2010
July
| Jul 16 |
Film Night: FOOD, Inc.
Location: 2nd floor, James Parlor, 77 W. Washington St., Chicago
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Join us for this important documentary on how our food systems have changed in response to fast food businesses. Cassie Green of Green Grocer Chicago will be on hand to discuss organic options for Chicagoans. $5 donation to Greater Chicago Food Depository suggested.
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September
| Sep 17 |
Common Ground speaker
Location: 77 W. Washington (at Clark) in the Loop
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Program speaker and topic to be announced.
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| Sep 24 |
William James
Location: 77 W Washington (at Clark) in the Loop.
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Join us for a dialogue with scholars Ron Miller and Jack Gilroy about the father of American philosophy, William James.
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October
| Oct 15 |
Common Ground
Location: 77 W. Washington St. (at Clark) in the Loop
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Program and speaker to be announced.
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| Oct 22 |
Body/Mind Connection: Mesmer & Swedenborg
Location: 2nd floor, James Parlor, 77 W Washington St., Chicago
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
John S. Haller Jr., emeritus professor of history and medical humanities at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has written a dozen books on subjects including race, sexuality, and the history of medicine. He is former editor of "Caduceus: A Humanities Journal for Medicine and the Health Sciences" and, until his retirement at the end of 2008, served for eighteen years as vice president for academic affairs for the Southern Illinois University system.
On October 22, he will discuss his new book, "Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine".
Healing practices as diverse as homeopathy, chiropractic, and therapeutic touch draw their inspiration and effectiveness from an unseen world beyond the physical senses. Our view of that world is the legacy of two key thinkers: Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Anton Mesmer.
The starting point is the competing worldviews of Swedenborg, a mystic whose deep faith in God and visions of the afterlife have moved generations, and Mesmer, whose magnetic healing system required nothing but the forces of nature. Both were convinced that good health depended on properly managing one’s internal energies, whether that meant a life of biblical virtue or simply achieving balance with the universe. This book traces the influence of these two men through the nineteenth century as their ideas were embraced by utopians, psychic healers, spiritualists, mind-cure advocates, homeopaths, and ultimately by the inheritors of those traditions—modern practitioners of alternative and complementary healing.
$5 donation to the Greater Chicago Food Depository suggested. Refreshments; doors open at 6 pm.
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November
| Nov 12 |
Common Ground
Location: 77 W. Washington St. (at Clark) in the Loop
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Program and speaker to be announced.
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Swedenborg Library
77 W. Washington
Room 1700
Chicago, IL, 60602
Phone: 312.346.7003
Fax: 312.346.7004
For any questions or comments contact
info@swedenborglib.org.
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