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Emanuel Swedenborg. Emanuel Swedenborg ( Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist.

Emanuel Swedenborg

In 1741, at age 53, he entered into a spiritual phase in which he began to experience dreams and visions, beginning on Easter weekend of April 6, 1744. This culminated in a 'spiritual awakening', in which he received revelation that he was appointed by the Lord to write the The Heavenly Doctrine to reform Christianity.[7] According to The Heavenly Doctrine the Lord had opened Swedenborg's spiritual eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell and talk with angels, demons and other spirits; and the Last Judgement had already occurred, in 1757.[8] However, he tells us that at this day it is very dangerous to talk with spirits, unless a person is in true faith, and is led by the Lord.[9][10] For the remaining 28 years of his life, Swedenborg wrote 18 published theological works, and several more which were unpublished.

Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Scientific period[edit] Yvette Pierpaoli. Yvette Pierpaoli (18 March 1938 – 18 April 1999) was a French humanitarian who lived in Cambodia and worked in many countries around the world.

Yvette Pierpaoli

John le Carré dedicated his novel The Constant Gardener to Pierpaoli. Yvette Pierpaoli at Angor Wat, Cambodia in February 1998. Early life[edit] Pierpaoli was born in Le Ban-Saint-Martin, the fifth child of an Italian father and a French mother. During a geography lesson about Indochina Pierpaoli first became interested in the Far East. Indochinese Refugees[edit] Pierpaoli came into contact with the Asian community in Paris.

In 1974, Pierpaoli met author John le Carré in Phnom Penh. As Phnom Penh came under siege by the Khmer Rouge, Pierpaoli moved to Bangkok. Moinuddin Chishti. Mo`īnuddīn Chishtī (Urdu/معین الدین چشتی) (Persian: چشتی‎,Urdu: چشتی‎ - Čištī) (Arabic: ششتي‎ - Shishti) was born in 1141 and died in 1236 CE.

Moinuddin Chishti

Also known as Gharīb Nawāz "Benefactor of the Poor" (غریب نواز), he is the most famous Sufi saint of the Chishti Order of the Indian Subcontinent. Moinuddin Chishti introduced and established the order in the subcontinent. The initial spiritual chain or silsila of the Chishti order in India, comprising Moinuddin Chishti, Bakhtiyar Kaki, Baba Farid, Nizamuddin Auliya (each successive person being the disciple of the previous one), constitutes the great Sufi saints of Indian history.[3] Early life and background[edit] Mo`īnuddīn Chishtī is said to have been born in 536 A.H./1141 CE, in Chishti in Sistan region of East Persia.[4] He grew up in Persia. He became the Murid (disciple) of Usman Harooni. Journeys[edit] Moinuddin Chishtī visited the seminaries of Samarkand and Bukhara and acquired religious learning from the eminent scholars of his age.

James Allen (author) James Allen (28 November 1864 – 24 January 1912) was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement.

James Allen (author)

His best known work, As a Man Thinketh, has been mass-produced since its publication in 1902. It has been a source of inspiration to motivational and self-help authors. Born in Leicester, England, into a working-class family, Allen was the elder of two brothers. His mother could neither read nor write while his father, William, was a factory knitter. In 1879 following a downturn in the textile trade of central England, Allen's father travelled alone to America to find work and establish a new home for the family. For much of the 1890s, Allen worked as a private secretary and stationer in several British manufacturing firms. In 1902 Allen published his third and most famous book As a Man Thinketh.

William Blake. William Blake (November 28 1757 – August 21 1827) was an English poet, Christian mystic, painter, printmaker, and engraver.

William Blake

Quotes[edit] If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. The archetype of the Creator is a familiar image in his work. Here, Blake depicts his demiurgic figure Urizen stooped in prayer, contemplating the world he has forged. The Song of Los is the third in a series of illuminated books painted by Blake and his wife, collectively known as the Continental Prophecies. Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.There Is No Natural Religion (1788)The true method of knowledge is experiment.All Religions are One (1788)There can be no Good Will.

Blake's "A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows", an illustration to J. Ramana Maharshi. Ramana Maharshi /ˈrʌmənə məˈhɑrʃi/ (1879–1950) is widely acknowledged as one of the outstanding Indian gurus of modern times.

Ramana Maharshi

He was born as Venkataraman Iyer, in Tiruchuli, Tamil Nadu [note 1] Tamil Nadu (South India). His first years were spent in solitude, but his stillness and his appearance as a sanyassin soon attracted devotees. In later years, he responded to questions, but always insisted that silence was the purest teaching. His verbal teachings flowed "from his direct knowledge that consciousness was the only existing reality. " In later years, a community grew up around him, where he was available twenty-four hours a day to visitors.

Venkataraman was renamed Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi by one of his earliest followers, Ganapati Muni.