Swedenborg & Gurdjieff: The Missing Links: Anti-Intuitive Essays for Personal Transformation Paperback - 2012

Philosopher/Theologian Edward F. Sylvia attended the School of Visual Arts in New York. After a long career as a copywriter for some of the world's largest advertising agencies in New York, St. Louis and Chicago, he now "advertises for God," and has shared many insights in his blog as TheGodGuy. He received his M.T.S. (Master of Theological Studies) at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA and a Certificate of Swedenborgian Studies from the Swedenborgian House of Studies at PSR. He is a past president of the St. Louis Publishers Association, and a member of the International Book Publishers Association (IBPA), the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS), the Swedenborg Scientific Association (SSA), the Missouri Botanical Garden and Forest Park Forever. Mr. Sylvia is the award-winning author of several books, including "Sermon From the Compost Pile: Seven Steps Toward Creating An Inner Garden, " the children's fable "Cupid and the King of Muck," an essay book titled "Swedenborg & Gurdjieff: The Missing Links," and his masterwork "Proving God," which fulfills a continuing vision that God's fingerprints of Love can be found everywhere in the manifest universe. His latest book "Cosmic Duty: A Swedenborgian's Interpretation of Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson (All And Everything)" brings the all-encompassing work of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and Emanuel Swedenborg together in one place-allowing us to compare their thinking, side-by-side, on many of the issues that the human race has grappled with since the beginning of time-the universe, civilization, religion, war, social justice, hypnotism, art, electricity, and what happens to us after we die. Edward has been a student of the ideas of both Gurdjieff and Swedenborg for over forty years and feels that writing this book changed his deepest views about both men. He has many other writing projects currently in the works.