In recent science experiments, Biophysicist Joe Kirschvink and his team at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena used electroencephalography (EEG) to record brain activity from electrodes on the scalp to search for some response to changes in a highly controlled magnetic field equal in strength to Earth’s (March 18th 2019, eNeuro). In the experiment, each of the 34 participants sat quietly in a dark aluminium box (a Faraday cage) that shielded them from electromagnetic noise such as radio waves. By changing the flow of electric current through coils lining the box, the researchers created a magnetic field that sloped steeply downward, like Earth’s own field at the midlatitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Then they rotated the field, as would happen if a person turned their head. In a third of participants, the rotating field elicited a marked drop in the alpha wave frequency (8-13 Hz). This experiment is yet to be replicated and confirmed by peers but the argument is whether this effect on one third of the participants is “detectable” mentally by humans in a conscious or subconscious way or a mere natural effect of cellular response to magnetic fluctuations due to magnetite being present in cells, as in certain bacteria that harbours magnetite crystals in their cells.
A variety of species—bacteria, snails, frogs, lobsters—seem to detect Earth’s magnetic field, and some animals, such as migratory birds, rely on it for navigation. But testing for the sense in humans has been tricky. Experiments in the 1970s that asked blindfolded participants to point in a cardinal direction after being spun around or led far from home yielded inconsistent results. In an EEG study with a different design, published in 2002, other researchers failed to find any brain response to a changing field. The observation of the dip in alpha waves by Kirschvink and his team was only present when the magnetic field was oriented downwards and in an anticlockwise direction. Whether the effects of brain wave changes amount to a magnetoreception “sense” is another area to be further researched.
A psychologist, Dr Gary E. Schwartz did many scientific experimental measurements to ascertain human consciousness and proposes the possibility of synchronicity, our body’s response to healing consciousness and love, and believes in the abilities of the human mind to “see” the invisible and to be conscious of natural electromagnetic waves. Synchronicity is the coincidences of thinking of a person and the same person calls you, or dreaming of something and seeing it happen soon. Without a biblical base, we have many people who are using scientific measurement tools that measure heart rates, brain waves, etc. to ascertain different levels of consciousness.
What does the Bible say? The Bible records that our Lord Jesus can read our thoughts. Jesus knew the thoughts of the scribes who were thinking within themselves (Matthew 9:3-4). The phrase ‘Jesus knew their thoughts’ occurred several times in the Bible (Matthew 12:25; Luke 5:22; 6:8; 11:17). For those who do not know the salvation of our Lord Jesus’ atonement but live their lives according to their conscience, the Bible says their thoughts either accuse them or excuse them (Romans 2:15). Our thought life is very important for they proceed from our innermost character and being. The word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of our heart (Hebrews 4:12). Daily spiritual warfare is taking all our thoughts into captivity and obedience to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:3-6). The failure of Ananias and Sapphira was that they thoughtfully agreed together to deceive about the price paid for their land (Acts 5:4). And Simon the magician thought that he could purchase the gift of God with money (Acts 8:20). Wrong thoughts can come from the enemy (Satan, fallen angels and demons). Good thoughts can come from God (John 14:26). The act of remembering the things of the Lord is a thought process inspired by the Holy Spirit.
From the Bible it seems that:
- Thoughts can come from God, ourselves or the enemy (Psalm 139:17; Proverb 12:5; Matthew 15:19; 16:23)
- All thoughts are transmitted and it can be perceived by Jesus, angels, and humans who are sensitive to such (Matthew 12:25; Luke 5:22; Matthew 1:20; Acts 8:20)
- Thoughts like sound can create noisy or pleasant musical ambience (2 Corinthians 10:5; Psalm 139:17; Isaiah 55:9-10)
- Thoughts can reach a point of spiritual conception creating a future reality (Genesis 6:5; 1 Chronicles 29:18).
We humans live in a world of thoughts and sensory perceptions. Unaware that the very essence of our thoughts is continuously creating our future realities. This is not done merely through human works that proceed from our ideas and concepts but also through the pure power of the energy of thoughts that touch the spiritual substances of creative materials. Whether they be energized by the enemy, which God then has to destroy (Genesis 6:5) or they can come forth through the process of visualisation and energising by the Holy Spirit (Genesis 15:1-6; Romans 4:16-22). Our daily thoughts contribute to the total thought energies of the planet earth. When the total sum of human thoughts released in various forms on the earth tilt towards the positive, the whole world moves in that direction. Conversely, if the total sum of human thoughts tilt towards evil, the planet earth moves towards evil. All energy cannot be destroyed, it has to go somewhere. The total sum of human thoughts has a direct impact on the earth’s tilt and direction towards God or towards evil. Not all human thoughts are equal, some are weak and some are stronger. It depends on the strength of a human spirit and also on the spiritual energies that support or inspire the thoughts conceived in the heart of the human being.
The best thoughts are the thoughts of our creator God and Father of all, through our Lord Jesus, the Word of God. Since our thoughts are lower than God’s thoughts, it is best that we receive God’s thoughts and let them be assimilated and flow as our new thoughts (Isaiah 55:8-9). The thoughts of humans are futile (Psalm 94:11). We like a ripe field which God has implanted His Word and Seed. We must allow His word, His thoughts, to germinate within us and flow forth through our spirits, our souls and our imagination. God has been concerned with the total sum of human thoughts since before Noah’s flood and He is still concern for the total sum of human thoughts and imagination today (Genesis 6:5). He has sent His Holy Spirit to pour forth His visions, dreams, revelations – the sum total of His Will and plan for mankind – that we may received that into the fertile ground of our beings and birth forth new spiritually inspired and energized thoughts that begin to create the new future of the earth: both the near future and the final future of this planet.
The minds of humans are the loins of creation (1 Peter 1:13). We are the ground that God has sown the seed of His Word (Mark 4:20). The human race has been gifted with the capacity to reproduce both natural and spiritual. Angels do not marry nor do they reproduce (Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:35). Humans have been given the ability to reproduce (Genesis 1:27-28). Together with the animal and plant world which they are in charge of, the resonance of reproduction is released throughout the domain of humans as Adam named the animals. Even when fallen angels wanted to reproduce illegally and against the Will of God, they had to use the females of humans (Genesis 6:1-4). This ability to reproduce is not just a physical quality of mankind. Mankind was gifted with the ability to reproduce in the soul and spirit dimension. The spirit and soul of man is like a fertile ground from which new things come forth. When mankind fell and required food for sustenance, even fallen mankind has created millions of types of cooked food but angels for millennia still eat manna, a food once shared with mankind during post-Exodus of Israel (Psalm 78:23-25). Even our Lord Jesus recognized that the human heart is a field in which God sowed His Word looking for a harvest (Mark 4:13-20). Even for evil, human hearts have regurgitate all manner of evil (Mark 7:21-23). Thus the interest of Satan and his cohorts to recruit mankind into his domain.
When our Lord Jesus came in human form, He also birth forth a new creation, of which He is the first born (Colossians 1:18; Revelation 1:5). The only other being who can create and bring forth something new is God Himself. When God made man in His image, it was this ability that God had gifted to mankind (Genesis 1:26-28). It is not just because God made man humanoid looking, for even angels are humanoid looking but they can’t reproduce. The image is not just the physical looks of two hands, two legs, two eyes, one nose and one mouth in a humanoid looking figure. It is the ability to be like God in His creative ability! Knowing the power of creation gifted and inherent in the human race, we must treasure and guard this ability and use it only to birth forth things that are in line with the Word of God. In Christ we have become heirs and joint heirs of Christ, a position not given to the angels or other spirit beings (Romans 8:17). As the book of Hebrews says, “For to which of the angels did He ever say ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten you’ or ‘I will be to Him a Father and he shall be to me a son.’ (Hebrews 1:5). God has not put the world to come in subjection to angels but rather to mankind in Jesus (Hebrews 2:5-8). Thus our Lord Jesus, became the captain and Author of our salvation to bring us into His glory as sons of God, and the whole creation looks forward to manifestations of the sons of God (Hebrews 2:10; Romans 8:19-21).
Our Lord Jesus has sent the Holy Spirit to sow into us His dreams, His visions, His word, His thoughts. Let us be the fruitful ground that brings forth fruit of all that God has seeded into us. Let our thoughts be that of God’s thoughts, heavenly thoughts that will bring forth heaven on earth – the kingdom of God on earth in these days of the ten toes. We are His creation who keeps on creating here on earth and in new heavens and new earth. Treasure every thought that proceeds forth from the mind of Christ, for we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). And the world and all creation has yet to see, what God has in store for those who love God and are called according to His purpose (1 Corinthians 1:9; Romans 8:28). Be blessed and be fruitful as a branch in our Lord Jesus, the New Vine (John 15:1-7).