Attention!

Who is mastering whom?

Many people no longer choose their thoughts consciously

By Yinkuz Kwame David

This image is not merely about phones.  It is about the architecture of human attention.

It is showing that the greatest prison in advanced civilizations is no longer made of iron bars, chains, or cages.  It is made of captured focus.  Captured consciousness. Captured awareness.

The chains in the image symbolize something deeper than physical slavery.  They represent behavioral conditioning.  The modern human often believes they are free simply because they can move physically, while never realizing their mind, impulses, reactions, cravings, fears, desires, and attention patterns are being engineered continuously.

The image exposes one of the deepest truths in psychology:

Whoever controls attention eventually influences identity.

Because attention is biological currency.  Neural pathways strengthen where attention repeatedly flows.

What humans stare at repeatedly becomes memory.  Memory becomes programming.  Programming becomes personality.  Personality becomes behavior.  Behavior becomes destiny.

This is neuroscience, psychology, advertising, politics, economics, warfare, spirituality, and social engineering colliding together at once.

The people looking downward symbolize humanity disconnected from vertical awareness — disconnected from self-reflection, nature, silence, intuition, presence, and deeper consciousness.  Their necks bent downward resemble submission psychologically.  Almost worship-like posture.

The image silently asks:

What happens to a civilization when millions cannot sit alone with their own thoughts anymore?

Biologically, constant distraction fragments dopamine systems.  The human nervous system was not designed for endless stimulation loops.  Infinite scrolling, hyper-speed content, notifications, algorithmic novelty, outrage cycles, and rapid reward mechanisms condition the brain into seeking constant external stimulation.

Over time:

 • Attention span weakens.

 • Emotional regulation decreases.

 • Impulse control declines.

 • Deep thinking becomes harder.

 • Silence feels uncomfortable.

 • Stillness becomes threatening.

 • Reflection disappears.

 • Anxiety rises.

 • Identity confusion increases.

The result is a population easier to manipulate emotionally, politically, financially, spiritually, and commercially.

This image touches economics too.  Entire industries compete for human attention because attention generates behavior, and behavior generates profit.  In modern systems, distracted humans consume more impulsively, think less critically, react more emotionally, and question less deeply.

A distracted population is easier to market to.  A distracted population is easier to divide.  A distracted population is easier to emotionally trigger.  A distracted population is easier to exhaust.

The puppet hand at the top symbolizes invisible systems larger than any individual:

 • algorithms,

 • propaganda systems,

 • psychological manipulation,

 • mass media conditioning,

 • engineered outrage,

 • addictive platform design,

 • political influence structures,

 • even unconscious generational patterns.

And yet the image is not merely blaming technology.

Technology itself is neutral.

The deeper question is:  Who is mastering whom?

Because tools become dangerous when unconscious humans use them without awareness.

The image also touches spirituality profoundly.

Distraction is not only external noise.  Sometimes distraction is internal avoidance.

Many humans stay endlessly stimulated because silence forces confrontation:

 • unresolved pain,

 • lack of purpose,

 • fear,

 • guilt,

 • loneliness,

 • existential emptiness,

 • suppressed trauma,

 • spiritual disconnection.

So distraction becomes sedation.  Not healing.  Not transformation.  Sedation.  And civilizations built on sedation eventually lose depth.

The terrifying truth hidden in the image is this:

Many people no longer choose their thoughts consciously.  Algorithms now predict, feed, shape, and reinforce emotional states before people even realize what is happening.  The machine learns human weakness faster than humans learn self-mastery.

This enters fields beyond psychology:

 • behavioral economics,

 • cognitive science,

 • persuasive technology,

 • neuro-marketing,

 • military information warfare,

 • AI-driven influence systems,

 • memetics,

 • mass formation dynamics,

 • digital anthropology.

Even biologically, humans evolved in environments of slowness:

 • seasons,

 • nature,

 • face-to-face connection,

 • long attention cycles,

 • physical movement,

 • silence,

 • community rhythms.

But now many brains exist inside artificial hyper-stimulation ecosystems that evolution never prepared humanity for.

The consequence?

Chronic overstimulation without inner grounding.  And overstimulated humans often mistake movement for progress, noise for meaning, visibility for value, information for wisdom, and entertainment for fulfillment.

This image is also about lost sovereignty.  Real freedom is not merely the ability to do whatever one wants.  Real freedom is the ability to consciously govern one’s own mind, impulses, emotions, focus, desires, and reactions instead of being unconsciously governed by external systems.

The most dangerous slavery is the one people defend because it feels pleasurable.  That is why the people in the image do not appear violently imprisoned.  They appear voluntarily absorbed.

That is the psychological masterpiece of modern distraction:  the chains feel entertaining.

And perhaps the deepest layer of all:  Distraction steals life indirectly.  Because life is ultimately made of attention.  Whatever consistently owns your attention is, in many ways, owning portions of your existence itself.

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Study Your Bible For Life

WHY YOU SHOULD STUDY YOUR BIBLE?

By Francis Fawkes, Th.D.

You should study your Bible for it is God's manual on how to live your life.  When a manufacturer makes a product, there is always an instruction manual that accompanies it.  So it is with God.  He, in His infinite wisdom - does not want you to experiment with life, because you are not an experiment.  You are created with a purpose.

The problem with evolution is: that it tells you that you are a product of random chance.  No, your cellular structure is more complex than the computer on which you are typing.  Just as an architect designs a house, God designed you before He created you.

The trouble with humankind is that - it has established independence from God; the original source from which it came – and has since lost its direction.

Math, English, electronics, vocabulary and other subjects tell you how to make a living as many people do.  Unfortunately, they do not tell you how to live.  The Bible is the only book that tells you how to live your life according to the instructions of its maker!

Therefore, read and study your Bible - and know the reason for your existence.

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Charles Darwin Deathbed Regret

THE DEATHBED REGRET OF CHARLES DARWIN

By Francis Fawkes, Th.D.

“How I wished I had not expressed my theory of evolution as I have done.”

Charles Darwin 1809 - 1882

There is an interesting story that I came across unintentionally.  It is an eyewitness report of Charles Darwin’s deathbed recantation of his theory of evolution.  In his book: “The Origin of Species”,  he postulated that life evolved from lower forms into more complex life forms.  He was the one that claimed man descended from the ape.  His theory was very controversial especially among Clergymen and Christians in general.  They believed that God created man in his image as expressed in Genesis 1:26 - 27.

Charles Darwin was trained to be a Clergyman of the Church of England.  After graduating from Cambridge at the age of 22, he gave up the Christian ministry to become a naturalist.  During his voyages on the Beagle – a ship, he observed the varieties of plants, animals and fossils in different regions of the world.  He noticed certain similarities in some species and came to the conclusion that simpler life forms evolved into more complex life forms.  Eventually, because of his false observations and the death of his daughter, he became an agnostic.  Before it was too late, Darwin repented of his apostasy on his deathbed.

Here are scientific facts that contradict the theory of evolution:

- The theory of evolution is only a hypothesis.  It is a logical fallacy based on a false premise, leading to many false conclusions in many other fields.  Darwin later realized this, but yet some scientists treat it as fact.  Evolution is really a fairy tale for adults.  It is the battle waged for the souls and minds of men through spiritual deception.  But the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds (2 Corinthians 10: 4).  The weapons that Paul used were the Word of God, prayer and spiritual discernment.  With these weapons, we can demolish the arguments of pseudo-science.  In verse 5, it further reads: “casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.  Yes, we have to cast down these reasonings that come from the imaginations of fallible men.  We must bring down every pretentious argument, every fallacy and every false concept that man exalts against the knowledge of God.

- Evolution is just a variant of the old medieval notion called spontaneous generation in which something can come out of nothing.  This was proven to be unscientific.

- The big-bang theory contradicts the scientific principle inherent in the second law of thermodynamics which states that all systems left on their own move from order to chaos.  The world, the solar system and the universe therefore, could not come from the big-bang.  In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  All of it came out of God (Genesis 1:1).  Actually, the universe is in a state of decay after man sinned.  The odds of the universe coming into existence by random chance are 1 in 26 to the 44^th power.  In other words, it is not possible.

- In over 150 years, no real missing links have been found.  Darwin himself said that that the absence of transitional forms would prove his theory false.

- There are no real evolutionary links between fishes, reptiles, birds, lower mammals and man.  God created every species after its own kind (Genesis 1: 24 - 25).

- Some scientists believe that life came about through a series of mutations.  However, scientists claim that 99 per cent of mutations are harmful or lethal.  New life forms could not have come through a series of unfavorable mutations.

- In a study in which there were twelve missing links in the evolution of man, nine were proven to be extinct apes or monkeys.  Others were based on the remains of pigs and donkeys.  Some known frauds are the Piltdown man and the Ramapithecus man.

- The theory of evolution goes against the law of probability.  The odds of life coming into existence by through blind chance are 1 in 10 to the 40, 000^th power.  This is also an impossibility.  It had to come from God, the original designer.  In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1).

- According to a brilliant English astronomer, Sir Fred Hoyle, the chances of higher life forms ever evolving is the same as a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard, assembling a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.

On his deathbed, realizing the error of his observations and his skepticism, Darwin admitted that “he was a young man of unformed opinions.”  He confessed that he threw out queries and suggestions, wondering all the time over everything, and to his astonishment, his ideas took like wild fire.  People made a religion of them.  In other words, Darwin did not really anticipate that his theories would gather such momentum.  Furthermore, he was surprised that what was a matter of theory was treated as a matter of scientific fact!

But Darwin later repented on his deathbed.  His Christian training began to assert itself.  As Darwin lay dying, he was found to be reading the Bible opened to Hebrews.  He was very concerned and desperately wanted to repent.  In another report, He requested a Lady to read the New Testament and arranged for Sunday school children to sing “There is a Green Hill far away.”  When this was done, Darwin said:  “How I wished I had not expressed my theory of evolution as I have done.”

Darwin’s theory of evolution had far reaching repercussions and it is discussed in today’s magazines and textbooks.  It also has implications in other disciplines such as politics, science, geology, history, humanistic philosophy, law and even in the New Age movement.  The sad thing about this is that it could lead to atheism, something that Charles Darwin would have despised later on in life when he found out the truth.  He, himself, admitted that something as infinitely complex as the human eye could not come about through blind random chance.  He would be mortally shocked and wounded to see that his error has been given universal recognition.

However, there is a ray of hope.  This is beginning to change especially in America.  Today The Intelligent Design movement is taking precedence over evolution in the schools.  This is because Christians are fighting back.  Two-thirds of Americans believe that creationism should be taught alongside evolution.  Forty percent of Americans believe in scientific creationism.  These people believe in a God and as they seek His kingdom and his righteousness they will be blessed (Matthew 6:33).

Darwin’s final Position

I believe that Darwin was saved.  He fully repented.  In Colossians 1:14, it states that we have redemption through His blood, even forgiveness of sins.  This is quite so, for the blood of Jesus wipes away all of our sins.  In Romans 3: 25, we read that “God has set forth propitiation though faith in His (Jesus’) blood, to declare His righteousness through the remission of sins that are past…”

Below are the words of the hymn that Charles Darwin requested:

THERE IS A GREEN HILL FAR AWAY

There is a green hill far away,

Outside a city wall,

Where the dear Lord was crucified,

Who died to save us all.

Refrain

O dearly, dearly has He loved,

And we must love Him too,

And trust in His redeeming blood,

And  try His works to do.

We may not know, we cannot tell,

What pains He had to bear; 

But we believe it was for us,

He hung and suffered there.

Refrain

He died that we might be forgiv’n,

He died to make us good,

That we might go as last to Heav’n,

Saved by His precious blood.

Refrain

There was no other good enough

To pay the pride of sin;

He only could unlock the gate

Of Heaven and let us in

 

Refrain

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Life After Death

ARE YOU CONSCIOUS AFTER DEATH?

By Francis Fawkes, Th.D.

At one time, the question of whether consciousness could exist independently of the body was a matter of philosophical and theological speculation.  As time progressed, objective scientific investigation revealed amazing results.  Medical science is fast accumulating hundreds of histories to prove that the soul survives bodily death.  At times, the formally deceased can recount what took place and what was said beyond their immediate surroundings.

Even atheists, who never subscribed to the supernatural, immediately became converts after a near-death experience/out-of-body experience.  I do not think that these atheists are hallucinating.

Ex-Atheist has a Near-Death Experience

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AND DEBUNKS MANY OF THE FALLICIES INVOLVING NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES & OUT- OF-BODY EXPERIENCES

“There are a number of well documented cases of people having near-death experiences / out-of-body experiences, even during a flat EEG where brain and heart activity had ceased, returning with factual information which they had no prior knowledge of, and numerous cases in which the experiencers returned to life with information unavailable to them at the time of death.”

Aleroy.com: Question 18 about Near Death Experiences.

Blind people who during their lives have never had a sensation of sight were able to see things for the first time while out of their bodies.  Again, people who had near-death experiences were able to describe what was happening at a distant location or things during an operation that it was not possible for them to know.  Later, these findings were verified for them by others.  You can read this amazing book online: "Visions beyond the Veil" by H.A. Baker: http://www.godspeak.net/veil/veil_index.html

In the Bible, the dichotomy between soul and body is very apparent.  King Solomon relates: “then shall the dust return to the earth...and the spirit shall return unto God, who gave it" (Ecclesiastes 12: 17).

The apostle John also saw a great magnitude of nations before the throne in the spirit (Revelation 7: 9).  These were the souls of the saints that were executed during the great tribulation period.  They were quite conscious after death.

In 2 Corinthians 5: 8, St Paul says that “we are confident and will rather be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.”

Notice again that when the rich and poor men died, they went to separate places.  The rich man went to hell and lifted up his eyes in torment, and the poor man went to Abraham's bosom (Luke 16: 23).  Whenever, Jesus spoke in parables they were always based on true-to-life-situations – never on fantasy.  I find no exception to this.

Yes, Christian near-death-experiences are very real.  Read "Heaven is so Real”, by Choo Thomas.  Also "Divine Revelation of Heaven" by Catherine Baxter" which is a very popular Classic.

It is also very important to read the story of the Buddhist monk who really saw heaven and hell and came back a changed man.  He found out just in time that Buddhism was not the true path. Click the link below: http://bibleprobe.com/backfromthedead.htm

HOW TO DISTINGUISH THE GENUINE FROM THE COUNTERFEIT

It is very important to distinguish that which is true from that which is false in near-death experiences /out-of-body experiences.  You would notice that in various cultures, the experiences are alarmingly contradictory and diametrically opposed to one another.  There is incredible deception in the spiritual realm.  That is why Jesus Christ /God Incarnate has to be the standard of truth.  He said that, “I am the Way the Truth, and the Life, no man cometh unto the Father but by Me”, (John 14: 6).  Do these other beings preach another gospel opposing the Gospel of Jesus Christ: - reincarnation, works related-salvation and “no such thing as hell”?  This is terrible for these are Satan’s angels of light of which the Bible speaks.

Here is the test for all near-death experiences /out-of-body experiences.  If it conflicts with scripture, it is bogus.  This is St. Paul’s message to the Galatians:

^“…there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!

As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed.”

A FALSE GOSPEL

Now there is a counterfeit near-death experience told in a book called “Embraced by the Light” by Betty Eadie.  In her book she met Jesus, but it was not the real Jesus Christ of the scriptures.  This is possible because the spirits have the ability to take on the guise of anyone they desire.  This is how many psychic mediums are deceived when they are perceiving through clairvoyance the “deceased” spirits.  When they receive messages from them for loved ones, the medium never discerns that these are impersonating spirits.  The bible calls them familiar spirits.

“Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God” (Leviticus 19:31)

Jesus only talks of two destinies of a dead person - heaven or hell.  If you are in heaven you certainly are not going to accommodate a medium.  If you are in hell there is no means of escape.  So those entities have to be satanic in essence.

The false Jesus that Betty Eddie met told her that there was no hell, denied salvation through grace; denied the Trinity and said that everyone will go to heaven.  In so many words, the cardinal principles of the faith are denied.

In his book “Deceived by the Light” - Douglas Groothuis a scholar exposes what a fraud Betty Eddie is.  Consequently, we immediately see that these conflicting and opposing near-death experiences from other cultures are deceptive devices of the enemy for the ultimate destruction of humankind.  For more information click on the following links:

Deceived by the Light by Douglas Groothuis http://www.equip.org/articles/deceived-by-the-light

Many Christians were bought up to believe that life beyond the grave is not provable or demonstrable.  However, there is a factual basis for the survival of the soul.  It is just the people are indifferent to it and continue to walk in unbelief.  But remember that these experiences have been going on since time immemorial in all different cultures.  It is time that humanity stops questioning the obvious and accept the reality of these states.  Also, realize that through the power of the Holy Spirit we can differentiate the genuine from the counterfeit.  This is His function for He is also known as the Spirit of Truth.

Sources:

http://www.spiritlesson.com

http://www.thewordteaches.com/questions.htm

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