Swedeonborg was not a cult leader, he had visions about the nature of the afterlife and wrote about them, prior to that he was a renowned scientist who wrote a lot of scientific material. As far as I know he did not establish a church, those who read his works and believed in them established the Swedenborg Church after he died.
Whether you believe his visions were real or not, they appear to be more than just DT’s or hallucinations, they appear to be more more along the lines of an extended near death experience since similar visions have also been reported by people who have had a near death experience.
They may all be insane though, who knows. My father had a near death experience during and after a car crash and that brought him out of his Pantheism to a belief in a personal
God. If they are hallucinations, they are certainly very powerful ones, and in his case, a very beneficial one. He was MUCH happier afteward.
Didn’t Rick Warren have a fairly recent “near death experience” when his church had a cash flow issue and he had to hit the congregation up for a tidy sum?
Dr. Oz is a charlatan but Rick probably sees an untapped market with him.
Warren is not a real pastor.
Which one?