New Thinking May 25, 2025 Chelsea Odhner, Jonathan Rose, PhD, and Robert Falconer, MA, are coauthors of Opening the Inner World: Spiritual Healing, Internal Family Systems, and Emanuel Swedenborg. Chelsea Odhner is vice-president of publishing for the Swedenborg Foundation. She is also an Internal Family Systems level one practitioner. Jonathan Rose is the editor of the New Century edition of the theological writings of Swedenborg. He is also author of Swedenborg’s Garden of Theology. Robert Falconer is a trainer of internal family system practitioners. He is also author of The Others Within Us. You can reach Chelsea Odhner and Jonathan Rose through the Swedenborg Foundation website: https://swedenborg.com/ Robert Falconer can be reached at https://robertfalconer.us/ Off the Left Eye YouTube channel is located at    / offthelefteye   Here they explore the various synergies that emerge when combining the spiritual vision of Emanuel Swedenborg with the psychotherapeutic model of Internal Family Systems. A particular focus is the concept that the human psyche is porous and amenable to influences from external spiritual sources. Also of significance is an emphasis on the human body. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:08:44 Who was Swedenborg? 00:19:35 Resolving spiritual crises 00:29:15 Internal vs. external parts 00:41:47 Resistance to the spiritual 00:52:04 Self-reflection 01:02:20 The body’s organ systems 01:09:16 Internal Family Systems 01:16:19 What is the Self? 01:23:29 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on April 15, 2025)