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SWEDENBORG AND NEW PARADIGM SCIENCE (Swedenborg Studies)

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Ursula Groll relates the metaphysical thought of Emanuel Swedenborg to current New Paradigm science, especially to the interface of science and spirituality. By providing extensive excerpts from Swedenborg's works and drawing parallels between his visionary insights and the works of philosophers and physicists such as David Bohm, Fritjof Capra, Rupert Sheldrake, and Albert Einstein, Groll shows how Swedenborg's voyage of discovery led him increasingly from the great to the small, from the outer to the inner, until he discovered the mirror of the universe, the seat of the Divine as the source of truth.

David Lorimer, director of the Scientific and Medical Network, provides a foreword that stresses Swedenborg's early preoccupation with wholeness and morphogenesis: "Swedenborg emerges as a holist before the term was coined." Readers interested in holistic science and spirituality will appreciate this introduction to Swedenborg's works.

Ursula Groll was born in Germany and lived in Sweden for many years, where she worked at the Goethe-Institut. She received an M.A. from the University of Frankfurt, concentrating in Scandinavian and German literature. She is a translator and freelance reviewer and essayist.

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke has been vice-chairman of Keston College, Oxford, since 1992. He is series editor of the Essential Readings series, which includes volumes on John Dee, Jacob Boehme, Robert Fludd, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Rudolf Steiner. He is also the author of Paracelsus and The Occult Roots of Nazism, which has been translated into eight languages.