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Sanctification
God's ultimate and highest aim for all of us is our sanctification. God wants to make us more holy like He and His Son Jesus are. He wants to transform us into the express image of His Son Jesus Christ. He wants to consecrate and set us apart unto...
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Does Prayer Really Work?
As a young Christian, I felt that there was no spiritual activity more beneficial for my success and well being than prayer. After all, the Bible emphasizes that God is personally involved in the intimate details of our lives. Christianity is...
The Concentrated Psychic - Mental Demand
The Mental Demand is the potent force in achievement. The
attitude of the mind affects the expression of the face,
determines action, changes our physical condition and regulates
our lives.
I will not here attempt to explain the silent...
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Contraception
No lover ever feels alone, when they are in the arms of their beloved.
No child ever feels neglect when they can rely on their friends for promises, no adolescent feels the blistering stings of indignity when they listen to their soul more than...
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Epileptics are Special.
Have you been diagnosed as epileptic? Are you a family member,
or friend or partner of someone who has? Please be reassured.
There have always been people with epilepsy. Since the
dawn of time, epilepsy has affected millions of people, from
beggars to kings. It is one of the oldest conditions of the
human race with a rich and distinguished history.
The earliest references to epilepsy date back to the fifth
millennium B.C. in Mesopotamia, where epileptic auras,
generalized convulsions and other aspects of what these ancient
people called "the falling disease" were recorded with
remarkably accurate descriptions.
Ancient people thought epileptic seizures were caused by evil
spirits or demons that had invaded a person's body. Priests
attempted to cure people with epilepsy by driving the demons out
of them with magic and prayers. This superstition was challenged
by ancient physicians like Atreya of India and later Hippocrates
of Greece, both of whom recognized a seizure as a dysfunction of
the brain and not a supernatural event.
On the other hand, epileptic seizures have a power and symbolism
which, historically, have suggested a relationship with
creativity or unusual leadership abilities. Scholars have long
been fascinated by evidence that prominent prophets and other
holy men, political leaders, philosophers, and many who
achieved
great-ness in the arts and sciences, suffered from epilepsy.
Aristotle was apparently the first to connect epilepsy and
genius. His catalogue of "great epileptics" (which included
Socrates) was added to during the Renaissance. Only people from
Western culture were included, however. So strong was this
tradition that even in the nineteenth century, when new names of
"great epileptics" were added, they were rarely chosen from
among people in other parts of the world. Working from this
biased historical legacy, the famous people with epilepsy that
we know about, are primarily white males.
But what about this so-called "epilepsy and genius" connection?
Certainly, most people with epilepsy would not consider their
seizure disorder as something which enhances their natural
abilities.
According to Dr. Jerome Engel, Professor of Neurology at the
University of California School of Medicine and author of the
book Seizures and Epilepsy: "There is no evidence... that either
epileptic seizures or a predisposition to epilepsy is capable of
engendering exceptional talents. Rather, the occasional
concurrence of epilepsy and genius most likely reflects the
probability that a common disorder will at times afflict people
with uncommon potential."
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