Swedenborg's Quest for Insite press release

Swedenborg's Quest for Insight Video program Swedenborg's Quest for Insite press release

A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE GREAT SWEDISH SCIENTIST AND SAGE PREMIERED AT THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; NOVEMBER 14, 2000

Commissioned for the 150 anniversary of the Swedenborg Foundation, in 2000, this elegant and informative documentary, produced and directed by Emmy and Maggie-award winner Penny Price, explores the extraordinary life and ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, called by renowned Zen scholar D. T. Suzuki "the great king of the mystical realm." Interweaving breathtaking nature photography, expert interviews, computer animation, and rare, archival stills with dramatic reenactments of Swedenborg's life-- featuring acclaimed actress Lillian Gish-- this program conveys the essential and ever-relevant insights brought back by Swedenborg from his unprecedented explorations of the spiritual worlds.
Swedenborg documented the death experience as the soul departs its expired material form, awakens into the afterlife realm, is stripped of every accretion of personality, and gravitates to the precise level of the upper or nether regions that corresponds perfectly to its innermost nature. Many aspects of his description find precise parallels in the accounts of people who have described near-death experiences. He expounded the importance of leading a useful life and expressing through service love and wisdom, the two great attributes of the Divine.
In addition, Swedenborg's impressive scientific achievements, his penetrating perception into the Bible's symbolic meaning, and the wide extent of his influence on important thinkers, writers, and artists of many countries are explored. /FONT>

An engrossing exploration of our immortality through the eyes of a genuine seer.
-Marianne Williamson"

This program is an informative and inspiring documentary on the quest, life and legacy of the eminent, 18thcentury, Swedish scientist, theologian, visionary and philosopher, Emanuel Swedenborg. It conveys he insights Swedenborg learned from his explorations of the spiritual worlds: the real nature of the actual death experience; the levels of heaven and hell & who goes there: the wisdom of angels; the meaning & purpose of life; the keys to happiness in this world and the next. It interweaves breathtaking nature photography, expert interviews, computer animation, archival stills, dramatic re-enactment and contemporary documentary footage. The program explores his extraordinary scientific achievements and inventions and the many people he influenced both in Europe and America, including: Goethe, William Blake, Balzac, Baudelaire, Coleridge, Elizabethand Robert Browing, Yeats, Dostoevsky, and the transcendentalmovement, the worldwide arts & crafts movement, the Hudson River School of Art, the American anti-slavery movement, the women's movement and the ecumenical movement. The renowned Zen scholar, D.T. Suzuki, called Swedenborg, a great king of the mystical realm, a clairvoyant unique in history and a scholar of incomparable vigor" and the extraordinary Helen Keller said he was one of the most important influences in her life."Since we are implanted in the Divine, we can never die, for we are in what is eternal and infinite."- Emanuel Swedenborg"

Produced and directed by Penny Price, an Emmy and Maggie-award winner. Penny Price Media Television-Video Producer / Director / Writer / Video Distribution e-mail: pricemedia@aol.com Swedenborg Foundation ~ 1-800-355-3222 e-mail: customerservice@swedenborg.com