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BOOK REVIEW
by Rita Tanzi-Stevenson
Mattawa, Ontario, Canada

Actually CANDACE FRAZEE’S BOOK in general has helped me heal spiritually.
I found myself reading and rereading it. Oddly enough, when I did ... I Got It. It’s so much information to read, comprehend, understand, absorb and/or figure out—all at once.
Candace’s book’s entirety, FACTS, DATES, TIMES, are IMMENSE and undoubtedly ACCURATE! I envision a book club sort of like Oprah’s, a bunch of women (or men too, just to hear out mens’ views) discussing her book. I think/know women have a deeper capacity, ability, senses to imagine + envision what Swedenborg writes and that which she translates (from the Bible, too.)
I’m totally engrossed in her book. So much to learn from Candace. Wow, I’m wowed. She truly found her calling. It has intrigued me to learn/read about Emanuel Swedenborg. I never heard of him before. What a Brillant Man, Scholar, Teacher...much like Candace... Her knowledge is surmountable.
I’ve never read a book quite like There is an Answer. Incredibly researched information. I did have to put it down and take a break. It’s alot to take in at once. I would not be surprised if Candace Frazee opened her own Swedenborg Church or school or learning centre!! She makes it her business to know so much. A job well done. Great work Candace, amazing work.
I’m reflecting on what I read and learned. For me, I find that I need to take small steps in order to think about what is new or different to what I’ve been taught in Roman Catholic Parochial school and church. However my beliefs are quite smiliar to that of Swednborg’s I’ve discovered.
Critics and readers alike, have given There is an Answer rave reviews. I’ve always liked reading about Angels, Heaven and Hell alike... can’t have one without the other. I actually had 2 NDE (near death experiences).
The first time I was in the hospital, quite sick. I seen myself over my bed out of my body. Then I was in another plane and my great Aunt who had died years prior was above me with several other women dressed in sort of Spanish head dresses with veils over their heads and they spoke to me. However NOT in oral speech, telepathically. They told me that I had to go back for it was not my time...overall it was more like a feeling of peace, harmony. They were much younger with skin so, so very clear.
The other one was from a heroin overdose at 26. I did die that time. However I was resuscitated by EMS. Where I went to was very much like another plane like an astral place which was dark but NOT frightening or bad. It was more like a sheer state of CALM and stillness. Peacefulness but I was alone. Then three figures appeared. Men in robes like from Biblical times. They were what seemed like 40 ft. tall. They were so ethereal looking. Again NO FEAR. I actually felt weightless and so at peace. The Centre Man appeared to be the Judge. He held a huge book which was opened in half point. Then once again he spoke to me. He stated that my life thus far was one of 50% good 50% not bad and that I ended up there because of my lifestyle activities and that I could stay or leave. No monsters or fires or any sort of harm. He also said that I had done MUCH good in my life but there was more to do on the earth plane. However, ultimately AGAIN IT was MY CHOICE and free will, to stay or go.
I have worked so very hard to get where I am today, considering what I lived and survived and how I managed to turn it all around for the common GOOD!! I am humbled by the leaps and bounds, of trying to attain redemption, recovery, resolve, and usefulness to humanity and mankind. Much like Candace’s Swedenborg Philosophy, I strive to be a Blessing and not a burden.
I finished reading Candace’s book! Reread much of it as I sifted through all the chapters. Some I reread 3-4 times just to make certain I understood. And that I am now able to recount some of Swedenborg’s and Candace’s beliefs based upon its’ theological theories and doctrines (which she translates so well with her own writing style and flare). Candace’s writing style is so deep, factual, informative. It’s a distinctive intellectual brand that is *truly her’s*.

There is an Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World by Candace Frazee is getting good reviews.
Come to the next Meetup and meet Candace to discuss her book.

Check here for more details about Emanuel Swedenborg.

There is An Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World, by Candace Frazee. Bunny House Books, Pasadena, California. 2008

Available through Candace Frazee, $30 plus $5 s/h U.S., Canada, Mexico, $10 s/h International. Write to 1933 Jefferson Drive, Pasadena, CA 91104.

Book Review:
Swedenborgianism's Answer Lady
Saturday, March, 7, 2009
by Cantara Christopher
http://skirt.com/node/32000

"As Swedenborgianism, with all its branches, has never had a huge number of adherents (probably no more than 30-50,000 throughout the world at one time), it’s not one of the world’s best-known religions, but its theology, as outlined by Swedenborg, is rich and deep and immensely rewarding to explore. His most famous book, Heaven and Hell (full title: Heaven and its Wonders and Hell, from Things Heard and Seen) can be read as a work of sustained imagery and poetry—not unlike the Bhagavad Gita—as can his other works: Heavenly Secrets, Conjugial Love, and the dozens more he wrote in Latin. All have been laboriously and lovingly translated into several languages by centuries of scholars.

For those who would like to sample this eye-opening interpretation of Christianity / humanity’s relationship with God and heaven—in particular the heavenly nature of marriage—Candace has published There Is an Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World (available at her website). It’s a friendly, sensible, at times humorous compilation of her newsletters and recounts of her visits to Swedenborgian landmarks, complete with photos, as well as a warm memoir of her life growing up in a Canadian household of Swedenborgians, her early life as a showgirl (catch a glimpse of her the next time the classic “Polynesiantown” sketch on SCTV comes around), her girlhood as a student in the Swedenborgian enclave of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and her current life as curator of the delightful Bunny Museum, the Guinness Record-making collection in the home she shares in Pasadena, California with her husband / Swedenborgian soulmate, Steve Lubanski.

To get an idea of how far-reaching Swedenborg’s influence has been, click here to glance at the names of just a few hundred of the eminent men and women in history, and in our times, who have either been brought up in the teachings of Swedenborg or found his teachings later in life. (List courtesy of Candace—it’s in her book.) Martin Luther King, Jr. is on the list, as is Johnny Appleseed, Robert Frost, Bill Wilson the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Walt Whitman, Henry James Sr. and his son William James, Norman Vincent Peale, Walt Whitman, Dr Mehmet Oz (of Oprah fame)..."

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There is an Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World by Candace Frazee is getting good reviews.
Come to the next Meetup and meet Candace to discuss her book.

Check here for more details about Emanuel Swedenborg.

There is An Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World, by Candace Frazee. Bunny House Books, Pasadena, California. 2008

Available through Candace Frazee, $30 plus $5 s/h U.S., Canada, Mexico, $10 s/h International. Write to 1933 Jefferson Drive, Pasadena, CA 91104.

Book Review:
Swedenborgianism's Answer Lady
Saturday, March, 7, 2009
by Cantara Christopher
http://skirt.com/node/32000

"As Swedenborgianism, with all its branches, has never had a huge number of adherents (probably no more than 30-50,000 throughout the world at one time), it’s not one of the world’s best-known religions, but its theology, as outlined by Swedenborg, is rich and deep and immensely rewarding to explore. His most famous book, Heaven and Hell (full title: Heaven and its Wonders and Hell, from Things Heard and Seen) can be read as a work of sustained imagery and poetry—not unlike the Bhagavad Gita—as can his other works: Heavenly Secrets, Conjugial Love, and the dozens more he wrote in Latin. All have been laboriously and lovingly translated into several languages by centuries of scholars.

For those who would like to sample this eye-opening interpretation of Christianity / humanity’s relationship with God and heaven—in particular the heavenly nature of marriage—Candace has published There Is an Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World (available at her website). It’s a friendly, sensible, at times humorous compilation of her newsletters and recounts of her visits to Swedenborgian landmarks, complete with photos, as well as a warm memoir of her life growing up in a Canadian household of Swedenborgians, her early life as a showgirl (catch a glimpse of her the next time the classic “Polynesiantown” sketch on SCTV comes around), her girlhood as a student in the Swedenborgian enclave of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and her current life as curator of the delightful Bunny Museum, the Guinness Record-making collection in the home she shares in Pasadena, California with her husband / Swedenborgian soulmate, Steve Lubanski.

To get an idea of how far-reaching Swedenborg’s influence has been, click here to glance at the names of just a few hundred of the eminent men and women in history, and in our times, who have either been brought up in the teachings of Swedenborg or found his teachings later in life. (List courtesy of Candace—it’s in her book.) Martin Luther King, Jr. is on the list, as is Johnny Appleseed, Robert Frost, Bill Wilson the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Walt Whitman, Henry James Sr. and his son William James, Norman Vincent Peale, Walt Whitman, Dr Mehmet Oz (of Oprah fame)..."

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There is an Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World by Candace Frazee is getting good reviews.
Come to the next Meetup and meet Candace to discuss her book.

Check here for more details about Emanuel Swedenborg.

There is An Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World, by Candace Frazee. Bunny House Books, Pasadena, California. 2008

Available through Candace Frazee, $30 plus $5 s/h U.S., Canada, Mexico, $10 s/h International. Write to 1933 Jefferson Drive, Pasadena, CA 91104.

Book Review:
Swedenborgianism's Answer Lady
Saturday, March, 7, 2009
by Cantara Christopher
http://skirt.com/node/32000

"As Swedenborgianism, with all its branches, has never had a huge number of adherents (probably no more than 30-50,000 throughout the world at one time), it’s not one of the world’s best-known religions, but its theology, as outlined by Swedenborg, is rich and deep and immensely rewarding to explore. His most famous book, Heaven and Hell (full title: Heaven and its Wonders and Hell, from Things Heard and Seen) can be read as a work of sustained imagery and poetry—not unlike the Bhagavad Gita—as can his other works: Heavenly Secrets, Conjugial Love, and the dozens more he wrote in Latin. All have been laboriously and lovingly translated into several languages by centuries of scholars.

For those who would like to sample this eye-opening interpretation of Christianity / humanity’s relationship with God and heaven—in particular the heavenly nature of marriage—Candace has published There Is an Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World (available at her website). It’s a friendly, sensible, at times humorous compilation of her newsletters and recounts of her visits to Swedenborgian landmarks, complete with photos, as well as a warm memoir of her life growing up in a Canadian household of Swedenborgians, her early life as a showgirl (catch a glimpse of her the next time the classic “Polynesiantown” sketch on SCTV comes around), her girlhood as a student in the Swedenborgian enclave of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and her current life as curator of the delightful Bunny Museum, the Guinness Record-making collection in the home she shares in Pasadena, California with her husband / Swedenborgian soulmate, Steve Lubanski.

To get an idea of how far-reaching Swedenborg’s influence has been, click here to glance at the names of just a few hundred of the eminent men and women in history, and in our times, who have either been brought up in the teachings of Swedenborg or found his teachings later in life. (List courtesy of Candace—it’s in her book.) Martin Luther King, Jr. is on the list, as is Johnny Appleseed, Robert Frost, Bill Wilson the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Walt Whitman, Henry James Sr. and his son William James, Norman Vincent Peale, Walt Whitman, Dr Mehmet Oz (of Oprah fame)..."

Go here to see all the links:
http://skirt.com/node/32000

There is an Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World by Candace Frazee is getting good reviews.
Come to the next Meetup and meet Candace!

Check here for more details about Emanuel Swedenborg.

BOOK REVIEW

There is An Answer: Living in the Post-Apocalyptic World, by Candace Frazee. Bunny House Books, Pasadena, California. 2008

Available through Candace Frazee, $30 plus $5 s/h U.S., Canada, Mexico, $10 s/h International. Write to 1933 Jefferson Drive, Pasadena, CA 91104.

Candace Frazee has been writing a monthly newsletter about “Emanuel Swedenborg” called S.I.L.A., Swedenborg Information Los Angeles, now for 20 years. This book is a celebration of this contribution, by selecting from all these newsletters. This was a blurb about Swedenborg: “You know the Swedish, 18th century scientist that spoke to angels! Never heard of Swedenborg (1688- 1772)? You’re not alone. For 20 years, she has been helping others to understand Swedenborg. People from as far as Australia, Japan, and Kenya write to Candace with difficult questions about life and death.”

Candace has filled this entertaining and informative volume with a whole string of photos of meetings with noteworthy people, both New Church, business friends and TV producers. She was interviewed on NBC news in Atlanta in 1996, when the Mayor of Atlanta proclaimed July 2 to 6, 1996, to be “Angel Festival Days” (p. 376).
Candace also is well known for hosting the annual Angel Festival in Los Angeles, now in its 15th year, and is in the Guinness Book of Records for “most bunny items in the world.”

The paper back 377-page book is full of pictures and illustrations, and reads like a glossary of straight information on everything linked to Swedenborg or the New Church. It has a colorful front cover, with the bottom half a cartoon of Candace with a magnifying glass looking at a book. There are 10 chapters, from “Meet God’s Ghostwriter” through Angels, Cults, down to ‘Real Dead People Swedenborg Visited,’ and ‘Who’s Who in Swedenborgianism.’ This last chapter begins with ten pages listing all the well known people who have “owned Swedenborg’s books, used his doctrines, been members of the New Church, or written about him,” etc. Ten pages, with dates. Did you know Hector Berlioz is among them? A shorter list tells us who “plagiarized Swedenborg, used him to their own advantage, or borrowed terminology without giving credit, or even twisted his words, or attacked him!” There is a space for you to list more names if you know them.

On p. 222 and 223 are pictures of Candace’s wedding to Steve in 1994, with Rev. John Odhner as one of the officiating ministers. One picture has Steve’s buddies forming an arch of bicycle wheels! Steve is an aficionado of racing bicycles, having invented and patented several revolutionary bicycle parts. The pictures come with an answer to a question about marriages in heaven!

Other pictures are very informative, such as Sumerian and Mesopotamian stone reliefs of winged humans. There are 10000 year old cave paintings of humans with halos. Candace explains the ancient knowledge of the meaning of wings, and that “people’s understanding of angels waned so far that most think angels are separate beings with halos and wings!” (p. 171)

You may pick and choose your “answers” to questions you have not even thought of, spending hours of reading in this delightful publication. Candace thanks all her “consultants” crammed into one page Acknowledgments in front. Her Bibliography also reads like a Who’s Who in the New Church, all on its own. A short index directs you to topics you may not think of yourself. She consults for veracity, and I myself think she deserves a medal for spreading news of Swedenborg further and wider than most.