The Bible may contain the oldest recorded case of temporal lobe epilepsy. Ezekiel, the prophet whose visions are recorded in a book of the Old Testament, apparently had all the classic signs of the condition.

Earlier in 2001, Eric Altschuler, a neuroscientist at the University of California at San Diego, claimed that the Biblical strongman Samson may have been the earliest known sufferer of antisocial personality disorder. Now he says that records in the Bible reveal that Ezekiel, who lived about 2600 years ago, showed extreme classic symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy.

People with the disease experience partial seizures, often accompanied by a dreamy feeling that things are not quite as they should be. Patients are often misdiagnosed with psychiatric problems. Neurologically, Ezekiel displayed some obvious signs of epilepsy, such as frequent fainting spells and episodes of not being able to speak.

"With TLE, I see things slightly different than before. I have visions and images that normal people don’t have. Some of my seizures are like entering another dimension, the closest to religious or spiritual feelings I’ve ever had. Epilepsy has given me a rare vision and insight into myself, and sometimes beyond myself, and it has played to my creative side. Without TLE, I would not have begun to sculpt."

This testimony comes from a woman who suffers from — and, obviously, often exults in — temporal lobe epilepsy. This condition (TLE, for short), is caused by unusual electrical activity in the brain’s temporal lobes A significant proportion of people with TLE report that their seizures often bring on extraordinary experiences of transcendent wonder, luminous insight — or, at times, harrowing, uncanny fear.

Take, for example, the numerous reported cases of "alien abduction." TLE researcher Eve LaPlante has noted that many abductees feel mild, epileptic-like symptoms just before they are "captured." Some abductees feel heat on one side of their faces, hear a ringing in their ears, and see flashes of light prior to an abduction. Others report a cessation of sound and feeling, or an overwhelming feeling of apprehension. All of this is typical of certain kinds of epileptic seizures. In fact, LaPlante suggests that the most famous abductee of our time, best-selling author Whitley Strieber, suffers from TLE.

Originally posted by badmedia
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I disagree. You are here to learn good and evil, to gain knowledge. You can not understand hot without understanding cold. You have to experience both to actually understand either. Without both you are ignorant to the the truth. Love/Hate, Dark/Light and so on.

However, what you claim is that if you sow good things, you will reap bad things. And that is simply not true. If it appears this way, then it is a result of your own hypocrisy. You did bad, and so you reaped bad.

Generally this is done by things you feel are "justified". When they are not. Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. You are never justified. If you feel it is justified for you to kill another human because they killed a human, as it is not your place to do so, then the only thing you are sowing is to kill yourself. This is to be a hypocrite.

And into a world of hypocrisy and ignorance is where evil takes you. If you say it is justified to kill because of 9/11, then you are in fact being evil and doing evil. This is why Jesus calls people hypocrites and tells them to judge not. Because when you judge in what you feel is justified, you are committing sins yourself.

You do not rid the world of evil by fighting it with evil. You will merely replace the evil with your own greater evil.

While there is both good and evil present here, to have wisdom is to have the ability to choose correctly. And that would be to choose "good". And when you actually have the knowledge as a basis of the wisdom, this you will do. The rich man in the eyes of god is the man with wisdom. The man who knows both good and evil, but chooses and walks the good path. The man who seeks the truth, but then also acts accordingly.



[edit on 22-1-2009 by badmedia]