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This might be a human brain function: paper 112:3.3 talks about intellectual death and how “higher Adjutants” ministry is disrupted because the brain is damaged or otherwise aberrated and goes on to state:” And again, this is death, irrespective of the continuing function of the living mechanism of the living body. The body minus the volitional mind is no longer human,
volition is ours, our determination, our will.
When the body is deprived of the volitional mind the personality has no mechanism for self-consciousness nor means to exercise free will. In that case the personality can no longer function. The body without personality and its self-conscious free will is subhuman, in other words, part of the animal world. A physical energy system without personality is not a person but an animal. The individual has died even though the body may still be alive. The body does not need the brain to stay alive as long as the brainstem is intact and someone feeds it and monitors breathing, as in the case of keeping bodies alive for organ harvest after brain death. No one knows what happens to the personality after death, but they do know what happens to the soul and the Adjuster and how the individual is put back together on mansion world one.
112:3.3 2. Intellectual (mind) death. When the vital circuits of higher adjutant ministry are disrupted through the aberrations of intellect or because of the partial destruction of the mechanism of the brain, and if these conditions pass a certain critical point of irreparability, the indwelling Adjuster is immediately released to depart for Divinington. On the universe records a mortal personality is considered to have met with death whenever the essential mind circuits of human will-action have been destroyed. And again, this is death, irrespective of the continuing function of the living mechanism of the physical body. The body minus the volitional mind is no longer human, but according to the prior choosing of the human will, the soul of such an individual may survive.
112:5.15 During the transit of surviving mortals from the world of origin to the mansion worlds, whether they experience personality reassembly on the third period or ascend at the time of a group resurrection, the record of personality constitution is faithfully preserved by the archangels on their worlds of special activities. These beings are not the custodians of personality (as the guardian seraphim are of the soul), but it is nonetheless true that every identifiable factor of personality is effectually safeguarded in the custody of these dependable trustees of mortal survival. As to the exact whereabouts of mortal personality during the time intervening between death and survival, we do not know.
Personality is pattern. Without mind it cannot be conscious; it cannot think; it cannot make choices; and without an energy system to energize, it cannot act.
When the body is deprived of the volitional mind the personality has no mechanism for self-consciousness nor means to exercise free will. In that case the personality can no longer function. The body without personality and its self-conscious free will is subhuman, in other words, part of the animal world. A physical energy system without personality is not a person but an animal. The individual has died even though the body may still be alive. The body does not need the brain to stay alive as long as the brainstem is intact and someone feeds it and monitors breathing, as in the case of keeping bodies alive for organ harvest after brain death. No one knows what happens to the personality after death, but they do know what happens to the soul and the Adjuster and how the individual is put back together on mansion world one.
112:3.3 2. Intellectual (mind) death. When the vital circuits of higher adjutant ministry are disrupted through the aberrations of intellect or because of the partial destruction of the mechanism of the brain, and if these conditions pass a certain critical point of irreparability, the indwelling Adjuster is immediately released to depart for Divinington. On the universe records a mortal personality is considered to have met with death whenever the essential mind circuits of human will-action have been destroyed. And again, this is death, irrespective of the continuing function of the living mechanism of the physical body. The body minus the volitional mind is no longer human, but according to the prior choosing of the human will, the soul of such an individual may survive. 112:5.15 During the transit of surviving mortals from the world of origin to the mansion worlds, whether they experience personality reassembly on the third period or ascend at the time of a group resurrection, the record of personality constitution is faithfully preserved by the archangels on their worlds of special activities. These beings are not the custodians of personality (as the guardian seraphim are of the soul), but it is nonetheless true that every identifiable factor of personality is effectually safeguarded in the custody of these dependable trustees of mortal survival. As to the exact whereabouts of mortal personality during the time intervening between death and survival, we do not know.
Personality is pattern. Without mind it cannot be conscious; it cannot think; it cannot make choices; and without an energy system to energize, it cannot act.
so if our volitional mind is not our physical brain functioning to make willful, determined choices then does our volition originate from our personality and this personality driven volition is more about the will to make choices??
so if our volitional mind is not our physical brain functioning to make willful, determined choices then does our volition originate from our personality and this personality driven volition is more about the will to make choices??
The physical brain is not responsible for volition. All the physical brain does is fire off electrochemical impulses in response to adjutant mind ministry. Actual free-will choice, or volition, is a power that belongs to solely to the personality. The personality responds to mind ministry, decides then acts.
16:8.5 Creature personality is distinguished by two self-manifesting and characteristic phenomena of mortal reactive behavior: self-consciousness and associated relative free will.
5:6.9 The bestowal of creature personality confers relative liberation from slavish response to antecedent causation, and the personalities of all such moral beings, evolutionary or otherwise, are centered in the personality of the Universal Father.
Animals don’t have volition because it requires reflective thought (higher mind ministry). Jesus explained that the type of will an animal has is derived from nature in which the animal mind is guided by the lower adjutant type instincts and urges. Animals become human when the spirit of wisdom begins to function as described in TUB with Andon and Fonta.
130.2.8 That afternoon Jesus and Ganid had both enjoyed playing with a very intelligent shepherd, and Ganid wanted to know whether the dog had a soul, whether it had a will, and in response to his questions Jesus said: “The dog has a mind which can know material man, his master, but cannot know God, who is spirit; therefore the dog does not possess a spiritual nature and cannot enjoy a spiritual experience. The dog may have a will derived from nature and augmented by training, but such a power of mind is not a spiritual force, neither is it comparable to the human will, inasmuch as it is not reflective — it is not the result of discriminating higher and moral meanings or choosing spiritual and eternal values. It is the possession of such powers of spiritual discrimination and truth choosing that makes mortal man a moral being, a creature endowed with the attributes of spiritual responsibility and the potential of eternal survival.” Jesus went on to explain that it is the absence of such mental powers in the animal which makes it forever impossible for the animal world to develop language in time or to experience anything equivalent to personality survival in eternity. As a result of this day’s instruction Ganid never again entertained belief in the transmigration of the souls of men into the bodies of animals.
Just want you to know Bonita (and certainly others that contribute) that I really appreciate the time you put into digging up all of this information and putting it together.
it all lets me realize how much effort it takes to really study and interpret this revelation.
cant see doing it alone.
cant see doing it alone.
I’ve been studying alone for decades. It’s fun to share what you learn though. I have written so much on so many TUB subjects now it’s a bit crazy how much material I have accumulated. I’ll tell you, I could not do it without computers. I have a great system going that helps me organize everything . . . like a peripheral brain. So glad you find it useful. Most people are annoyed by it. I’ve been called a Frandalank.
Frandalank, that’s funny. Don’t know if that was a compliment or criticism.
This might be a human brain function: paper 112:3.3 talks about intellectual death and how “higher Adjutants” ministry is disrupted because the brain is damaged or otherwise aberrated and goes on to state:” And again, this is death, irrespective of the continuing function of the living mechanism of the living body. The body minus the volitional mind is no longer human, volition is ours, our determination, our will.
It would seem that the key word in the context of (112:3.3) is “aberrations” followed by “because of the partial destruction of the mechanism of the brain”, where as one example in a human, would be “dementia”, primarily from old age or from unhealthy practices or habits, which can damage portions of the physical brain, where another example would be damage to the neuroglial cells.
The definition of “dementia” in medicine is as follows: “Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain, and often accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes.”
This would alter the “volitional mind” in a way where the “aberrations” or the cause of them, alters a persons free-will reasoning, where in some cases may be deemed as an altered state of thinking or delusional, to a point of being unintelligible to others. As for “no longer human,” this might imply that a person suffering from “Intellectual (mind) death” has no value, and depending on cause, may not be reversible, and if this is the only indicator of “death”, is the UB implying that there is no hope for such a person and should be discarded, premature to physical death?
