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[[File:minduniversel.jpg|250px|thumb|right|To meditate is to [[watch]]. Have you looked into your mind? Have you looked in the dark corners and closets of your mind where you keep the memory of your past traumas? The [[cognitive dissonance]] in our mind and behavior often is both the source and cause of additional conflicts within our mind leading to [[depression]] and [[anxiety]] and other compulsive behaviors. '''Learn about [[Meditation]]'''.]]

== Battling Enemies in all dimensions ==

Life sometimes seems to be a battle or a struggle. The book of Psalm mentions enemies more than any other book of the Bible. But before an enemy may be defeated we need to identify who or what the enemy really is.

Psalms also tells us to "'''[[be still]]'''" because the "LORD shall fight" those enemies for us.
<blockquote>
"[[Be still]], and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." [[Psalms 46]]:10
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
"The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace."<Ref>{{02790}}</Ref> [[Exodus 14]]:14

"Better [is] an handful [with] quietness<Ref name="Nachath">{{05183}}</Ref>, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit." [[Ecclesiastes 4]]:6

</blockquote>

There are several different words translated into the word enemies in the Old Testament.

They are not all the same but they may be a form of an enemy. The most common root word in the [[Hebrew]] is ''‘oyeb'' [[Alef]][[Yod]][[Beit]].<Ref>{{0341}}</Ref>

Some think of evil as a force against the good, like demons against angels. But good is equated with light and darkness cannot war against the light.

Just as the kingdom of God is within so also is the darkness from which evil is manifested within us. Darkness is the result of blocking the light.

Hate, anger, judgement, unforgiveness come from putting yourself, our vanity, our will before the will of the Creator.

Man usurps the will of God when he eats of his own tree of knowledge rather from the spirit of the tree of life from above.

This willful desire leads to usurp and ruling over others, putting "self" first and others second. It leads to oppression as we saw with [[Cain]] who "plowed the ''adhamah''" to fill his [[Altars|altar]].

Our battle with what we think of as evil is often only a battle with our own will,<Ref>Luke 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
: John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
: Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
: Matthew 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.</Ref> the darkness of our own heart that allows us to ''imagine'' our own self-righteousness to be [[righteousness]].

We must learn to love the light that will show us the lies hidden in the garden of our own ''heart and mind''.

Can we hear the whisper of [[love]] from the [[Holy Spirit]] of the LORD from above our the voices from the lord's of the dark recesses of our own heart and mind?

The flesh moves not the Spirit, but it is the spirit that moves the flesh and the flesh moves the [[world]] of men.

But what spirit moves our heart and mind? Is it from above or somewhere else?

<blockquote>
"And that ye study<Ref name="zealous">{{5389}}</Ref> to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;" [[1 Thessalonians 4]]:11.
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The word ''study'' means to be "zealous" or "eager" or "strive''".<Ref name="zealous">{{5389}}</Ref>
The word ''quiet''<Ref name="strife">{{2270}}</Ref>
Means ''rest from work, cease from altercation, am silent, live quietly'' from same '' hésuchios'' defined ''to be still, be silent''. Our personal ego needs to be silent'', forgiving the trauma that has hidden in the darkness so the truth and light may shine.

We cannot truly defeat the demons of any [[world]] without victory in spirit and truth. But do we have the patience of the saints who wait upon the Lord.<Ref name="waitlord">{{waitlord}}</Ref>

We cannot be free from the enemies of God unless we will receive the truth in our hearts and our minds.<Ref>John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.</Ref> Without true humility about ourselves we will not benefit from the honor and power of the most High.<Ref>Psalms 10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
: Psalms 69:32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
: Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
</Ref>

We must never take pride in our struggle, knowledge or accomplishments. <Ref>[[2 Corinthians 12]]:6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
: [[James 3]]:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.</Ref>

All power, honour and glory must be given to God. Any and all failure to [[keep the commandments]] is evidence of our need of repentance.<Ref>[[1 John 5]]:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 ¶ This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.</Ref>

How do we know if we are tempting God with our hidden vanity or pride and envy?

Our imagination, if tempered with our own willful thoughts and pride, may bring our minds into the captivity of a [[strong delusion]]. Repenting is a changing of the mind but without the [[Holy Spirit]], the comforter, we know not how or in what way that our minds should be changed.

<blockquote>
"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" 2 Corinthians 10:5
</blockquote>

According to [[Proverbs]] we are to give drink to our ''enemy''<Ref>{{08130}} </Ref><Ref>[[Proverbs 25]]:21 "If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:"</Ref> and according to Christ you need to love your enemy.<Ref>Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
</Ref>

Proverbs tells us that giving in love to that hateful enemy will actually be to him like "coals of fire upon his head"<Ref>[[Proverbs 25]]:22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.</Ref>

We are to be baptized with fire which is to bring the light of God into our own hearts so we may confess the truth and let go of the will that has become a stumbling block of recompense. If we are willing to see the whole truth about ourselves the light of the Lord may shine in us and before us like a fiery sword of His [[righteousness]].

<blockquote>
"Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me." [[Psalms 143]]:9
</blockquote>

There is no greater enemy of the truth than our own unwillingness to see or hear the truth about ourselves.

<blockquote>
"And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden." Genesis 3:8
</blockquote>

If we are to know the voice of the LORD we need to still our own hearts and minds so that we may hear his still small voice.

<blockquote>
"And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD [was] not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice." 1 Kings 19:12
</blockquote>

== Contemplating in depth ==

There are many places in the Bible that tells us to [[be still]]<Ref>[[1 Samuel 9]]:27 [And] as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.
: [[1 Samuel 12]]:7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
: 2 Samuel 18:30 And the king said [unto him], Turn aside, [and] stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
: 2 Samuel 20:12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
: 1 Kings 19:12 And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD [was] not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
: [[Psalms 4]]:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and [[be still]]. Selah.
: Psalms 23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
: [[Psalms 46]]:10 [[Be still]], and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
: [[Isaiah 30]]:7 For the [[Egypt]]ians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still.
: Zechariah 1:11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
: Zechariah 11:16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, [which] shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
: Matthew 20:32 And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you?
: Mark 4:39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, [[be still]]. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
: Mark 10:49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
: Luke 7:14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare [him] stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
: John 11:20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat [still] in the house.</Ref> so that you can hear God and learn what is righteous.

There are [[benefits]] of "meditation and mindfulness" but there are also side effects. There are many approaches to meditation and there can be a need for help during these processes. The kinds of help can vary even more than the kinds of meditations.

[[File:minduniverser.jpg|250px|thumb|left|What would you see if you looked deeper, if you stared into the abyss of your own mind?]]

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Genesis 24:63 "And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels [were] coming."
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[[Meditation]] may help you see things in the present by dealing with things of the past and letting them go through a process of admission or personal confession and of course [[forgive]]ness.

<blockquote>"Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred." Job 6:24
</blockquote>

While meditation may bring you face to face with your mental baggage or even demons it may only bring you to a place of change but it does not make the choice for you.

<blockquote>
Psalms 119:15 "I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways."
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Meditation may be an exercise but also a lens. The view it produces will depend on your willingness see and ability to handle the truth without being distracted.

<blockquote>
Psalms 119:148 "Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word." for "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" [[Matthew 6]]:22-23
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[[File:minduniverseeyeevil.jpg|250px|thumb|right|What is hiding in your mind that you have not yet seen?]]

{{#ev:youtube|eMEu8VO2uNI|300|right|[[Jordan Peterson]] on the Practice of Meditation. Does he meditate? It's a good question which Peterson answers and further explains on this clip. He also offers valuable tips on how to meditate that aims for the highest good you can conceive of. Time 5:06}}

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1 Timothy 4:15 "Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all."
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<H3 CLASS="western">Meditation</H3>
The
word meditation, from the Latin word meditatio,
originally meant every
type of physical or intellectual exercise, and became to mean any
form of "contemplation."
Meditation
is often considered to be a spiritual activity, but in fact it is
fundamentally a mental activity or exercise that has many physical
effects. It also has many forms and can have a variety of purposes
and outcomes depending on both form and intent.
 

What we are
thinking may produce multiple physiological and biochemical reactions
in the body that will in turn affect our thinking and emotions
state. Observation of external events may produce neurotransmitters
in your brain like noradrenaline, serotonin, or dopamine which can
drastically affect both brain and bodily functions. Even rehearsing
or recalling these events in the mind may re-release these chemicals
which will affect the mind and the body. 

Experts
believe that many mental disorders are partly caused by an underlying
problem with specific brain circuits or activities and the balance of
these brain chemicals. 

Meditations
may produce a reduction in
the activities of the mind. This reduction in mental activity maybe
instrumental in producing a “decreased heart rate, decreased
respiration rate, decreased stress hormones like plasma cortisol. At
the same time there may be an increase in alpha brain waves
associated with relaxation. With a reduction of activity in the
nervous system and blood lactate levels the mind may become more
alert producing quicker reactions, more creativity and
greater comprehension. Meditation may produce these conditions four times
faster than in pre-meditation resting.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote1anc" HREF="#sdfootnote1sym">1</A>
 

What
are the mechanics of meditation?
Every
religion used forms of meditation. 

All forms
of meditation are not created or practiced equally. Just as physical
exercise can do harm so can meditation. Good forms of meditation do
not guarantee that good will result any more than exercising the body
will produce virtuous people. It is not the form that gives life but
the spirit.
According
to Zen and all Buddhist typology meditation practices are the same,
but their substance and purpose differ. While some use meditation for
mental and physical quietude others use it to transcend the mental
and physical state.
Altering
the “mental and physical state” of the individual is as
dependent upon technique as it is dependent upon the intent of the
individual. Knowledge of that true intent may be as elusive as the
“mental and physical state” the individual seeks.
The
ordinary Japanese and Chinese meditation of bonpu is practiced
for mental and physical well-being without any spiritual goal.
Outside of Buddhist purposes there are those purposes of Hindu,
Judaism, or Christian contemplation or even for the pursuit of
supernatural powers. 

There also
may be a practice of meditation for the purpose of self-liberation
from emotional bondage like phobias or syndromes, or even the release
from the grip of emotional and physical habits in the hope of
achieving a free state of soul and mind. 

These basic
purposes may be expanded to include self-realization for a higher
purpose or benefit to all beings, or used as a path to the full
realization or restoration of an individual created in the image of
God to his original state. 

There are
thousands of meditation methods and numerous types and categories
described. An extensive examination of the variation may be counter
productive in seeking an understanding of the basics of proper or
improper meditation. 

In order to
establish some frame of reference we will examine two types of
meditation concentrative or focused meditation
and what may be called mindfulness. 

In
concentrative meditation<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote2anc" HREF="#sdfootnote2sym">2</A>
you focus attention on
an object like a part of the body or an external object. Some will
focus on their breathing or a sound or group of sounds or tones. They
can include a wide range of activities from simple tapping or rigid
postures or positions, chanting and mantras but may even include
physical penance or in the extreme self-torture and mutilation. 

These
practices are a lot more common in there simple forms and may be done
naturally with no association with the idea of meditation. Everything
from wiggling your foot to tapping your fingers to humming a tune or
repeating the same phrase or prayer over and over are all forms of
naturally occurring habits that have been associated in meditations.
These
focused meditation may
include some visualization. A focused
attention meditation is often found among Buddhist and Hindu teachings in different forms.
Some practitioners suggest that as you are able to deeply and
consistently focus your attention in meditation that you are
accomplishing the goal but in truth this may actually you are
defeating the actual beneficial use of this technique.
The
benefit of focused meditation is
not so much in developing the ability to force concentration but in
the observation and perception of what is already in you that may
distract you from that simple attempt at practicing a concentration
exercise. By the recognition of those source of these thoughts that
stir the imagination and keep us from quite observation we may come
to peace within the mind and body. These feelings and thoughts that
bubble up in us often come from unresolved events and issues from our
past and may require forgiveness and recompense to resolve their
emotional grip upon our mind and body. 
Another
type of meditation is Mindfulness<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote3anc" HREF="#sdfootnote3sym">3</A>
or open observation or monitoring of all
aspects of your personal experience as a passive unattached
spectator. You simply step back from the experience and objectively observe all
thoughts or feelings or even external sensations of sound or smell
without reacting to them in each moment. 

The
practitioner quietly witnesses whatever goes through the mind, not
reacting or becoming involved with thoughts, memories, worries,
without judging these images or sensations. This produces a
non-reactive state of mind with a broad rather than focused field.
The intent is to rely upon looking into and observing things with
clarity and precision the products of the fundamental reality within
us without the bias that may be imposed upon our perception when we
rely on our ability to reason or rationalizing an answer.
In open
observation meditations you
will hear ideas like ‘quiet repose’ or ‘empty the
mind of self’ or ‘choiceless awareness’ or ‘access
the divine consciousness’. These types of
meditation techniques and their terminology are also seen in
Buddhist, Hindu and even in some Taoist meditations.
The
beneficial and detrimental mechanics of “meditations” may
be found in a wide variety of human activities completely unrelated
to what has become known as religion or even meditation itself.
There
are obvious forms of mental exercises or practices listed or
identified as meditation. There are many other activities and
contemplation using the same mechanisms as meditation that are not
immediately identified or related in our thinking to the term
meditation.
Reciting
the rosary may follow the same mechanics of a repetitious mantra type
meditation but never considered the same as similar use of prayer
beads used in Tibet. Focusing on the object of the Eucharist host at
catholic benedictions may also be categorized as meditation upon an
object. Statues may serve the same purpose, focusing attention. In
truth, even the singing the star-Spangled Banner or pledging
allegiance to the flag may all fall within the categories of
meditation upon an object or idea in a ritual form of contemplation,
dedication and quiet solemnity invoking the same mechanics of
meditation seen many eastern or western religions.
 

<H3 CLASS="western">All thought is
Meditation</H3>
No
matter where you go, nor how you meditate, your constant companion
will be you.

When we awaken in the morning as we
begin the day it is a common practice to stretch. This is a natural
exercise of the body that begins the flow within the body and
prepares it for more physical activity. We may consciously create a
stretching and exercise routine with varying degrees of formality but
all will include some of the basics of natural stretching.

Natural meditation will utilize both
focused meditation and what may be called
mindfulness. Again focused
meditation is
the concentrative observation of something and mindfulness
 is the
detached or non-judgmental observation of what interrupts the
original observation. In essence natural meditation is taking two
steps back into self. It is a journey within to know yourself and is
dependent upon your own intent more than upon the steps you take.


Without pure intent you will never arrive at a pure understanding but
without taking the steps to see the truth you may never be able to
forgive, and therefore release yourself from the impurity of your
past or present intent.
Taking
the first step
<UL>
<LI>
An individual may sit down and quietly
become aware of his or her hand in a moment of dedicated and patient
contemplation.
</UL>

We may experience this naturally after
hours of intense work or physical exertion when we first stop to rest
the hands or body still pulsing or vibrating from the days labor
brings our attention to them in rest.

Your attention, in the moment, is naturally focused in a state of acute contemplation on those natural
sensations, producing a feeling of objective and detached observation
or even euphoria. The work strengthens the body but in the rest the
body is strengthened if it is allowed to return to a restful state.

This natural reduction in the activities
of the mind and body produces that decreased heart and respiration
rate which may decrease those hormones that deal with natural stress.
The alpha brain waves may begin to generate a state of rest. But
thoughts of the day or even of the more distant past may enter into
the mind and keep us from a rest state that allows restoration. 


Sincere and loving meditation with an
unselfish and humble intent may help us reach the restoration. This
is no different that physical exercise may assist the body and
muscles. Meditation is simply a mental exercise as natural as
stretching or walking. It is the intent of your soul and the humble
conformity to the source of all life that will determine the outcome.

Many traumas of our past have been
covered over by “mental or emotional caps” often produced
by us or gleaned from the world around us to help us avoid the pain
of the trauma or the pain we experience when we recall the trauma of
the past. Confession is simply the bringing of that trauma into to
the light of our own consciousness.

These past traumas live in our
subconscious mind and body and will also bubble up to the surface of
our mind as we attempt to rest or even just focus on our physical
presence in the moment. Past traumas by their nature are at war with
the peace and quiet of the moment.

Natural Meditation is a war with our
past where we resist not the evil and pain of that past trauma but
embrace the truth and reality with God’s forgiveness and
recompense. We merely see what we refused to see before and wait upon
the Lord of creation without personal judgment.
<UL>
<LI>
The individual’s moment of
dedicated and patient contemplation upon his or her hand may be
interrupted by a variety of feelings, thoughts, emotions, images.
<LI>
Forgive the interruption. Do
not judge the event or yourself for not concentrating.
<LI>
Gently
return like the prodigal son to the quiet moment of dedicated and
patient contemplation of your physical self.
</UL>
Know
this that the moment you caught your mind wandering was the moment of
mindfulness and the choice to return was the second step of a natural
process. Without the interruption there cannot be the second step.
When
you walk forward one foot must always stop the forward progress while
the other foot catches up and it is the same with Natural
meditations. There must be an interruption to the Physical
observation of yourself by your internal or subconscious self in
order to make progress. That progress must be immersed in forgiveness
to allow the giving of life.
Natural
meditation must include letting go of judgment. We are fasting from
the process of judging others and ourselves.
Steps
in the world
Exercising
the body to make the muscles stronger has little value unless we turn
that ability into real work out in the world. We must take the
strength and peace we may obtain out into the world and interact in a
sharing and loving way with others so the true benefits of our
exercises, whether physical or mental, may be realized. This
interaction is essential to continue our journey. Contemplation in
isolation does not bring growth which leads to life. In order to have
life more abundant we must lay down our life as Christ did. Christ
came to serve, not to be served. He told us not to put our light
under a basket or in the dark cells of a cloistered monastery but to
share in love what God has given us freely.

Historical
Meditation
Tefillin
(תפילין),
also called phylacteries<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote4anc" HREF="#sdfootnote4sym">4</A> is a box often containing a scripture that is placed on the forehead
with a leather thong that wraps around the arm to the hand. The ritual stems from references in the Bible<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote5anc" HREF="#sdfootnote5sym">5</A>
from which detailed rituals and ceremonies are created surrounding meditation and prayer.
Tefillin
was a meditation tool for relationships according to Rabbi Goldie
Milgram. Jewish Meditation and the Kabbalah had a rich tradition of
meditation with unique characteristics but over a long history there
has been the unmooring of the purpose until the practice produced a
mental state that made the word of God to none effect.
Some
have divided these ritual and ceremonial practices into four
categories. Most techniques that promote focused concentration bring
in elements of our willful intent. Original separation from the pure
mind of our creator was due to willful intent on our part.
Focusing
on a particular scripture will bring in elements of private
interpretation of that scripture.
Ultimately
the true meaning, purpose and practices of meditation is simple. You
are waiting upon the Lord and being willing to see the truth about
ourselves instead of denying our willful disobedience and
foolishness.
There
are many quotes in the Bible that suggest the true attitude and
intent for proper meditation that will help us seek the Kingdom of
God and His righteousness.

<H3 CLASS="western">Footnotes:</H3>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote1">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote1sym" HREF="#sdfootnote1anc">1</A>How
Meditation Works, Holisticonline.com. Research conducted by Benson
and Wallace at U.C.L.A.
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote2">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote2sym" HREF="#sdfootnote2anc">2</A>(samma
samadhi) focuses the attention to a selected thing or image
(external or internal), an idea or sound (a mantra), or an event
(breathing, tapping), with the intent of using the full awareness of
the mind without distraction. 

</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote3">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote3sym" HREF="#sdfootnote3anc">3</A>Mindfulness
meditation (samma sati) is observing a continuous passing procession
of sensations, sounds, smells, emotions, images, ideas, without
becoming involved in them.
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote4">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote4sym" HREF="#sdfootnote4anc">4</A>Phylactery
is composed of the words ‘phy’ meaning “to cure
or heal; to treat with or as if with medicine”, ‘lac’
from the word “lace, to fasten or tie with a string”;
and ‘tery’ is “powerful”.
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote5">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote5sym" HREF="#sdfootnote5anc">5</A> Exodus
13:9, Exodus 13:16,  Deuteronomy 6:8,  Deuteronomy
11:18
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== Meditation studies and immunity enhancement==

Experienced teachers of meditation found a 65% increase in ''dopamine production'' after meditating for only 1 hour which may be attributed to what they call a "loss of executive control in meditation". This "loss of executive control" may be a simple surrender or relinquishment of your own willful<Ref>Luke 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
: Luke 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
: Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the [son] of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
: 1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed unto me.</Ref> or ''mental executive control'' during what we call meditation.<Ref> “Yoga Nidra is characterized by a '''depressed level of desire for action''', associated with decreased blood flow in prefrontal, cerebellar and subcortical regions, structures '''thought to be organized in open loops subserving executive control'''. [Waiting upon the Lord] In the striatum, dopamine modulates excitatory glutamatergic synapses of the projections from the frontal cortex to striatal neurons, which in turn project back to the frontal cortex via the pallidum and ventral thalamus. The present study was designed to investigate whether endogenous dopamine release increases during loss of executive control in meditation. Participants underwent two 11C-raclopride PET scans: one while attending to speech with eyes closed, and one during active meditation. The tracer competes with endogenous dopamine for access to dopamine D2 receptors predominantly found in the basal ganglia. During meditation, 11C-raclopride binding in ventral striatum decreased by 7.9%. This corresponds to a 65% increase in endogenous dopamine release.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11958969/</Ref>

"[[Bipolar]] disorder has been associated with dysfunction of executive control processes."<Ref>https://journals.lww.com/neuroreport/Abstract/2006/07310/Functional_magnetic_resonance_imaging_of_executive.2.aspx</Ref> This is similar to the ''cytokine'' reaction produced by a runaway [[immunity|immune system]] which needs to be governed by the body.

By practicing a technic of a meditation exercise where our mental state is "thought to be organized in open loops subserving executive control"<Ref>[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11958969/ Increased dopamine tone during meditation-induced change of consciousness]</Ref> can the benefit of meditation be manifested?

'''What are we actually doing during proper meditation?'''

And what are these '''"loops subserving executive control"'''?

Are we "waiting upon the Lord" instead of eating of the [[tree of knowledge]] but waiting for the [[tree of life]] which is a metaphor for our spiritual resonance, revelation, or inspiration?

Are we allowing the spirit to govern or production of hormones and the functioning of the "immunoregulatory role"<Ref name="immunoregulatory"></Ref> in "in disorders like schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease" and even "cancers".<Ref name="tumor"></Ref>

== Chemical changes ==

There are detectable chemical changes in the body during the process of meditation besides circulation and breathing. Dopamine is a key hormone that regulates the activation of our immune system. A neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) can not only activate "naïve or resting T cells, but it inhibits activated T cells". Also "changes in the expression of DA receptors and their signaling pathways especially in T cells are associated with altered immune functions in disorders like schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease".

These effects and more suggest a strong "immunoregulatory role of DA"<Ref name="immunoregulatory">“The neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) is an important molecule bridging the nervous and immune systems. DA through autocrine/paracrine manner modulates the functions of immune effector cells by acting through its receptors present in these cells. DA also has unique and opposite effects on T cell functions. Although DA activates naïve or resting T cells, but it inhibits activated T cells. In addition, changes in the expression of DA receptors and their signaling pathways especially in T cells are associated with altered immune functions in disorders like schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease. These results suggest an immunoregulatory role of DA. Therefore targeting DA receptors and their signaling pathways in these cells by using DA receptor agonists and antagonists may be useful for the treatment of diseases where DA induced altered immunity play a pathogenic role.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2856781/ </Ref>

This neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) activates resting T cells in absence of any additional stimulating agent it may reduce “cytotoxicity” which is a major source of medical complications resulting in death.<Ref>“DA activates resting T cells in absence of any additional stimulating agent”. Where there is an increase in neurotransmitter dopamine "cytotoxicity ... are significantly inhibited” Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, Volume 24, Issue 4, May 2010, Pages 525-528 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889159109004826 </Ref>

The immune system can essentially be fighting off chronic diseases including cancer by activating T-Cells and Natural Killer Cells as well as regulating cytotoxicity. But Tumors may "evolve different mechanisms that mimic peripheral immune tolerance in order to avoid tumoricidal attack.”<Ref name="tumor">“tumor development can be controlled by cytotoxic innate and adaptive immune cells; however, as the tumor develops from neoplastic tissue to clinically detectable tumors, cancer cells evolve different mechanisms that mimic peripheral immune tolerance in order to avoid tumoricidal attack.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6169832/</Ref> Because there can be an increased presence of DA subtypes such as D1 D2, D3, D4 and D5 receptors including many others genes with interferon signaling can the ability of a tumor to "evolve different mechanisms" be overcome?

A study from the University of Florida, Indiana University School of Medicine, the University of Louisville and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center contributed to the research which appears to produce a robust activation of the immune system.

“People have always known meditation improves human well-being, but they didn't know how… we have shown that naturally you can boost your immune system by meditation… 220 genes also included 68 genes which were involved in interferon signaling… and try to attack the invaders, the virus and not only that interferon proteins also fight against cancer cells in the body... you can voluntarily activate your immune system without any medication... without any pharmaceutical you can activate your immune system.”<Ref>Video Https://youtu.be/aMbbZsekpeA '''Study''': https://ufhealth.org/news/2021/meditation-brings-robust-immune-system-activation-uf-health-researchers-find</Ref>

The executive control in your body and in your mind needs to be drawn near the executive of the [[Law of Nature]] which is seen in in the [[Right Reason]] of the ''Creator'' which is perceived in the "[[Will of God]]"?

=== Mushrooms and other shortcuts ===

When the Israelites left the [[bondage of Egypt]] in [[Exodus]] there were no short cuts.

Psychedelic Mushrooms commonly known as Psilocybin mushrooms, magic mushrooms or shrooms, are a polyphyletic, informal group of fungi from more than 180 species that contain psilocybin and psilocin. Studies have been completed evaluating its use in anxiety and fear in people with terminal cancer, serious depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), cluster headaches, and smoking cessation. Hallucinogenic effects are probably due to a release of serotonin (5-HT) receptors.

In general, dried mushrooms contain about 0.2% to 0.4% psilocybin and only trace amounts of psilocin. The typical dose of psilocybin used for recreational purposes varies, with peak effects occurring in 1 to 2 hours, and lasting for about six hours. There are a wide range of effects are reported to be produced by their use.<Ref>: euphoria
: peacefulness
: spiritual awakening
: derealization, or the feeling that surroundings are not real
: depersonalization, or a dream-like sense of being disengaged from surroundings
: distorted thinking
: visual alteration and distortion, such as seeing halos of light and vivid colors
: dilated pupils
: dizziness
: drowsiness and yawning
: impaired concentration
: muscle weakness
: of coordination
: unusual body sensations
: nausea and vomiting
: paranoia
: confusion
: frightening hallucinations</Ref> A 'bad trip' can be unpleasant to even a ''terrifying experience''. The effects can vary considerably depending upon mushroom type, method of preparation, and tolerance of the individual. Psilocybin works by activating serotonin receptors, most often in the prefrontal cortex.

If you want to produce serotonin in a natural and balanced manner in a truly natural way where your own abilities are increased through a comprehensive manner and practice without the danger of toxins proper meditation may be more desirable.

There is evidence for increased brain serotonin during meditation besides the increase in dopamine. Meditation can produce an ''anxiolytic effect''.<Ref>Anxiolytics are medications that treat anxiety.</Ref> "The factors decreasing anxiety during meditation are an ... increased serotonin and decreased levels of the stress hormone cortisol." The approach to depression and stress with "Spiritual practices can have considerable antidepressant effects due to the
associated increase in serotonin and dopamine."<Ref>‘Meditation: The Future Medication’, Royal College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Avdesh Sharma https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/members/sigs/spirituality-spsig/avdesh-sharma-meditation-as-medication2.pdf </Ref>

Several control group studies showed from 24% to 27% decrease in cortisol among students who meditated rather than just rest." Together these results not only suggest that meditation can increase serotonin levels, but that these levels can remain elevated throughout the day and night."<Ref name="BEoM"></Ref>

Naturally metabolized Serotonin has been found at levels of 70% higher in meditators compared to non-meditators in studies.<Ref name="BEoM"></Ref>

"Melatonin levels increase in the evening and night as it is synthesized from serotonin."<Ref name="BEoM"></Ref> "Melatonin has also been shown to suppress the growth of some types of cancer." <Ref>Carlson, L. E.; Speca, M.; Patel, K. D.; Goodey, E. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2004, 29, 448–474. Massion, A.; Teas, J.; Hebert, J. R.; Wertheimer, M.; Kabat-Zinn, J. Medical Hypotheses 1995, 44, 39–46</Ref><Ref name="BEoM">[https://commons.clarku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=surj Scholarly Undergraduate Research Journal at Clark], ''Biochemical Effects of Meditation: A Literature Review'', William C. Daube, Charles E. Jakobsche</Ref>

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== Warnings ==

One of the greatest factors contributing to the outcome of meditation is the reason ''why you are meditating''. You may think you know why but you may not fully see the entirety of your purpose.

Are you meditating to improve your life, to gain an advantage, to obtain health or power? But why do you want more control of your life and more power?<Ref>Terms like Kundalini, which identifies a concept in Śaiva Tantra in Hinduism, as a '''power''' coiled at the base of the spine, represents a point of power in you. The power you want is the power of the [[Holy Spirit]] that must come from the creator as a [[comforter]] or guide for you. Anything other than or less than the [[Holy Spirit]] may bring about the opposite effect of the desired [[eternal life]]. </Ref> Do you want to do good for yourself or for others?

The list of reasons may be endless. Whatever you think your reasons are they are probably not pure because when you begin you do not know your full mind.

<blockquote>"...know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the [[imagination]]s of the thoughts: if thou [[seek]] him, [[righteousness|he will be found of thee]]; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever." [[1 Chronicles 28]]:9 </blockquote>

Buddhism has the word "''makyo''" for challenging perceptions that may occur during meditation. The Japanese words for “devil” and “objective world” create this term "''makyo''"

This can be because sitting still allows the mind to go through a cleansing process that releases or revisits stressful experiences in deep layers or dark places of the mind.

Jared Lindahl, a professor of religious studies at Brown University, stated once that “Just because something is positive and beneficial doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be aware of the broader range of possible effects it might have.” This is true of attempting to meditate.

Many unexpected experiences have been classified into seven areas:
# cognitive,
# perceptual,
# affective (related to moods),
# somatic, <Ref>relating to the body, especially as distinct from the mind. The body as distinct from the soul, mind, or psyche.</Ref>
# conative motivation,<Ref> any natural tendency, impulse, striving, or directed effort. The conative is one of three parts of the mind, along with the affective and cognitive.</Ref>
# sense of self, and
# social.

An unexpected experience may not be an unwanted experience. If it is unwanted we need to meditate upon why it is unwanted or even uncomfortable. Are you seeing what you do not want to see or are you seeing what hurts but you remain steadfast in your quest to know the truth, even though it is the truth about yourself?

Experiences have been described to them were:
# feelings of anxiety and fear,
# involuntary twitching,
# insomnia,
# a sense of complete detachment from one’s emotions,
# hypersensitivity to light or sound,
# distortion in time and space,
# nausea,
# hallucinations,
# irritability, and
# the re-experiencing of past traumas.

Transcendental Meditation refers to a specific form of silent mantra meditation called the Transcendental Meditation technique, and less commonly to the organizations that constitute the Transcendental Meditation movement.

The mentioning of different forms of meditation is not meant to advocate any of them. Meditation should be about [[repentance]], a ''changing of the mind''. How do you know what to change your mind to without a guide and how do you have the presence of mind to choose a guide?

Life is a journey and meditation can only be a part of that journey. It is best to begin all journeys with humility, forgiveness, and love, to benefit others and not only yourself. It is not about personal power or advantage but summed up in the statement:

<blockquote>"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Matthew 6:33 </blockquote>

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Aboutism

2024-04-21T04:14:25Z

StevenS: /* The magisterium swells */

[[File:Bible.jpg|right|300px|thumb| I reviewed this Jordan/ Bennette interview in a podcast because Bennette and many others are so ignorant of what promotes the very "trust and goodwill" in society because they do not know what the '''Bible is about'''. What are sacred scriptures about? If people read them, translate them and interpret them but do not understand the metaphors and meaning of the myths they will not understand what the affordism and intent of the text is about. They will not understand the aboutism of the author. Knowing that the Prologue to the John Wycliffe Bible translation of 1384 states:
"This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People." We see this was quoted in Lincoln at Gettysburg Address.
[[Religion]] is mention 5 times in the Bible and only once in a good sense, while governments is mentioned in one form or another more than seven hundred to thousand times. The followers of Jesus who [[repent]] like the [[Early Christians]] are about [[Pure Religion]]. They are willing to attend to the "[[weightier matters]]", listed by Jesus as "law, judgement, mercy, and faith" because that is what seeking the [[kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]] is about. 
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==Aboutism ==

In the EP 438. entitled '''Aboutness secular vs religious''' '''Jordan Pederson''' interviews '''Daniel Clement Dennett III''' who is an American philosopher, writer, and scientist within those fields related to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

Bennett along with other influential atheists believe all forms of [[religion]] to be false and that advocated an [[atheist]] movement. worldview.

The discussion would have been of more value to the individual had a true understanding of the pragmatic "meaning" and "intention" of the "[[religion]]" ancient scriptures as described by [[Moses]].

We covered what Moses taught in our own series on "[[Exodus]]". Unfortunately Bennett is ignorant of Moses' meaning and morality because he, like most of modern moralists, has unmoored the meaning of the [[metaphor]] that points to the "affordances" of the ''government of the people, for the people, and by the people''<Ref name="Johnwy">{{Johnwy}}</Ref> that were [[captive]] and now were free.

Basically, the "[[trust]]" and "good will" Bennette suppose to be so important for "freedom" and "government" but he is ignorant of the "aboutism" and the "affordances" of the "[[religion]]" and "government" referenced in the [[Bible]].

In general, the term '''Aboutness''' refers to the concept that a text, utterance, image, or action is on or of something, considered synonymous with a document's subject involving the 'summarization' of the texts most important concepts to be included in your translation or interpretation.

=== The moral authority ===

Daniel Bennett, the author of '''Breaking the Spell''', sees the Evolution of [[ethics]] for the last ten thousand years has been the secularization of ethics which he thinks has nothing to do with [[religion]].

Bennett has been an influential atheist along with Sam Harris<Ref name="same">"And the patience, there would've been no f**king patience for vaccine skepticism, right. And everyone would've recognized, this is not ''my body my choice''. This is you're not gonna kill my kids with your ignorance."
"It was obviously reasonable to get vaccinated, especially because there was every reason to expect that while it wasn't a perfectly sterilizing vaccine, it was going to knock down transmission a lot… so it wasn’t just a personal choice — you were actually being a good citizen when you decided to run whatever risk you were going to run to get vaccinated.”
: Sam Harris: "Vaccines were reasonably safe and Covid was reasonably dangerous....the tradeoff for basically everyone was it was rational to get vaccinated given the level of testing...given what we were seeing with Covid"
: Claim (paraphrased):
“Scientists such as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya have proven their unreliability due to their erroneous Covid death predictions. In a March 2020 op-ed, Jay gave an unreasonably low estimate of Covid deaths in the United States, whereas Nicholas Christakis correctly predicted 1 million Covid deaths on my podcast.”
Sam listened to Ferguson and Topol and others who he should not have trusted but in truth he listened to himself.
As Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Even Ben Shapiro stated Pfizer has now admitted they did not test whether the COVID vaccines prevented transmission before releasing them. That didn't stop them from making false claims about stopping transmission.
Ivermectin worked and was suppressed, that the COVID vaccine did not and was and is killing people suddenly, and that the threat of COVID is a hoax and its less deadly than the flu,</Ref> and Dawkins and Hitchins.

[[Sin]] is ''an archery term'' about missing the target or not preserving or observing what IS...what is true.

God, like [[Truth]], is ineffable, too great or extreme to be expressed, observed, or described in words, even the words of our mind.

Daniel Bennett believes man has evolved systems of morality which he does not think animals can.(16 min. Ep. 438)

Daniel Bennett believes we have evolved away from the Old Testament mortality standards and done away with cannibalism and with slavery.

He thanks "goodness" that we have.

But have we?

He says science is "what is" and politics is "what we think should be". He thinks we no longer need religion because we have secular logic and human reason. He believes that the freedom he sees as important can be provided by a civilized structure.

Is he vain in his [[wisdom]]?

If you asked him about the "civilized structure" of the [[cities of blood]] would be understand what they were?

Does he understand the definition of [[religion]] just 200 years ago and how it has ''evolved''?.

He complained about the New Testament ethics but does he understand why we are told to "[[love]] our neighbor as ourself"; be careful we do not [[bite]] one another less we be devoured; or the difference between '''[[public religion]]'' filled with the [[leaven]] of secular politics where [[care]] is murdered verses '''[[pure Religion]]''' where the "trust and good will" Bennette seeks thrives? Pop

He seems to have thrown out the gift of the ancients in the form of the sacred text without ever unpacking it.

== Aboutness of religious Scriptures ==

: “The '''aboutness''' of religious Scriptures like the [[Bible]] includes the philosophy, psychology and physics of the mind, means, and manner of man and the [[Cause and effect|cause and effects]] of a relationship with nature, the [[Law of Nature]], and nature's God, which is the creative patterned [[force]] and [[Power of choice|power]] of the universe.

The ''patterned [[force]] and [[Power of choice|power]]'' offered by the metaphor of the [[tree of life]] allows for the [[power to change]] that brings [[eternal life]]. The [[tree of knowledge]] allows us ''to be changed'' by something other than the [[tree of life]] and therefore may not bring the same [[eternal life]].

Yet, the [[gods]] of [[religion]]s are as numerous as the [[gods]] of governments. Most [[atheist|atheists]] today believe in [[public religion|public Religion]] and the [[gods]] of the modern ''secular'' [[public religion|public Religion]].

There is a religion that is merely '''about''' ''what people think about a god'', i.e. belief in an [[ideology]]. People who think they do not believe in a Spiritual God are still ''religious'', in the since of what '''[[Religion|religion]]''' use to mean two hundred years ago.

Their religion is that [[public religion|public Religion]] and your duty is determined by the gods of that [[public religion|public Religion]]. Those [[gods]] are parliaments, Prime ministers and presidents elect, directly or indirectly, by the choices of the people.

The difference may be simply whether they believe in the [[religion]] of [[charity]] or the [[religion]] of [[force]]d offerings. The latter is the secular religion of the modern atheist. These type of people feel the need to [[name]] ''God or the gods'' which includes the desire to define ''God or gods'' which is an attempt to place God into the bottle of our ''secular imagination''.

Once, we think we have done that [[religion]] becomes an [[ideology]] instead of a "Pius duty" of the people. This naming or intellectually defining God will degenerate the people because they descend into the [[darkness]] of our imagination rather than the light of [[Truth]].

=== Mapping the aboutness===

Jordan with his maps of meaning and [[Exodus]] series has been trying to connect the dots laid out in myth and metaphor with little help from [[modern church|modern religion]]ists and philosophers who are far more ''worldly'' than merely ''secular'.

They can not even see their own confusion nor the wisdom of the ancients because like the [[Pharaoh]]s and [[Pharisees]] and the people who followed their pernicious ways they have been blinded.

It should be the hope of those who live by [[faith]] which is trust that those who live by [[force]] and sit in darkness may yet learn to love the light.

== Affordance of liberty ==

JJ Gibson He defined an affordance as what the environment provides or furnishes the animal. Notably, Gibson compares an affordance with an ecological niche emphasizing the way niches characterize how an animal lives in its environment.
JJ Gibson did not track affordance in the brain.??

Entropy is a lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder. There is order in the universe that came from somewhere and not from the mind of man. There is also room for chaos because their is some possibility of [[choice]]. That choice is no merely a product of the ''pushing and pulling'' of emotion. Emotion does not create all the order.

Daniel Bennett as an atheist sees emotions as doing all the ''pushing and pulling'' in the mind. There is no unifying Spirit of morality.

Daniel Bennett does not believe there is a supernatural agent whose approval must be bargained for. Bennett wants to deny the affordance of the mind because he thinks it is just a computer. The DNA within the body generate light and also responds to light. It is design to both send and receive. The body and mind are the corporeal hereditaments of our individuality and emotion is not the only affordance of the mind through the secretion of hormones. The [[Spiritual DNA|spiritual DNA]] of everyone influences their destiny.

Practices of men alter and their societies and the natural the proclivity of the people and self denial is not the product of emotions. What naturally calls for sacrifice?

[[Sacrifice]] is said, in one form, draws us near the source of life which is why there is a [[metaphor]] of the [[tree of life]].

[[Sacrifice]] in another form draws into a [[Degenerate|pattern of degeneration]] which is why there is a [[metaphor]] of the [[tree of knowledge]] which includes the practice of denying the ''affordance'' of the inspiration of [[Spiritual DNA|spiritual DNA]].

The [[sacrifice]] that is generated by the secular [[gods]] of the [[world]] and their [[public religion]] is the [[sacrifice of fools]] which is [[legal charity]].

Bennette says we need good will and trust but the secular system of [[public religion]] and its [[sacrifice of fools]] of [[legal charity]] will [[degenerate]] the people and give rise to [[tyrants]].

But is that what God is?

If we put the image of God in the bottle of our own imagination we will become [[idolatry]].<Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref> The desire for comfort is a production of the ''pushing and pulling'' of our emotions and the words of our mind we may eventually divide God into many [[gods]].

If we are in denial about the [[trauma]] of our [[confusion]] we will compartmentalize our emotions and divide our mind until our gods begin to war with one another.

Even if we could evolve the singular "unmoved mover" back into a monotheist God who merely exists, the existing one, we would soon endow him with our own schizophrenia.

Jordan suggest that God is a voice that is calling mentioning the burning bush. 31 min

What Moses saw and spoke to was not named, even by Moses. It is identified as the ''I AM,'' or the ''EXISTING ONE''.

God is not a "supernatural agent whose approval must be bargained for." The [[Torah]] is defining the [[cause and effect]], the psychology and physics, the purpose and practicality, of the practices of mankind in their [[rituals and ceremonies]] but through metaphors and allegories.

== Summum bonum ==

Summum bonum is a Latin expression meaning the highest or ultimate good, which was introduced by the Roman philosopher Cicero to denote the fundamental principle on which some system of ethics is based — that is, the aim of actions, which, if consistently pursued, will lead to the best possible life.

Pederson imagines that Thought is secularized prayer and that were thinking religiously longer than we have been thinking rationally. 41:

Daniel Bennett sees trust is what allow science and society. 39

== Goodwill and trust==

Is trust and faith the same ???

Bennet sees there needs to be goodwill and trust. How do you cultivate that "goodwill and trust" in society and how do you undermine that "goodwill and trust".

He also sees a need for freedom and government and it's law making ability to create order and "No one is above the law."

Breakdown of trust in "government and science". To these atheists like Sam Harris<Ref name="same"></Ref> their trust is in their intellect and in themselves.

Sam trusted in his version of science and wanted to force his will on his neighbor. We can trust Sam to be a tyrant.

To the atheist there is no humbling power, no tree of life nor God to walk with and obey but the governments they create for themselves.

Never trust the good will of a atheist who loves his opinion more than his neighbor. He will become a tyrant who is untrustworthy.

Science is not the solution but a quest.

==Can science save ==

Science in China produced a Skynet that watches the people.

Peterson mocks the idea of the Chinese that they are making the good Skynet just as he mocks the communists who think they are the saviors of the good social justice.

100 min

Daniel Bennett states that is why we need law and government.

Daniel Bennett thinks all the advances In ethics has been fought by religion but has come about by the secular advances.

I have seen secular corruption in [[Sumer]], Babylon, Egypt, and many city-states and finally [[Rome]].

It appears we are undergoing a degeneration of the moral ethics in societies from the early 1900's.

== Dual magisterium ==
Daniel Bennett does not see the dual magisterium is government and religion.

There was a dual system in the government of Moses and neither Peterson nor Daniel Bennett understand how it worked.

Daniel Bennett complains that Stephen J. Gould should not have assumed that religion is the moral authority of society.

Stephen J. Gould's definition of magisteria means the teaching domain of each subject, referring to what both science and religion teach humanity about the empirical and metaphysical world. Science's magisterium is more focused on the empirical world whereas religious magisterium is concerned with human morals.

But is the real flaw in the dual magisterium theory a failure of mis- gendering.

==The magisterium swells ==

Even "real communism" degenerates the people including the trust between the people. communism denies God and overthrows the family.

Rome over through the Tarquinian kings and formed a Republic and promoted the family as sacred.

Much of the power of government was in the hands of the [[fathers]] of those families.

When families gathered in small groups they respected the [[elders]] as the counsel of the [[Senate]] which had little power at first.

Over centuries they looked more and more to government to provide for more and more benefits until the protests and imperium of the natural family was in the hands of men who desired to rule.

Power shifted from the fathers of families to the [[Fathers]] of the State.

Power corrupts. Institution that endow divisions of society to obtain power will be corrupted by that power.

What tools of society builds trust?

What tools of society cultivates and nurtures good will?

Society must have fundamental and foundational guidelines that Mark a departure from a healthy society.

===The magisterium gendered ===

Society consists of men and women who form family that produce the next generation.

Biblically the traditional family is one man and one woman who produce and raise of spring.

When Families come together they form clans and tribes, tribes form nations. As groups become larger governments are instituted. That process may consolidate power where families rule over families giving rise to abuse and oppression, kings and tyrants.

"Every tool will become a weapon in your enemies hands."

And everyone who loves them self or heir family mor than their neighbor becomes an instrument of oppression and a tool of tyranny.

The unique gendered divisions placed in the structure of the government as explained by an inspired Moses was tampered with, distorted and degraded in succeeding generations by [[greed]] and [[sloth]], [[pride]] and [[avarice]], of the church and state respectively.

The [[church in the wilderness]] and the people of the nation of Israel, before the kings, represented distinct and well defined responsibilities within society for properly attending to the [[weightier matters]] of law, judgement, mercy and faith.

The pattern and purpose created by the dual exercise by the [[laity]]<Ref name=""> free people, in [[free assemblies]], the [[State]], as a [[Republic]] of natural [[citizens]] "not subject to the administration of government" .(representative of the male gender of society)</Ref> and the [[clergy]] or the [[church in the wilderness]], the [[Levites]], (representative of the feminine gender of society)</Ref> of the natural and divine responsibilities and rights which form the DNA of free society with both secular and spiritual entanglement.

This same pattern of a corrupt blending of the [[clergy]] and laity has lead to the error of [[Balaam]] and the deeds of the [[Nicolaitans]] time and time again.

That corruption, like a cancer, eroded the reproduction of the next generation. The bondage produced by the [[covetous practices]] that flourished under the counterfeit interpretation, apostasy, brings a pain that calls for repentance.

The church as an institution becomes a [[harlot]] of tyrants instead of the Bride of Christ.

The need for a divine intervention of the spiritual DNA of man becomes paramount but only comes with a renewal of humility through the sincere prayer of, "Thy will be done."

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[[Category:Topics]]

Aboutism

2024-04-21T04:08:09Z

StevenS: /* Goodwill and trust */

[[File:Bible.jpg|right|300px|thumb| I reviewed this Jordan/ Bennette interview in a podcast because Bennette and many others are so ignorant of what promotes the very "trust and goodwill" in society because they do not know what the '''Bible is about'''. What are sacred scriptures about? If people read them, translate them and interpret them but do not understand the metaphors and meaning of the myths they will not understand what the affordism and intent of the text is about. They will not understand the aboutism of the author. Knowing that the Prologue to the John Wycliffe Bible translation of 1384 states:
"This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People." We see this was quoted in Lincoln at Gettysburg Address.
[[Religion]] is mention 5 times in the Bible and only once in a good sense, while governments is mentioned in one form or another more than seven hundred to thousand times. The followers of Jesus who [[repent]] like the [[Early Christians]] are about [[Pure Religion]]. They are willing to attend to the "[[weightier matters]]", listed by Jesus as "law, judgement, mercy, and faith" because that is what seeking the [[kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]] is about. 
'''[[Aboutism]]''' [https://www.hisholychurch.org/audio/20240413aboutism.mp3 Download Recording Aboutism Jordan Peterson interview with D Bennette] or press play <html><audio controls src="https://www.hisholychurch.org/audio/20240413aboutism.mp3"></audio></html> 
https://www.hisholychurch.org/audio/20240413aboutism.mp3]]

==Aboutism ==

In the EP 438. entitled '''Aboutness secular vs religious''' '''Jordan Pederson''' interviews '''Daniel Clement Dennett III''' who is an American philosopher, writer, and scientist within those fields related to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

Bennett along with other influential atheists believe all forms of [[religion]] to be false and that advocated an [[atheist]] movement. worldview.

The discussion would have been of more value to the individual had a true understanding of the pragmatic "meaning" and "intention" of the "[[religion]]" ancient scriptures as described by [[Moses]].

We covered what Moses taught in our own series on "[[Exodus]]". Unfortunately Bennett is ignorant of Moses' meaning and morality because he, like most of modern moralists, has unmoored the meaning of the [[metaphor]] that points to the "affordances" of the ''government of the people, for the people, and by the people''<Ref name="Johnwy">{{Johnwy}}</Ref> that were [[captive]] and now were free.

Basically, the "[[trust]]" and "good will" Bennette suppose to be so important for "freedom" and "government" but he is ignorant of the "aboutism" and the "affordances" of the "[[religion]]" and "government" referenced in the [[Bible]].

In general, the term '''Aboutness''' refers to the concept that a text, utterance, image, or action is on or of something, considered synonymous with a document's subject involving the 'summarization' of the texts most important concepts to be included in your translation or interpretation.

=== The moral authority ===

Daniel Bennett, the author of '''Breaking the Spell''', sees the Evolution of [[ethics]] for the last ten thousand years has been the secularization of ethics which he thinks has nothing to do with [[religion]].

Bennett has been an influential atheist along with Sam Harris<Ref name="same">"And the patience, there would've been no f**king patience for vaccine skepticism, right. And everyone would've recognized, this is not ''my body my choice''. This is you're not gonna kill my kids with your ignorance."
"It was obviously reasonable to get vaccinated, especially because there was every reason to expect that while it wasn't a perfectly sterilizing vaccine, it was going to knock down transmission a lot… so it wasn’t just a personal choice — you were actually being a good citizen when you decided to run whatever risk you were going to run to get vaccinated.”
: Sam Harris: "Vaccines were reasonably safe and Covid was reasonably dangerous....the tradeoff for basically everyone was it was rational to get vaccinated given the level of testing...given what we were seeing with Covid"
: Claim (paraphrased):
“Scientists such as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya have proven their unreliability due to their erroneous Covid death predictions. In a March 2020 op-ed, Jay gave an unreasonably low estimate of Covid deaths in the United States, whereas Nicholas Christakis correctly predicted 1 million Covid deaths on my podcast.”
Sam listened to Ferguson and Topol and others who he should not have trusted but in truth he listened to himself.
As Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Even Ben Shapiro stated Pfizer has now admitted they did not test whether the COVID vaccines prevented transmission before releasing them. That didn't stop them from making false claims about stopping transmission.
Ivermectin worked and was suppressed, that the COVID vaccine did not and was and is killing people suddenly, and that the threat of COVID is a hoax and its less deadly than the flu,</Ref> and Dawkins and Hitchins.

[[Sin]] is ''an archery term'' about missing the target or not preserving or observing what IS...what is true.

God, like [[Truth]], is ineffable, too great or extreme to be expressed, observed, or described in words, even the words of our mind.

Daniel Bennett believes man has evolved systems of morality which he does not think animals can.(16 min. Ep. 438)

Daniel Bennett believes we have evolved away from the Old Testament mortality standards and done away with cannibalism and with slavery.

He thanks "goodness" that we have.

But have we?

He says science is "what is" and politics is "what we think should be". He thinks we no longer need religion because we have secular logic and human reason. He believes that the freedom he sees as important can be provided by a civilized structure.

Is he vain in his [[wisdom]]?

If you asked him about the "civilized structure" of the [[cities of blood]] would be understand what they were?

Does he understand the definition of [[religion]] just 200 years ago and how it has ''evolved''?.

He complained about the New Testament ethics but does he understand why we are told to "[[love]] our neighbor as ourself"; be careful we do not [[bite]] one another less we be devoured; or the difference between '''[[public religion]]'' filled with the [[leaven]] of secular politics where [[care]] is murdered verses '''[[pure Religion]]''' where the "trust and good will" Bennette seeks thrives? Pop

He seems to have thrown out the gift of the ancients in the form of the sacred text without ever unpacking it.

== Aboutness of religious Scriptures ==

: “The '''aboutness''' of religious Scriptures like the [[Bible]] includes the philosophy, psychology and physics of the mind, means, and manner of man and the [[Cause and effect|cause and effects]] of a relationship with nature, the [[Law of Nature]], and nature's God, which is the creative patterned [[force]] and [[Power of choice|power]] of the universe.

The ''patterned [[force]] and [[Power of choice|power]]'' offered by the metaphor of the [[tree of life]] allows for the [[power to change]] that brings [[eternal life]]. The [[tree of knowledge]] allows us ''to be changed'' by something other than the [[tree of life]] and therefore may not bring the same [[eternal life]].

Yet, the [[gods]] of [[religion]]s are as numerous as the [[gods]] of governments. Most [[atheist|atheists]] today believe in [[public religion|public Religion]] and the [[gods]] of the modern ''secular'' [[public religion|public Religion]].

There is a religion that is merely '''about''' ''what people think about a god'', i.e. belief in an [[ideology]]. People who think they do not believe in a Spiritual God are still ''religious'', in the since of what '''[[Religion|religion]]''' use to mean two hundred years ago.

Their religion is that [[public religion|public Religion]] and your duty is determined by the gods of that [[public religion|public Religion]]. Those [[gods]] are parliaments, Prime ministers and presidents elect, directly or indirectly, by the choices of the people.

The difference may be simply whether they believe in the [[religion]] of [[charity]] or the [[religion]] of [[force]]d offerings. The latter is the secular religion of the modern atheist. These type of people feel the need to [[name]] ''God or the gods'' which includes the desire to define ''God or gods'' which is an attempt to place God into the bottle of our ''secular imagination''.

Once, we think we have done that [[religion]] becomes an [[ideology]] instead of a "Pius duty" of the people. This naming or intellectually defining God will degenerate the people because they descend into the [[darkness]] of our imagination rather than the light of [[Truth]].

=== Mapping the aboutness===

Jordan with his maps of meaning and [[Exodus]] series has been trying to connect the dots laid out in myth and metaphor with little help from [[modern church|modern religion]]ists and philosophers who are far more ''worldly'' than merely ''secular'.

They can not even see their own confusion nor the wisdom of the ancients because like the [[Pharaoh]]s and [[Pharisees]] and the people who followed their pernicious ways they have been blinded.

It should be the hope of those who live by [[faith]] which is trust that those who live by [[force]] and sit in darkness may yet learn to love the light.

== Affordance of liberty ==

JJ Gibson He defined an affordance as what the environment provides or furnishes the animal. Notably, Gibson compares an affordance with an ecological niche emphasizing the way niches characterize how an animal lives in its environment.
JJ Gibson did not track affordance in the brain.??

Entropy is a lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder. There is order in the universe that came from somewhere and not from the mind of man. There is also room for chaos because their is some possibility of [[choice]]. That choice is no merely a product of the ''pushing and pulling'' of emotion. Emotion does not create all the order.

Daniel Bennett as an atheist sees emotions as doing all the ''pushing and pulling'' in the mind. There is no unifying Spirit of morality.

Daniel Bennett does not believe there is a supernatural agent whose approval must be bargained for. Bennett wants to deny the affordance of the mind because he thinks it is just a computer. The DNA within the body generate light and also responds to light. It is design to both send and receive. The body and mind are the corporeal hereditaments of our individuality and emotion is not the only affordance of the mind through the secretion of hormones. The [[Spiritual DNA|spiritual DNA]] of everyone influences their destiny.

Practices of men alter and their societies and the natural the proclivity of the people and self denial is not the product of emotions. What naturally calls for sacrifice?

[[Sacrifice]] is said, in one form, draws us near the source of life which is why there is a [[metaphor]] of the [[tree of life]].

[[Sacrifice]] in another form draws into a [[Degenerate|pattern of degeneration]] which is why there is a [[metaphor]] of the [[tree of knowledge]] which includes the practice of denying the ''affordance'' of the inspiration of [[Spiritual DNA|spiritual DNA]].

The [[sacrifice]] that is generated by the secular [[gods]] of the [[world]] and their [[public religion]] is the [[sacrifice of fools]] which is [[legal charity]].

Bennette says we need good will and trust but the secular system of [[public religion]] and its [[sacrifice of fools]] of [[legal charity]] will [[degenerate]] the people and give rise to [[tyrants]].

But is that what God is?

If we put the image of God in the bottle of our own imagination we will become [[idolatry]].<Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref> The desire for comfort is a production of the ''pushing and pulling'' of our emotions and the words of our mind we may eventually divide God into many [[gods]].

If we are in denial about the [[trauma]] of our [[confusion]] we will compartmentalize our emotions and divide our mind until our gods begin to war with one another.

Even if we could evolve the singular "unmoved mover" back into a monotheist God who merely exists, the existing one, we would soon endow him with our own schizophrenia.

Jordan suggest that God is a voice that is calling mentioning the burning bush. 31 min

What Moses saw and spoke to was not named, even by Moses. It is identified as the ''I AM,'' or the ''EXISTING ONE''.

God is not a "supernatural agent whose approval must be bargained for." The [[Torah]] is defining the [[cause and effect]], the psychology and physics, the purpose and practicality, of the practices of mankind in their [[rituals and ceremonies]] but through metaphors and allegories.

== Summum bonum ==

Summum bonum is a Latin expression meaning the highest or ultimate good, which was introduced by the Roman philosopher Cicero to denote the fundamental principle on which some system of ethics is based — that is, the aim of actions, which, if consistently pursued, will lead to the best possible life.

Pederson imagines that Thought is secularized prayer and that were thinking religiously longer than we have been thinking rationally. 41:

Daniel Bennett sees trust is what allow science and society. 39

== Goodwill and trust==

Is trust and faith the same ???

Bennet sees there needs to be goodwill and trust. How do you cultivate that "goodwill and trust" in society and how do you undermine that "goodwill and trust".

He also sees a need for freedom and government and it's law making ability to create order and "No one is above the law."

Breakdown of trust in "government and science". To these atheists like Sam Harris<Ref name="same"></Ref> their trust is in their intellect and in themselves.

Sam trusted in his version of science and wanted to force his will on his neighbor. We can trust Sam to be a tyrant.

To the atheist there is no humbling power, no tree of life nor God to walk with and obey but the governments they create for themselves.

Never trust the good will of a atheist who loves his opinion more than his neighbor. He will become a tyrant who is untrustworthy.

Science is not the solution but a quest.

==Can science save ==

Science in China produced a Skynet that watches the people.

Peterson mocks the idea of the Chinese that they are making the good Skynet just as he mocks the communists who think they are the saviors of the good social justice.

100 min

Daniel Bennett states that is why we need law and government.

Daniel Bennett thinks all the advances In ethics has been fought by religion but has come about by the secular advances.

I have seen secular corruption in [[Sumer]], Babylon, Egypt, and many city-states and finally [[Rome]].

It appears we are undergoing a degeneration of the moral ethics in societies from the early 1900's.

== Dual magisterium ==
Daniel Bennett does not see the dual magisterium is government and religion.

There was a dual system in the government of Moses and neither Peterson nor Daniel Bennett understand how it worked.

Daniel Bennett complains that Stephen J. Gould should not have assumed that religion is the moral authority of society.

Stephen J. Gould's definition of magisteria means the teaching domain of each subject, referring to what both science and religion teach humanity about the empirical and metaphysical world. Science's magisterium is more focused on the empirical world whereas religious magisterium is concerned with human morals.

But is the real flaw in the dual magisterium theory a failure of mis- gendering.

==The magisterium swells ==

Even "real communism" degenerates the people including the trust between the people. communism denies God and overthrows the family.

Rome over through the Tarquinian kings and formed a Republic and promoted the family as sacred.

Much of the power of government was in the hands of the [[fathers]] of those families.

When families gathered in small groups they respected the [[elders]] as the counsel of the [[Senate]] which had little power at first.

Over centuries they looked more and more to government to provide for more and more benefits until the protests and imperium of the natural family was in the hands of men who desired to rule.

Power shifted from the fathers of families to the [[Fathers]] of the State.

Power corrupts. Institution that endow divisions of society to obtain powe will be corrupted by that power.

What tools of society builds trust?

What tools of society cultivates and nurtures good will?

Society must have fundamental and foundational guidelines that Mark a departure from a healthy society.

===The magisterium gendered ===

Society consists of men and women who form family that produce the next generation.

Biblically the traditional family is one man and one woman who produce and raise of spring.

When Families come together they form clans and tribes, tribes form nations. As groups become larger governments are instituted. That process may consolidate power where families rule over families giving rise to abuse and oppression, kings and tyrants.

"Every tool will become a weapon in your enemies hands."

And everyone who loves them self or heir family mor than their neighbor becomes an instrument of oppression and a tool of tyranny.

The unique gendered divisions placed in the structure of the government as explained by an inspired Moses was tampered with, distorted and degraded in succeeding generations by [[greed]] and [[sloth]], [[pride]] and [[avarice]], of the church and state respectively.

The [[church in the wilderness]] and the people of the nation of Israel, before the kings, represented distinct and well defined responsibilities within society for properly attending to the [[weightier matters]] of law, judgement, mercy and faith.

The pattern and purpose created by the dual exercise by the [[laity]]<Ref name=""> free people, in [[free assemblies]], the [[State]], as a [[Republic]] of natural [[citizens]] "not subject to the administration of government" .(representative of the male gender of society)</Ref> and the [[clergy]] or the [[church in the wilderness]], the [[Levites]], (representative of the feminine gender of society)</Ref> of the natural and divine responsibilities and rights which form the DNA of free society with both secular and spiritual entanglement.

This same pattern of a corrupt blending of the [[clergy]] and laity has lead to the error of [[Balaam]] and the deeds of the [[Nicolaitans]] time and time again.

That corruption, like a cancer, eroded the reproduction of the next generation. The bondage produced by the [[covetous practices]] that flourished under the counterfeit interpretation, apostasy, brings a pain that calls for repentance.

The church as an institution becomes a [[harlot]] of tyrants instead of the Bride of Christ.

The need for a divine intervention of the spiritual DNA of man becomes paramount but only comes with a renewal of humility through the sincere prayer of, "Thy will be done."

[[Category:Articles]]

[[Category:Definitions]]

[[Category:Topics]]

Aboutism

2024-04-21T03:43:22Z

StevenS:

[[File:Bible.jpg|right|300px|thumb| I reviewed this Jordan/ Bennette interview in a podcast because Bennette and many others are so ignorant of what promotes the very "trust and goodwill" in society because they do not know what the '''Bible is about'''. What are sacred scriptures about? If people read them, translate them and interpret them but do not understand the metaphors and meaning of the myths they will not understand what the affordism and intent of the text is about. They will not understand the aboutism of the author. Knowing that the Prologue to the John Wycliffe Bible translation of 1384 states:
"This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People." We see this was quoted in Lincoln at Gettysburg Address.
[[Religion]] is mention 5 times in the Bible and only once in a good sense, while governments is mentioned in one form or another more than seven hundred to thousand times. The followers of Jesus who [[repent]] like the [[Early Christians]] are about [[Pure Religion]]. They are willing to attend to the "[[weightier matters]]", listed by Jesus as "law, judgement, mercy, and faith" because that is what seeking the [[kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]] is about. 
'''[[Aboutism]]''' [https://www.hisholychurch.org/audio/20240413aboutism.mp3 Download Recording Aboutism Jordan Peterson interview with D Bennette] or press play <html><audio controls src="https://www.hisholychurch.org/audio/20240413aboutism.mp3"></audio></html> 
https://www.hisholychurch.org/audio/20240413aboutism.mp3]]

==Aboutism ==

In the EP 438. entitled '''Aboutness secular vs religious''' '''Jordan Pederson''' interviews '''Daniel Clement Dennett III''' who is an American philosopher, writer, and scientist within those fields related to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

Bennett along with other influential atheists believe all forms of [[religion]] to be false and that advocated an [[atheist]] movement. worldview.

The discussion would have been of more value to the individual had a true understanding of the pragmatic "meaning" and "intention" of the "[[religion]]" ancient scriptures as described by [[Moses]].

We covered what Moses taught in our own series on "[[Exodus]]". Unfortunately Bennett is ignorant of Moses' meaning and morality because he, like most of modern moralists, has unmoored the meaning of the [[metaphor]] that points to the "affordances" of the ''government of the people, for the people, and by the people''<Ref name="Johnwy">{{Johnwy}}</Ref> that were [[captive]] and now were free.

Basically, the "[[trust]]" and "good will" Bennette suppose to be so important for "freedom" and "government" but he is ignorant of the "aboutism" and the "affordances" of the "[[religion]]" and "government" referenced in the [[Bible]].

In general, the term '''Aboutness''' refers to the concept that a text, utterance, image, or action is on or of something, considered synonymous with a document's subject involving the 'summarization' of the texts most important concepts to be included in your translation or interpretation.

=== The moral authority ===

Daniel Bennett, the author of '''Breaking the Spell''', sees the Evolution of [[ethics]] for the last ten thousand years has been the secularization of ethics which he thinks has nothing to do with [[religion]].

Bennett has been an influential atheist along with Sam Harris<Ref name="same">"And the patience, there would've been no f**king patience for vaccine skepticism, right. And everyone would've recognized, this is not ''my body my choice''. This is you're not gonna kill my kids with your ignorance."
"It was obviously reasonable to get vaccinated, especially because there was every reason to expect that while it wasn't a perfectly sterilizing vaccine, it was going to knock down transmission a lot… so it wasn’t just a personal choice — you were actually being a good citizen when you decided to run whatever risk you were going to run to get vaccinated.”
: Sam Harris: "Vaccines were reasonably safe and Covid was reasonably dangerous....the tradeoff for basically everyone was it was rational to get vaccinated given the level of testing...given what we were seeing with Covid"
: Claim (paraphrased):
“Scientists such as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya have proven their unreliability due to their erroneous Covid death predictions. In a March 2020 op-ed, Jay gave an unreasonably low estimate of Covid deaths in the United States, whereas Nicholas Christakis correctly predicted 1 million Covid deaths on my podcast.”
Sam listened to Ferguson and Topol and others who he should not have trusted but in truth he listened to himself.
As Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Even Ben Shapiro stated Pfizer has now admitted they did not test whether the COVID vaccines prevented transmission before releasing them. That didn't stop them from making false claims about stopping transmission.
Ivermectin worked and was suppressed, that the COVID vaccine did not and was and is killing people suddenly, and that the threat of COVID is a hoax and its less deadly than the flu,</Ref> and Dawkins and Hitchins.

[[Sin]] is ''an archery term'' about missing the target or not preserving or observing what IS...what is true.

God, like [[Truth]], is ineffable, too great or extreme to be expressed, observed, or described in words, even the words of our mind.

Daniel Bennett believes man has evolved systems of morality which he does not think animals can.(16 min. Ep. 438)

Daniel Bennett believes we have evolved away from the Old Testament mortality standards and done away with cannibalism and with slavery.

He thanks "goodness" that we have.

But have we?

He says science is "what is" and politics is "what we think should be". He thinks we no longer need religion because we have secular logic and human reason. He believes that the freedom he sees as important can be provided by a civilized structure.

Is he vain in his [[wisdom]]?

If you asked him about the "civilized structure" of the [[cities of blood]] would be understand what they were?

Does he understand the definition of [[religion]] just 200 years ago and how it has ''evolved''?.

He complained about the New Testament ethics but does he understand why we are told to "[[love]] our neighbor as ourself"; be careful we do not [[bite]] one another less we be devoured; or the difference between '''[[public religion]]'' filled with the [[leaven]] of secular politics where [[care]] is murdered verses '''[[pure Religion]]''' where the "trust and good will" Bennette seeks thrives? Pop

He seems to have thrown out the gift of the ancients in the form of the sacred text without ever unpacking it.

== Aboutness of religious Scriptures ==

: “The '''aboutness''' of religious Scriptures like the [[Bible]] includes the philosophy, psychology and physics of the mind, means, and manner of man and the [[Cause and effect|cause and effects]] of a relationship with nature, the [[Law of Nature]], and nature's God, which is the creative patterned [[force]] and [[Power of choice|power]] of the universe.

The ''patterned [[force]] and [[Power of choice|power]]'' offered by the metaphor of the [[tree of life]] allows for the [[power to change]] that brings [[eternal life]]. The [[tree of knowledge]] allows us ''to be changed'' by something other than the [[tree of life]] and therefore may not bring the same [[eternal life]].

Yet, the [[gods]] of [[religion]]s are as numerous as the [[gods]] of governments. Most [[atheist|atheists]] today believe in [[public religion|public Religion]] and the [[gods]] of the modern ''secular'' [[public religion|public Religion]].

There is a religion that is merely '''about''' ''what people think about a god'', i.e. belief in an [[ideology]]. People who think they do not believe in a Spiritual God are still ''religious'', in the since of what '''[[Religion|religion]]''' use to mean two hundred years ago.

Their religion is that [[public religion|public Religion]] and your duty is determined by the gods of that [[public religion|public Religion]]. Those [[gods]] are parliaments, Prime ministers and presidents elect, directly or indirectly, by the choices of the people.

The difference may be simply whether they believe in the [[religion]] of [[charity]] or the [[religion]] of [[force]]d offerings. The latter is the secular religion of the modern atheist. These type of people feel the need to [[name]] ''God or the gods'' which includes the desire to define ''God or gods'' which is an attempt to place God into the bottle of our ''secular imagination''.

Once, we think we have done that [[religion]] becomes an [[ideology]] instead of a "Pius duty" of the people. This naming or intellectually defining God will degenerate the people because they descend into the [[darkness]] of our imagination rather than the light of [[Truth]].

=== Mapping the aboutness===

Jordan with his maps of meaning and [[Exodus]] series has been trying to connect the dots laid out in myth and metaphor with little help from [[modern church|modern religion]]ists and philosophers who are far more ''worldly'' than merely ''secular'.

They can not even see their own confusion nor the wisdom of the ancients because like the [[Pharaoh]]s and [[Pharisees]] and the people who followed their pernicious ways they have been blinded.

It should be the hope of those who live by [[faith]] which is trust that those who live by [[force]] and sit in darkness may yet learn to love the light.

== Affordance of liberty ==

JJ Gibson He defined an affordance as what the environment provides or furnishes the animal. Notably, Gibson compares an affordance with an ecological niche emphasizing the way niches characterize how an animal lives in its environment.
JJ Gibson did not track affordance in the brain.??

Entropy is a lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder. There is order in the universe that came from somewhere and not from the mind of man. There is also room for chaos because their is some possibility of [[choice]]. That choice is no merely a product of the ''pushing and pulling'' of emotion. Emotion does not create all the order.

Daniel Bennett as an atheist sees emotions as doing all the ''pushing and pulling'' in the mind. There is no unifying Spirit of morality.

Daniel Bennett does not believe there is a supernatural agent whose approval must be bargained for. Bennett wants to deny the affordance of the mind because he thinks it is just a computer. The DNA within the body generate light and also responds to light. It is design to both send and receive. The body and mind are the corporeal hereditaments of our individuality and emotion is not the only affordance of the mind through the secretion of hormones. The [[Spiritual DNA|spiritual DNA]] of everyone influences their destiny.

Practices of men alter and their societies and the natural the proclivity of the people and self denial is not the product of emotions. What naturally calls for sacrifice?

[[Sacrifice]] is said, in one form, draws us near the source of life which is why there is a [[metaphor]] of the [[tree of life]].

[[Sacrifice]] in another form draws into a [[Degenerate|pattern of degeneration]] which is why there is a [[metaphor]] of the [[tree of knowledge]] which includes the practice of denying the ''affordance'' of the inspiration of [[Spiritual DNA|spiritual DNA]].

The [[sacrifice]] that is generated by the secular [[gods]] of the [[world]] and their [[public religion]] is the [[sacrifice of fools]] which is [[legal charity]].

Bennette says we need good will and trust but the secular system of [[public religion]] and its [[sacrifice of fools]] of [[legal charity]] will [[degenerate]] the people and give rise to [[tyrants]].

But is that what God is?

If we put the image of God in the bottle of our own imagination we will become [[idolatry]].<Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref> The desire for comfort is a production of the ''pushing and pulling'' of our emotions and the words of our mind we may eventually divide God into many [[gods]].

If we are in denial about the [[trauma]] of our [[confusion]] we will compartmentalize our emotions and divide our mind until our gods begin to war with one another.

Even if we could evolve the singular "unmoved mover" back into a monotheist God who merely exists, the existing one, we would soon endow him with our own schizophrenia.

Jordan suggest that God is a voice that is calling mentioning the burning bush. 31 min

What Moses saw and spoke to was not named, even by Moses. It is identified as the ''I AM,'' or the ''EXISTING ONE''.

God is not a "supernatural agent whose approval must be bargained for." The [[Torah]] is defining the [[cause and effect]], the psychology and physics, the purpose and practicality, of the practices of mankind in their [[rituals and ceremonies]] but through metaphors and allegories.

== Summum bonum ==

Summum bonum is a Latin expression meaning the highest or ultimate good, which was introduced by the Roman philosopher Cicero to denote the fundamental principle on which some system of ethics is based — that is, the aim of actions, which, if consistently pursued, will lead to the best possible life.

Pederson imagines that Thought is secularized prayer and that were thinking religiously longer than we have been thinking rationally. 41:

Daniel Bennett sees trust is what allow science and society. 39

== Goodwill and trust==

Is trust and faith the same ???

Bennet sees there needs to be goodwill and trust. How do you cultivate that "goodwill and trust" in society and how do you undermine that "goodwill and trust".

He also see an need for freedom and government and it's law making ability to create order and "No one is above the law."

Breakdown of trust in "government and science". To these atheists like Sam Harris<Ref name="same"></Ref> their trust is in their intellect and in themselves.

Sam trusted in his version of science and wanted to force his will on his neighbor. We can trust Sam to be a tyrant.

To the atheist there is no humbling power, no tree of life nor God to walk with and obey but the governments the create for themselves.

Never trust the good will of a atheist who loves his opinion more than his neighbor. He will become a tyrant who is untrustworthy.

Science is not the solution but a quest.

==Can science save ==

Science in China produced a Skynet that watches the people.

Peterson mocks the idea of the Chinese that they are making the good Skynet just as he mocks the communists who think they are the saviors of the good social justice.

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Daniel Bennett states that is why we need law and government.

Daniel Bennett thinks all the advances In ethics has been fought by religion but has come about by the secular advances.

I have seen secular corruption in [[Sumer]], Babylon, Egypt, and many city-states and finally [[Rome]].

It appears we are undergoing a degeneration of the moral ethics in societies from the early 1900's.

== Dual magisterium ==
Daniel Bennett does not see the dual magisterium is government and religion.

There was a dual system in the government of Moses and neither Peterson nor Daniel Bennett understand how it worked.

Daniel Bennett complains that Stephen J. Gould should not have assumed that religion is the moral authority of society.

Stephen J. Gould's definition of magisteria means the teaching domain of each subject, referring to what both science and religion teach humanity about the empirical and metaphysical world. Science's magisterium is more focused on the empirical world whereas religious magisterium is concerned with human morals.

But is the real flaw in the dual magisterium theory a failure of mis- gendering.

==The magisterium swells ==

Even "real communism" degenerates the people including the trust between the people. communism denies God and overthrows the family.

Rome over through the Tarquinian kings and formed a Republic and promoted the family as sacred.

Much of the power of government was in the hands of the [[fathers]] of those families.

When families gathered in small groups they respected the [[elders]] as the counsel of the [[Senate]] which had little power at first.

Over centuries they looked more and more to government to provide for more and more benefits until the protests and imperium of the natural family was in the hands of men who desired to rule.

Power shifted from the fathers of families to the [[Fathers]] of the State.

Power corrupts. Institution that endow divisions of society to obtain powe will be corrupted by that power.

What tools of society builds trust?

What tools of society cultivates and nurtures good will?

Society must have fundamental and foundational guidelines that Mark a departure from a healthy society.

===The magisterium gendered ===

Society consists of men and women who form family that produce the next generation.

Biblically the traditional family is one man and one woman who produce and raise of spring.

When Families come together they form clans and tribes, tribes form nations. As groups become larger governments are instituted. That process may consolidate power where families rule over families giving rise to abuse and oppression, kings and tyrants.

"Every tool will become a weapon in your enemies hands."

And everyone who loves them self or heir family mor than their neighbor becomes an instrument of oppression and a tool of tyranny.

The unique gendered divisions placed in the structure of the government as explained by an inspired Moses was tampered with, distorted and degraded in succeeding generations by [[greed]] and [[sloth]], [[pride]] and [[avarice]], of the church and state respectively.

The [[church in the wilderness]] and the people of the nation of Israel, before the kings, represented distinct and well defined responsibilities within society for properly attending to the [[weightier matters]] of law, judgement, mercy and faith.

The pattern and purpose created by the dual exercise by the [[laity]]<Ref name=""> free people, in [[free assemblies]], the [[State]], as a [[Republic]] of natural [[citizens]] "not subject to the administration of government" .(representative of the male gender of society)</Ref> and the [[clergy]] or the [[church in the wilderness]], the [[Levites]], (representative of the feminine gender of society)</Ref> of the natural and divine responsibilities and rights which form the DNA of free society with both secular and spiritual entanglement.

This same pattern of a corrupt blending of the [[clergy]] and laity has lead to the error of [[Balaam]] and the deeds of the [[Nicolaitans]] time and time again.

That corruption, like a cancer, eroded the reproduction of the next generation. The bondage produced by the [[covetous practices]] that flourished under the counterfeit interpretation, apostasy, brings a pain that calls for repentance.

The church as an institution becomes a [[harlot]] of tyrants instead of the Bride of Christ.

The need for a divine intervention of the spiritual DNA of man becomes paramount but only comes with a renewal of humility through the sincere prayer of, "Thy will be done."

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== Why Persecute Christians ==

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Christians are mentioned in [[Suetonius]]' biography of the Emperor [[Nero]] (Nero 16) as among those persecuted by him around AD 64 which was the year of the Great Fire of Rome. In this passage Suetonius describes Christianity and its ''excessive religiosity'' using the term [[Superstition|superstitio]] as do others like [[Tacitus]] and Pliny.

At first there was little distinction between Christians and Jews prior to Nerva's modification of the Fiscus Judaicus in AD 96.

What is the source and cause of their contempt, bias, and bigotry toward Christians?

===Religio et superstitio===

It has been reported that Lucius Annaeus [[Seneca]], the Younger, once said "[[Religion]] is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." Atheists and anti-religion factions love to quote him but I find no evidence that he ever did actually say or write this statement as we read it.

In fact, he makes a distinction between the two Latin words that are each sometimes translated as “religion”. One is “riligio” which he regarded as virtue and “superstitio” which he believed became a vice.<Ref>''Religio et superstitio quid differant''. What difference between religion and superstition </Ref>

: "... religio denotes the pious and sound worship of the gods, whereas ''superstitio'' stands for instrumental worship as a result of unreasoning fear."<Ref>''Religio and Superstitio Reconsidered''
Dr. René Gothón</ref>

: "religio becomes “obligation”, an objective bond between the believer and his God."

: "But it was the enlightened view, the philosophic view of the rationalizing Romans which dissociated religio ‘religious scruple’, authentic worship, from superstitio, a degraded and perverted form of religion." [https://archive.chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/3970.7-religion-and-superstition Chapter 7: Religion and Superstition]

The Ionic Greek term ''thrēskeíē'' is unknown in Attic Greek appearing in the first century B.C. a complex system of beliefs and practices can be considered [[religion]] as in the performance of a duty.

Seneca did write, “...just as religion does honour to the gods, while [[superstition]] wrongs them, so good men will all display mercy and gentleness,...”<Ref>Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger , De Clementia On Mercy , II. iv. 4-v. 4 </Ref>

He went on to connect religion with ''duty'' like the [[weightier matters]] of Christ and the whole list of [[Social virtues]] that appear in true [[fellowship]] described by Paul and the apostles who considered faith with out the works was dead. Seneca points out that it is avarice that [[degenerate]]s society:

: “ ...[Philosophy’s] sole function is to discover the truth about things divine and things human. From her side religion never departs, nor duty, nor justice, nor any of the whole company of virtues which cling together in close-united fellowship. Philosophy has taught us to worship that which is divine, to love that which is human; she has told us that with the gods lies dominion, and among men, fellowship. This [[fellowship]] remained unspoiled for a long time, until avarice tore the community asunder and became the cause of poverty, even in the case of those whom she herself had most enriched. For men cease to possess all things the moment they desire all things for their own.” <Ref>Moral letters to Lucilius by Seneca, Letter XC. On the Part Played by Philosophy in the Progress of Man </Ref>

[[Superstition]] is a belief in the mind, an [[ideology]], while [[religion]] is the performance of a duty and [[pure Religion]] is the performance of that duty unspotted by the men and means of the world who [[exercise authority]].

=== A New cult ===

A [[cult]] included the doing and performing of tasks, duties and obligations.

Cicero explained ‘Those who rehandled (retractarent) diligently and so to speak ''relegerent'' all the things which relate to the worship of the gods, were called ''religiosi'' from ''relegere'', like ''elegantes'' from ''eligere'' and ''diligentes'' from ''diligere''. All these words have in fact the same sense of ''legere'' as ''religiosus''.’<Ref>(De natura deorum II, 28, 72): Qui autem omnia quae ad cultum deorum pertinerent diligenter retractarent et tamquam relegerent, sunt dicti religiosi ex relegendo ut elegantes ex eligendo, ex diligendo diligentes. His enim in verbis omnibus inest vis legendi eadem quae in religioso. </Ref>

[[Suetonius]] can speak of 'Christians' as members of a ''new cult'' that was doing contrary to the [[Imperial Cult of Rome]]. Those who had become accustomed to funding their [[temples]] with the immoral practices forcing the contributions of others, counted as ''strangers'', so that ''some'' could continue to live at the ''expense of others'' had their conscience seared.<Ref name="Searedc">{{Searedc}}</Ref>

===Public Cults ===

Romans, [[David Crockett|like the first Americans]], in their early history, in their ''youth'' as a nation had considered taxing others for their personal benefit or gain as an immoral practice.

In the days of the [[Libera res publica]] of early [[Rome]] there was no [[Imperial Cult of Rome]] but there was [[social virtues]] and the [https://thewisemind.net/what-does-summum-bonum-mean-and-why-is-it-important/#:~:text=Summum%20bonum%20is%20a%20Latin,same%20as%20the%20highest%20good. “Summum Bonum”].

[[Polybius]] had, centuries earlier, warned [[Rome]] and us of the consequences to the [[masses]] who engage in such [[covetous practices]]. Plutarch had also warned that those benefits and [[dainties]] destroy liberty.<Ref name="desliberty">{{desliberty}}</Ref> David, Paul, all the [[Prophets]] to say nothing of [[Proverbs]] explained that such systems of [[social welfare]] would be a [[snare]].<Ref name="snaretrap">{{snaretrap}}</Ref>

Jesus said such [[covet]]ous<Ref name="covetnot">{{covetnot}}</Ref> systems like the [[Corban]] of [[Herod]] and the [[pharisees]] made the word of God to none effect.

[[Suetonius]], [[Tacitus]], [[FDR]], and [[modern Christians]] did not or do not see that those [[benefits]] were and are not only the [[wages of unrighteousness]] but they erode the [[social bonds]] required to maintain freedom and even their liberties.<Ref name="desliberty">{{desliberty}}</Ref>
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