Offline conversations make it clear that readers are missing my point. Allow me to make it more obvious to you: Living in your heart instead of your head is the pathway to reclaiming the miraculous promises of God.
On the one hand, Jan Walleczek and his associates have made it clear that the heart is scientifically proven to influence your health and far more. It’s what Walleczek meant by “self-organizing” in the title of his paper. The electromagnetic field can control the biochemistry of your body to do things better. Living in your head forfeits that power.
Most of the time, simply declaring to people that they have the option of moving their conscious awareness into the heart is enough for them to begin the process. For those who cannot already sense that path, there’s not much I can do. As long as you cling to western mythology about the heart as a repository of mere sentiment and emotion, you cannot live in faith.
Which brings us to the other hand: A critical element in understand how the Hebrew people lived and thought is to recognize that those faithful to Jehovah were living in their hearts. It was the assumption of their culture. They were fully aware of the human tendency to live in the flesh, which meant living in their heads. They didn’t use the same language we do because there are some things that simply cannot be put into words. Still, a solid grasp of Hebrew culture means understanding the difference between head awareness and heart awareness.
The Covenant of Moses required living in your heart. This is one of the things that carries over into the Covenant of Christ: you must live in your heart or you are not under the Covenant. The Holy Spirit does not manifest in your head. He does not speak to the fallen intellect. He speaks from your resurrected spirit to your heart. He speaks through your convictions; that’s the language He uses in your individual soul.
All the treasures of Heaven are unrecognizable to the flesh. They are understood only in the spirit, and the only way your conscious awareness can tap into that is by moving into the heart. The whole point of faith redemption in this world is to change completely how you perceive the situation; it’s not a question of what you have. The gift of Christ is to awaken faith, not to change this world.
