Past Events
- "Divine Providence" 32-Session Discussion Group Led by Karen Feil and Rev. Robert McCluskey
- "Overview of the Bible" 9-Session Discussion Group Led by Rev. Robert McCluskey
- "Parables of Jesus from a Swedenborg Perspective" with Rev. Robert McCluskey and Karen Feil
- "The 10 Commandments from a Swedenborgian View" with Rev. Robert McCluskey
- "Swedenborg 101," "A Thoughtful Soul," "Heaven & Hell," "The Heavenly City," "Miracles of Spiritual Growth," "The Gospel of Mark," and "A Book About Us" with Rev. Dr. George Dole
- "Blake & Swedenborg" with Rev. Dr. David Fekete
- "Swedenborg & Mesmer" with Dr. John Haller
- "Proving God" with Ed Sylvia
- "The Meaning of Easter" with Rev. Robert McCluskey
- "The Meaning of Pentecost" with Rev. Robert McCluskey, Rev. Eric Hoffman, and Rev. Kit Billings
- "Swedenborg's Doctrine of Correspondences" with Rev. Robert McCluskey
- "The Gospel of John" with Rev. Dr. David Fekete
- "Living Amidst the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation" with Rev. Dr. David Fekete, Rev. Robert McCluskey, and Rev. Catherine Lauber
- "Swedenborg's Correspondences of Colors: An Art Workshop" with Victoria Martin and Dell Rose
- "Gardens in Heaven" with Dell Rose
- "Swedenborg's Inward Turn" with Rev. Robert McCluskey (YouTube video available)
- "The Case Against Hope: Geopolitics and the Reality of Conflict" with Dell Rose
- "Understanding the Christ Event, Parts 1 and 2: On The Lord, and Christus Victor" with Rev. Robert McCluskey
- "Japanese Engagement with Swedenborg in the Quest for a Universal Language" with Dr. Avery Morrow
- "Reptiles of the Mind: Serpent Symbolism in WM Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job" with Dell Rose
- "Advent from a Swedenborgian Perspective" with Rev. Robert McCluskey
- "Swedenborg's Presence in Finnish Literature" with Dr. Tiina Mahlamäki
- "12 Gates Study of Swedenborgian Spirituality" with Dell Rose (Ongoing 2026 Program)
- "The Book of Job" with Dell Rose (Ongoing 2026 Program)
- "Through Death to Love: Swedenborgian Imagery in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti" with Anna Maddison
A Partial List of Past Programs
On Swedenborg and Swedemborgian Theology:
- “Paul Amongst the Gentiles: Strategies of Legitimization in the Work of Paul of Tarsus” with Dell Rose
- “Through A Glass Darkly — Curating the Apostle, Self-Perception, and the Optics of Conversion” with Dell Rose
- “Paul & His Conversion” with Dell Rose
- “Paul & Gnosticism, Part 1 and 2” with Dell Rose
- “Paul & Mediterranean Divination” with Dell Rose
- “Luther’s Paul” with Dell Rose
- “Paul & the Moderns: Freud, Jung, Barth, Rosenzweig, Tillich” with Dell Rose
- “Swedenborg’s Paul” with Dell Rose
- “The 12 Gates Series" with Dell Rose
Our 2025 Series on the Apostle Paul:
- “Hilma af Klimt: Occultism, Modern Art, and the Making of Sweden” with Dr. Per Faxneld of Södertörn University, Stockholm (at the Swedish- American Museum, Chicago)
- “The Garden City Movement” with Dell Rose
- “The Ornamental Hermit” with Dell Rose
- “Garden History and Esotericism” with Dell Rose
- “William Blake, Schwenckfeld, and the German Spiritualist Concept of Natural Redemption” with Dell Rose
- “The Voluspa Saga” with Terry Gunnell
- “Alfred Deakin & His Gospel of Swedenborg” with Dell Rose
- “Joanna Southcott: Prophetess, Theologian, Visionary” with Dell Rose
- “Theosophy & the Internationalist Turn” with Dr. Bjarke Stanley Nielsen, Copenhagen University
- “August Nordenskiold & the Satanic Tyranny of Money” at the Swedish-American Museum, Chicago, Dell Rose
- “Introduction to Karaism” with Gerșom Qiprisçi, Theologian and Textual Scholar, and Director General/CEO at LIRM Leiden Research Institute for Rational Monotheism, the Netherlands
- “Serpents &. Symbolism in WM Blake’s illustrations for the Book of Job” with Dell Rose
- “Bengali Theosophists & Global Religious Networks” with Dr. Mriganka Mukhopadhyay
- “Faust’s Place in Early Modern Science” with Dr. Dustin Lovett
- “Esoteric Influences in Mexican Mural Art” with Dr. Mariano Villalba
- “Goethe’s Faust: Art as Religion” with Dr. David Kretz, Yale University
- “The Historical Trajectory of Jacob Böhme’s Theosophy in Finland and Its Existential Resonance” with Tomas Mansikka
- “Western Breath and Movement" with Dr. Anya Foxen
- “Yeats, Esotericism, and the Emergence of Irish Nationalism” with Dr. Jenny Butler, University College Cork
Past Programs on Western Esotericism:
- “The 1893 Columbia Exposition” with the late Russell Lewis, Former VP and Curator of the Chicago History Museum
- “The Burnham Plan” with Dr. Kristen Shaffer at the Art Institute of Chicago and National-Louis University
- “The White City: A Musical” with Lost & Found Productions
- “George Inness & Swedenborg” at the Art Institute of Chicago
- “Why Forgive?” with Richard Smoley of Quest Books
- “Life After Life” with Dr. Raymond Moody
- “The Mystic Heart of Justice” with Denise Breton
- “Synchronicity” with Christopher Larson
- “The Devil & the White City” with Author Erik Larson at the Cliff Dwellers Club
- “Fieldnotes on the Compassionate Life” with Marc Ian Barasch
- “Native American Justice” with Phil Cousineau at the Siskel Film Center
- “The Kabbalah” with Rabbi Cohen
- “Goddesses” and “The Red Tent” with Mercy Gilpatrick
- “C.S. Lewis — The Great Divorce” with Wayne Martindale
- “Low-Key Genius: O.C. Simonds” with Barbara Geiger at the Cliff Dwellers
- “The Symbolism of the Tarot” with Paul Quinn
- “Synchronicity, Tarot & the Joy of Wonderment” with Paul Quinn
- “Invoking the Archangels” with Sunny Dawn Johnson
- “The Art of Intuition workshop” with Sophy Burnham
- “Angels Among Us” Lecture by Sophy Burnham
- “Forgiveness Workshop” with Sophy Burnham
- “Nikola Tesla” with John Wasik, Author of Lightning Strikes: Timeless Lessons in Creativity from Nikola Tesla
- “Nothing Is Truer Than Truth” Film on the Shakespeare-Edward de Vere Controversy with Afterwords by Dr. Alfred Thomas, UI
- “The Lotus & The Rose: Meister Eckhart, Tibetan Buddhism, Mystical Christianity, and Other Connections Between East and West Today” with Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox
- “Gospel of John from a Swedenborgian Perspective" with Rev. Dr. David Fekete
- “Nichiren Shu Buddhism” with Kanjin Cederman Shonin
- “Gnosticism Reborn” with Bishop William Behun
- “Primitive Baptist Universalism” with Jonathan Buttry
- “Tengrism and Ancient Turkic Culture” with Dr. Kagan Arik, University of Chicago
- “The Body in the Frankist Sabbatean Heresy” with Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson
- “Tenrikyo: The Japanese Religion of World Renewal” with Rev. Kuni Fumioka
- “The Missouri Platonist: Thomas Moore Johnson” with Dr. Vadim Putzu, Missouri State University
- “A New Swedenborg: Deguchi Onisaburo, Swedenborg, and the Quest for a New Kingdom in Manchuria” with Dell Rose.
- “The Glimmering Gods of the Electric Age: Thos Edison’s Japanese Apotheosis and the Extraordinary History of the Light Bulb" with Dr. Jason A.J. Storm of Williams College
- "The Imagined World of Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn" with Dr. Kelly Hayes
- "Cosmology & Alchemy in Early Medieval China" with Dr. Brandon Underwood, Vanderbilt University
- "H.P. Lovecraft: An Overview" with Dr. Tim Evans
- "The Radical Reformation: Schwenckfeld & the Roots of Piety" with Dr. Drake Williams (a 4-Part Program)
- "D’Annunzio’s Fiume: Apocalypticism, Esotericism, and the Birth of Fascism" with Dell Rose
- "The New Apostolic Revolution” with Dr. Keri Ladner
- "The Salamander Letters” with Tommy Cowan
- "Kundalini’s Modern Transformation as Scientification” with Dr. Marleen Thaler
- "The Ultimate Reality of All Things: Intro to Tiantai Buddhism” with Dr. Brook Ziporyn, University of Chicago