Helen Keller related her conscious experience to Swedenborg's spiritual awakening. On page 30, she wrote:
"For thirty years I have examined and re-examined that phase of my development in the light of new theories, and I am convinced of the correctness of what I am saying. I know I was impelled like an animal to seek food and warmth. I remember crying, but not the grief that caused the tears; I kicked, and because I recall it physically, I know I was angry. I imitated those about me when I made signs for things I wanted to eat, or helped to find eggs in my mother's farmyard. But there is not one spark of emotion or rational thought in these distinct yet corporal memories. I was like an unconscious clod of earth. Then, suddenly, I knew not how or where or when, my brain felt the impact of another mind, and I awoke to language, to knowledge, to love, to the usual concepts of nature, of good and evil! I was actually lifted from nothingness to human life--two planes as irreconcilable as Swedenborg's earth experience and his contacts with a realm beyond the cognizance of our physical senses!"
How often have we wondered how we come to consciousness. Did everything made sense to us the moment we were born? How long did the world that seems the be without form, and void, a sense of deep darkness suddenly made sense to us? Some of us perceived it faster than others, some perceived it differently.
Were it not by the grace of God, how would we made sense of the right things in a condemned world?
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Helen's rabid respect for Swedenborg is remarkable: As she compared her own physical "enlightenment" to Emanuel Swedenborg's spiritual revelations.
It is important that one needs to be mindful of scriptural interpretation and revelation, so that one does sway from the true path simply because the other paths seem more interesting and conspicuous.