In the work Heaven and Hell 491-520 the reader is offered a description of the experience of awakening from death into the World of Spirits. The premise that underpins the Logopraxis approach is that what’s described in these numbers can provide insights into our own awakening to spiritual life through the practice of the Word while still in the natural world. That the same principles that govern the awakening of a newly arriving spirits to life in the spiritual world also govern the processes everyone must pass through if they are to awaken to spiritual life. The structures and practice method of the Logopraxis approach have been intentionally modeled on this section of Heaven and Hell with the aim of supporting practitioners in their work with the Word as the basis for their individual and collective spiritual life.

Introduction
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was toward God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning toward God.

All were made through Him; and without Him not one was made that was made.

In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.

(John1:1-4)
In Logopraxis, we seek to honour the potential for awakening to spiritual life through the Word, the Logos, by placing the practice of Sacred Texts at the centre of individual and collective spiritual life. Logopraxis is an intentional spiritual approach specifically focused on the practice of the Word as the basis for self-examination and repentance and as such is a process orientated approach for engaging with Sacred Text. Engaging with the Word in this way produces insights born of direct experience, into the processes involved in the regeneration of the human mind. The material produced through each person’s practice forms a rich source of nourishment which, when shared with others, builds a deeper sense of what it means to be a spiritual community. This is especially the case where there is a collective acknowledgement that the Lord is continuously revealing Himself through the shared experience of the Word working in people’s lives.

The core teaching that organises the structures and activities of Logopraxis is the profound idea, expressed in John’s Gospel and affirmed throughout the Heavenly Doctrines, that the Word is the Lord. This is not meant in a metaphorical sense. The teaching is that the Word in the form of Sacred Text is actually the Lord. The implication is that through engaging with the Texts of Divine Revelation as the basis for spiritual life, the conditions are created whereby an encounter with the Lord as the Word is made possible. A leading principle that we work from in Logopraxis is that the Texts of Divine Revelation have been provided to bring about the regeneration of the human mind. It is the regenerating human mind that is meant by the phrase, a “new Church” in the Heavenly Doctrines.

In simple terms, the restructure of the human mind takes place as the Lord’s love flows in and organises truth, bringing light so that evils and falsities can be identified and shunned as sins against the Lord. This is what the term charity means when applied inwardly. This process sees new beliefs and affections implanted, which give a new form to the natural mind so that it is better able to receive the influx of the Lord’s life. What people find when they consciously look to the Word with a view to self-examination and repentance, is that the Word becomes psychoactive.

But what does it mean for the Word to become psychoactive? What we know from the opening chapter of John's Gospel is that it is the Word that brings, “all that have come into being into being.” And while this is true so far as the external world is concerned, which is where material thinking places its focus, it is equally true for that which is brought into being so far as the inner world of the human spirit is concerned. It is the role the Word plays in bringing this inner world into being that is the primary focus for Logopraxis.

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