I referred to Michael Syed’s book, Bounce: the myth of talent and the power of practice. It’s well worth a read.

I also mentioned a video from Richard Rohr – Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps. Find it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8o6_IqKdy8

Today’s reading: 2 Kings chapter 6

And from Emanuel Swedenborg: “Thinking from the eye closes understanding, but thinking from understanding opens the eye.” (Divine Love and Wisdom, 46)

“… an angel of one heaven cannot go among the angels of another heaven, that is, no one can ascend from a lower heaven, … One ascending from a lower heaven is seized with a distress amounting to anguish and is unable to see those who are there, still less can he talk with them, … There were some from the outermost heaven, who had not yet been taught that heaven is established in the interiors of an angel, and who believed that they might come into a higher heavenly happiness simply by access to a heaven where higher angels are. They were even permitted to enter among such angels, but when they were there, they saw no one however much they searched, although there was a great multitude present. For the interiors of the newcomers had not been opened in the same degree as the interiors of the angels there, consequently neither was their sight opened. … It happens otherwise when, as is often done, the Lord raises some angels out of a lower into a higher heaven that they may behold its glory. Then they are prepared beforehand, and are encompassed by intermediate angels through whom there is communication. From all this it is evident that the three heavens are entirely distinct one from another.” (Heaven and Hell, 35, see also 54)

Recorded on Sunday 20th June 2021.