Yielding To Christianity

“Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.” (KJV Ps. 4:4)
One of the brain’s primary functions is to “filter,” to protect us from the “barrage of sensory information coming at us from our physical surroundings.” Rather than being the creator of consciousness, the brain … is constantly “shifting the larger, non-physical consciousness that we possess” to a “more limited capacity” (Eben Alexander’s PROOF OF HEAVEN,… Continue reading →

Human beings are not just natural beings; we are conscious beings. And each individual human consciousness looks at the world through our own unique set of spiritual “eyes.” … To understand how this works, we must, as CS Lewis wrote, “distinguish sentience from consciousness” (Problem of Pain 134). Sentience is the capacity to feel and respond to physical stimuli. It is clearly a brain function we share with animals. But only the human “Consciousness or… Continue reading →