Societal Fears Override God

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All of the evil around us is the result of something; it is up to each of us to understand this !! – SOCIETAL FEARS OVERRIDE GOD !! – THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF HUMANITY IS REFLECTED IN THE PHYSICAL, this applies to *all* situations and actions; these are terminal spiritual sicknesses, MANKIND IS SPIRITUALLY ILL !! – ONLY CHRIST PROVIDES THE HEALING [SALVATION] — PATHOS [suffering; disease; feeling], the “quality” in something experienced or observed which arouses feelings of pity, sorrow, sympathy, or compassion; the ** MINISTRY OF TEARS ** answering the collective unconscious, the THEOGNOSIS, the knowledge and recognition [diagnosis]; the health of the community is measured by the number who participate in it [MINISTRY OF GIFTS]; DIVINE HEALING — Genetic Memory [spiritual/physical influences and characteristics imprinted; passed from generation to generation] must be a consideration — the one who has infused his own EVIL and FEARFUL spirit into others, who actuates and governs their minds, the originator and transmitter of all spiritual disease [LUST; his spiritual sacrifice] is SATAN the DEVIL !! – WE MUST KNOW THIS TO BE HEALED BY CHRIST, BY HIS TRUTH !!

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They say the “price of freedom is high”, well God say’s there is no price on freedom; He offers it *free*, it is His to give !! – those who offer freedom at a price are offering slavery instead, to their systemic, and the price of their systemic is very high indeed; it is a price that we cannot pay and too many have died trying [paid the ultimate price] !! — the corporate monies have value because the evil is maintained [the servicing of Mammon; building holocaust]; the “price of freedom” is actually oppression – apathy fed by ignorance will lead to our extinction !! – WE EITHER SERVE GOD OR SERVE MAMMON; we must know what it means to serve God; we already know what it means to serve Mammon – the pain of the past [the fear] envelops each new generation; it is overwhelming our sanity; if we want our dreams to come true, we must first wake up !! – this [contrived and imposed] world is a realm of suffering and confusion [God is not the author of confusion]; the major source of suffering is ignorance and the major expression of ignorance is the belief in a Self – we must become conscious of the fundamental discontinuity and therefore illusion of Self; our purpose, our goal is to be *one with God*, our sense of Self within the One [individually we are NOT one, *together* we are one] – our individual stories are our essence; our goal is not to escape our stories, but to make our stories sacred [WE MUST WRITE OURSELVES INTO THE BOOK OF LIFE] !! – the unique torture of modernity [its thoroughness; impact] is the sense of being disassociated, de-storied [de-humanized], displaced [nameless, devoid of context, history, soul print; SEPARATED FROM OURSELVES AND GOD] – through pain, the torturer aims to force the victim to betray and abandon his story – to lose hope in life is to lose the thread of your story; to recover hope is to reweave the fabric of your story. [Sacred Stories based on Tikkun]

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Who is the Author of You?

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Most “personal scripture” is prewritten by others and incorporated without question; who is the author of you ?? – God is the author of our salvation, He will rewrite us, renew us, if only we will invite Him in – our “scripture” has become flawed and only the original author can restore it !! — a community of renewed mind, an altered state of consciousness; the Kingdom of God begins with God’s consciousness — the Holy Spirit of God is God’s own Mind, His very consciousness, His knowledge and understanding from *within* – human spirit overlaid and permeated by God’s Spirit [sub-conscience (subconscious), conscience, *over-conscience*] !! – God’s Mind, His very consciousness, His intelligence(s) residing in us, His abilities, His very “being” a part of our own – He is expressed as our own mind becomes tuned into His mind [our mind truly becomes *our* mind] – the actualization becomes possible as we grow in grace and knowledge, as wisdom expands to fill our being, as we open the doors of our minds [doors, partitions, veils; light enters vs. shadow] to Christ and allow Him entrance to sup with us [to gather together for the common meal of bread, milk and meat; the spiritual manna], our capacity increases, we become nourished – Amos 3:3, can two walk together, except they be agreed? – God’s mind will merge with our mind as we become aware of, recognize, and conform with God’s will, as His will becomes our will, when His objectives become ours – we will exist in a perfect and holy symbiotic, dependent and reciprocal relationship – we will assume the rights and responsibilities of the God Family — we are the active agents in the design and creation of our own intelligence(s), in the service of the Family – the community *is* the congregation [not just the human community but the whole community of life]; we must be the elders at this time, those mature in the spirit, the servant example.

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God’s consciousness awakening in our minds, with the fruits of the Spirit [ nine fruits, nine intelligences ] drawing out and defining our natural abilities, sharpening our intellect [ennead mentation (multiple intelligence)], creating each of us as distinct, unique individuals in the God Family, each uniquely prepared for the responsibilities that await us; God’s nature becomes our nature !! – the Spirit conveys to God an understanding of our thoughts and very being and in return gives us the attributes and nature of God Himself in harmony with our own and/or paired to correct – the Spirit gives to each person the attributes God desires in order to benefit the Body as outlined in 1 Corinthians 12:7-11; God gives us all different aspects of Himself, and puts us together for the benefit of all – every person in the Family has a particular strength that the others do not necessarily possess; we are all doing a job that we were given by God to do – the Body of Christ has been given people of varied gifts and talents and God does it for the greater glory of us all – the Body benefits by the operation of each one of us, but we can quench the operation of the Spirit; if we don’t pull our weight individually, we can quench the Holy Spirit; we affect each other because we are all one Body, we affect God – the Spirit can be quenched (1 Thess 5:19) by being neglected or grieved (Eph 4:30); our capacity for growth and service is diminished – our understanding becomes darkened as the light fades, as God’s consciousness withdraws from our unrepented sins, our unrepentant attitude; the withdrawal of God’s consciousness, the vacuum of understanding, the absence of light and God’s strength, draws in the adversary’s consciousness which overwhelms our weakened carnal mind, grips our minds tightly in its grasp of error.

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Wisdom: The Application Of Knowledge

The only spiritual life is one of service; there is a lack of *meaning* in the world; you cannot find meaning in a world that seeks and glorifies money and power, the wisdom of the world; THE REDUCTION OF HUMANITY [every evil work; the elimination of the public-Nation by the private-Nation-State/TNC's; the elimination of any compassion (the label of living) and charity (corporate profit means "care = burden"; the real burden on humanity is the SAGE-Corporate; the evil invasion of greed against our sanity) and any generosity] - these are MONSTERS in-every sense-of-the-word, barely Human, animalistic purveyors of a systemic that has murdered and continues to murder millions of people; they exist in a spiritual vacuum, sucking the life out of us !! - WE MUST KNOW AND ACT [Wisdom: the application of the knowledge] !! -- Ephesians 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly [exactly, accurately, diligently], not as fools, but as wise; Colossians 4:5 ** Walk in wisdom ** toward them that are without, redeeming [to make wise and sacred use of every opportunity for doing good] the time; James 3:17 But ** the wisdom that is from above ** is:

* first pure:

[pure - chaste - clear] 1) exciting reverence, venerable, sacred 2) pure from carnality, chaste, modest, immaculate, clean; -- [saints - Holy One] 1) most holy thing, a saint; -- [cherish] 1) to warm, keep warm 2) to cherish with tender love, to foster with tender care.

* then peaceable:

[peaceable] 1) relating to peace 2) peaceable, pacific, loving peace 3) bring peace with it, peaceful, salutary; -- [peace - one - rest - quietness] 1) a state of national tranquillity; exemption from the rage and havoc of war 2) peace between individuals, ie., harmony, discord 3) security, safety, prosperity, felicity, (because peace and harmony make and keep things safe and prosperous) 4) of the Messiah's peace, the way that leads to peace (salvation) 5) of Christianity, the tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God [SATAN'S IMPOSED "FEAR OF GOD"] 6) the blessed state of devout and upright Christians.

* gentle:

[gentle - patient - moderation] 1) seemingly suitable 2) equitable, fair, mild, gentle; -- [be like] 1) to be like.

* [and] easy to be intreated:

[easy to be intreated] 1) easily, obeying, compliant; -- [well - well done - good] 1) to be well off, fare well, prosper, acting well; -- [persuade - trust - obey - have confidence - believe - be confident] 1) persuade 1a) to persuade, ie., to induce one by words to believe 1b) to make friends of, to win one's favour, gain one's good will, or to seek to win one, strive to please one; to tranquillise 1c) to persuade unto ie., move or induce one to persuasion to do something 2) be persuaded 2a) to be persuaded, to suffer one's self to be persuaded; to be induced to believe: to have faith: in a thing; to believe; to be persuaded of a thing concerning a person 2b) to listen to, obey, yield to, comply with 3) to trust, have confidence, be confident.

* full of mercy:

[full] 1) full; in reference to persons, whose minds are as it were filled with thoughts and emotions, either good or bad; -- [mercy] 1) mercy: kindness or good will towards the miserable and the afflicted, joined with a desire to help them 1a) of men towards men: to exercise the virtue of mercy, show one's self merciful 1b) of God towards men: in general providence; the mercy and clemency of God in providing and offering to men salvation by Christ 1c) the mercy of Christ, whereby at his return to judgement he will bless true Christians with eternal life.

* and good fruits:

[good works; working the Spirit (1 Cor 12:11); MINISTRATION OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS] -- [good - good thing - that which is good - the thing which is good - well - benefit] 1) of good constitution or nature 2) useful, salutary 3) good, pleasant, agreeable, joyful, happy 4) excellent, distinguished 5) upright, honourable; -- [fruit] 1) fruit; the fruit of the trees, vines, of the fields; the fruit of one's loins, ie., his progeny, his posterity 2) that which originates or comes from something; an effect, result 2a) work, act, deed, of Christian character 2b) advantage, profit, utility 2c) praises, which are presented to God as a thank-offering 2d) to gather fruit (ie., a reaped harvest) into life eternal (as into a granary), is used in fig. discourse of those who by their labours have fitted souls to obtain eternal life.

* without partiality:

[without partiality] 1) undistinguished, unintelligible 2) without dubiousness, ambiguity or uncertainty; -- [doubt - judge - discern - contend - waver] 1) to separate, make a distinction, discriminate, to prefer 2) to learn by discrimination, to try, decide, to determine, give judgement, decide a dispute 3) to withdraw from one, desert 4) to separate one's self in a hostile spirit, to oppose, strive with dispute, contend 5) to be at variance with one's self, hesitate, doubt.

* and without hypocrisy:

[unfeigned - without dissimulation - without hypocrisy] 1) unfeigned, undisguised, sincere; -- [feign] 1) to take up another's statements in reference to what one has decided for one's self, ie., to reply, answer 2) to make answer (speak) on the stage, ie., to impersonate anyone, play a part 3) to simulate, feign, pretend.

A Developing Community

** True Intelligence ** is God's Way, utilizing the "creation imprint" designed and intended for man; intelligence beyond thought; God-made sense of self vs. conditioned/manufactured/social mythic "mind-made" sense of self [the imprisoned mind] - the mind seeks to control the situation; fear future or desire future; the mind will fuel the impulse/situation; it will project into "the now" to shape the reality -- God's mind, His very consciousness, can be, and is, ours !! -- we must acknowledge what we feel, not what we deny, in our existence; a spaciousness around what we feel, our environment [emotional; state of grace, capacity for service]; MAKING SENSE, A DEEPENING OF MIND; INNER STILLNESS, A LACK OF FEAR; SERENITY, PEACE = the whole structure of "mind-made" sense of self dies | DEPTH, SACREDNESS !!

Media culture = representable interference with reality: accommodating the camera - torrent of images and sound = numbing the mind; we collaborate with our own dumbing down: we plug-in willingly - we are part of a long running desire to find a low risk, low demand release from the problems of life ... the promise that the next "one" will provide the solution ... the "CNN effect" to produce a public opinion result, that results in government intervention; so-called "experts" recycled ad-nauseum - corporate journalists using the "we" in their questions, the collective pronoun used in questioning government officials: there is a carefully managed "news agenda" to produce a carefully managed and manufactured public opinion - the "appearance" of reporting is exposed by the "guest list", the pre-defined framework of corporate experts ... very seldom are NGO's and alternative views presented by their own; limited views are presented mostly by the corporate - a vast spectrum of diversity must be realized, a vital presentation and exchange of ideas and opinions: AN OPEN COMMONS NEEDED !! - [experts based on NPR, Talk of the Nation]

Corporate enforcement of systemic lies vs. any opposition; we must respond only by education and persuasion by example - the COG Inc.'s, "enforcement" of their defined Truth is also a falsehood, a misapplication -- God wants us to be pure and whole; He does not want us to be automatons and just obey Him, He wants us to connect with Him from the *wholeness* of ourselves [in union with God, begotten as Family] - the COG is a developing community, a community that is *loving* towards everyone and everything, a community that is "in community" with everyone and everything: ONE WITH GOD, IN WHOLENESS - IF WE EXPRESS GOD, IF WE ARE *IN* AGAPE LOVE, EXPRESSING LOVE, PURITY, AND TRUTH, ANYWHERE CAN BE, AND IS, OUR COMMUNITY - we can't change anything but ourselves, and it takes God's help to renew our minds, to override and rid ourselves of selfishness, to look after the care of someone else - every failure [or sin (our violation of God's character, the 10C)] or difficulty [or contradiction in our lives, our conduct] is an opportunity to learn and change our ways - [wholeness based on Touched By Nature, Dorothy MacLean, Shared Vision] -- we are BONDED to God by love, His love, freely given as gift.

Daniel Goleman: Ecological Intelligence

Ecological Intelligence: Do Humans Have What it Takes to Survive?

By Daniel Goleman article link

Posted on February 19, 2010 Broadway Business

The following is excerpted from the Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, published by Broadway Business, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Reprinted with permission. Copyright © 2009 by Daniel Goleman.

For over a thousand years Sher, a tiny village in Tibet, has clung to its existence despite its dire location, perched on a narrow shelf along a steep mountainside. This site on the dry Tibetan plateau gets just three inches of precipitation a year. But every drop is gathered into an ancient irrigation system. Annual temperatures average near freezing and from December through February the mercury can hover below that mark by 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

The region's sheep have extra-thick wool that holds heat remarkably well; locally spun and woven wool makes clothes and blankets that help villagers endure the excruciatingly cold winters with little heating other than a fire in the hearth.

The stone-and-wattle houses need to be reroofed every ten years, and willow trees planted along the irrigation canals provide the roofing. Whenever a branch is cut for roofing, a new one is grafted to the tree. A willow tree lasts around four hundred years, and when one dies a new one is planted. Human waste is recycled as fertilizer for herbs, vegetables, and fields of barley -- the source of the local staple, tsampa -- and for root vegetables to store for the winter.

For centuries Sher's population has stayed the same, around three hundred people. Jonathan Rose, a founder of the movement for housing that is both green and affordable and a builder himself, finds instructive lessons in the clever ways native peoples have found to survive in perilous niches like Sher. Says Rose, “That is true sustainability, when a village can survive in its ecosystem for a thousand years.”

Tibetans, of course, are not unique in their remarkable ability to find simple solutions to the daunting challenge of surviving, even thriving, in the most dire of environmental surrounds. From the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert, native peoples everywhere have survived only by understanding and exquisitely attuning themselves to the natural systems that surround them and designing ways of living that best interact with those systems. The tiny hamlet of Sher depends on three forces for its survival: sunlight, rainwater, and the wisdom to use nature's resources well.

Modern life diminishes such skills and wisdom; at the beginning of the twenty-first century, society has lost touch with what may be the singular sensibility crucial to our survival as a species. The routines of our daily lives go on completely disconnected from their adverse impacts on the world around us; our collective mind harbors blind spots that disconnect our everyday activities from the crises those same activities create in natural systems. Yet at the same time the global reach of industry and commerce means that the impacts of how we live extend to the far corners of the planet. Our species threatens to consume and befoul the natural world at a rate that far exceeds our planet's carrying capacity.

I think of the brand of wisdom that has kept that tiny Himalayan village alive for these centuries as "ecological intelligence," our ability to adapt to our ecological niche. Ecological refers to an understanding of organisms and their ecosystems, and intelligence connotes the capacity to learn from experience and deal effectively with our environment. Ecological intelligence lets us apply what we learn about how human activity impinges on ecosystems so as to do less harm and once again to live sustainably in our niche -- these days the entire planet.

Today's threats demand that we hone a new sensibility, the capacity to recognize the hidden web of connections between human activity and nature's systems and the subtle complexities of their intersections. This awakening to new possibilities must result in a collective eye opening, a shift in our most basic assumptions and perceptions, one that will drive changes in commerce and industry as well as in our individual actions and behaviors.

The Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner reinvented the way we think about IQ by arguing that there are several other varieties of intelligence besides the ones that help us do well in school, and that these other intelligences also allow us to do well in life. Gardner enumerated seven kinds, from the spatial abilities of an architect to the interpersonal aptitudes that make teachers or leaders great. Each of these intelligences, he argues, involves a unique talent or ability that helped us adapt to the challenges we faced as a species and that continues to benefit our lives.

The uniquely human ability to adapt our way of living to virtually any of the extremes of climate and geology the earth offers would certainly qualify. Pattern recognition of any kind, Gardner suggests, may have its roots in the primal act of understanding how nature operates, such as classifying what goes in which natural grouping. Such talents have been displayed by every native culture in adapting to its particular environment.

The contemporary expression of ecological intelligence extends the native naturalist's ability to categorize and recognize patterns to sciences like chemistry, physics, and ecology (among many others), applying the lenses of these disciplines to dynamic systems wherever they operate at any scale, from the molecular to the global. This knowledge about how things and nature work includes recognizing and understanding the countless ways manmade systems interact with natural ones, or what I think of as ecological intelligence. Only such an all-encompassing sensibility can let us see the interconnections between our actions and their hidden impacts on the planet, our health, and our social systems.

Ecological intelligence melds these cognitive skills with empathy for all life. Just as social and emotional intelligence build on the abilities to take other people's perspective, feel with them, and show our concern, ecological intelligence extends this capacity to all natural systems. We display such empathy whenever we feel distress at a sign of the “pain” of the planet or resolve to make things better. This expanded empathy adds to a rational analysis of cause and effect the motivation to help.

To tap into this intelligence, we need to get beyond the thinking that puts mankind outside nature; the fact is we live enmeshed in ecological systems and impact them for better or worse -- and they us. We need to discover and share among ourselves all the ways this intimate interconnectedness operates, to see the hidden patterns that connect human activity to the larger flow of nature, to understand our true impact on it, and to learn how to do better.

We face an evolutionary impasse: the ways of thinking that in the ancient past guided our innate ecological intelligence were well suited to the harsh realities of prehistory. It was enough that we had a natural urge to gobble as many sugars and fats as we could find to fatten ourselves against the next famine, sufficient that our olfactory brain would ensure that toxins triggered nausea and disgust in response to spoiled food, and that our neural alarm circuits made us run from predators. That hardwired savvy brought our species to the threshold of civilization.

But ensuing centuries have blunted the survival skills of the billions of individuals who live amid modern technologies. Career pressures drive us to master hyperspecialized expertise and in turn to depend on other specialists for tasks beyond our realm. Any of us may excel in a narrow range, but we all depend on the skills of experts-farmers, software engineers, nutritionists, mechanics-to make life work for us. We no longer can rely on our astute attunement to our natural world nor the passing on through generations of the local wisdom that lets native peoples find ways to live in harmony with their patch of the planet.

Ecologists tell us that natural systems operate on multiple scales. At the macro level there are global biogeochemical cycles, like that for the flow of carbon, where shifts in the ratios of elements can be measured not just over the years but over centuries and geologic ages. The ecosystem of a forest balances the entwined interplay of plant, animal, and insect species, down to the bacteria in soil, each finding an ecological niche to exploit, their genes evolving together. At the micro level cycles run their course on a scale of millimeters or microns, in just seconds.

How we perceive and understand all this makes the crucial difference. “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way,” wrote the poet William Blake two centuries ago. “Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees.”

When it comes to seeing nature, these differences in perception have huge consequences. A polar bear stranded on an ice drift or a vanishing glacier offer powerful symbols of the perils we face from global warming. But the inconvenient truths don't stop there -- only our collective ability to perceive them does. We need to sharpen the resolution and broaden the range of our lens on nature, to see how synthetic chemicals disrupt the cells of an endocrine system as well as the slow rising of ocean levels.

We have no sensors nor any innate brain system designed to warn us of the innumerable ways that human activity corrodes our planetary niche. We have to acquire a new sensitivity to an unfamiliar range of threats, beyond those our nervous system's alarm radar picks up -- and learn what to do about them. That's where ecological intelligence enters the picture.

The neocortex, the thinking brain, evolved as our most versatile neural tool for survival -- what the hardwired reflexive circuits of our brain cannot help us understand, the neocortex can discover, comprehend, and marshal as needed. We can learn the now hidden consequences of what we do, and what to do about them-and so cultivate an acquired ability to compensate for the weakness of our pre-programmed ways of perceiving and thinking.

The variety of ecological intelligence humanity so urgently needs demands that this generalist zone work along with the brain's prededicated modules for alarm, fear, and disgust. Nature designed the olfactory cortex to navigate a natural universe of odors we rarely encounter today; the amygdala's neural web for alarm innately recognizes with effectiveness only a limited -- and largely antiquated -- range of danger. Those hardwired areas are not easily reprogrammed, if at all. But our neocortex -- through what we intentionally learn -- can compensate for our natural blind spots.

Smells are just combinations of volatile molecules wafting from some object and reaching our nose. Our olfactory brain assigns a positive or negative valence, separating the desirable from the repulsive, the putrified meat from the fresh bread. But life now requires learning that the scent of newly applied paint or that distinctive aroma in a just-bought car comes from volatile, manmade chemical compounds, which act like low-grade toxins in our body and should be avoided. Likewise we need to acquire a learned early warning system for toys laden with lead and gases that pollute the air we breathe, and to dread toxic chemicals in our foods that we cannot taste or see. But we can “know” these are dangers only indirectly, through scientific findings -- a different order of knowing. What may eventually become a learned emotional reaction must begin with intellectual comprehension.

Ecological intelligence allows us to comprehend systems in all their complexity, as well as the interplay between the natural and man-made worlds. But that understanding demands a vast store of knowledge, one so huge that no single brain can store it all. Each one of us needs the help of others to navigate the complexities of ecological intelligence. We need to collaborate.

Psychologists conventionally view intelligence as residing within an individual. But the ecological abilities we need in order to survive today must be a collective intelligence, one that we learn and master as a species, and that resides in a distributed fashion among far-flung networks of people. The challenges we face are too varied, too subtle, and too complicated to be understood and overcome by a single person; their recognition and solution require intense efforts by a vastly diverse range of experts, businesspeople, activists -- by all of us. As a group we need to learn what dangers we face, what their causes are, and how to render them harmless, on the one hand, and, on the other, to see the new opportunities these solutions offer -- and we need the collective determination to do all this.

Evolutionary anthropologists recognize the cognitive abilities required for shared intelligence as a distinctly human ability, one that has been crucial to helping our species survive its earliest phases. The most recent addition to the human brain includes our circuitry for social intelligence, which allowed early humans to use complex collaboration to hunt, parent, and survive. Today we need to make the most of these same capacities for sharing cognition to survive a new set of challenges to our survival.

A collective, distributed intelligence spreads awareness, whether among friends or family, within a company, or through an entire culture. Whenever one person grasps part of this complex web of cause and effect and tells others, that insight becomes part of the group memory, to be called on as needed by any single member. Such shared intelligence grows through the contributions of individuals who advance that understanding and spread it among the rest of us. And so we need scouts, explorers who alert us to ecological truths we have either lost touch with or newly discover.

Large organizations embody such a distributed intelligence. In a hospital a lab technician does one set of jobs well, a surgical nurse another, and a radiologist still another; coordinating all these skills and knowledge allows patients to receive sound care. In a company the sales, marketing, finance, and strategic planning departments each represent unique expertise, the parts operating as a whole via a coordinated, shared understanding.

The shared nature of ecological intelligence makes it synergistic with social intelligence, which gives us the capacity to coordinate and harmonize our efforts. The art of working together effectively, as mastered by a star performing team, combines abilities like empathy and perspective taking, candor and cooperation, to create person-to-person links that let information gain added value as it travels. Collaboration and the exchange of information are vital to amassing the essential ecological insights and necessary database that allow us to act for the greater good.

The way insects swarm suggests another sense in which ecological intelligence can be distributed among us. In an ant colony no single ant grasps the big picture or leads the other ants (the queen just lays eggs); instead each ant follows simple rules of thumb that work together in countless ways to achieve self-organizing goals. Ants find the shortest route to a food source with simple hardwired rules such as following the strongest pheromone trail. Swarm intelligence allows a larger goal to be met by having large numbers of actors follow simple principles. None of the actors needs to direct the group's efforts to achieve the overall goal, nor is there any need for a centralized director.

When it comes to our collective ecological goals, the swarm rules might boil down to:

1. Know your impacts.

2. Favor improvements.

3. Share what you learn.

Such a swarm intelligence would result in an ongoing upgrade to our ecological intelligence through mindfulness of the true consequences of what we do and buy, the resolve to change for the better, and the spreading of what we know so others can do the same. If each of us in the human swarm follows those three simple rules, then together we might create a force that improves our human systems. No one of us needs to have a master plan or grasp all the essential knowledge. All of us will be pushing toward a continuous improvement of the human impact on nature.

Signs of the dawning of this shift in collective consciousness are amply visible globally, from executive teams working to make their companies' operations more sustainable to neighborhood activists distributing reusable cloth shopping bags to replace plastic ones -- wherever people are engaged in creating a way of interacting with nature that transforms our propensities for short term trade-offs into a long-term, saner relationship. High- profile investigations into the innumerable dangers human activity poses to our planet's ecosystems, like the growing study of global warming, are a bare beginning. Such efforts help raise our sense of urgency. But we can't stop there. We need to gather the on-the-ground, detailed, and sophisticated data that can guide our actions. That takes a thorough and ongoing analysis, determined discipline -- and the pursuit of ecological intelligence.

Daniel Goleman is author of Ecological Intelligence published by Broadway Business, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.

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Michael Shermer: Why Belief in God Is Innate

Why Belief in God Is Innate

By MICHAEL SHERMER article link

APRIL 10, 2010 WSJ LIFE & STYLE

According to Oxford University Press's "World Christian Encyclopedia," 84% of the world's population belongs to some form of organized religion. That equals 5.7 billion people who belong to about 10,000 distinct religions, each of which may be further subdivided and classified. Christians, for example, may be apportioned among over 33,000 different denominations. Among the many binomial designations granted our species (Homo sapiens, Homo ludens, Homo economicus), a strong case could be made for Homo religiosus. And Americans are among the most religious members of the species. A 2007 Pew Forum survey of over 35,000 Americans found the following percentages of belief:

God or a universal spirit 92%

Heaven 74%

Hell 59%

Scripture is word of God 63%

Miracles 79%

So powerful is the belief that there must be something else out there that even 21% of those who identified themselves as atheists and 55% of those who identified themselves as agnostics expressed a belief in God or a universal spirit.

Why do so many people believe in God? Although there is much cultural variation among different religious faiths, all have in common the belief in supernatural agents in the form of God, gods or spirits who have intention and interact with us in the world. Four lines of evidence point to the conclusion that such beliefs are hard-wired into our brains.

In his 1871 book, "The Descent of Man," Charles Darwin noted that anthropologists conclude that "a belief in all-pervading spiritual agencies seems to be universal; and apparently follows from a considerable advance in the reasoning powers of man, and from a still greater advance in his faculties of imagination, curiosity and wonder." Why would religion and belief in God evolve? Darwin suggested that it might accentuate group cohesiveness in the competition against other groups: "There can be no doubt that a tribe including many members who, from possessing in a high degree the spirit of patriotism, fidelity, obedience, courage and sympathy, were always ready to aid one another, and to sacrifice themselves for the common good, would be victorious over most other tribes; and this would be natural selection [of the group]."

Around 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, as bands and tribes began to coalesce into chiefdoms and states even before the invention of government, religion was the first social institution to codify moral behaviors into ethical principles. God evolved as the ultimate enforcer of the rules.

Human universals are traits shared by all peoples, such as tool use, myths, sex roles, social groups, aggression, gestures, grammar and phonemes. Many are related to religion and belief in God, including: anthropomorphizing animals and objects, belief in the supernatural, beliefs and rituals about death, and beliefs about fortune and misfortune. Although such universals are not totally controlled by genes alone (almost nothing is), there are good reasons to believe that there is a strong genetic predisposition for these traits to be expressed within their respective cultures. That is, your culture may dictate which God to believe in, but the belief in a supernatural agent who operates in the world is universal to all cultures because it is hard-wired in the brain.

Several studies on twins support this conclusion. In one study of 53 pairs of identical twins and 31 pairs of fraternal twins, each reared apart, researchers at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis looked at five different measures of religiosity and found that the correlations between identical twins were typically double those for fraternal twins. The finding suggests that genetic factors account for approximately half of the observed variance in their measures of religious beliefs.

This finding was corroborated by two much larger twin studies out of Australia (involving 3,810 pairs of twins) and England (involving 825 pairs of twins), which compared identical and fraternal twins on numerous measures of beliefs and social attitudes. The researchers concluded that approximately 55% of the variance in religious attitudes appears to be genetic.

They also concluded that people who grow up in religious families who themselves later become religious do so mostly because they have inherited a disposition, from one or both parents, to resonate positively with religious sentiments. Without such a genetic disposition, the religious teachings of parents appear to have few lasting effects.

Of course, genes do not determine whether one chooses Judaism, Catholicism, Islam or any other religion. Rather, belief in supernatural agents (God, angels, demons) and commitment to certain religious practices (church attendance, prayer, rituals) appears to reflect genetically based cognitive processes (inferring the existence of invisible agents) and personality traits (respect for authority, traditionalism).

Why did we inherit this tendency? Long, long ago, in a Paleolithic environment far, far away from the modern world, humans evolved to find meaningful causal patterns in nature to make sense of the world, and infuse many of those patterns with intentional agency, some of which became animistic spirits and powerful gods. I call these two processes patternicity (the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaningless data) and agenticity (the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, intention and agency).

Imagine that you are a hominid on the planes of Africa and you hear a rustle in the grass. Is it a dangerous predator or just the wind? If you assume the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator and it is just the wind, you have made a Type I error (a false positive), but to no harm. But if you believe the rustle is just the wind when it is a dangerous predator, you have made a Type II error (a false negative) and there's a good chance you'll be lunch and thereby removed from your species' gene pool. Because we are poor at discriminating between false positives and false negatives, and because the cost of making a Type I error is much lower than making a Type II error, there was a natural selection for those hominids who tended to believe that all patterns are real and potentially dangerous. This is the basis for the belief not only in God, but in souls, spirits, ghosts, demons, angels, intelligent designers and all manner of invisible agents intending to harm us or help us.

Of course, there is a big difference between an inanimate force (the wind) and an intentional agent (the dangerous predator). Most animals can make this distinction on the superficial life-or-death level, but we do something other animals do not do. As large-brained hominids with a developed cortex, we have a Theory of Mind—the capacity to be aware of such mental states as desires and intentions in both ourselves and others. We "read minds" by projecting ourselves into someone else's shoes (as in empathy) or by imagining someone out to get us (as in fear).

Theory of Mind is part of a larger mind-brain dualism, in which we tend to think of the mind as something separate from the brain. We speak of "my body" as if "my" and "body" are dissimilar. We revel in books and films that are dualistic, as in Kafka's "Metamorphosis" in which a man falls asleep and wakes up as a cockroach with the man's personality intact inside it, or in the movie "Freaky Friday" where mother and daughter trade bodies with their essences unbroken. This belief in mind and essence is a byproduct of the brain's inability to perceive itself. Thus, we can "de-center" ourselves and imagine, say, being on a beach in Hawaii, which most people tend to see from above looking down on themselves as if out of their bodies.

Gods are agents and agents are essences, and agenticity is everywhere. Subjects watching reflective dots move about in a darkened room (especially if the dots take on the shape of two legs and two arms) infer that they represent a person or intentional agent. Children believe that the sun can think, and in pictures often add a smiley face to give agency to sol. A third of transplant patients believe that the donor's personality or essence is transplanted with the organ, and studies show that most people say that they would never wear the sweater of a murderer, but that they would wear the cardigan sweater of the children's television host Mr. Rogers, believing that it would make them better persons.

We believe in the supernatural because we believe in the natural and we cannot discriminate between the two. We create gods because we are natural-born supernaturalists, driven by our tendency to find meaningful patterns and impart to them intentional agency. The gods will always be with us because they are hard-wired into our brains.

Michael Shermer is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University and the author of "The Mind of the Market."

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Gregory Paul: Why Belief in God Is Not Innate

Why Belief in God Is Not Innate

By GREGORY PAUL article link

APRIL 10, 2010 WSJ ESSAY

It has become fashionable to assert that, far from being dead, belief in God is so deeply ingrained in the human psyche that it is universal and perpetual. This opinion influences the thinking of theists and scientists alike.

In "Jesus Was a Liberal: Reclaiming Christianity for All," theologian Scotty McLennen contends that because humans are hard-wired for religion, it must be reformed rather than refuted to better fit the modern world. The hypothesis that people are genetically preprogrammed to be pious because it confers a selective advantage that enhances reproductive success is advocated by Nicholas Wade in "The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures." The Templeton Foundation and Oxford University have announced a multimillion-dollar project intended to answer why religion is pervasive. Yet a growing body of psychosociological research has already overturned conventional wisdom as it uncovers the actual leading cause of popular faith: dysfunctional socioeconomic conditions.

If a behavior is such a core means of survival that it must be strongly genetically fixed, then it will be truly universal. DNA preprograms humans to learn language so well that by age 5, children engage in intelligible conversations. The fully opposable thumbs that make humans distinct from other primates evolved for the materialism that more than anything else pushes the ambition and achievement that drives civilization. Around the globe language flourishes and the vast majority craves material goods; they are genuinely universal.

The same cannot be said about popular religiosity, which is highly variable in ways that have important implications for human societies and the nature of belief. According to Gallup and other surveys, the number of Americans who believe in something paranormal (eight in 10) is about the same as those who believe in God. However, it is the latter opinion that counts in the cultural and political wars.

How consistent is serious religious worship in humans? Even in hunter-gatherers there is remarkable divergence. While the !Kung bushmen of southwestern Africa have a well-developed complex of beliefs, the Hadza of eastern Africa have minimal religion that does not include belief in an afterlife. Religion is easily cast off in the face of modernity. Among Western nations, religion is a strong majority influence only in the U.S. In other advanced democracies, religion is in such sharp decline that majorities are skeptical that there is a God in some Western European countries, including France and Denmark, as well as Japan. Church attendance fell rapidly in Europe in the closing decades of the last century, declining up to sixfold in nations like Belgium and Holland. Phil Zuckerman's "A Society Without God" shows how many Western Europeans casually and nonideologically dismiss the possibility of gods or an afterlife. British sociologist Steve Bruce has shown that Western de-Christianization has not been countered by a commensurate rise in alternative beliefs. And surveys have shown that Western scientists are more atheistic than the general public.

The loss of faith in advanced nations has often been dismissed as an aberration in a human sea of piety, but it is a sociological gold mine that provides the critical information needed to solve the religion puzzle. The only one of the big religions making proportional gains on the global scene is Islam, largely because of rapid reproduction. Christianity has been stuck at a third of the planetary population for a century. The nonreligious are the only group able to expand by large-scale conversion. In the Western world hundreds of millions have lost their belief in religion since the world wars despite the absence of atheist organizations comparable to the churches that work to maintain the faith.

Because the popularity of spirituality is so variable and subject to loss, it cannot be as strongly genetically programmed as its frequent nadir, materialism. There is, therefore, no "God Gene" that compels almost all to have faith in the gods. Nor is a "God Module" in our brains making us all believe. Because the number of nonbelievers is growing, fear of death or hell and desire for a blissful afterlife cannot be the crucial factors either. The same is true when it comes to a desire for social community, otherwise churches would be packed. That means the primary determinants of the popularity of faith must be found in the human environment.

It has long been known that prosperity and security tend to suppress religiosity—that's why the Bible warns against the spiritual dangers posed by material wealth. But even though the U.S. has nearly the highest per capita income in the world, it is about twice as religious as the Western norm, according to the Pew Research Center.

As shown by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart in their classic work, "Sacred and Secular," and confirmed in subsequent studies, there is a strong correlation between higher levels of income disparity and greater religiosity in prosperous democracies. To investigate this correlation, I constructed the Successful Societies Scale, a uniquely comprehensive comparison of socioeconomic conditions in the Western world. In every prosperous democracy that features universal health care, job and retirement security, and low levels of social ills such as homicide, incarceration, juvenile and adult mortality, divorce and so forth, the middle-class majority has abandoned the churches in droves because they no longer feel the need to seek the protection and assistance of supernatural powers.

The U.S. has the highest financial inequality, is the only Western country without universal health coverage and scores the lowest on the Successful Societies Scale. In no other advanced democracy are cities afflicted by such high rates of murder and juvenile mortality, or are ordinary citizens subject to sudden financial ruin because of overwhelming medical bills.

That the popularity of faith is largely a side effect of socioeconomic conditions means that other factors play secondary roles if any. The harsh conditions suffered by early humans had more to do with the initial development of supernatural beliefs than did genes. In the 21st century most people continue to care much more about the mundane but vital issues of their daily lives that really drive their opinions than they do about grand ideological wars—there is little doubt that if Americans lived under socioeconomic conditions more like those in Canada we would be similarly irreligious, and there would be no intense culture war.

As it is American religion is showing signs of distress. Pew finds that only one in two Americans have no doubt that a personal God exists, and estimates that the U.S. already is half as religious as some less prosperous nations. Bible literalists have swiftly declined from four in 10 around 1980 to less than three in 10. According to the classic Gallup "do you believe in God or a universal spirit" question, nonbelievers have tripled since the 1960s, and surveys designed to overcome Americans' reluctance to admit nontheism indicate that skeptics may match Catholics or evangelicals in numbers.

If America becomes increasingly secular, the country can be expected to adopt social and financial policies that encourage further secularization. Faith is proving unable to thrive in well-run democracies, and its abandonment can occur with startling speed when conditions become good enough.

Gregory Paul is an independent researcher and consultant whose work on the interaction of religion and society has appeared in Evolutionary Psychology, the Journal of Religion and Society, and Philosophy and Theology.

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Religious Belief: An Evolved Behavior

Evolutionary Psychology

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Religious Belief: An Evolved Behavior

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A review of Jay R. Feierman (Ed.), The Biology of Religious Behavior: The Evolutionary Origins of Faith and Religion. ABC-CLIO, LLC: Santa Barbara, CA, 2009, 301 pp., US$49.50, ISBN 978-0-313-36431-0 (hardcover).

Hiram Caton, PhD, DLitt; P.O. Box 90, Halifax 4850, Australia Email: hcaton3@itnq.com.au

When and where our species developed religion we don’t yet know. The social maturity that might have supported religion is believed to have arisen with Cro-Magnon man, who flourished in Europe and Asia 35,000-20,000 years ago, alongside Neanderthal. The genetics and appearance of Cro-Magnon were like our own; Neanderthal was not. Cro-Magnon was well equipped with the artifacts: clothing, artistic jewelry, tools and artifacts, and burial of the dead. There is something else: elaborate paintings, mostly of large hunted animals in caves located in France and Germany. Caves are pitch-black places, yet these paintings are stunningly accurate, which required high quality “candles.” On the current count, there are more than 2,000 depictions in dozens of caves.

Jay R. Feierman’s collection of essays, 15 in number, is a splendid effort to show how religion evolved and how it creates the identity of religious communities. It also explores the psychological mechanisms of religious belief. Four essays attend to the description of religious behavior, and four more to its adaptiveness. Three essays investigate the causes of religious behavior, and two describe the development of religious behavior in the individual. One essay, “The Evolutionary History of Behavior,” authored by Feierman, is his effort at a comprehensive perspective on religion. His evolution mechanism is (of course) natural selection. The key religious attribute is submission in the sense of Make-Thyself-Small, well illustrated by the Muslim prayer posture (pp. 76, 81). Prayer, he proposes, is the origin of religion (p. 81).

Dominance and submission, Feierman notes, are a behavior expressed by widely across vertebrate and invertebrate species; hence they would have been well established in Homo sapiens prior to its specialization as prayer. What were the conditions that prompted selection for prayer? The stimulus of reproductive behavior would have been among them. Religions stipulate extensive rules for mating; consequently we should hope to find the change in mating that evolved prayer as religious submission. But there is very little regularity in the mating practices and rules of religious groups, which range from celibacy to polygamy. There is also marked variation, within and between religions, in the number of offspring encouraged. Where, then, are the data showing that populations that developed prayer behavior out-reproduced those that did not, because of the reproductive benefits of prayer? Or to put it another way: the hypothesis that prayer is beneficial implies that religious groups out-populate non- or less religious groups. Yet there are religious groups that control their population to small numbers. What is the evolutionary advantage in this case?

Let me turn now to three essays grouped under the heading, the causes of religious behavior. Two of them, Michael McGuire and Lionel Tiger’s “The Brain and Religious Adaptations” and Burgess C. Wilson’s “Mirror Neurons, Culture, and Spirit” are written by psychiatrists. The third, “Is Religious Behavior ‘Internally Guided’ by Religious Feelings and Needs?”, is authored by Lluis Oviedo, a theologian. McGuire and Tiger examine the neurology of an effect called “brainsoothing.” Brainsoothing can be stimulated in many ways—relaxing, taking a holiday, visiting a spa. Its adaptive outcomes include improved health and longevity. It is needed to off-set or undo the effects of stress that trigger biochemical reactions that prepare a person to cope. This happens thanks to a series of biochemical reactions that release hormones which prime the body for action and muscle tension. Should the stress persist, an aversive condition involving nervousness, fear, sleeplessness, and emotional instability occur. Beliefs are cognitive-emotional systems that organize thought and behavior. Since stress is a continuing condition for humans, one response is religious belief that counter-acts stress by brainsoothing that substitutes happy thoughts for stressful predicament. How is this known? By EEG (electroencephalogram), PET (positive emission tomography) scans, and fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging). Religion is not the only brainsoother. Positive beliefs on any topic activate the prefrontal cortex. But “what is special about religion is its predictable soothing influence on brain activity and chemistry as well as its improbable ubiquity” (p. 128). Critical to this analysis are the well-known effects of the brain hormones that change and affect feelings: serontonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and, oxytocin. Since the manipulation of these hormones achieves therapeutic benefits that are well known, McGuire and Tiger apply these findings to religious rituals and beliefs. They report that “many rituals are accompanied by an increase in cerebral blood flow to the amygdala and prefrontal cortex and enhanced cognitive focus” (p. 131). The beneficial effects of rituals are short-lived; hence their repetition is a key ingredient in religious practice. Religious belief, by contrast, provides a comprehensive or holistic overview of the dilemmas of life, death, and individual or small group disasters. McGuire and Tiger report that “pleasant beliefs of the afterlife correlate positively with improved mental health” (p. 133). How fear of eternal punishment factors into this scenario isn’t discussed

Wilson’s essay on mirror neurons and their relation to religion, or at least to animism, assesses the extensive literature. The “mirroring” function is that the neuron fires when the individual acts and when it observes the action performed by another (it was discovered in macaque monkeys in the 1990s). It seems that the system provides the mechanism for perception-action integration. Thus, mirror neurons facilitate understanding the actions of others, and learning new skills by imitation. It is critical to Wilson’s argument that mirror systems simulate observed actions, and thus contribute to the “theory of mind.” That is, “the individual arrives at a mental attribution by simulating or reproducing in his or her own mind the same state as the target’s . . .” (p. 158). This process is automatic and unconscious. However, it occurs within belief systems that convert the unconscious attribution to belief in spirit, which is “the biological basis for animism” (p. 158). Non-human objects to which agency has been attributed elicit prosocial behaviors that in turn promote survival. However, Wilson reminds us that significant cultural differences must be considered. Contemporary secular culture “views animism as foreign or illogical . . . and may reduce or inhibit inanimate form’s capacity to activate the mirror neuron system” (p. 163). Nevertheless, since activation of mirror neurons can provide “feelings of spiritual connectedness” so that “there arises the felt experience of an allpowerful ever present spiritual being, underpinning and promoting monotheistic religion” (p. 163). I’m not sure what to make of this. Christians and Muslims number in the billions. Add Buddhists and Hindus, and one is reminded that our secular culture mingles with a variety of specific religious beliefs, not merely a monotheistic preference. More important still is that our secular culture fictionalizes science in a high prestige industry, and in this genre, the animation of machines is common place, as we see in Star Wars, the X-Files, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and in the Harry Potter films. Wilson’s claim that Western children’s tendency to animation “is lost by adulthood” clashes with these facts. A piquant counter-example is the transformation of a computer (Hal 9000) into a person and back again into a machine in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001.

More generally, the IT industry fervently promotes the integration of the latest machines with new owners. How is this related to evolution? Wilson believes that religion, primitive and advanced, is a high cost commitment and accordingly, if nature were efficient, an inhibiting mechanism would have evolved (p. 165). However, Wilson believes that a more detailed consideration of primitive cultures’ interaction with their natural environment turns the evidence around in favor the animistic tendency (p. 167). This conclusion is obtained by a comparison of the natural selection efficiency of two hunter-gatherer cultures in Mexico (p. 165). Is this sufficient, since there are thousands of now vanished hunter-gatherer cultures? To identify just what in their respective ecological niches negated their fitness lies well beyond accessible data; under that condition we cannot demonstrate the evolution of religion.

Lluis Oviedo, a professor of theological anthropology at the Catholic university in Rome, has written a concise summary to show that religious beliefs and behaviors cannot be reduced to evolutionary explanations, especially to natural selection. His point of departure is not an appeal to emotional-cognitive traits of religions, but to the expansion of recent evolutionary thought beyond the reductionist paradigm. A classic statement of this position is Jerry Fodor’s article, “Against Darwinism,” but other authors he cites include Joan Roughgarden, John Dupré, and Anthony O’Hear. Once the reductionist perspective is exchanged for the more comprehensive perspectives of the authors just mentioned, Oviedo speaks of religion as universal and adaptive, driven by the instincts of moral solidarity, and resistance to fear of death. That however is only the beginning, for he introduces “internally guided” religious feelings that evolutionists tend to avoid: wonder, forgiveness, internal peace, love, hope, transcendence (p. 150). These internal feelings are expressed in the monumental art created by religions, which was first visible in Cro-Magnon cave paintings. Oviedo outlines three procedures for testing his hypothesis of the mind’s resistance to reductionist explanation (pp. 152-153). But there’s something missing: the “Them and Us” distinction, or more generally, conflict and war. Are religious wars (and lesser conflicts) independent of the evolutionary struggle for existence? Given their scale and frequency, their independence would negate an evolutionary theory of religion. This problemneed to be paired with another: Oviedo doesn’t discuss the relationship between reproductive systems within and between religions and their evolution, even though this is critical to an evolutionary analysis. The available data are probably not sufficient to answer these questions.

My review has discussed only four of 15 very thoughtful chapters. My apologies to the undiscussed authors, but let me use that apology to urge readers to read Feierman’s outstanding edited volume.

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Reclamation Of Mind 1

Reclamation of Mind: Open_Notes 1

reclaim vt. [ME reclaimen; OFr reclamer; L reclamare, to cry out against] 1. to rescue or bring back (a person or people) from error, vice, etc., to ways of living or thinking regarded as right; reform. 2. to make (wasteland, desert, etc.) capable of being cultivated or lived on, as by filling, ditching, or irrigating. 3. to recover (useful materials) from waste products. 4. [Obs.] to tame or subdue.] - reclaim vt. [to claim back; demand the return or restoration of; try to get back] -- the [Reclamation] of Mind n. [Fr reclamation; L reclamatio] 1. a reclaiming or being reclaimed; esp., the recovery of wasteland, desert, etc. by ditching, filling, or irrigating. 2. the process or industry of obtaining useful materials from waste products.

Mind - Mental (biosphere, garden) Composition, Landscape, Climate:

Mental Composition: metamorphic (pressure), sedimentary (deposit), igneous (fire)(spiritual) rock:

* Metamorphic - change of character, form, nature; transformation; the deeper the awareness, the more pressure (wisdom and responsibility) is felt and the harder (ark; to hold depth of being; tempered) you become; deep seated, pressing needs and wants.

* Sedimentary - formed by deposit of sediment, layered; some types of learning are prerequisites to other kinds of learning - the sequence of instruction; layered (historical, personal) experience.

* Igneous - modified by intense heat, volcanic action; personal (emotional) crisis, trauma.

* Sand - eroded or crushed rock - shifting sands, winds of change; at the behest of outside elements, agencies.

* Minerals - veins of thought; cognition wiring; needed for proper growth and functioning; vessel (ark) composition (usually crystalline) to hold "depth of being" - Psalms 31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel - 2 Timothy 2:20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood (mazer) and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

* Gems - character development, traits (precious, semi-precious); crystallized learning, to give a definite form to (the world's broken symmetry); crystal = developed forms bounded by definitely oriented plane surfaces that are harmonious with their internal structures; crystalline structure variations; crystal system = any of the seven groups classified on the basis of the relationship of their crystallographic axis (imaginary lines of reference used to describe the crystal planes).

- facet - [fr. facette, face; sides, aspects of personality, character; the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem] cut by the two-edged sword to reflect God's light.

- gem [L gemma, a swelling, bud, precious stone 1 a cut and polished gemstone or pearl 2 anything prized for its beauty and value, esp. if small and perfect of its kind 3 a highly valued person].

- gemara[Heb-Aram gemara; Aram gemara, lit. study, learning; verb root gmr, to finish].

Reclamation of Mind: Open_Notes 2

Mind (Spiritual Garden of Eden) watered (nourished) becomes fertile for life - mind (unnourished) = drought (mind baked/consumed from the wild fires within) - every human being must ignite the spark (gift at conception - the human spirit, mind) - but you must control the fire (tongue of fire -instinct/passions) or the fires in the mind of man will consume you - mind must be refined (freed from impurities/polished) and tempered (to bring to the right degree of hardness by heating and cooling) - heating and cooling achieved by the "physical/spiritual fires" and the "water of life" - knowledge and responsibility (God's living active Laws) feeds, nourishes the mind to achieve the proper temperature for refinement - anneal vt. annealer n. [ME anelen; OE anaelan, to burn; an-, on + aelan, to burn; al, ael, fire; 1 Obs. to fire or glaze, as in a kiln 2 to heat (glass, metals, etc.) and then cool them slowly to prevent brittleness 3 to strengthen and temper (the mind, will, etc.)].

Refined/Tempered Mind = Fiery Stones (Mynd) = Spiritual Alchemy -- Alchemist - Philosopher's STONE (Christ the Word); TouchSTONE = Christ's righteousness (our example - any test or criterion for determining genuineness or value) -- Alchemy - its chief aims were to turn base metals into gold and silver (character) - 1 to discover the elixir of perpetual youth (water of life) 2 a method or power of transmutation; esp. the seemingly miraculous change of a thing into something better (beget, to acquire; begotten)].

Mind must open and become a vessel (Ark) for "depth of being" - the more depth achieved, the more refined/tempered the vessel must become to hold the depth (God mind/wisdom) and the weight (dominion/responsibility) - man making himself god (becoming a law unto himself) ignites the wild fires (instinct/passions) which out of control consume the mind - man's passions released (becoming law themselves) burns hot in the mind of man and consumes (the vessel becomes brittle) - the less the refinement, the more shallow the depth of being, and the less from the Fountain of Life he/she can drink to quench the fires of the mind and therefore the mind is less tempered and nourished.

Reclamation of Mind: Open_Notes 3

Mental Landscape:

* Terrafirma - firm earth, good earth, solid foundation (composition).

* Terracotta - baked earth (pottery, earthen vessels).

* Terraincognita - 1. an unknown land; unexplored territory; 2. an unknown or unexplored field of knowledge.

* Tectonics = the art of making things that have both beauty and usefulness - construction, building, architecture (terraforming); plates and layers of (spiritual) rock.

* Plate Tectonics - forces of (crustal structure) deformation - molten rock (emotional fires within).

* Deep-seated eruptions (urges, emotions) - volcano's.

* Intrusion n. intrusive adj. - [forced (invasion) into or between other (solid) rocks while in a molten state; 2 formed of such rock; the body of rock resulting from such invasion].

* Earthquakes (shaken in mind) vs. mental terrain, landscape.

* Chasm - a deep surface crack, abyss, any break or gap (a wide divergence of feelings, sentiments, interests, etc.; rift) - split along my fault lines.

* Caverns - gaps, voids, emptiness within.

* Tsunami (waves of thought, ie. assumption, doubt, anxiety, grief, etc.)

* Oceans of the mind - mental capacity, flowing undercurrents of mind - life support system.

Reclamation of Mind: Open_Notes 4

Mental Climate:

* Sun = light of the mind, spirit in man, (+ Holy Spirit | intensity^).

* Atmosphere of the mind - water (thought, cognition).

* Watering the mind - nutrient release; roots deep | knowledge, understanding, wisdom - good earth GRAM (Genetic Random Access Memory) - to develop (grow) character.

* Firm earth - instincts, emotions - GROM (Genetic Read Only Memory).

* Air masses (attitudes, frame of mind, outside influences, etc.)

* Cold frontal systems (heavier air, unreceptive, hard).

* Warm frontal systems (lighter air, inviting, open, kind).

* Pressure gradients - wind speed (influences, events, worries, etc.), currents, trade winds, high altitude jet streams (nervousness, pulling the top of the mind, spinning).

* Low pressure system (low tolerance, mental pressure) - cloud, storms - pressure falling - shallow/deep depression - anticlockwise rotation.

* High pressure system (high tolerance, mental pressure) - clear, sunny - clockwise rotation - running in tandem.

* Increasingly agitated, heightened mental state - global warming (emotions; ie., frustration, anger) - adiabatic lapse rate - change of temperature with height - determines convection (emotional) intensity.

* Moisture content (humidity, thought ingredients, density of mind).

* Dew point (condensation of thought, emotional awareness, attention).

* Condensation nuclei (stimuli, bits and pieces, fragments of knowledge) - particulate pollution.

* Cold air, less moisture capacity (closed mind).

* Warm air, high moisture capacity (open mind).

* Condensation (heat engine).

* MIND STORMS (differing intensities).

* Clouds - 13 types, 3 altitude levels.

* Clouds - partly (thin) scattered, scattered; partly cloudy (thin broken), cloudy (broken); thin overcast, overcast.(ME cloude, clude, orig., mass of rock, hense mass of cloud, OE clud, mass of rock).

- cumulus, cu - everyday thought, fair-weather

- stratocumulus, sc - multiple thought, flowing together

- cumulus fractus, cf - thought fractured by the winds

- stratus, st - low pressure, overcast

- nimbostratus, ns - low pressure, heavy overcast

- towering cumulus, tc - thought convection, emotions

- cumulonimbus, cb - mind storm | reaching through all levels

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- altocumulus, ac - everyday thought

- altocumulus castillanus, acc - thought convection, castles of the mind, on the defensive

- altostratus, as - low pressure, thickening, overcast

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- cirrus, ci - everyday thought, high winds

- cirrocumulus, cc - high-level instability

- cirrostratus, cs - advance of weather system, halo

Reclamation of Mind: Open_Notes 5

Mental Climate (con't):

* CB, lightening (flashes of anger) - wind shear (force, violence).

* CB, thunderstorms - anvil of the mind - overflowing, outreaching.

* Tornado (devil's finger) - wind vortex, narrow focus destruction; (rolling anger forced down into action).

* Hurricane/T (massive depression, anger) - wide focus destruction.

* Storm surge - force of depression, push, flooding the boundaries.

* Gentle rain - (drops of thought, nourishment).

* Rain storms - (overwhelming, cleansing or destructive results).

* Floods - (without reason, washout, uncontrolled, swept away).

* Snow - (rigid thought, unyielding, cold, insulating the mind).

* Ice storm, freezing rain - (bending, hvy weight, criticism, accusation).

* Hail - (layers of denial produced by emotional turmoil, destructive).

* Sand storm - (eroded, crushed rock) atmosphere choked.

* Dust storm - (firm, good earth eroded) atmosphere choked.

* Fog - a large mass of water vapour condensed to fine particles at or just above the surface; thick, obscuring mist; a similar mass of smoke, dust, etc. obscuring the atmosphere - (a state of mental dimness and confusion; blurred, bewildered state; to surround or cover with fog; perplexed, clouded).

* Clear-air turbulence - violent, unseen, irregular commotion, disorder, turmoil, unruly or boisterous behaviour - random fluctuations in wind velocity.

* Tidal forces - ebb and flow of the mind - undercurrents of thought.

* Sunburst - the sudden appearance of sunlight, as through a break in the clouds - (sudden illumination, flash of light).

* Rainbow - an arc or ring containing the colours of the spectrum in consecutive bands; formed in the sky by the refraction, reflection, and dispersion of light in rain or fog (fogbow).

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Mental Climate (con't):

* Compacted snow (solid ice, time) glaciers etching the surface.

* Chilly disposition - hot tempered - reason clouded - winds of change - to wet, moisten the appetite - bright eyes - genial climate.

* Boiling up inside (emotional intensity, instability, convection).

* Invective firestorm consuming all opposition.

* Warming up to someone, to a subject, etc. (snow melting).

* Weathering the storm | clarity (clear wx).

* Weathering the mind - wearing down, erosion.

* Weather map, forecasts (daily, long range, projection models); (batten down the hatches, window shutters, preparation, etc.).

* Huge volcanic eruptions - ash, smoke - cooling - ice ages.

* Sea level reduced by water locked into huge ice sheets.

* Deep valleys created by glaciers - mountains ground down.

* Polar ice caps - key role in driving deep ocean currents - water chilled - the cold water sinks to form a deep water current | equator - crucial role in moving heat around and regulating our climate - threatened by global warming.

* Global warming - when surface currents change they affect the whole biosphere - trade winds, rainfall, drought, increased intensities of storms, etc.

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mematrix (memory matrix), mematrices - memoro-[genetics] - mem[gene] - cubisian six-sided code, 12 i/o gates - memory building blocks - 5-sense, 7-basic-intelligence (12) + 6th sense (singularity) physical/spirit - patterns of [inheritance] memory - memorosomes [chromosomes] - memgenes - memgenes occur in linear fashion along the memorosome - they themselves are linear structures - STRINGS OF THOUGHT.

Meme:

- [meem] anything copied, ie., culture, ads (infections), songs, education, religion (virus of the mind), etc.;

- idea's, behaviours, habits, etc., like passed on gene's;

- thought savers;

- the movement of knowledge;

- meme's active, all of science meme's;

- units of culture, self-replicating, human agency, human utility;

- symbolic meanings; beauty, style, slang;

- memetic evolution, development;

- meme's in charge; masking of influence, power, control;

- [rote n. a fixed, mechanical way of doing something; routine; (thinking, meme) - by rote, by memory alone, without understanding or thought; to answer by rote];

- replicators - genes, memes | novel design;

- individual immune response (filters);

- meme's and meme copying apparatus - meme's copying themselves, ie., computers writing software, the Internet, etc.;

- [blinded by the stream (learning by books, etc., perspective, sense of history being lost by instant access to info) - no need to retain knowledge - there to retrieve again, anytime];

- meme's forcing the gene's (brain) to do their bidding, forcing the hand - yet a symbiotic relationship;

- memeticist;

- thoughts (creating form, projection of oneself in that direction, creating our own reality, design process);

- responsibility lies with the meme's.

-- ["Meme" based on NPR, author, professor Susan Blackmore, "The Meme Machine"]

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* Heterogeneous: (a kind, race) differing or opposite in structure, quality, etc., dissimilar - composed of unrelated or unlike elements or parts. [reference to MIND patterns, learning, attitudes, emotions, etc.]

* Heterogeneity/Blueprint: 01 sequencing reference points; 02 horizontal comparisons.

* Natural genetic inheritance = free moral agency.

* Mind Key - triggering mechanism = emotions/GROM.

* Mind = light waveform [light-bringer = mind-bringer] - lean into the light of the mind (noetic tropism).

* Mind Shell [physical/spiritual] frequency unique to the individual.

* Mind/sub-conscience - Mind/conscience - Mind/over-conscience.

* Mind - intelligence amplitude - knowledge +/- quality/quantity.

* Physical/Spiritual frequency not in tune - life is fine tuning = SONA.

* New knowledge/influence - retuning the mind/receptability - variable +/- factors.

* Superimposition (overlay) of perceptions alter the mind - [religious code, blue print, grid work].

* Congregation (fellowship) = harmonization +/- emotional fires.

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* Human brain = hardware for spiritual mind shells - Nine(9) intelligences.

* Emotions are the glue/binding force, +/- catalysists.

* Human mind ac/dc (alternating/direct current).

* Emotional focus/dc - the key to open/close mind partitions (doors).

* Human mind/parallel - emotions/series.

* Learning - [spiritual] molecules - building a matrix/intelligences - molecular shells - spiritual molecules of thought.

* Mind - simplex | complex.

* Awareness - inward/outward reflection.

* Each human being is a spiritual reflection of creation in progress.

* GROM:

- Motives of behaviour - Religion/GROM enhancer, identity quest;

- Genetic Inheritance [Nature/Nurture] = GINN/ROM = GROM;

- Predestination = Genetic Inheritance GINN/ROM [preordination].

* GRAM:

- Development from birth to come into tune (music soul) with GROM;

- the development of the individual/personality traits;

- Product of heredity/education/society (environment) raised in.

* GCOV:

- GROM/Nature + GRAM/Nurture;

- Individuals of an indivisible race.

* (immortality)

- physical = GINN/ROM passed to next generation.

- spiritual = Mind [GCOV, Human Spirit]; = SONA [GCOV + Holy Spirit].

* Learning [GRAM] and instinct [GROM] are partners.

* The process of learning is often initiated and controlled by instinct.

* Learning is often innately [innately guided humanism] guided by information inherent in the genetic make-up.

* Most are preprogrammed to learn particular things (to lean to certain subjects, areas) and to learn them in particular ways.

* Multiple personalities = multiple frequencies influenced by GROM, all unique.

* Psychic ability/mind reading = ability to fluctuate freely/harmonize frequencies.

* Astral Projection = wave extension - GROM/GRAM in sympathy.

* Channeling/Mediums = frequency almost identical/rigid harmonization.

* Telekinesis/Projection = amplitude/frequency projection.

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genetic resonance:

_MBS [mind/body/soul] [physical, spiritual genetics - Human, Holy Spirit] reSONAnce [L resonantia, an echo], expressed as perSONA (the characteristics; the outer personality or facade presented to others by an individual) - SONAnce n. 1a) a sound b) a tune 2 the quality or state of being sonant; SONAnt adj. [L SONAns, sounding, prp. of SONAre, to sound] 1 of sound 2 having sound; sounding - n Phonet. 1 a syllabic consonant 2 a voiced sound -- active (sounding) thought -- music of the soul, paradigm symphony (a harmony of sounds, harmonious composition, an extended composition for full orchestra [ennead mentation] -- [OE swinsian] to sing, make music.

sonant mentation:

(frequency; 1 the condition of being crowded 2 the fact of occurring often or repeatedly) - to express, signal, indicate, or announce; free from defect, normal and healthy; not weak, diseased or impaired; firm and safe, stable, secure; based on truth or valid reasoning; accurate, reliable, judicious, sensible; deep and undisturbed; morally strong, honest, honorable, loyal | to measure the depth, to investigate, examine, probe, explore || symposiac mentation (convivial, symposium, a conference, a collection of opinions, free exchange of ideas) ||| sonorous adj. producing or capable pf producing sound (SONA), esp. sound of full, deep, or rich quality; reSONAnt 2 full, deep, or rich; said of sound 3 having a powerful, impressive sound; HIGH sounding (HIGH knowledge) - sonority n. quality, state, or instance of being sonorous; reSONAnce -- SONA = a HIGH SOUNDING vs. a song and dance (talk, esp. an explanation, that is pointless, devious, or evasive), sophism.

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diapason n. (diapassion = SONA) [Gr symphonia, concord through all the notes] 1 the entire range of a musical instrument or voice 2 the entire range of some activity or emotion, etc. 3 a swelling burst of harmony 4 [Obs.] complete harmony; -- diapause n. a period of delayed development or growth accompanied by reduced (spiritual) metabolism and inactivity -- composition; a putting together, an arraignment of parts to form a unified, harmonious whole - the act of composing, creating by putting together a whole by combination of parts -- compose(d); to put (oneself, one's mind, etc.) in a state of tranquility or repose (to have trust; peace of mind; rest; harmony of form or color); calm; allay -- composer -- compos mentis [L] Law; of soundmind; sane -- resonate; 1 to be reSONAnt; resound 2 to produce resonance; to make resonant, 1 resounding, reechoing 2 producing resonance; increasing intensity of sounds by sympathetic vibration 3 of or in resonance.

DNA may not be a concrete code (definite form, specific) but rather a matrix [a womb, origin; that within which, or within and from which, something originates, takes form, or develops] of codes we might turn on or off through emotion (the mental cry, SONA) -- emotive triggers [love, awareness - actual opening of the mind, aiming the mind, focus (cognition+, healing, etc.); fear, hate, anger | thought chaos, cancer, disease, etc.; trauma, stress] -- generational genetic memory imprint - GROM, GRAM, GCOV - physical, spiritual triggers: subjects, events, persons, etc.

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ennead(9) mentation (EM) | 10+ mentation matrix (MM)(formative spiritual molecules, cells | dendri-growth; Geol., the rock or earthy material in which a crystal, pebble, fossil, etc. is enclosed or embedded) -- the outer world mirrors the inner conditions of our consciousness -- individual scale | physical, spiritual environment - developmental coding - EM (EQ-IQ) | MM10+ (DNA Matrix Activation; DNAMA = Healing) - EQ (emotional intelligence, quotient) underpinnings of IQ, technical skills - self-awareness (reflection, the key to EQ), empathy, social skills, motivation, etc. - strength vs. stress, impulse - EQ-IQ orchestration (physical and spiritual link) - intellection persuasion - parallel intelligences(9) - knowing and managing one's emotions, the binding of intelligence - listen, feedback, overlay - brilliance, outstanding performance - catalyst to cooperation, collaboration | communitas -- quantifier of potential = SONA expression, integrity (values manifested) - mentation sensors - relationship(s) - paradigm shift.

sensorium n. pl. -ums, -ria, the whole sensory apparatus of the body - realm of non-locality - information - quantum information fields - the human brain as instrument - whisperings from the quantum realm - information from any point in the universe instantly accessible at any other point - coordination of the larger picture - imagination - "imagine that which you cannot imagine" [-Terrance McKenna] - imagineer.

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"hands-on" touch therapy:

genetic resonance (self, family, mate vs. strangers, practitioners) - mate = exchange of genetics (fluids), spiritual link - resonance environment +/- stress, ie., family, workplace, nature, etc. - a belonging place - mate, family, friends, home, church, community, etc. - healing resonances - bonding, sexual healing - hands on love, concern - sympathetic vibration - reinforcement and prolongation of sona - echo n. [ME ecco, OE swogan, to sound, roar] sympathetic response - sonacate [sonicate vt. to subject (a cell, virus, etc.) to the energy produced by sound waves - sonication n. -sonicator n.] -- prayer (internal and external) and SONA = HEALING (DNA matrix activation - aiming the mind (matrix interface), matrix sounding | sonority) -- the Gift of the Holy Spirit = the SONA lock - bdcst link, intertwine (spiritual DNA), the progenitor embrace, safeguard | the expression.

recognize the harmonization of pain and emotion between mates, family and society - empathic (ability to share in another's emotions, thoughts, or feelings) empathy; empathetic -- we have to get beyond pain - pain threshold - pain tolerance can get worn out over time -- suppression only results in further progression of the stress causation over time.

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the genetic (individual organism) expression of the genome(-ic matrix) [environment (physical-spiritual)] = the genome_environ -- resonance spectrum - similarity in spectrum bands = likeminded -- individual genetic multi-frequencies, multi-wavelengths | spectrum = +/- intensity, +/- narrow, wide (the intensity, SONA of any radiation or motion displayed as a function of frequency, or wavelength = eccles) -- an afterimage; an underlying or pervasive quality of a particular type, (esp. in a work of art or literature, ie., an apocalyptic resonance) = persona -- sona_genetixpec = a continuous range or entire extent (the sona_genetic_specifications), who and what we are.

-- Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it - eccles frequency - ecclesia [Gr ekklesia, assembly (Heb kahal), ekkalein, to summon, ek, out + kalein, to call];

-- neccles vibration (necklace - neck-top cephalic computer - a string of beads, jewels, etc., or a chain of gold, silver, etc., worn around the neck as an ornament; SONA adornment, luster; radiance; coloratura (display of skill, singing; harmony));

-- SAGE collar (band, chain, harness; to take hold or control of; seize or capture) vs. SONA necklace.

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Originally posted October 2009 Mammon or Messiah research

MIND - Paradigm Rhyme 1

MIND - Paradigm Rhyme: Open_Notes 1

Regular recurrence of corresponding ideas - word code currents of thought, internal poetry - (re)establishing contact with oneself, empathy - cognitive therapy - common_place book [a book in which extracts, poems, aphorisms, etc. are copied down for future reference, often together with one's ideas and reflections] -- the Collective Mind / ONE -- the commonality, the foundation, the conclusions -- conceptual (rational, deductive reasoning) framework wrapped in visualization, intuitive conceptualization, and revelation.

Settlement (community mind) - responsibility; grounded vs. uprooted - containing the principle of its order within itself (Mind/Holy Spirit) - ingress n. [the act of entering 2 the right or permission to enter 3 a place or means of entering; entrance] - ingression vs. aggression (self) - deeper levels of reality - dedication past oneself - the Prepared Mind - literacy (Word of God, language, science, ie., digital literacy), -- genial adj. [L genialis, of generation or birth | genius, guardian deity; 1. orig. of marriage or procreation 2 promoting life and growth; pleasantly warm, mild, and healthful (a genial climate) 3 cheerful, friendly, and sympathetic, amiable 4 [rare] of or characterized by genius] - erudite adj. [having or showing a wide knowledge gained from reading; learned; scholarly]; erudition n. [learning acquired by reading and study; scholarship] - polymath n. polymathic adj. (great and diversified learning, knowing much) - awareness vs. assumptions, broad conclusions -- Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

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The deep joy, the purity, the integrity and satisfaction of learning - it is about being so fully present, so fully conscious, that awareness is magnified - full alignment of body, mind and spirit vs. an altered state of mind (usurped by the world, society) - ignisfatuus (ignesfatui) = [a deceptive hope, goal, or influence; delusion] - "the purpose of education is to defend ourselves against the seduction of eloquence" [-Bertrand Russell] [media literacy. critical skills] - we really only have ourselves to learn - to learn about ourselves - perceptual ability: the ability to organize total experience, which is meant to include the many physiological growth experiences that precede what is commonly considered the formal experience of learning - our own natural diversity.

Learning capacity (human spirit, Holy Spirit), ability (a steady enhancement of abilities) - the most powerful ingredient = motivation, the vision - knowledge driven and information intensive - mind to mind - reinvent yourself as a destination for new knowledge - future search - networks of association - knowing - individual attitudes index content differently - when in the collective adapt - IntellKIND (intelligence kind) - kindred spirits - a probing mind is a restless one - footloose and fancy free (down to earth) - roaming the mental landscape - Mindwalker (mindwalk) 1 Sam 2:35; Eph 4:17; Phil 3:15 - the knowledge it takes to move with certainty (go with it).

Psalms 26:11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. 12 My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD -- Psalms 94:17 Unless the LORD [had been] my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. 18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. 19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul -- Psalms 119: 59. I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies -- Proverbs 1:10. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not- 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: -- Proverbs 3:21. My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: 22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck. 23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

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Freedom = appreciation of necessity - understanding the nature of the outside world and controlling our reactions and interactions to it - situational intelligence - assimilation of knowledge - knowledge; understanding; wisdom (application) - an enormous difference in what we know and in what we understand - interactive, tailored instruction - facilitators, guides - Consilience: the Unity of Knowledge (Unified Knowledge Theory) - universe of study vs. world of study (viewpoint) - it takes the whole world to tell you who you are -- the CONVIVUENCE, a universe of information - the CONVIVENCIA, a personal pilgrimage (era, time) - the CONVIVIUM, a feast together, learning, enjoying life (knowledge, food, music, contemplation) -- take a survey of your mind, your world - perceptual filters - learn to separate knowledge from noise - signal to noise ratio - theory or belief? - the nature of thought, how it creates reality.

Take the question as far as it goes - let it become a cry !! - an aching sound | SONA -- it's all about being taken care of -- for some, suffering is the crucible where faith begins, for others, suffering is where faith ends -- force upon opponents a conversation -- faith vs. modernity -- the message is so so dark that you lose the audience -- mankind has lost its way -- our anti_consciousness - globally pervasive - less and less workable - not prophecy, reality !! -- we have to look within - examine our humanity - a collective sleep-walking - pain or understanding lies ahead of us - mankind has a terminal illness - you have to cure the disease not just attend to the symptoms - the real transformation is individual - all the collective efforts in the historical record to solve the world's problems have failed - only ourselves, our individual being, can stop the progression | the end of love, true love (agape), as opposed to selfish love - what happens to my brother happens to me - are we going to damn our own future?

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Apply reason to very complex issues - statistical picture - select design parameters to fit the picture perfectly - evaluation of many designs necessary - components, ie. (sailing through life): sail must capture the wind to drive forward [open mind] - hull must cut through water with minimum drag [sharp intellect] - keel must provide stability without adding extra weight [character] - width of boat critical variable +/- width - speed vs. stability [path] - single number description of good mathematical design [gate] - enabler of consensus - pull together, get behind the common design - believe.

Cross-tabulation analysis - mental maps vs. an ever shifting landscape - re-calibration vs. calibration drift - (people are equations, some complex, some simple - we arrive at answers differently - many variables to arrive at a solution - the "Human Equation" a complex whole) - mathematics - life by the numbers - the fuel of the information age - informatics - the game of numbers - crunching numbers - statistics, strategy - competitive edge, analysis (data reports, statistical relationships). patterns, tendencies are revealed in numbers - percentages - game plan - performance in mathematical terms - ratios - best estimate based on a given set of measurements - precision thinking.

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Quantitative variables have to be measured - translated into mathematical knowledge (understanding) - analyse each frame (of mind) - choreography (mind dance); choreograph: to design or plan the movements of a dance, esp. a ballet; to plan an event or complex course of action in careful detail - endurance training - study of motion (thought) - efficiency (shorter, quicker strides more efficient than long, slower strides for long-distance runs) - efficiency very important - small differences very meaningful in the long run - running style (work load) - performance; increasing levels of work - linear progression until threshold (burnout) is reached (exercise: lactate increase until production exceeds body absorption) - body-mind connection - mental performance states, stress, highly focused attentional states - concentration - the peak of intensity, "the flow" - strategy to concentrate necessary - mental song, harmony (SONA) - switch the focus from distraction.

An objective view of our mental states - component parts (outside influences, authored programming deeply rooted) - low frequency rest - high frequency activity - variable harmonics - different processes are associated with different areas of the brain: verbal tasks processed on the left side above the ear - space, movement handled on the right - emotions are in the front - visual processing are at the back of the head -- call into play only what is necessary to the task - train the mind.

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Rehearsing the future = imagination - stretch your imagination - open your mind - THINK - patterns organize and structure our experiences - occupying many spaces at the same time - yet remaining distinct - we see with our minds - our visual world, our visual reality - (what we see is what we know - our awareness level) - expand the boundaries of your knowledge - your observable universe - what we see and don't see is determined by the concepts, assumptions, beliefs in our head - subtract the limitations of the mind from your awareness - eliminate the boundaries of the mind - move beyond our conceptualizations - you have the power to choose how you perceive the world around you - the very act of perceiving the world is an integral part of the way it is understood - linking the spaces we imagine with the spaces we live in.

Memory and expectation - peering into certain aspects in a visual way - exploring - engaging our sense of wonder - encounter something completely new - immerse our senses - our consciousness - pocket of virtual space in our minds to model the outside spaces - mirror of the world, seat of consciousness - able to share with others - magicked out of the mental void - creationism - esemplastic adj. [bringing together or able to bring together different concepts and thoughts into a unified whole - the esemplastic ability of the imagination] - esemplasticity - expanded human consciousness - minds eye - doorway to the universe of the imagination - step through the door and lock it behind you - what is your mental locking mechanism?

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Risk to satisfy curiosity? - the final frontier has some boundaries that should not be crossed - we can never find the limitless in this limited material experience - beyond any intellect, beyond our scope of control -- HIGH KNOWLEDGE -- Psalms 139:1. "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me]. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways. 4 For [there is] not a word in my tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. 5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 6 [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is HIGH, I cannot [attain] unto it."

Thought = [1. the act or process of thinking; reflection; meditation; cognition 2. the power of reasoning, or of conceiving ideas; capacity for thinking; intellect; imagination 3. a result of thinking; idea, concept, opinion, principles, etc. 4. attention; consideration; heed 5. mental engrossment; preoccupation; concentration 6. intention or expectation] -- thought = thou ought (to be compelled by obligation, duty, or desirability - to be expected, likely) - intellection -- thought streams / data streams, rivers (of thought, consciousness) - data receptors (interests, concepts, truths - foundation (open mind) - understandings (cohesive needs, agreements, ideas, patterns).

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A drop in the bucket (physical, restrained, limited) or a (spiritual) drop in the river of righteousness - to water the universe (creation) - thought = mind in motion (words, art - moving ideas - thought time) - string theory - threads of thought (dream weaver) - Robes of Righteousness - woven by spiritual threads - Trees of Righteousness - roots (use of all available food) - Matter, Energy, Thought (speed of thought), infinite velocity, (Psm 147:5 God's understanding infinite) -- thoughts (patterns of energy) - imprints on the self_conscious - inner dialogue - stop the negative thoughts, the negative chatter - inner hypnosis - thoughts influence our lives - we are what we think, we think (by means of) what we are - where is thought if it never leaves the thinker?

Bring form to thought - discover meaning in experience - becoming human - experience your thoughts - act on them (open the window of opportunity) - tempering the chains of logic vs. weak links - "thinko" (ie. typo) a bubble in the stream of consciousness - the Great Link - form and thought, idea and sensation - the Idea Factory - meritocracy - change your way of thinking, definitions - get your mind working for you - bring your every thought unto obedience of Christ and His righteousness (clean through the Word) - conceptual shift - cognitive therapy - re-evaluating how a person thinks - put your life back into perspective - a new way of living, lifestyle.