![]() ![]() (The Bloomsbury Review)Įxploring these writings gives us a more intimate view of Keller's joyous celebration of life and transformative spiritual vision." (NAPRA Review) ![]() Her view of her life is motivated by joy and gratitude. Keller herself was without conceit her own words make her a more appealing figure than the woman glimpsed in old newsreels. She drew much inspiration and insight from the Swedish seer's writings and his enthralling presentation of morality, calling them "the light in my darkness, the voice in my silence." (From the Foreword by Dorothy Herrmann, author of Helen Keller: A Life) Swedenborgiansim, with its concepts of a universal spiritual reality and brotherhood, a loving god, and an afterlife in which no one would suffer from limitations and handicaps, appealed to Helen. ![]() "Emanuel Swedenborg's message has been my strongest incitement to overcome limitations," she proclaims. Helen Keller traces her spiritual development, revealing her mystical, ecstatic aspect, in this revised and expanded edition of her spiritual autobiography. ![]()
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