Updated on March 4, 2024
Doug Tales 160: Enlightenment, Part One
Arrogance is one of those things we easily perceive in others but usually have a blind eye to it within ourselves. However, if we really want to conquer spiritual evil, we must humbly look inside with Christ’s guidance and get rid of any darkness there while bringing into us light and truth. Doug Mendenhall explores being enlightened in I See…Awake! (2015), pp. 71-72:
Joseph Smith’s inspired translation of Hebrews chapter 6 sheds some interesting light on what God calls enlightenment:
“…for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come” (vs. 4–5)
The Lord declared those that are enlightened will have received the “heavenly gift” which means they received the Lord Jesus Christ, or the Second Comforter. He also states they have tasted the “powers of the world to come” meaning in this life they are quite gifted and use those gifts while here.
It reminds me of my friend Ron Poulton who wrote a paper called, “Experiencing Spiritual Evil in the Context of Psychotherapy.” He sat with a group of LDS therapists at a dinner and asked them how they dealt with possession in their practice. They informed him that it wasn’t part of their practice. When he said that Christ cast demons out in the New Testament times, they said that back in those days they didn’t understand how the mind works like we do now. This shows the arrogance of some intellectuals, believing they understand the mind better than the one person that came here and achieved perfection. I don’t have to tell you who I choose to believe.
Denver Snuffer made a comment about the wise and learned in his book Come, Let Us Adore Him:
“Rather it is the humility of the person which attracts notice from heaven. The reason the ‘wise and learned’ are confounded is because they are neither wise nor learned, but are arrogant. They trust their wisdom, they trust their learning, and they deny the Spirit which gives utterance. This has always been toxic.” (p. 74)
People have been bombarded with mind control programming their entire lives. The adversary uses all kinds of mind control techniques to cause mental schisms in people and to create a mind/brain imbalance. If this is accomplished, they are easily controlled. In previous chapters we have discussed some of the techniques that are used. Some techniques used to create this imbalance range from music to frequencies, radionics, electro-magnetic fields, GMO food, drugs, fluoride, government propaganda, schools, television, etc. One of the best ways is to keep people imbalanced and controlled is a constant state of fear, which many times is caused by government propaganda.
The Adversary works hard to keep us is a state of fear because it causes our upper brain or neocortex to cease functioning properly, and then our Reptile brain, or lower brain, kicks in. This will put us into a permanent state of “fight or flight.” Have you noticed how you’re constantly fed a diet of fear by the news media and government? Ebola, AIDS, measles, IRS, terrorists, extremists, police, economy, martial law, climate, global warming, oil crisis, war, and the list goes on forever of the things that you are told you must “fear.” When we operate from a place of fear, there is no possible way for our mind to be in balance. Instead we have a mental imbalance.