Alright, hold on a second. A morning of reading and google searches has revealed the interconnectedness of four giants. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this. Just trying to read up on Swedenborg, looking for conservative counterarguments actually, to sort of see what's in the quiver against him. On the contrary, I find feeble arguments against him (and simultaneous attacks on Helen Keller for being influenced by him, hmm, NO, not that satanist witch Helen Keller again, will we never be safe from her spiritual tyranny?) In addition, Czeslaw Milosz, you know, the Nobel Prize winning poet? Yeah, him. He has an article tracing Swedenborg's influence on (wait for it), Fyodor friggin Dostoevsky, my most favoritest of authors. Another link expans on Milosz's article to locate Swedenborg in the voice of Father Zosima of Brothers Karamazov.
A second search reveals that there's a book of correspondence between Milosz and (wait for it) Thomas friggin Merton, the Trappist monk and contemplative. There's four towering figures interwoven by the threads of the universe. People that somehow occupy vastly different spaces in my academic cognitive map, but are, for now, inextricably linked, and why shouldn't they be? All four possess some awareness or interest in mystical experience and transcendence. Color me excited about something for a change.
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