On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 08:14:21 -0700,Christopher Green wrote:
Séances held in the old Swedenborg Church in New York?
Darn tootin' he would!
I think that the Swedenborgian Church is the clincher. For more
on the church see:
http://newyorknewchurch.vzwebsites.com/aboutus.html
and
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/realestate/07scap.html
Given its location on 35th street between Park Ave and
Lexington Ave, I must have passed by it a few times though
I don't have a memory of it (Yeshiva U's "Stern College for
Women" [which some wags follow-up with "ain't that the truth!"]
has one of its buildings on 35th Street and Lexington Ave --
I taught a few course there in the 1990s when I was faculty
at YU).
There is an entry on Swedenborgian religion or the "New Church"
on Wikipedia; see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Church
It is a bit long but it has one interesting section which I quote:
|New Thought movement
|
|New Thought is a spiritual movement that began in the
|United States in the late 19th century which promotes
|positive thinking and healing.
Yikes! Positive psychology was scooped! ;-)
|One of its earliest proponents was Phineas Parkhurst Quimby,
|a healer who said that illnesses in the body originated from
|false beliefs in the mind.
Where have I heard that before? ;-)
|One of the people he healed was Warren Felt Evans, a
|Swedenborgian minister, who himself became a healer and
|published several books promoting New Thought and
|explaining it in terms of New Church doctrines. Swedenborg
|had stated that there was a correspondence of heaven
|with all things on earth,[144] and thus there is a correspondence
|between the mind and the body. In general, the organized
|churches based on New Thought (e.g., Unity Church,
|Religious Science, Church of Divine Science) have
|developed their own teachings separate from those of
|Swedenborg and the New Church.
Oddly enough, the section on psychology does not mention
William James though there is a sizable literature on this,
partly promoted by Eugene Taylor; see:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-4261-1_22
Looks like some Historian of Psychology should go and get
the Wikipedia entry updated. ;-)
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
On Oct 21, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Mike Palij <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/we-tried-to-talk-to-the-dead-at-new-yorks-only-spirit-church
Some things never change.
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