Probation and Emotion Ring

Hard-wiring the emotion ring in the brain. Any emotions without return paths to joy are not wired into the ring. This biological event happens very early in childhood. This is a perfect explanation of the close of probation. The time has come for the wiring to grow into place, to laminate for all humanity. Everyone who has not learned the paths to joy, who have put off practicing what they even understood intellectually, will be stuck where they have emotionally chosen to live. Intellectual understanding of all the truth and even knowledge of this fact itself will not equate to having an actual, experiential, rehearsed right-brain path in the “ways of God”, an intimate experience of what it means to be “holy”, a dedicated channel of the righteousness of God.

Those who have not been exercised and become compliant mediums of His passion will find themselves hardwired out of the inner circle of intimacy with God's heart. They are identified as filthy and unholy. They are satisfied with being common vs. being dedicated. They have resisted allowing God to finish removing all the garbage from their minds. They clung to their pain or their lies because they believed it was their identity. They would not completely die to their sinful identity and choose to fully embrace their identity in Christ by faith in His good will toward men. Because they insisted on believeing something, anything different about themselves than what God had declared them to be in Christ, God now has to respect their decision about their identity and allow them to be identified with their filth, no matter how small or large.

And if they have been unwilling to be 100% dedicated (the real meaning of the word “holy”) to satisfying the heart of God and bringing honor to His reputation, then they are declared “unholy”. This simply acknowledges they are for common use, mixing worldly thinking and feeling with heavenly thinking and feeling. They are unsafe for high intensity transmission, unfit for clean, uncluttered signals. They are what they insisted on pursuing.

Left-brain/Right-brain

When we experience a dissonance between the heart and the mind, between our right and left brain, it is described by the word “guilt”. God's original design was that the left brain should be a map, a guide, an index closely linked to the various areas of the right brain. The right brain is the seat of the heart (right brain literally controls the left side of the body where the physical heart is), emotions, desires, passion, mystery, intrigue – the fire of the soul. Sin seriously ruptured the close link, the symbiotic relationship between the two. It has been noted by Jim Wilder, an expert on the brain, that when the left and right parts of the brain are not in agreement about something, the disturbing feeling resulting from this dissonance is called guilt. As soon as the two are in agreement the result is peace.

There are two ways to get rid of the feeling of guilt. The feeling is the tension of discrepancy between left brain knowledge and beliefs and the right brain experience. Typically guilt occurs when we indulge in right brain pleasure that violates left brain rules and beliefs. The two sides launch into heated arguing and guilt is experienced. Repentance simply allows the right brain experience to align with left brain beliefs and the two are in unity and peace.

However, there are other scenarios. The left brain may have been taught false guidelines and rules. When the right brain lives life doing something that is by God's view not morally wrong but is viewed by the left brain as wrong according to tradition, culture etc., we experience what may be labeled as false guilt. In this case the real fault lies in the beliefs and rules, not in the experience, but the feeling of guilt and shame is still the same. The two sides are still arguing and there is no peace.

There are actually two resolution for guilt, not considering repression as a resolution. The first and best is to first check to see which side of the brain is truly at fault according to the Designer's guide instead of what has been programmed into the left brain. This is seldom done truly objectively. Most of the time this process is supposedly invoked it is really a cover for reinforcing culture and traditional norms rather that purely tapping into God's unaffected design for us. If God's truth is really allowed to be exposed many more instances of left-brain faulty standards would be revealed and much more heart-motivated actions would be vindicated.

The other resolution is more devious and subtle and in the very long term will prove to be only temporary. This is, when we experience guilt we choose to reassemble and manipulate our left brain belief systems until they agree with our experience. This is usually called explaining or excusing. Humanism is the result of this attempt and all modern psychology generally emerges from this.

The left brain is where facts, formulas, explanations and factual libraries that are retrievable on demand reside. It is where concepts, theoretical beliefs and doctrines are stored. The right brain is where relationships, sensory memories, emotions tied to events in the experiential memory banks are stored. It is where we thrill or hurt deeply. It is where the sparkle for our eyes is generated as well as the lust that leaks into our looks. Ultimately it is where God designed us to live from – our heart. This helps us to understand Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon better.

We were created in the image of a God who wanted creatures who could more accurately reflect the passion of His own heart more completely than any other beings in His creation. He designed humans to live with passion, joy, abandon, delirious excitement and with sparkle, zest and enthusiasm that far superseded anything yet seen in the universe. All this He embedded into the capabilities of the right brain primarily, entrusted to be a source, a channel, an extension of the same powerful emotions that could not be contained in His own heart. He designed humans to procreate with this same passion so that the human race, this outlet of expression of the passion of God, would be able to expand and grow and multiply as an ever-increasing capacity to express the infinite love bursting from His own uncontainable emotional reservoir.

Our left brains were designed to be a template, an index, a means of both understanding the right brain as well as a filter and a channel of input and regulation for the right brain. The left brain would be the primary seat for the safeguards, the filters, the formulas and equations, the logical, factual libraries for calculating reason and “level-headed” thinking. It was designed to be able to function somewhat independently if need be in a crisis if the right brain was temporarily off on an extreme emotional trip. But this ability would require training and mentoring by other balanced minds and many experiences of practice.

Since the right brain controls the blood supply to the left brain and will by default shut it down during trauma, it has to be trained, preferable at a very early age, to allow the left brain to remain online in a crisis and to trust its (hopefully) better judgment.

The great division in thought as to the ideal way to live falls along this very issue. Are we to live primarily from our right brain or our left? This has enormous implications in religion but is really seen in all philosophies of thought. Typically most answers are to a great extent strongly influenced primarily as a reaction to a demonstration of the opposite conclusion.

Those who observe “intellectuals” that shy away from emotion and shun passion are disgusted with the resulting atrophy of emotional capacity, enjoyment and expression, so they react by putting great focus on emotionalism and spend inordinate amounts of time and energy exploring and dwelling on their feelings, fears, pains and depression. Or they may amass all the exciting, positive, exhilarating ideas and techniques they can find and whip up themselves into artificial emotional highs and then call it God's presence. Many churches have followed this formula and can easily draw in large crowds hungry for emotional satisfaction.

Many others look on this scene with pious disdain and declare all the emotionalism to be shallow at best and out of touch with foundational truth. Consequently they build massive left-brain complicated explanations and expositions that require greater and greater mind capacity to even understand. They develop prestigious institutions of “higher learning” that invest greater and greater resources into refining, adding to, and fine-tuning the growing monster of intellectual knowledge. This system becomes highly stratified not only according to levels of individual amassment of condoned information but also by acquiescence to the strict rules of conformity to what is deemed important and what is snubbed as below the dignity of established acceptability.

A great deal of pride is woven all through this system and is generally legitimized by many rationalizations and pompous ceremonies. Human value is primarily determined by where one is placed in the strata with the upper echelons composed primarily of those who best hide their emotions and amass the most left-brain prowess. Those who cannot hide their right brain functions so well drop down the ladder and those who live with wild abandon and appear to just celebrate with not thought for what comes next are considered off the bottom of the ladder.

Obviously there are serious dangers at both extremes as well as everywhere in between. However, many of the dangers remain elusive to exposure because they lie in underlying assumptions that are never challenged. They have been embedded deep in the foundations of human thinking for so many generations they are assumed to be valid and necessary since we have built so much above them that is dependent on keeping these assumptions in place. It is very much like our world economic system today. If an alternative fuel to oil was really allowed to be developed easily or alternatives to drugs were allowed to operate freely the whole economic system could quickly collapse and political power would be in disarray. Primarily for the reason of control and the excuse of stability these underlying systems are highly protected from any serious challengers at any cost.

Back to the original line of thought near the beginning. I believe it is quite possible that God designed humans as a more complete expression of His emotional passionate characteristics than any being He had created up to this point. Because sin caused a major rupture in the symbiotic relationship between left and right, the same problem was created between us and God. Two primary results occurred, as previously noted, resulting in degenerating patterns and systems of living. One side invests heavily in sensory pleasure with less or more disregard for left-brain cautions, principles and safeguards. The other side overemphasizes rules, knowledge, and pride and slowly snuffs out the essence of being alive which is found only in freedom of the heart to feel and express and connect intimately and openly with other hearts.

Maybe in the new earth God is going to utilize humanity to imprint and map onto “His left-brain” creatures a more accurate index and understanding of “His right-brain” passion that can only be expressed through our unique capability.

I woke up this morning with an unusual feeling – a noticeable hunger for reality. I had been having one weird dream after another and waking up sometimes relieved that they were over and could be escaped by waking up and realizing they were just an odd collection of people and events put together, but they were really just fiction. Then it hit me – that's really what my perception of life is. The way I view others and circumstances and try to put it all together – they may all be factual and really exist, but how I try to make sense of it all always produces just fiction. That's all I'm capable of producing. The father of sinful flesh is also the father of lies. Left to myself it is completely impossible for me to come up with a right view of reality no matter how plausible it may sound. Then I thought of the The Analogy of the Satellite Receiver.

The Analogy of the Satellite Receiver

I was programming my satellite receiver yesterday. As I input multiple large numbers and set different variables and then pressed start, the unit would take my collection of inputs and see if they perfectly matched up to receive any signals. If the inputs were correct I would usually come up with several new stations that would now be available to see and hear whenever I choose to tune them into my TV. One time I received quite a list of very unexpected stations, many of which are mostly unusable foreign stations and one or two that I decidedly didn't need for their debasing content. I began to realize that the likelihood of me stumbling across the right combinations of numbers and variables to enable the receiver to capture signals and translate them into usable TV programs without getting them from a reliable source is slightly above the mathematical odds of evolution being viable. The possible combinations of large numbers and settings easily ranges into the trillions plus, not counting the time to slowly enter them all and let the unit attempt each one. If I can't get someone to tell me the right formulas or read them from reliable sources it's just not going to happen no matter how reliably my receiver is functioning. On top of that, it was explained to me by a person in the industry that some stations have scrambled video signals that is apparently beyond the capabilities of my receiver to decode no matter how accurate my inputs are. I would need a subscription decoder box from a pay TV company to be able to use those signals for my entertainment. I wonder if I spend most of my life trying to line up numbers and variables in my mental receiver to discover the right formula to capture signals from Reality that I crave to experience. Obviously there are many bogus sources of code that promise to deliver reception but only give me a blank screen.. Many people have sought deeper sources of code that have divulged combinations that when plugged in really do deliver images and sounds, but only to discover that the signals they are now locked into are less than life-giving or even worse. There's another fact about my receiver I noticed. You cannot delete stations once you lock them in. They just keep adding to what you already set up. There is only one solution to escaping the results of your previous programming. That is to press the Master Reset button that erases all information and eliminates all reception good or bad. You then are allowed to start reprogramming from scratch and if you have the right inputs and codes from the desired sources you will be able to receive the desired signals and enjoy clear receptions and communications. My head receiver has been preprogrammed to receive a number of channels that seem good at times but end up destroying my soul. I try to avoid tuning into those channels but they still show up and tantalize me with their enticing images unexpectedly. Meantime I continue researching various resources that offer bits of correct code. Another source gives me another usable variable and once in awhile I even catch a fleeting glimpse of a glorious channel containing scenes and scents of beauty and awesome sounds and experiences almost too exhilarating for my soul to handle. I have been assured that there really is a superchannel that constantly beams Reality TV that is so good and satisfying and life-giving that most people refuse to believe it is even true. I cannot discover the right arrangement of all the correct numbers and formulas by randomly punching them in. Multiple lifetimes would not be enough time to come across them. There must be only one way to be able to tap into Reality as the rest of the universe enjoys it continuously. Someone from that realm must personally come and give me the various inputs that will be designed specifically for my model of receiver to enable me to be flooded with true images and experiences of what constitutes true Reality as God intended it for me. Yes, the condition of my receiver can have an effect on the reception. That's why healthy practices in body and in imagination management as well as factual accuracy for mental diet is quite important. They enhance or distort the communications received. But those factors are not the same thing as having the right numbers and codes. Just because I have a pristine receiver and a top-of-the-line wall-size TV screen all hooked up correctly does not mean I will receive the right signal to bring me into life-giving programming. I have to have the secret formulas correctly entered and stored. And for that I must access and petition the correct One and only Source to share the complex keys that will unlock my heart and soul and bring me into Life. I may have to experience Master Reset experiences to disconnect me from stations that are distracting or poisoning my soul and spirit. This is always traumatic but necessary to clarify my perception and deliver a more refined picture of God and Reality to not only my own mind but to those who are watching me. Each time this happens I then need to be reprogrammed with the correct inputs, laying aside the false codes this time so that I restrict my reception narrower and narrower to the channels that receive and produce life and light. As I think about this I realize several things about these inputs. One is that some of these inputs are entered, replacing incorrect faulty inputs, only at very significant points in my life. Others have to be entered daily and even others have to be received on an almost continual basis to receive maximum reception. The foundational inputs are core beliefs about what God is like and how He designed us to function in life. This is almost always in dire need of massive correction given our standard preprogramming from our parents, our culture and our faulty religions. These need to be learned and updated through various channels but from the one and only reliable Source Himself. These are input at various times in our lives, sometimes at very dramatic and memorable moments that we never forget. But often we have to be reminded over and over hundreds of times from numerous sources to keep counteracting the lies that so permeate our psyche. This dramatically affects how we see the big picture of life, the context of what is Real and what is true and reliable and even determines the sources we utilize to receive further codes for input. The weekly input code is one designed by God largely to unify His family and develop and nurture His body. Much can be said about this and much more misleading information is freely circulating to keep people off base about getting the correct numbers. There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.... Then there is an important daily input for our receivers to work correctly that must be entered for those who are serious in their quest for Reality. This quiet time of synchronization early in the daily cycle of living is very crucial to staying/getting in touch with God's feelings, emotions, desires, passion and His personalized directions for each individual. Most people downplay the importance of this input or cut is short before it is completely entered. They content themselves with simply letting life happen to them and relying only on their weekly or just occasional inputs to equip them for the daily experience. They often wonder why their reactions to events are so poor, why they seem to make so little “progress”. They come to view life as unpredictable and uncertain and often see God the same way and as rather arbitrary and somewhat untrustworthy. They want to be a Christian but they don't want to surrender too much of their own control or time to receive and input updated codes on a daily basis. Those who have more totally devoted themselves to a deeply serious pursuit of truth and Reality find an even tighter arrangement of updates for fine-tuning their reception. These are ones who discover they can keep a dedicated communications channel open to the supernatural that in addition to all the previous correct codes, and building on them, they can receive continuous updates and instant messaging to create in their lives an efficiency of power and a through-put of supernatural energy that is seldom seen in this world. These are people that have surrendered themselves enough to be made efficient channels of communication to this world of strong messages from the glorious world just beyond. This is the condition that all of God's people will have that live through the last events of earth's history as we know it today. This is the kind of person many claim to want to become but are unwilling to surrender their own pleasures, their favorite code-source providers, their own schemes for success that confuse the accuracy needed to receive the right channel. They may also be unwilling to let go of prejudice, pride, selfishness or bitterness that blocks their receivers from projecting life. They might be unwilling to humble themselves and go through the pain of self-exposure and fear to cross the bridge of vulnerability to healing and new life on the other side of their boundaries. Many are called but few are chosen. “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants.” Deut. 30:19

Allegory of Motor Oil

Oil in engine – work produces heat – resistance produces heat – oil reduces resistance. Oil of gladness increases work output but reduces friction – the lost are trying to work without oil – resistance to love increases heat – fuel is passion – if resistance is overcome by adding more fuel and fire to force the pistons to move without lubrication the block heats up and the engine dies from heat produced by resistance.

The saved have enough oil so they don't resist other parts, changes in direction and differences of speed in close tolerances. They are tolerant and forgiving. When the passion is increased they function together smoothly because the oil surrounds all the parts and permeates the very pores of the metal. Instead of seizing up they produce increasing amounts of power delivered down the drive-train to bless others.

In judgment day there will be two engines fully assembled – they will look similar in many ways but one is trying to use gas instead of oil in the oil pan. Satan has convinced them that force and selfish passion are enough to lubricate the engine. But when the super-charger is turned on and set atop both engines (the revelation of God's face) one engine will wind up and then explode in fiery disaster while the other will smoothly accelerate and break all records and all barriers.

Gentlemen – start your engines!

Another thought – everyone will die the second death sooner or later. The human race as we know it – sinful flesh – is destined for extinction.