Walking the visionary London of Emanuel Swedenborg (4K)
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- čas přidán 19. 03. 2023
- A walk with writer Iain Sinclair and Stephen McNeilly of the Swedenborg Society following the footsteps of 18th Century Swedish scientist, philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Our walk starts in Warner Street Clerkenwell where Swedenborg had his most famous vision in a Chop House. We then walk on along the course of the River Fleet to Bakers Yard / Cold Bath Square where Swedenborg died in 1772. From here we walk along Saffron Hill and Hatton Garden to Fetter Lane, the site of the Moravian Chapel that Swedenborg attended. Our Swedenborg walk takes us along Fleet Street and up Ludgate Hill to Paternoster Square linking together a series of locations associated with Swedenborg's publishing and writing career.
We then head out to East London, passing along Leman Street, Cable Street, past Wiltons Music Hall to Swedenborg Gardens where Swedenborg was buried in the Swedish Church.
Images courtesy of The Swedenborg Society.
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Fantastic! For some reason CZcams hasn't been reccomending your videos to me for a while so I've got a huge backlog to get through. In all honesty I'm already relishing the next few days, so I can catch up! Thanks for the dedication to this John, you're porobably doing one of the most impactful psychogeographical records in the UK. A herculean undertaking in deep-topography, mythogeography and pinning space to memory and folk history. We will always be in your debt! x
Great film. Shame iain never quite let Steven finish a sentence or a story.
I live outside Philadelphia. 3 miles away is the tien of Bryn Athyn, PA, home of Academy of the New Church & the Cathedral & college dedicated to Swedenborgen. The entire town belong to this sect. The family that run the town are the PITCAIRN'S of Scottish ancestry. Imagine mynsurprise when i passed the Swedenborgian reqding room in Bloomsbury! Thx.
This is fabulous John. I was at the Swedenborg Society recently for the exhibition on ‘place’ and I live close to Wellclose Square (associated with Swedenborg)) so this video is literally right up my street. Thank you!
Walk around any great city & you're walking inside other people's heads, inside their imaginations. I think I first realised this in Cambridge, but London is the greatest because of the huge diversity of minds that are involved - & the interacting, ever changing play between the inhabitants & the architecture.
If only Ian would let the man speak🤦♀️
Just gorgeous John, thank you so much for this. Mud, gold, alchemy, spirituality and murder. Gosh, what a masterpiece. I can see how much work you will have put into making this, 3 audio tracks and multiple sites. Nice edit in the piece by the Argyle. I love learning about the history of the hidden alleys and courtyards, and what wonderful stories throughout. Thank you 🙏
I wanted to let you know, John, that I really like your channel. As an atheist I don't believe the psychogeology in the sense of the super natural (which from the 9 seasons I've watched plus a hand full of other videos you've never said it was for sure super natural and I appreciate that). The idea of a secular non woo woo psychogeology makes sorta sense to me as the awe of life and connection between people can connect us to the past, present, and future in a way that isn't some super natural thing but also can't be described by science. Thanks for the calm videos that are chock full of history.
For many years I wondered about that Swedenborg reading room in Bloomsbury which I used to pass on a bus back to East London so I guess this is the perfect video. Thanks, John.
as i live in enfield ... our regular sunday run used to take us past the temple bar ... and it was located in the tesco country club ...it was in a terribly delapidated state then ...
Terrific walk! I live a short drive from a Swedenborgian college (Bryn Athyn College, just outside Philadelphia), and I used to live in the town where one of America's most prominent Swedenborgian's (John Chapman, AKA Johnny Appleseed) was introduced to the teachings of Swedenborg.
Swedenborg, according to me, was writing what he was told by the Lord. It is so deep, beautiful and it all synchronizes.
Thanks John, that was really dreamlike for me. The crisp air and sunlight worked so well, the lovely music and storytelling pulled me into another time zone /portal? I knew nothing of Swedenborg I must admit, but hearing the connections with others that interest me like William Blake, John Clare, Samuel Pepys right up to Kathy Acker, was great. I managed to block out the shiny new architecture and focus on the wonderful old sash windows, Church spires and other remnants of the past. Imagining the muddy banks of the Fleet and having the bells of St. Paul's captured! Not really connected, but I was watching a TV programme about Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope earlier this week, so I now have lots to delve into with all these references. A great collaborative film, thank you so much!
Fascinating video. I feel London is part of my life, though living on the other side of the world, because it forms the background of so much of my reading.
that was terrific, john - one of those videos that you don't want to end! thanks for taking us along!
Thanks so much for this. Really enjoyed the recent exhibition at Swedenborg and the evening of films and readings during my visit across pond
This was indeed a beauty. Fascinating. If we can keep our heads when all around Mr Swedenborg keeps losing his then we will be a man my son. That whole area keeps giving doesn't it?
To say you have outdone yourself, in choosing your guests, laying your route, curating the connection between liberal religion and literature -- so much! So glad to be a Radical Rambler. Enjoy this month's little coffee: you have earned it many times over. (Elizabeth from Vermont)
A great, great walk, John! Many thanks for braving the cold to record Sinclair and McNeilly explore Swedenborg's London! Bravura stuff! ❤🚶♂🚶♂🚶♂
That was magical! Off sick from work and just watched it on my couch on the very same energy line - on the other side of St George’s in the East (Solander Gardens- named after another great Swede buried in the same Church). And I already feel better- your video has healing power. Thank you.