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MORE ON CONSCIENCE |
| 056. Scientists have designed many various types of external monitoring devices to sense bodily reactions to various stimuli. Many of these in the medical field deal with internal physical responses. Some of these scientists attempt to determine where in our “flesh and blood” brain appear the reactions to external stimuli and what parts of the brain are involved in our external communications, including body language. |
| 057. Then there are special areas dealing with detecting soul-to body reactions. One of them is in the “lie detector” area. I, myself, was frequently subjected to these tests as an intelligence officer. These devices are not 100% accurate. I think they are based on the principal of “good and evil”. If you knowingly lie and have some degree of shame, you will have some type of soul-to-body response. The obvious one’s, including clammy hands, sweating, twitching, etc., are obvious signs that further questioning is needed. So people, who normally exercise the choice of good over evil, tend to fail lie detector tests if they lie. |
| 058. The other side of the coin is when a spy, for example, has trained himself in amoral behavior, which dulls his conscience. He can lie and often pass a lie detector test. [He is like a computer hacker trying to take over control of God’s design of his system. It often works!!] These detectors, when used on hardened people, are successful whenever the interrogators are able to penetrate through this hardness and reach their conscience. [Maybe there should be similar devices in the confessional to catch lies and omissions. However in soul-to-soul communications, God will know whether you’ve been “naughty or nice”. Your confessor might not, unless God and he are “tuned in”, and God conveys this knowledge to the confessor.] |
| 059. Speaking of conscience as a soul function, doesn’t the Lord’s Prayer phrase “lead us not into temptation” imply that there is communication with God? There are good and bad angels. They would have consciences also, which indicate to them, before taking action, whether it was good or evil. I would suppose that, whether they committed a good or bad deed, they would have soulful response of joy or shame. Do you think Lucifer was the 1st Hacker? In the book, “The Screwtape Letters” by C. S. Lewis [Ref 03], the devil is depicted as teaching his minions, the bad angels, how to modify the internal functions of our conscience. |
