The Mind Doctrine
“No one is born with a mind . . .”
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What is knowledge?
Uncovering the beauty and meaning of knowledge.
Knowledge is “what is” and
Knowledge precedes Knowing…
What is knowledge and can knowledge be humanly defined, that is, can it be adequately defined for human understanding and consumption? To understand the meaning of knowledge commands a deeper search into the development of the human mind and heart which becomes the pathway to capturing the spiritual understanding of the human soul. Considerably, any attempt to bring a measure of clarity to the word would face scrutiny and immense challenges due to our entrenched beliefs, our individual perceptions and our apparent susceptibility to question the validity of spiritual proclamations due to limitations in our overall human awareness.
Our search for answers, collectively or individually to the question posed must be well reasoned out before we indulge in conjectures and surmises. The distinct motivation must begin with the search for spiritual meaning in our lives. The human mind must be developed to understand some of the complex issues of life which is not an easy task. Actually nothing meaningful in life comes easily to us. We always must make an effort to
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produce results. The search for spiritual meaning in life entails spiritual living to capture and comprehend the essence of the search. This brings us to the threshold to uncover the true and principal meaning of the word ‘knowledge’ and gain an understanding of the wisdom of God. In sum and substance, ‘Knowledge’ must be defined from its intrinsic spiritual meaning or from its extrinsic secular meaning.
From its intrinsic meaning, Knowledge is an idea that already exists before anyone ventures to absorb its contents. Knowledge is ‘what is’ and knowledge precedes knowing, that is why it is knowledge. Without knowledge, there is absolutely nothing to know. Knowledge, the ‘what is’ is the all encompassing powerful source and essence of everything there is including our very existence. Knowledge therefore is the distinctive source and motivation to ascertain ‘Truth’ because truth is ‘what is’ before human imaginations and perceptions begin to corrupt the human heart and mind to
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undermine the objective truth of “what is”. If Truth is ‘what is’, then Truth is absolute and if truth is absolute, how do we strive in our existence to search for the truth of ‘what is’ in other to accept the absolute.
If mankind evolved, then the concept of God is illusory. Indeed, if mankind evolved then there was knowledge of existence of - ‘what is’- out of which something evolved (that is out of the knowledge of ‘what is’ mankind evolved). This means that evolution did not start on its own from the very beginning of existence but began out of “what is” and if that was so, then, the obvious follow-up questions is: How did ‘what is’ come from and did evolution have a mind of its own to have produced our human existence? If mankind did not evolve, then obviously GOD, the “I AM that I AM” is the ultimate creator and the source and essence of everything there is - the ‘what is’ which is Knowledge - which precedes the desire or the inclination to know.
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The human mind is a spiritual phenomenon, and understanding the development of the mind is essential to understanding the search to know God. It is the mind which connects us to God, and to search to know God, one must first search to know himself or herself. Without knowing self, it is impossible to know God.
About the Author
Upon deep reflection on his life, he looks back to 1978 and especially 1983 as the turning points in his life. 1978 was a turning point in his search to truly know himself and to pursue a meaningful life and wrote a poem which exemplifies his commitment to seek God to know him intimately and to serve him all the days of his life. The poem was written during his four years in College and was published in the school magazine “Footnotes” in Spring 1978 Vol. 5, No. 2. The poem is simple and easy to digest and appears on page ( )... In 1983, he prayed to God for a sign after praying and fasting three days in a week for six months during the pregnancy of his wife who had previously miscarried four times during the sixth month of each pregnancy and God proved himself to him exactly as he had prayed for. He asked God to have it rain at exactly 6pm on a Friday when he was about to break his fast and have the thunder strike three times and in August 1983 on a Friday at 6pm it rained and the thunder struck seven times. He continued fasting until his son was born in November and his daughter was born seven years after his son. This experience sealed his faith in God. There is more to this experience and God’s extended blessings to other family members that he prayed for at the same time who had children the same years as his children and only months apart. He states that in life you must want more for others than you want for yourself.