Poll Is There An Afterlife? If So What Kind?

I've found myself considering the question of the afterlife a lot lately.  There are three broad hypotheses on the subject:

1. There is no afterlife. There is no individual or group soul. One life is all a human being gets.
   
2. Human beings and other sentient creatures are incarnated over and over again as individual or group souls. The world is either a ( Read more... )

(The Arrivals, by Naomi Gladish Smith, Chrysalis books, 2005, www.swedenborg.com)

I have read three Swedenborgian novels in my life, and each of them enveloped me in a supportive, confirming environment while I was reading it. This environment remained my home for quite a long time in each instance, because I read rather slowly. While in the ( Read more... )