Food for thought - another book 4 excerpt

Where do thoughts come from? Like gears in a clock, neural firings are but one aspect of the whole. Let us for a moment return to an early illustration. Nature teaches us the connection of ‘twos’. A man cannot walk by putting only one leg forward. That would be hopping. A man walks by alternating two legs. A man cannot breath by only inhaling. A man cannot breath by exhaling only. Either of those is a recipe for a red face. A man breaths by alternating between the two. Nutritional maintenance is not just a matter of intake, but also a matter of purging. We see function in sets.

Likewise, traffic on a highway goes in two directions. Now, some will prick their ears forward at my last statement; they will sit up and say, ‘there are one way highways and one way streets’. Of course there are. I live on a one way street, but just one block over, traffic turns in the opposite direction. There are one way highways, but look around: somewhere close by is another one way highway going in the opposite direction. The brain is such a highway. Traffic goes in two directions. See the oncoming headlights in Nehemiah 2:12, "What my God had put in my heart (mind)". If thoughts were only worldly neural firings, there would be no thoughts of God; not a suspicion, much less a belief. Again, Nehemiah 7:5, "My God put into mine heart (mind)".

Had man never risen above the level of the animal, we would presently be functioning on instinctual experience. But, we have been given knowledge: a communicated spiritual quality. And, what is communicated but the nature of the communicator. See Psalms 94:10, "He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not He know"? Yes, man is able to teach man. That is one of the usual arguments that brandishes the ‘a priori mind of man’. Yet, our very experience answers that no man is able to teach what he has not learned. Where do thoughts come from? I assert that thoughts are spiritual communications. See Isaiah 51:16, "I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people".