Enjoyed this and was challenged by it as well. Early on, your discussion about words resonates with some thoughts I’ve had recently. Too many times we fixate on words and think the words are the truth. Words are just ways of expressing truth and context, many times, determines the choice of words. We are only able to communicate as far as we are able to agree upon the difunto of the words.
Also enjoyed the modern application of sorcery especially in regards to modern desires for spiritual insight. I do think this is very much a ”meat sacrificed to idols” area. It always goes back to the why someone is doing a particular practice or thing. Meditation and breathing techniques (and even yoga) have helped me get out of a western, rational mind and helped me to be more aware of the Holy Spirit. But it’s important to understand the context and origins of any practice. It’s helped me in ways that went beyond what I had been taught, but I believe not beyond how it was practiced by the early church. Our culture has lost the ability to meditate and regaining this skill is essential.
The important part that you brought out is that we have to do everything in faith. The why and the how we do things can sometimes be of greater importance than the what that we do.
Wes, it’s always a pleasure to hear your thoughts. Marcus, I look forward to meeting you someday too.
We used to have barbaric psychiatric facilities; now we have the sedation industry running largely wild and free.
In Canada at least, relatively few physicians integrate adverse childhood experience or other PTSD science into their diagnoses and treatments of patients. And I don't believe it is just coincidental that the only two health professions’ appointments for which we Canadians are fully covered by the public plan are the two readily pharmaceutical-prescribing psychiatry and general practitioner health professions.
Such non-Big-Pharma-profiting health specialists as counsellors, therapists and naturopaths (etcetera) are not covered at all by the public healthcare plan. Psychotherapy may help after many expensive sessions, perhaps even years of them, if one has the extra dough to blow, thus making it inaccessible for most Canadians (including me).
Besides ‘treating’ ‘mental illness’, pharmaceutical companies (a.k.a. the sedation industry) greatly profit from the continual and even addictive tranquilization and concealment, via antidepressants and/or tranquilizers, of symptoms of cerebral disorders such as ADHD and higher-functioning autistic spectrum disorder, along with the notable anxiety and/or depression that often accompany them — especially when there’s related adverse childhood experience trauma.
Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if profit-motivated industry representatives have a say in the composition, including revisions/updates, of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. ... Over the last 18 years or so, Health Canada has dramatically diverted a large portion of its resources from consumers’ health/wellbeing and onto the pharmaceutical industry’s business interests. Health Canada places about four times more of its resources, such as staffing and funding, toward getting new drugs onto the market than it does on consumers’ safety, the latter which includes monitoring and recording adverse effects caused by the drugs.
Enjoyed this and was challenged by it as well. Early on, your discussion about words resonates with some thoughts I’ve had recently. Too many times we fixate on words and think the words are the truth. Words are just ways of expressing truth and context, many times, determines the choice of words. We are only able to communicate as far as we are able to agree upon the difunto of the words.
Also enjoyed the modern application of sorcery especially in regards to modern desires for spiritual insight. I do think this is very much a ”meat sacrificed to idols” area. It always goes back to the why someone is doing a particular practice or thing. Meditation and breathing techniques (and even yoga) have helped me get out of a western, rational mind and helped me to be more aware of the Holy Spirit. But it’s important to understand the context and origins of any practice. It’s helped me in ways that went beyond what I had been taught, but I believe not beyond how it was practiced by the early church. Our culture has lost the ability to meditate and regaining this skill is essential.
The important part that you brought out is that we have to do everything in faith. The why and the how we do things can sometimes be of greater importance than the what that we do.
Wes, it’s always a pleasure to hear your thoughts. Marcus, I look forward to meeting you someday too.
God bless you both.
Thanks so much for those thoughts and that encouragement, brother. You are always a blessing to me!
I’m glad this episode brought you value Jeff! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and the gracious blessings! I return them to you in kind brother!
We used to have barbaric psychiatric facilities; now we have the sedation industry running largely wild and free.
In Canada at least, relatively few physicians integrate adverse childhood experience or other PTSD science into their diagnoses and treatments of patients. And I don't believe it is just coincidental that the only two health professions’ appointments for which we Canadians are fully covered by the public plan are the two readily pharmaceutical-prescribing psychiatry and general practitioner health professions.
Such non-Big-Pharma-profiting health specialists as counsellors, therapists and naturopaths (etcetera) are not covered at all by the public healthcare plan. Psychotherapy may help after many expensive sessions, perhaps even years of them, if one has the extra dough to blow, thus making it inaccessible for most Canadians (including me).
Besides ‘treating’ ‘mental illness’, pharmaceutical companies (a.k.a. the sedation industry) greatly profit from the continual and even addictive tranquilization and concealment, via antidepressants and/or tranquilizers, of symptoms of cerebral disorders such as ADHD and higher-functioning autistic spectrum disorder, along with the notable anxiety and/or depression that often accompany them — especially when there’s related adverse childhood experience trauma.
Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if profit-motivated industry representatives have a say in the composition, including revisions/updates, of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. ... Over the last 18 years or so, Health Canada has dramatically diverted a large portion of its resources from consumers’ health/wellbeing and onto the pharmaceutical industry’s business interests. Health Canada places about four times more of its resources, such as staffing and funding, toward getting new drugs onto the market than it does on consumers’ safety, the latter which includes monitoring and recording adverse effects caused by the drugs.
yes🙌🙌🙌 he is dwelling in me and me in him , hallelujah ❤️
Amen 🙏🏼
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I'm really Blessed 🙏🏼