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What Is On Your Mind?

Wisconsin Pathfinder Leadershop 13 October 2012 John V G Matthews. What Is On Your Mind?. “In the highest sense, the work of education and the work of redemption are one .” Ellen G. White, Education, 30. What Is On Your Mind?.

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What Is On Your Mind?

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  1. Wisconsin Pathfinder Leadershop 13 October 2012 John V G Matthews What Is On Your Mind?

  2. “In the highest sense, the work of education and the work of redemption are one.” Ellen G. White, Education, 30 What Is On Your Mind?

  3. “In the highest sense, the work of education and the work of redemption are one.” Ellen G. White, Education, 30 “A knowledge of physiology and hygiene should be the basis of all educational effort.” Ellen G. White, Education, 195 What Is On Your Mind?

  4. “There is a great difference between mind and body, inasmuch as body is by nature always divisible [material], and the mind is entirely indivisible [ethereal, nonsubstantial].” Rene Descartes Traditional What Is On Your Mind?

  5. ”‘You,’ your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. As Lewis Carroll’s Alice might have phrased: ‘You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.’This hypothesis is so alien to the ideas of most people today that it can truly be called astonishing.” Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis Modern Science What Is On Your Mind?

  6. “The control of animal inclination by thought, reason, & will was what made us human according to Descartes. . . . I agree . . . , except that where he specified a control achieved by a nonphysical agent I envision a biological operation structured within the human organism & not one bit less complex, admirable or sublime.” Antonio Damasio, Descarte’s Error Modern Science What Is On Your Mind?

  7. “Contrary to traditional scientific opinion, feelings are just as cognitive [related to physical brain function]as other percepts. They are the result of a most curious physiological arrangement that has turned the brain into the body’s captive audience.” Antonio Damasio, Descarte’s Error Modern Science What Is On Your Mind?

  8. What Is On Your Mind? The Lord our God, the Lord is one.Lovethe Lord yourGodwith all yourheartand with all yoursouland with all yourmindand with all yourstrength. . . . [And] love yourneighboras yourself. The words of Jesus in Mark 12:29-31 (TNIV), quoting Duet 6 and Lev 19 Paul: 1 Thess 5: 23 “May your whole spirit, soul, & body be kept blameless. . . .”

  9. What Is On Your Mind? SOUL NEIGHBOR STRENGTH MIND HEART REASON EMOTION WILL BODY SOCIAL Duet 6 and Lev 19 TOTAL BEING

  10. “The influence of the mind on the body, as well as of the body on the mind, should be emphasized. . . . The power of the will and the importance of self-control . . . should also be shown.” Ellen G. White, Education, 197 What Is On Your Mind?

  11. What Is On Your Mind? Brain science: anatomy

  12. SOMATIC MARKERS: selections based on prior experiences, pleasure, and pain recorded in hippocampus Items the emotional brain chooses for the rational brain to think about: the mind is a captive audience to the body, controlled by the physiology of the emotional systems What Is On Your Mind? P P û û P û P û Brain science: Somatic markers

  13. What Is On Your Mind? Brain science: Neurotransmitters http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/synapse.html

  14. “We may say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about [what is the supreme good]; for . . . [they] speak of it as Happiness, and conceive ‘the good life’ . . . to be the same thing as ‘being happy.’ ” Aristotle What Is On Your Mind?

  15. “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.” Heb 12:2-3 What Is On Your Mind?

  16. “Let [the youth] be directed to something better than display, ambition, or self-indulgence. Bring them in contact with truer beauty, with loftier principles, and with nobler lives. . . . Lead them to behold One ‘altogether lovely.’ The enthusiasm, the generous devotion, the passionate ardor, of the youth find here their true object. Duty becomes a delight and sacrifice a pleasure.” Ellen G. White, Education, 297 What Is On Your Mind?

  17. Duty becomes a delight, and sacrifice a pleasure “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus // who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame” Phil 2:5 // Heb 12:2 What Is On Your Mind?

  18. And [Christ] gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers . . . τοὺς δὲ ποιμένας καὶ διδασκάλους [. . . some also shepherds-and-teachers] What Is On Your Mind?

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