records of a community || Neologistic graphs of a community || Neologistic charts of a community

And finally:

Neologistic records, graphs, and charts of a group or community

This final neo is the full idea or description that I intended to convey. It is not the same as “Neologistic records of a community” even though this shorter neo contains within itself all the sub-neos. “Records” contains graphs and charts, while “community” contains group. I can see that some writers might prefer “Neologistic records of a community” to “Neologistic records, graphs, and charts of a group or community.” This depends on the specific intention the writer wants to communicate, which depends on the audience, the social setting, and the purpose of writing it. This is something that needs to be discussed further.

More research needs to be done to understand how we decide whether our new construction is a genuine neo or not. For instance, the expression “final neo” in the previous paragraph shows a google occurrence of 5, 500. But inspection of the documents listed indicates that none can be found that match the meaning of “final neo” given here, namely, the last neologism listed in as series of neologisms. So it is clear that “final neo” is a neo. But there are less clear cases as in my neo “spiritual psychology” which has a yahoo occurrence of 300,000. Again, in so far that I can briefly go through hundreds of documents, I have never been able to find any that relates to spiritual psychology based and defined by the Swedenborg Reports. The expression “spiritual psychology” was not in use back in 1984 among Swedenborg scholars and readers. So when I produced the expression, it was a neo. Here is another example. I coined the expression “semantic satiation” in 1958 and in 2008 it has a google occurrence count of 2,000. Only a small proportion of these documents reference my original work. Most of the users may be unaware of where the neo came from. Neo-authentication research may be able to disentangle these information diffusion procedures in science and literature.

A more difficult situation presents itself when the occurrences are few and seem to match the use I was making of it. For instance, the expression “google occurrence” has a yahoo count of 31. They seem to be used in the sense I used it when writing the above paragraph. Do I put it on my neochart then? I would say yes because I did not know the existence of this usage until I searched for it, after I constructed it and reread it, noticing it there. This answer may be practical for now, but I think that if neocharting becomes a community practice then we will need more reliable ways than introspection and memory. The same paragraph also shows my neo “google occurrence count,” which still has a zero occurrence in 2008. This is collateral evidence that “google occurrence” and “google occurrence count” are produced as genuine neos.

Consider one of the neos in the next paragraph: “intellectual, biographical, commercial, and spiritual uses of neos.” I entered this entire expression in my neochart. It contains eight words, or six if you count content words only. There are sub-neos in it like /intellectual, biographical, commercial/, /biographical, commercial, and spiritual/, /spiritual uses of neos/, /commercial, and spiritual uses of neos/ and so on, all of which have zero occurrence. But I wanted to preserve the entire expression as one complex concept. The sequence /intellectual, biographical, commercial, and spiritual/, semantically represents a unit with four aspects that make neos useful in revealing a person’s activity in a community. I have tried to maintain the conceptual units in the entries in my neochart. This explains why many entries are longer than the minimal sub-neos they may contain. 

Consider the expression “scientific specifics.” It came to just a few minutes ago as I was thinking about the general principle that such as is the quality of love, such is the understanding (Swedenborg). I was then thinking that we can comprehend the meaning of this general principle, but what is needed is the knowledge of the specifics, the scientific specifics. I remember searching my mind for a suitable expression, and “scientific specifics” came into my awareness. From my perspective it is a neologism that I coined since I do not know such an expression and don’t recall reading it anywhere. So I googled it and its occurrence is 961. You would expect the occurrence to be much higher, perhaps in the hundred thousand range, or more, given that “scientific” has a google count of 228 million, and “specifics” occurs in 431 million documents on the Web. Yet “scientific specifics” occurs in less than one thousand documents among the hundreds of billions.

The expression “scientific specifics” refers to the specifics of “scientific explanations” which occurs in 222 million documents. So why only one thousand for “scientific specifics”? At this point probably no one knows the answer. But the answer is available to us in scientific revelations. Further research on the correspondential sense of all Sacred Scripture will bring us the knowledge for the scientific specifics of neo construction in the human mind. The one thousand or so current occurrences for “scientific specifics” may all be neo constructions, or some may be while others are diffusions and borrowings in the way this process normally goes forth.

It is difficult to discuss neologisms without creating meta-neos, which are neologisms about neologisms. Once you start discussing the characteristics and properties of neologisms, you have to construct syntactic variants such as the adjective “neologistic” and the adverb “neologistically” (which I find has a yahoo occurrence of 500). This is not neo mania, nor neo show off. Meta-neos are necessary communicative devices that aid the reader in pin pointing the semantic shape and perceptual contours of the writer’s topic focus to be communicated. This all assumes of course that the information is useful to a reader. I believe it is, and I discuss the utility of neocharts and neo-analysis in this document. All this will become more convincing to more people as the intellectual, biographical, commercial, and spiritual uses of neos become known through the work of future contributors to this topic.

This morning I got this email from my son Rex who was looking over my neochart for the first time:

cool.  i was thinking about how to write a program that automatically finds neologisms

in a document (by leveraging google).  the problem is, a neologism has to be not just

unique, but also meaningful, which means that an automatic parser that just parses all

possible phrases of adjacent words would come up with a lot of false positives.

This technical linguistic issue deserves attention by linguists. No doubt the Google people have the resources to come up with a workable answer. Do they not see the tremendous commercial opportunity in neocharts? Perhaps it would help the Yahoo people and the Microsoft people, if I specified some of the practical and useful values of a search engine for neocharts.

Companies, institutions, organizations, agencies, and departments can monitor their in-house neologistic productivity in both quantity and quality. What on earth for? That kind of reaction is part of our social communicative practices regarding topics. When I talk about neocharts people immediately treat it as non-serious topic. And no doubt throughout this article many readers will wonder whether I speak tongue in cheek about ideas such as neocharts, neocards, neo widgets, neocalendars, neo biographies, annual neo production, spiritual neos, Divine Neos, and so on. Let me assure those readers that I am being serious about each one of the several hundred neos I introduce in this article. The neo-inventiveness and neo-ranking of individuals, organizations, countries, books, email and texting messages, is a meaningful index of the productivity potential of the people and plans involved.

Plans that have a high neo-occurrence value are more likely to succeed – that is my hypothesis. I hope research will confirm it in the near future. Company and agency neocharts are an empirical description of the mental infosphere it manages as copyright ownership. Research needs to show the differential functions of affective neocharts, cognitive neocharts, and sensorimotor neocharts. The neochart infosphere relates to mental anatomy and, accordingly, needs to be described as an ennead matrix of nine zones of intersection.

This ennead matrix indicates the quality and level of neos. The construction of corporeal neos occurs at the lowest level (9C) of cognitive reasoning that is closely bound to particular or singular events, hence is sensory bound, data limited, subject to illusory appearances of the senses. Constructing materialistic neos or sensual neos (zone 8C) requires a more abstract level of thinking that can see generals from particulars. Data are merely used to objectify an abstract relation or perception. It is the relation that is in focus and that matters. The relationships between elements of data or observation are abstract neos that operate above and prior to concrete neos. With level 7C thinking one can penetrate and perceive the causes of why generals and their particulars occur together in phenomenal observation. This is the rational level of scientific thinking. It sees for instance that we operate in a dual universe: the physical and natural world in time-space, and the mental and spiritual world in eternity. Level 7C neos are dualist neos sourced in the correspondential sense of Divine Speech as Sacred Scripture. This is the beginning of what is truly and purely human thinking, thus rational scientific thinking informed by Sacred Scripture.

Level 7C neos fall in two categories, external (7Ce) and interior (7Ci). These are two radically different types of rational operations, one natural-rational, the other spiritual-rational. The external natural-rational cognitive operations (zone 7Ce) are sourced in materialistic neos (8C) while on the other hand, the interior spiritual-rational cognitive operations (zone 7Ci) are sourced in Divine Neos coming through our spiritual mental layers (4, 5, 6). From the perspective of google-yahoo-microsoft people, the corporeal and materialistic neos (9C, 8C) have the most commercial significance at this point in time and historical development. Let us recall that we are now in the stone age of technology in comparison to what will be available to our great grand children. Eventually commercial use of spiritual-rational neos (zone 7Ci) will usher in a new post-Web era that will offer a heavenly Internet, which is an Internet that corresponds to the good and truth of the spiritual-celestial zones of the human mind. That will be the beginning of the true human neos whose higher order quality will include collective quasi-omniscience. There will then exist nothing that is beyond human knowledge, understanding, and control.

I can foresee in the distant future a synergistic bio-technology that provides ways of usefully representing the operations of the sensorimotor and cognitive organs. This would allow real time monitoring of neo construction procedures. Bionic interfaces may have the capability of managing these procedures, whenever the affective organ allows it. Thought-control and thought-management could not occur against the free will of the individual’s affective operations of love, purpose, and intention. We know from Sacred Scripture that God manages all procedures, including neo construction procedures in our cognitive organ. Our free will to choose in our own mind anything according to our understanding, is a human right guaranteed by God and maintained forever by God’s omnipotence. We know from this that human free will, which is located in the affective organ operations, cannot be controlled.

Teaching people skills in the construction of affective neologisms has its most significant effects in childhood when layer 8C is being built up for full fledged operation. The teaching of heavenly love neos is sorely needed everywhere you go. Hate neos abound in all our major socialization networks – song lyrics, TV and DVDs, novels, the Internet. Our face-to-face social networking procedures involve bullying, teasing, sarcasm, dispassionate gawking at the pain and terror of others. At the top of our affective love hierarchy sits a selfish despot whose name is Me and Only Me. The Swedenborg Reports distinguish between heavenly and evil neos, as you might expect since this is God’s principal, central, and essential information we need to have to effect a spiritual personality makeover (called “regeneration”). On the job training procedures need to deal with neo construction practices.

By inspecting the chart from bottom up (9, 8, 7) you are looking at the ascending order of human consciousness prior to resuscitation (about 30 hours after the dying process). As infants our consciousness of reality and the world is spent in layer 9 of the mental world of eternity. This is the layer closest to the physical body (layer 12) and its sensory-motor productions. In childhood we spend our consciousness in layer 8 of the mental world. Children are sense oriented but they perform abstraction procedures on what they observe through the senses. Children are untrained engineers. What is lacking is rationality, for without this there is no science, because no rational explanation. This is acquired in adolescence when we spend our consciousness in layer 7e. This is the external rational layer, closes to the materialistic abstractions of layer 8. Our adolescent mind tends towards the ideal which is perceived in the growing rational neos in one’s reflections. This idealized rationality is external because it does not know about God and Sacred Scripture except externally as teachings and readings.

Then our consciousness suddenly takes to an inversion. The adolescent becomes a young adult. Not yet a mature adult, but an adult, and past adolescence. This inversion is marked on the chart as layer 7i, the interior rational layer. The reason it is called interior is that anatomically it is closest to the spiritual mind (layers 6, 5, 4) which remains unconscious until after resuscitation. The spiritual mind is unavailable to our consciousness prior to resuscitation. In our daily awareness we can know about the spiritual layers of our mind, but we cannot sense them, observe them, or even describe them. All the information about our spiritual mind must therefore come from Sacred Scripture where we have access to the full series of Divine Neos.

Now here is an amazing and frustrating phenomenon or reality that I observed.

The meanings and relations we see, understand, perceive at each layer of our mental anatomy are not transferable to a lower layer. In layer 7Ci (interior rational cognitive operations), we can perceive, observe, and understand rational proof. This rational proof or demonstration is sourced in the interior rational series of correspondences we can access in Sacred Scripture. Theistic psychology is possible because of this availability in layer 7Ci. Now what happens when we describe the rational proof that is available to our consciousness in layer 7Ci? We can see and perceive the meaning and the proof in the description, and others can also see it when they are accessing that layer in their mind. But when people look at this description of the rational proof and meaning in their layer 8C, they see nothing of the proof and the meaning. Efforts to make it comprehensible to them in that layer of thinking is fruitless and frequently results in reactions of derision, denial, and even hostility. One instance of this antipathy between rational proof (layer 7Ci) vs. empirical proof (layer 8C), is the negative bias science that excludes God and Sacred Scripture from science, vs. the positive bias science that includes God and Sacred Scripture, as in theistic psychology and theistic science.

Mental layer 7Ci gives us access to the full series of neos in Sacred Scripture. In a prior Section the following was presented.

Here is the entire series of descending consciousness of Divine Truth in Sacred Scripture:

Layer 4: celestial-rational neologisms

Layer 5: spiritual-rational neologisms

Layer 6: spiritual-natural neologisms

Layer 7i: interior-natural neologisms

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Layer 7e: external-rational neologisms

Layer 8: external-natural neologisms

Layer 9: corporeal-natural neologisms

Layer 7i is here designated as “interior-natural” while we are using here the expression “interior rational.” These differences in name reflect different features of the anatomical details involved in the mental series. The highest consciousness that materialistic science can give us is layer 7e thinking. Einstein presents a good example. Today (May 13, 2008) a news story announces that one of Einstein’s letters is being sold at an auction in London. In that letter Einstein declares that God and Sacred Scripture are “childish” legends. Here you can see the absolute inability of a man who is ranked among the most intelligent in the history of scientists, and especially in modern science. When Einstein operates in level 7Ce, giving elegant mathematical explications of relativity and time, he is restricted entirely to facts and information that come from layer 8 and 9 in his mind. Every rational idea or proof that he can provide is restricted to this external rational operation. It is called “external” because it has no access to the interior, as the interior rational does. “Interior” is also known as “spiritual” in the Swedenborg Reports.

But the instant that Einstein would adopt the positive bias science and say to himself that God and Sacred Scripture are possible, he enters layer 7Ci thinking that sees rational proof in Sacred Scripture in endless different ways. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote his science books in the language and thinking of 7Ci, in contrast to Newton who wrote from layer 7Ce thinking.

The Divine Neo Fulfills Itself in the Reality of Conjoint Neocharts

Neo production turns out to be the central goal of our temporary life connected to earth, as well as that of our permanent afterlife of immortality. I didn’t know this as a conscious principle until I started working on this project this year (2008). The facts had been available to me for the past twenty-seven years, ever since I’ve been pouring all over the 27 volumes of the Swedenborg Reports (Mmm, 27/27 – interesting correlation to be investigated). How do these facts lead to the conclusion that neo production is our current and permanent “central goal” in living? Let us put them together in a rational account.

Reality exists in two worlds: the spiritual world of mental eternity, and the natural world of time-space. The world of mental eternity originates from the Spiritual Sun, while the natural world originates in the physical suns or star galaxies. The two realities are deterministically connected to each other, event by event, point by point, from general functions to particular individual qualities. This connection is called the Law of Correspondences and has been revealed Swedenborg Reports for the first time in the history of science. Every event or quality at all levels of possible detail, that exists in the natural world at any time or place, is called an effect of correspondence. And, every event or quality at all levels of possible detail that exists in the mental world of eternity (or “spiritual world”), is called a cause of correspondence.

For the first time in scientific history, the Swedenborg Reports (last volume published in 1771) empirically demonstrate that the literal sense of Sacred Scripture is also a natural effect produced by a spiritual cause. All things in the physical world are produced by correspondences, hence Divine Speech or Dictation must also appear in the physical world by means of correspondences. This is the law that applies to anything that appears in physical reality in the natural world. Swedenborg’s unique dual consciousness in both worlds (from age 57 to 84), allowed him to run this simple but impressive experiment, on a repeated and regular basis for 27 (or 29) years. In his natural consciousness and physical body he was reading a certain verse in his familiar Swedish or Latin Bible. Simultaneously, in his spiritual consciousness and spiritual body he was reading that same verse, and observing the difference. From this dual observation platform he was able to take copious daily notes detailing the difference between the natural sense and the spiritual sense of every verse and every word in the Old and New Testaments.

He was an expert at making indices and laying out text in numbered paragraphs that are cross-referenced to each other. He produced 6 volumes of analyses just for one Book in the New Testament called The Apocalypse or Book of Revelation. It took him 12 volumes to give the word by word analysis of the first two Books of the Old Testament called Genesis and Exodus. Each word of Divine Speech is produced by correspondence in a natural language. First is the reality of the Divine Spiritual Neo produced by God’s Mind in the Divine Mental World. This is called Divine Truth or Divine Speech, and also “the Word of God.” Note that Divine Speech or Truth does not have a creation history. It is eternal and permanent. You can’t point to anything and say this precedes Divine Speech or Divine Truth. Everything of creation has a beginning, by definition. You can point to God’s Mind, which is Divine Love and Truth, and correctly say that it precedes creation and all things in it.

The Divine Affective Neo called Divine Love is the uncreated origin or source that produces and propels the Spiritual Sun into creation. Creation is the work of the Spiritual Sun. This living eternal entity is Divine, and is God as He is Outside of Himself and in Creation.

The Spiritual Sun is the infinite changeless God-as-He-Is-in-Himself, presented in a visible form outside of how He-Is-in-Himself. This outside of how He-Is-in-Himself, is the beginning point of created reality. Everything created is produced by this one and only, and eternal living Spiritual Sun.

The Spiritual Sun is infinite but it appears as finite when viewed visually. Swedenborg was able to see the Spiritual Sun whenever he was conscious in mental layer 4 called the Third Heaven. Every person he met in that layer assured him that they too can see it, and marvel at it. They are conscious of the influx that comes from the Spiritual Sun from within their mental organs, as well as from without their sensory organs of sight and touch. They feel the spiritual heat entering into their affective organ, and they see the spiritual light in their cognitive organ as new understanding, new meaning, or new consciousness. Spiritual heat and light flowing out of the Spiritual Sun creates a rational ether or mental space around itself.

The spiritual heat creates a mental sphere of love with its affections and feelings, while the spiritual light creates a mental sphere of truth with its thoughts and rational understandings. This is the second sphere in creation, and is the mental zone of eternity that is closest to Divine Love and Truth streaming out of the infinite Spiritual Sun. The third mental sphere around the Spiritual Sun is the layer in mental eternity that produces the individual unique souls of every human being.

With layer 4 of the mental world of eternity we reach the first existence of human conscious awareness as an individual person. This is the mental state he calls the Third Heaven (or highest of the three heavens). It is the highest existence and reality for the human race. God’s infinite Love in Himself desires to make other minds happy from His Mind. Divine Love Neos are constructed out of such desire to share with others outside of self. God desires to make human beings happy and joyful from birth to endless eternity, and wills through His infinite Wisdom or Truth, to multiply and diversify endlessly these varieties of joys and intelligences that can live in human consciousness. The mental world of eternity is the construction zone where these endless joys and understandings can come into the living reality of every created soul. This is the plan that is revealed in eternal and universal Divine Speech as it is laid down in the natural-rational correspondences of the Swedenborg Reports.

When I tried to apply the analysis of correspondences to Sacred Scripture other than the Old and New Testaments, I discovered that the content of all Sacred Scripture is united and forms the natural representative of universal spiritual reality contained in Divine Speech. In other words, Divine Speech or Divine Truth is a permanent activity of the Spiritual Sun. Divine Speech flows out of the Spiritual Sun into the mental world of eternity that it forms around itself for the organic reception of good and truth (or love and wisdom). Spiritual heat is a living organic substance of God called Divine Love. We need to think about love as a substance from the Spiritual Sun, and spiritual light as a substance also of the Spiritual Sun.

These two living eternal uncreated Divine substances in God flow out of God into creation through the Spiritual Sun, which appears there, visible to human consciousness. This layer of human consciousness is called the celestial-rational mind. Swedenborg inspected the Sacred Scripture Book that is read by people who dwell in that mental layer in eternity. He described the kind of thinking that takes place through celestial-rational correspondences of Divine Speech. Every element of thinking exists in a married state to a specific element of love. Every thought is produced by a love. The thought is a “consort” to the love and together, they make a unique combination or existential neologism. Every neo in human consciousness is produced by this marriage between some love we have with some thought that it can go with. Thoughts are constructed in the cognitive organ out of the substances of spiritual light. Loves and their affections and feelings, are constructed in the affective organ out of the substances of spiritual heat.

In this way the organic spiritual marriage of love and understanding in every person, actualizes by correspondence the organic Divine marriage in God, which is the unity into one between His Divine Love or Good and His Divine Wisdom or Truth. This actualization of correspondences in the human mind fulfills God’s Love and strivings in creation as He is Outside of Himself. Note that since all things are produced by the substances of the Spiritual Sun, all things contain these substances. There is no way of getting rid of the center of something. You can see this logical principle operating with physical objects. You can’t get rid of what makes its center, namely the space and whirling particles that were detached from a sun in the initial phases of planetary evolution. A piece of that original star is at the center of every object on the planet. These connections are actually representatives or models (or effects) produced by correspondences of Divine Speech or Truth as it exteriorizes from the Spiritual Sun outward in a circle and across the various mental layers of eternity.

There is only one physical space, so the space at the center of each atom is the same space in which the galaxies are. These relations are actually representatives (effects) produced by the Spiritual Sun as its heat and light stream out across the various mental layers of the world of eternity. The Spiritual Sun is at the center of each thing or quality that is produced in the mental world eternity. The substances of spiritual heat (or Divine Love) and spiritual light (or Divine Light) produce each mental state organically. First they produce the three mental organs – affective organ (or the “will”), cognitive organ (or the “understanding”), and sensorimotor organ (or “spiritual body”). These three organs form a unitary system or mind, and this is reproduced in six distinct but interacting layers.

Summary of the Organic Human Mind or Mental World of Eternity

When our consciousness or understanding operates at layer 4, we are thinking and reasoning with celestial-rational correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth.

When our consciousness or understanding operates at layer 5, we are thinking and reasoning with spiritual-rational correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth.

When our consciousness or understanding operates at layer 6, we are thinking and reasoning with spiritual-natural correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth.

When our consciousness or understanding operates at layer 7i, we are thinking and reasoning with interior-natural (or exterior spiritual and celestial) correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth (that is, according to rationality based on spiritual and celestial meanings (layers 6, 5, 4) contained within Sacred Scripture).

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When our consciousness or understanding operates at layer 7e, we are thinking and reasoning with exterior-rational correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth (that is, according to rationality based on abstractions from sensuous appearances and meanings contained within Sacred Scripture).

When our consciousness or understanding operates at layer 8, we are thinking and reasoning with exterior-natural correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth (that is, according to abstractions from sensuous appearances and meanings contained within Sacred Scripture).

When our consciousness or understanding operates at layer 9, we are thinking and reasoning with corporeal-natural correspondences or meanings of Divine Speech or Truth (that is, according to mere sensuous appearances and meanings contained within Sacred Scripture).

These 6 organic mental layers reflect the geographic zones of the mental world through which Swedenborg traveled. To reflect this astonishing fact, I like to use this formula in theistic psychology:

spiritual geography = mental anatomy

In other words, the spiritual world of eternity and afterlife is nothing else than the mental world we are familiar with already. We are not conscious in layers 6, 5, 4 called the “spiritual mind” until after our resuscitation. Swedenborg observed many people in the process of being resuscitated (about 30 hours after death). In the initial mental states we are still conscious in the natural mind (layers 9, 8, 7) as we gain full consciousness in the spiritual mind. If the spiritual mind has not been opened by regeneration, then there is an attempt to provide the opportunity for character reformation to each individual. Swedenborg observed that each person chooses according to the ruling love they have acquired prior to resuscitation. If the ruling love is unregenerate, the spiritual layers cannot be operationalized for their consciousness. That ruling love prevents it because the spiritual mind is in the order of Divine Speech or “heaven”, while the unregenerate ruling love is always in the opposite order called “hell.” The ruling love selects a level of consciousness that is suitable to itself, and shuts out all other levels of understanding and truth.

Swedenborg regularly for years spoke to people who live in one of the numerous spiritual societies of hell, globally called The Grand Monster in the mental world of eternity. He also spoke regularly to people who live in one of the numerous spiritual societies of heaven, globally called The Grand Human in the mental world of eternity. Since there is only one mental world of eternity, every human being is in that one world. Individual mental life is unique because each person’s organic soul and spirit (layer 2 and 3) is created unique at birth. From birth onward to endless immortality, every person’s mental organs receive the influx of Divine spiritual heat and light in a unique way, engendering a unique consciousness, and consequently a unique life, a unique relationship to God.

From all this you can see more rationally how it is that neo- production is the central goal of existence and of the creation of the universe. A neo (S) is born from the union between our love (A) and our understanding (C).

Affective (A) operations conjoin with cognitive operations (C) to produce a neo baby (S). The Neochart is an autobiographical record of this marriage in the mind of an individual over the course of intellectual development. Conjoint Neocharts form a record of the life of a conjoint self, which is the united mind of a conjugial couple.

The Divine Neo fulfills itself in the reality of conjoint neocharts.

Conjoint Neos

In the Swedenborg Reports God is revealing one of the most fundamental of all philosophical puzzles, namely, the rational and complete answer to the question: “What is the purpose of the universe and human life in it?”

The beginning purpose and the end purpose of all creation is conjugial love.

Creation and the universe exist for the purpose of fostering this love between a husband and a wife.

All other purposes in the running of the universe are subordinated to this one purpose.

Conjugial Love (CL) between a husband and wife (called “the celestial marriage”) corresponds to the conjunction of Divine Love and Divine Truth in God (called the "Divine Marriage"). In between these two is “the spiritual marriage” which is the conjunction of our affective and cognitive organs (“will and understanding). Regeneration brings about the spiritual marriage within each of us. After resuscitation we exist in the celestial marriage in some society of the Grand Human.

The spiritual marriage is something each of us must focus on. It is brought about and managed by the Divine Psychologist (“Holy Spirit” or “the Lord” or “God”). Regardless of people’s beliefs and religions it is the Divine Psychologist who manages this process in the mind of every human being past, present, and future, from birth to endless eternity. This is true of us here before resuscitation, it is true when we live our existence in heavenly consciousness after resuscitation, and it is true when we are in the Grand Monster. God manages every human being’s mental world and organic mental operations through the laws of correspondences, which God reveals in the Swedenborg Reports.

Natural marriages on earth are designed by God to foster the psychological growth of our inborn conjugial character.

God manages couples in natural marriages here on earth by providing for them intermediate steps of deepening the relationship from relatively external to internal and inmost.

The inmost phase in a natural marriage is practiced when we adapt our behavior to fit the unity model.

The intermediate phase in a natural marriage is practiced when we adapt our behavior to fit the equity model.

The beginning phase in a natural marriage is practiced when we adapt our behavior to fit the male dominance model.

The male dominance model is in layer 9 of the mental world of eternity (natural-corporeal mind).

The equity model is in layer 8 of the mental world of eternity (natural-materialistic mind).

The unity model is in layer 7 of the mental world of eternity (natural-rational mind).

In the male dominance model of behaving in marriage (layer 9), the couple practices sensorimotor intimacy without cognitive and affective intimacy within it.

In the equity model of behaving in marriage (layer 8), the couple practices sensorimotor intimacy within which is cognitive intimacy, but without affective intimacy.

In the unity model of behaving in marriage (layer 7), the couple practices sensorimotor intimacy, within which is cognitive intimacy, within which is affective intimacy.

Husbands who commit themselves to the unity model can search the Swedenborg Reports for information on how to behave and how to think within this model. I have done this for many years and have formulated a series of mental and interactional procedures that I collectively call The Doctrine of the Wife (DoW).

The principal love in the unity model is to maintain intimacy at all three levels – sensorimotor, cognitive, affective. Events that break mental intimacy need to be studied by the husband, understood, and avoided on a daily and hourly basis. Here are such anti-unity events that I have observed in my life and the lives of other couples, both real and in the media. The list should be very familiar to all readers:

1. Husband disagrees with his wife (breaks trust she has in him to protect her and cherish her)

2. She asks him to do something and he ignores her request (creates stress in her life, breaks her peace)

3. She wants to keep talking about it, he refuses, obfuscates, or goes away (makes her feel like she is alone, abandoned, rejected)

4. She argues with him to stop seeing certain friends, but he refuses, picks a fight each time (makes her feel discouraged, like she is unloved and failing)

5. When he is in a certain mood he criticizes her, calls her names, acts like he is mad (makes her feel beaten up, abandoned, used, discouraged)

6. He tries to make her feel guilty for not acting like she wants to have sex with him when he wants to (makes her feel like a victim of sexual blackmail and date rape)

7. He talks about her behind her back in a critical or disrespectful way to his mother, children, friends, or strangers (makes her feel like dying when she finds out about it, something inside her goes cold towards him)

8. He feels comfortable letting her be stuck with stress and inconveniences in domestic tasks and situations, without really coming to her rescue, giving her relief by doing things with her and for her, in the way she wants things to be done (doing this for her makes her feel sexy towards him and returns to her the freedom to be a feminine woman)

There are all sorts of interactional neos and transactional neos. These are new ways of having an exchange, or a different way of communicating or saying something to someone who can detect the neomaly (combination of neo and anomaly). Neomalies are anomalous neologisms. This happens frequently with friends, roommates, spouses. When people live together they evolve forms of sensorimotor coordination which one can perceive in their interactional rhythm, verbal and nonverbal. When married partners practice the unity model procedures in their interactions, they are each other’s best friends and evolve an interdependent conjoint self.

A conjugial conjoint self is constructed out of the husband’s masculine intelligence and the wife’s feminine intentions. The mental anatomy of men and women are in reciprocal form relative to each other. In a man’s mind the cognitive organ is on the outside, closest to the sensorimotor organ and his physical body, while in a woman’s mind the affective organ is on the outside, closest to the sensorimotor organ and her physical body.

You can see from this diagram that the anatomical conjunction of the minds of husband and wife takes three phases to complete. The first phase (1) is the mutual adjunction of their sensorimotor organs. I call it adjunction because, as the Swedenborg Reports show, two like organs cannot conjoin anatomically but can only be coordinated to each other in operation, each remaining independent and single. Mental conjunction requires reciprocal organic structures that are constructed to form a whole. This means that individuals are born single and remain incomplete in mental anatomical growth until each person can conjoin with its own reciprocal. Marriages that practice the male dominance model involve sensorimotor and physical adjunction, but there is no cognitive and affective intimacy. In his own mind, the husband who practices male dominance does not knows little about his wife’s cognitive life, and knows even less about his wife’s affective life. Nor does he care to know. The male dominance model of marriage never goes beyond sensorimotor and physical intimacy.

Phase 2 begins when the husband gives up male dominance and adopts the equity model of marriage. Now he feels obligated to consult his wife’s thinking on many things about their domestic life. He even adopts a new philosophical attitude about it, favoring in his mind and in his talk the philosophy that “the sexes are equal” and that “women should be given the same opportunities as men” etc. Equity husbands negotiate and haggle about who does what how much, and when things get rough and he feels he is expected to do too much, he will rebel, throw a fit, fall silence, take a walk, go out, or worse, make his wife feel jealous and insecure. The husband will self-servingly fall back on the male prerogative model of society, giving him the ultimate word on just about everything in their life together.  Still, there are many husbands who see through this self-created subterfuge and how dangerous and hurtful and unfair it is.

Phase 3 begins when the husband realizes that sensorimotor adjunction and cognitive sharing and intimacy, are not enough. He knows that his wedding vow was to take care of her ‘till death do us part’ but in his heart and desire he feels differently. He longs for the hope that their union may be forever, beyond death and into immortality. She is his soul mate. He knows it, he feels it. Soul mates are forever. So now, under the impact of this regenerative affective neologism he changes his mind, he remakes his vow to her, this time saying ‘till endless eternity.’ Now he is entering the unity phase of affective intimacy. He very soon realizes and feels that this is not going to be an easy task.

Conjunction is a powerful anatomical process of change and remaking, restructuring. The reciprocal anatomical components in each of them are covered up by much thick growth belonging to other loves, other than conjugial, having to do with self interest, gender politics, family ties, preferences and fears, sympathies and antipathies in everything cultural in which they are mentally immersed – lifestyle habits, prejudices, weaknesses. These differences or interactional dividers were there before in the earlier phases, but they were so much easier to cover up, to lay aside and ‘agree to disagree.’ But now in the unity phase (3) there is no hiding from each other. Masculine neologistic productions clash with feminine ones. You can see the nature of this clash of characters when you consider the anatomical diagram of their mind.

His cognitive organ is right next to the sensorimotor and the outside physical world. His affective organ is hidden deep behind the recesses of his cognitive awareness. The masculine intelligence looks outward into the physical world and is occupied with it. His affective operations remain deep seated and not very well known. He is quick to disagree, then quick to get angry at her when she interferes with his way of thinking about something. He expects her to submit, to agree, to be loyal to his way of seeing it and justifying it.

He resists her when she reflects to him his feelings and motivational intentions. He denies them. He is different than she imagines, he says and thinks. What is she to do?

Her affective organ is right next to her sensorimotor environment and physical body. She feels things by perception. She is not as practiced as he is in justifying and explaining how things are with him. She just knows it, because she perceives it. Her intention and love for conjoining him to herself is so powerful that she burns hot with desire for affective intimacy. She can only obtain this if he wants to have that with her. He must reciprocate by conjoining himself to her. This is the unity dynamic: She strives to conjoin herself to him, and he strives to conjoin himself to her. Her outward feminine love conjoins itself to his outward masculine intelligence (phase 2). Now when this is done, she waits. She must wait for him to conjoin his inner masculine love (affective organ) with her inner feminine intelligence (cognitive organ). The diagram shows this process with the lines conjoining the parts.

Note: Click here for additional discussion on the layers of mental anatomy with mental organs, and on husband-wife relationship in the unity phase.

The deepest form of masculine intelligence exists in two phases, unenlightened (mental layer 7Ce) and enlightened (layer 7Ci). The difference in level of operation between the external rational layer (7Ce) of a man’s cognitive organ (C) and his interior (i) rational layer (7Ci) is like that between the physical and the spiritual. One is temporary and sourced in appearances, the other is eternal and sourced in realities. To depend on appearances (in layers 9, 8, 7e) for one’s survival is to ultimately fail to adapt, and consequently it is to fail and to miss the desirable potential, giving up the desired goal. But to depend on realities for survival is to adapt successfully, attaining full potential, and enjoying the attainment of all one’s cherished goals. Enlightenment is the mental state of reasoning from realities. Unelightenment is to reason from appearances.

For example, to say that the “sun rises and sets” is to speak according to the visual appearances of the sun’s progression across our daily horizon in the sky. This is merely a communicative convention that makes things more convenient for people. There are many such instances in our daily round of activities and settings. But to construct a scientific explanation that relies on this appearance is to destroy science as the study of reality. Science does not base its theories and explanations on mere data and observations – these are merely appearances, effects, correlations, accidents. Instead science bases its explanations on abstractions away from the appearances in data observations. Theory must go beyond the data, or else it is imaginary and unreal. Such imaginary theory has no power to explain, nor power to predict or control anything of importance.

What is added in theory that is not in the observational appearances of the data?

The answer is that rationality is what theory is made of. We construct a theory by putting rational ideas together into a pattern that enlarges our understanding of something. The something is the observational data or “phenomenon” (whose etymology denotes the appearance to the senses). Anatomical layer 7Ce gives access to external rational theories which are above mere abstractions (layer 8C) of sensory observations and instrumental measurements (layer 9C). But layer 7Ci gives access to interior rational theories sourced in the spiritual layers of mental eternity. These spiritual layers are created by the layers of correspondences in Sacred Scripture -- spiritual-natural in layer 6C, spiritual-rational in layer 5C, and celestial-rational in layer 4C. These levels of spiritual consciousness are purely rational, uncontaminated by the appearances of the physical senses that restricts our natural world consciousness to appearances (layers 9, 8, 7e).

The unenlightened masculine intelligence practices the male dominance model of relating to women (layer 9) in phase 1, then in phase 2, practices the equity model (layer 8 and 7e). In these two phases men relate to women in terms of appearances (layer 9) and in terms of abstractions (layer 8). But in phase 3 men relate to women in terms of realities. The unenlightened masculine intelligence (layers 9, 8, 7e) is incompatible with feminine intelligence because one is external (belonging to the physical world) while the other is interior belonging to the mental world of eternity. Feminine intelligence is shown on the diagram above as being located in the inmost or highest region of the woman’s mind. Feminine intelligence is informed by rational perceptions more than by external appearances. It is the reverse with the unenlightened masculine intelligence, which is more informed by and reliant on external appearances and their abstractions, rather than by understanding of the causes of these appearances. All causes are in the mental world of eternity (or “spiritual world”), and all phenomenal appearances in the physical world are effects of mental causes. Hence it is that feminine intelligence, which is based on rational perception, is higher than masculine intelligence that is not yet enlightened, and consequently is based on appearances and their abstractions.

This is why it is necessary for a man to subordinate his own masculine intelligence to his wife’s feminine intelligence regarding all matters pertaining to their life together. The Swedenborg Reports divide the things between a husband and wife in two broad categories, “forensic” and “domestic.” In the literal sense “forensic” refers to the things a man does outside the home to support and protect his family, like employment, politics, commerce, science, community-building. But in the correspondential or spiritual sense “forensic” refers to unenlightened masculine intelligence (9C, 8C, 7Ce). In the literal sense “domestic” refers to what a woman does in the home to take care of home management and parenting. But in the correspondential or spiritual sense “domestic” refers to enlightened masculine intelligence (7Ci).

So in a real sense a man becomes spiritually enlightened when subordinates his masculine intelligence to his wife’s feminine intelligence. This is known in theistic psychology as the Doctrine of the Wife for Husbands (DoW).

This subordination is purely voluntary. The woman has no power to compel the man to listen to her. She can plead and beg and complain, but that’s where it ends if he chooses to ignore her. This subordination is sourced in pure heavenly freedom guaranteed by the Divine Psychologist who manages this process in all its details and progressions. Neither does God compel anyone. God’s omnipotence is exercised to insure that the man’s choice in this matter will be purely his own choice in accordance with his own love and motivation. For only that which he chooses from love in accordance with his reason, does belong to him in eternity. Through this attitude of unity the man becomes more and more enlightened. God has arranged matters this way from creation by making masculine intelligence to be the reciprocal of feminine intelligence so that the two can form a one, and thus a higher self, a conjoint self.

When the two minds work as one they produce conjoint neos. Heavenly life in eternity is constructed out of conjoint neos. Swedenborg describes the heavenly surroundings of the couples who construct their mental environment by means of conjoint neos.

It is a heaven of neos!

Everything there that is visible as an environment is like a dream space filled with everything surprising that is happy, charming, beautiful, involving, and rationally meaningful. Swedenborg saw dream houses and palaces, new types of gardens and plant arrangements, new fruits that are delightful and even instructive because of their representations in the Grand Human, which is the mental world of eternity. Every wonderful and meaningful object that appears in mental anatomy layer 4 is a representative of conjugial love between a husband and wife united into a conjoint self. This dream like reality in eternity is very real, unlike a dream or daydream we have here in our natural consciousness, which only lasts a short while then ends, making us face the concrete facts before us and surrounding us. But in the spiritual consciousness we have after resuscitation in layers 6, 5, 4, the surrounding sensorimotor neos are mental performances of our inner loves that use our thoughts and imagination to give them meaning.

Our cognitive life of thinking is in the service of our affective life of loves. Every love has a built power to consume itself. To be consumed is the purpose of a love’s existence. A love is consummated when it conjoins itself to a thought, as in a spiritual marriage, and producing offspring of that affective-cognitive union, that are visible as sensorimotor neologisms.

Prior to resuscitation, while we’re here conscious in our natural mind (anatomical layers 9, 8, 7), there is a discrete barrier separating our sensorimotor operations (9S) and our temporary physical body (layer 12). This may be called the dualist barrier of existence. Humans are born into a dualist creation, one in time and physical matter, the other in eternity and mental substance. Our physical body contains physical organs and structures patterned after the spiritual body, which is a mini-version of the Grand Human. The spiritual body contains our mental organs: affective, cognitive, and sensorimotor. These interact with each other in correspondence with the in the exact way in which the three systems in the physical body interact – circulatory/digestive, respiratory/oral, and nervous/skeletal. Every detailed physiological, biochemical, and atomic operation of the three interdependent physical systems is a particular effect caused by some affective love in the spiritual body, in conjunction with some cognitive idea, and together through the intermediary of the sensorimotor determinations, readinesses, and instantiations.

The conscious portion of our natural mind has control over the physical body’s voluntary movements. This control ratio is like the difference between a child’s knowledge of using a cell phone and the team of engineers and computer scientists that built it and keep its global system running. We know only the most general things of what is actually going on when we make our arm and fingers move to place food in our mouth. So the control of the physical environment we have is like the control a child has over the United Nations. But we know from the memory of our dreams that in a purely mental world we have the power of a god, like the author of a novel has power over the characters. Our ruling love makes everything happen in our sensorimotor dream environment. We can see the powerful attraction of beauty and feel the intensity of the pleasure, and when we are captured by an infernal love, we feel the terror and see the ugliness and deformation.

After resuscitation, for a relatively brief process or phase, we are as if still located in our natural mind and consciousness, and our earth bound cultural memories, identity, and self-image. Things are not normal or as before, we realize that. People appear and disappear, the surrounding environment instantly and drastically changes, people we know are as if there, along with strangers who somehow inexplicably yet seem familiar. Scenes come and go as if in an intense dream or spiritual holodeck. Who is the programmer? It is the Divine Psychologist managing the individual’s entry point into the final and eternal destination – somewhere in the Grand Human or in the Grand Monster. The individual’s ruling love is given the opportunity by the Divine Psychologist to make that choice.

There are two kinds of ruling loves in the mental world of eternity. One is the chief love in the spiritual layers (6, 5, 4) called the love of good and truth, and the other is the chief love in the natural layers of our mind (7, 8, 9) that is nothing but the love of corrupted good and falsified truth. For example, when we love to do something for the sake of ourselves alone, we hate to do something for the sake of others as well as ourselves. The first is an infernal love, the second is a heavenly love. Following our resuscitation and while we are still conscious in our natural mind, the Divine Psychologist brings us face to face with our principal loves, both heavenly and infernal. This is done through a series of Divinely orchestrated happenings and meetings that provide people with the experiences they need to become consciously aware of their deep seated and often hidden principal loves.

In the Swedenborg Reports the Divine Psychologist declares that “Love is man's willing, and derivatively is his thinking, and thereby his acting." (AC 3938)

People's loves have activated them throughout their life in the earthly environment and body, forming their character, over which they superimposed a social personality that others could accept and live with. But throughout this time the real character of the ruling love remains hidden – unless the individual undergoes reformation by spiritual enlightenment, and proceeds with regeneration of character. This cooperation process with the Divine Psychologist allows the mental rebirth of a new heavenly ruling love that will take the person to the Grand Human. And otherwise the person remains attached to the infernal love of wanting only what is of gain to self, and hating all heavenly loves because these loves benefit others and not merely self.

Both heavenly and infernal loves are empowered by the Divine Psychologist. Hellish loves conjoin themselves with hellish thoughts in what is called an “infernal concubinage” between corrupted good and falsified truth. This infernal marriage or marriage made in hell, produces the sensorimotor environment of the Grand Monster. Swedenborg describes many details of this appearance in his book Heaven and Hell published in 1758, which forms a portion of the Swedenborg Reports. Evil loves, or lusts, are consummated in abominable ways so that the sensorimotor environment they instantiate as a surrounding environment is dark, dreary, dangerous, dungeon and dragon-like. People in their role as devils and genii, or sirens and sorceresses, play out an immortal life that is beastly, debasing, and devoid of any rational and sane sentiment or understanding. Cave like bandits and bands of pirates roam around, appear and disappear, threatening others with mental tortures known as the “fires of hell.” Sirens and magicians prey upon the less corrupt than they are, capturing lesser devils than they are, and consummating on them their love of dominating, enslaving, and extinguishing whatever they have left that is their own. Such is the sensorimotor environment produced by the infernal marriage in the human mind.

But if our ruling love after resuscitation allows those loves we have acquired that desire to benefit others and not just self, then we are incorporated into the anatomical framework of the Grand Human. The Swedenborg Reports describe various methods or mechanisms by which this incorporation is achieved. They involve spiritual “gyres” or sensorimotor induction procedures by which the individual’s anatomical framework is made to become an integral part and functioning component of the Grand Human. Swedenborg witnessed and described gyres or spiritual dances that involved thousands of participants. Often he could hear very large choirs accompanying the induction activity. The individual is inducted into some society of the Grand Human that shares the specific loves of the new arrival. And upon arrival there, the person feels like “coming home” and the neighbors have faces that look like brothers, sisters, and cousins. Above all, one begins life as a conjoint self, by being united to one’s soul mate as a spouse. This celestial marriage produces as offspring the endless neos in the universe.

For a discussion of these diagrams see here.

Intimacy Neos

are of three types:

sensorimotor intimacy neos

cognitive intimacy neos

affective intimacy neos

When the husband or boyfriend is in the male dominance mood, the wife or girlfriend is restricted to living with his sensorimotor intimacy neos, while being deprived of his cognitive intimacy neos and affective intimacy neos. When the husband or boyfriend is in the equity mood, the wife or girlfriend is living with his sensorimotor intimacy neos as well as his cognitive intimacy neos, but is deprived of his affective intimacy neos. When the husband or boyfriend is in the unity mood, the wife or girlfriend is given access to all three mental layers of his mind, being able to conjoin with his sensorimotor intimacy neos, with his cognitive intimacy neos, and with his affective intimacy neos. The natural marriage turns into a spiritual marriage as the husband spends more of his time in the unity mood. The wife is then able to deepen the couple’s conjunction and advance progressively to anatomical conjunction in all layers of their mental world together. They are then united to eternity as soul mates. Through this joint effort at conjunction they have grown for themselves a conjugial couple’s conjoint self, which is the final completion of a human being.

Swedenborg interviewed conjugial couples in layer 4 of the mental world of eternity. As they approach him from a distance the two appear as one walking, and when the two are face to face talking it appears that they are talking as-if together in facial expression. These are examples of celestial sensorimotor intimacy neos within which are cognitive intimacy neos, within which are affective intimacy neos. They are joined in all their loves through a reciprocal conjunction of their mental anatomy. This affective conjunction is reciprocal between masculine love and feminine love. They each receive the love as spiritual heat from the Spiritual Sun, but this Divine Love enters the masculine affective organ differently than its received by the feminine affective organ. Hence it is that the conjunction is possible being in reciprocal loves. This reciprocal and differentiated affective conjunction produces affective conjoint neos that express themselves, and thereby find their fulfillment, in the sensorimotor intimacy neos of their separated faces, as witnessed and described by Swedenborg.

CL 42. I shall append here accounts of two experiences from the spiritual world, of which this is the first.
One morning I looked up into heaven and saw above me one broad level above another, and as I watched, the first level near to me was opened up, and then the second above, and finally the third, which was the highest. I was enlightened by this so as to grasp that the angels forming the first or lowest heaven were on the first level, those forming the second or middle heaven on the second level, and those forming the third or highest heaven on the third level.

At first I wondered what this meant and why it so appeared; and then I heard a voice like the sound of a trumpet coming out of heaven, which said, 'We have noticed and now see that you are meditating about conjugial love. We know that so far no one on earth knows what truly conjugial love is in its origin and essence, important though it is to know this. It has therefore pleased the Lord to open up the heavens to you, so that the light which enlightens may flow into the inner levels of your mind and allow you to perceive it. Our celestial delights in the heavens, especially the third, are chiefly from conjugial love. We have therefore been given permission to send down a married couple for you to see.'

[2] Then suddenly there was to be seen a chariot coming down from the highest or third heaven, containing what seemed to be one angel. But as it approached, it seemed to have two angels in it. The chariot seen from afar sparkled like a diamond, and had harnessed to it foals as white as snow. The travelers riding in the chariot held in their hands two turtle-doves, and they called out to me, 'You would like us to come closer, but be careful then that the fiery radiance, which is from the heaven we come down from, does not strike too deep. It will certainly enlighten the higher concepts in your intellect, which are in themselves heavenly. But these are inexpressible in the world where you now are. So understand rationally what you are about to hear, and so explain this to your intellect.'

'I will be careful,' I replied, 'come closer.' They did so, and turned out to be a husband and wife. 'We are a married couple,' they said. 'We have led a blessed life in heaven from the earliest time, which you call the Golden Age. We have been perpetually in the bloom of youth, in which you see us today.'

[3] I gazed at them both, because I realised that in their life and their adornment they were a picture of conjugial love. Their lives were to be seen from their faces, their adornment from their dress. For all angels are affections of love in human form. Their ruling affection shines out from their faces, and it is their affection which provides and determines what they wear. So in heaven there is a saying, everyone is dressed by his affection. The husband looked to be of an age half way between an adolescent and a young adult. Sparkling light glittered from his eyes, an effect of the wisdom of love; this light made his face shine with a kind of internal radiance, and this radiation made his skin shine on the outside, so that his whole face was a single lovely splendour. He was dressed in an ankle-length robe, over a blue garment with a gold belt, decorated with three gems, a sapphire at either side and a carbuncle at the centre. He wore stockings of shining linen with silver threads in the weave, and pure silk shoes. This was the picture presented by conjugial love in the husband.

[4] In the wife it appeared like this. I saw her face and at the same time I did not see it. It looked like Beauty itself, but I could not see it because this is inexpressible. Her face shone with fiery light, the light the angels in the third heaven enjoy, and this dazzled my sight, so that I was simply amazed. When she noticed this, she spoke to me. 'What can you see?' she asked. 'I can see nothing but conjugial love and the form it takes,' I answered. 'But I both see and don't see.'

At this she turned sideways on to her husband, and then I could gaze at her more fixedly. Her eyes flashed with the light of her heaven, a fiery light, as I have said, which derives from the love of wisdom. For the love wives have for their husbands in that heaven comes from and is focussed on their wisdom, and the love husbands have for their wives comes from and is focussed on that love for themselves, so that it unites them. As a result her beauty was such that no painter could ever rival it or render it in its true appearance, for his colours lack radiance and his art has no means to express her loveliness. Her hair was beautifully dressed in an arrangement which had a meaning by correspondence, and it had flowers in it made of jewelled settings. Her necklace was of carbuncles, and from it hung a rosary of gold-coloured gems, and she had pearl bracelets. She was dressed in a red gown over a purple blouse, fastened at the front with rubies. But I was surprised to see that the colours changed as she turned towards or away from her husband, and this too made them sparkle more or less, more when they looked at each other, less when not directly facing.

[5] When I had seen this, they spoke with me again; and when the husband spoke, it was as if what he said came at the same time from the wife, and when the wife spoke, it was as if it came at the same time from her husband, so closely united were their minds, from which their utterances flowed. And I could also then hear the sound of conjugial love, which was in inward unison within their speech, and arose from the delights of a state of peace and innocence.

At length they said, 'We are being called back, we must go.' Then they were seen again riding in a chariot, as before. They drove along a paved road between flower-beds with olive-trees and trees laden with orange fruit springing from them. When they approached their own heaven, maidens came out to welcome them and escort them in. (CL 42)

CL 51. VII. THAT MARRIED PARTNERS ENJOY SIMILAR INTERCOURSE WITH EACH OTHER AS IN THE WORLD, BUT MORE DELIGHTFUL AND BLESSED, YET WITHOUT PROLIFICATION; FOR WHICH, OR IN PLACE OF IT, THEY HAVE SPIRITUAL PROLIFICATION, WHICH IS THAT OF LOVE AND WISDOM. That married partners enjoy similar intercourse as in the world, is because, after death, the male is a male and the female a female, and in both, an inclination to conjunction is implanted from creation. This inclination is an inclination of the spirit and thence of the body. Therefore, after death, when man becomes a spirit, the same mutual inclination continues, and this cannot exist without similar intercourse. For man is man as before, nor is there anything lacking either in the male or in the female. They are like themselves as to form, and equally so as to affections and thoughts. What else can follow then, but that they have similar intercourse? and since conjugial love is chaste, pure, and holy, that the intercourse is also complete? But see further on this subject in the Memorable Relation, no. 44. That the intercourse is then more delightful and blessed, is because, when that love becomes a love of the spirit, it becomes more interior and purer and therefore more perceptible; for every delight increases according to perception, and it so increases that its blessedness is observed in its delight. (CL 51)

Most sensorimotor intimacy neos produced by a united couple were not directly described by Swedenborg, but in theistic psychology we expand our knowledge of all spiritual subjects through the study of correspondences in Sacred Scripture, and especially in the book Conjugial Love (published in 1763), which forms part of the collection called the Swedenborg Reports (or “the Writings of Swedenborg”).

Further discussion on intimacy in united couples will be found in my lecture notes for The Unity Model of Marriage.

Many of Swedenborg books are available online from this site:

 http://www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org/index1a.html

The Impossibility of Keeping Track of All Our Neos

I discovered this scientific law just today (May 12, 2008).

I’ve been trying to keep track of all my neo productions – written, conversational, and reflective. At first I naively believed that I could keep a record of my reflective neologisms by following one of my favorite long standing rule of life: If you think, ink it. I have this from the well known author and lecturer Paul Pearsall who was kind enough to provide a blurb for the cover jacket of my book with Diane on Road Rage and Aggressive Driving (2000). Interestingly, there are no occurrences on the Web of “If you think, ink it.” I advocate this rule to all the students that happen to register for my section of the psychology curriculum for majors. And I have them practice the self-witnessing approach to keeping track of one’s emotions, intentions, thoughts, and sensory-motor behaviors, including verbal. But this is the first time that I was imagining that I could snatch most of if not all of my reflective neos from sudden memory, that I might add them to my Neochart. While I was still holding on to this dubious intentionality I was also trying to go through my published articles to identify all the scientific neos they contained. This time I was even more confident that this would be a task I can handle.

Neither task is actually possible. Today I had the perception of the reason why it is impossible. I should have known better to begin with, given that I have constructed many scientific neologisms during the 1970s when I was writing about ethnomethodological psycholinguistics – as you can see from a number of entries in my Neochart from that period. One of the great and deep ethnomethodological neologisms that I received from other intrepid ethnomethodologists preceding me, is this one in Garfinkel’s 1967 book Studies in Ethnomethodology:“Dana succeeded in putting a penny in the parking meter today” – which still today 31 years later has no other occurrence if you google it. Remember that googling and yahooing only brings you to Web pages. Still this is a huge sample that should accurately estimate the occurrence of various sentence fragments. I was struck back then when I read the book in 1971 by Garfinkel’s demonstration, and theoretical proof, that it would be impossible to explain in full what this sentence means. And yet, it did mean something specific and informational to the wife to whom this sentence was said by the husband. Garfinkel tries at first to explain the direct meaning, the context, the past history, the relationship between the couple, how the family is involved, their sub-cultural background and social practices, the law, the geography, the times and period. All of this had to be explained to some historian who wanted all the explanations needed to understand this sentence spoken in an ordinary dialog.

Garfinkel shows with other examples from office and work contexts that when you write an explanatory paragraph as part of a collection of paragraphs like a Report or Letter, each explanatory paragraph opens up new issues that have not been explained before. And when you try to explain the new issues, the paragraphs you construct for their explanations, now require more paragraphs to be explained. In other words there is no way of fully explaining anything that is part of human social practices like relationships, interactions, events, objects and their use.

I could have remembered this sooner when I started forming the idea that a Neochart can be more or less complete. Here is the amazing point, or mental law that I discovered today: The more complete you try to make your Neochart, the further behind you get.

Neos are not only immortal and spiritual but they are visible to consciousness for only a split second in sudden memory, then they are gone forever. We can only snatch a very small proportion of them into short term memory, and then store them in our long term memory and from there through our fingers into digital databases on computers. Neocharts must therefore be considered highly selective and not representative of the continuous and endless series of neos that human living produces in the mental world of eternity. Each of those endless neos, born in one mental location in an individual’s unique mind, are like food morsels and liquids in the diet that keeps our body alive.

A case in point: my entry for this afternoon produced the above page and a half of around 800 words. In an attempt to describe my perception or meaning I had to produce 30 neologisms. On the average, every fifth word is a neo. This applies to writing. Things multiply by several magnitudes when you consider people’s talking, where many more sentences are produced than in writing. Clearly, talking neos are constructed much more effectively than writing neos. The production of reflective neos is by several magnitudes greater than that of talking neos. The very act of monitoring our reflective neo production produces meta-neos of still greater quantity, which increases inordinately with meta-meta-neos. The highest production of neos across the layers of mental eternity is in layer 4 called the “Third Heaven” in the Swedenborg Reports. In this region of the Grand Human (heart and reproductive organs) human neos are the direct result of Divine Neos through the Omniproprium that provides the source of all loves and understandings existing in that highest region of human consciousness.

By the time this Neo article reached 90 pages in length (May 27, 2008) it contributed 700 neos to the Master Neochart, which at the time had 1870 entries. The neos I produced just in this article amounts to a third of the neos I identified in two dozen previous articles that I sampled. The most likely explanation is that I am trying to be exhaustive about counting all the neos in this Neo Article, while I only sampled the previous ones, and mostly for one-word and two-word neos. But even in this Neo Article I am not fully exhaustive because I am exhausted by this losing battle of trying to keep up with all or most of my neo productions. I spend more time adding neos to the Master Neochart than I have time left for writing new paragraphs, whence still more neos are born. My wife gets exhausted seeing me exhausted by this task. She has exhausted her motivation to keep up with my discoveries and enthusiasm for neos. Of course, if you have bigger resources available to you than your own hard work, such as assistants, or a few computer programmers, paid or volunteers, then go right ahead and see how exhaustive you can be about keeping track of all your neo babies. No doubt a research grant on neo productivity might solve these technical issues.

Neos, Words, and Correspondences

What is the distinction we are to make between these three words or concepts? A "neo" is short for neologism, which means a new mental unit. All mental units come into existence in the cognitive organ of one of the six layers of the mental world of eternity. Higher order neos are progressively more spiritual and rational as they approach the highest layer (4C). A “word” refers to a unit of speaking, writing, communicating. The “word” is the smallest stand alone unit that is listed in a dictionary. A “correspondence” is the relationship between cause and effect, given that “effects” are natural phenomena, while their “causes” are mental phenomena.  Neos are new words, either singly, or in new combination. Correspondences are relationships between natural and spiritual neos.

Appendix

Scientific Activity and Research About Neologisms

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