pain and the Spirit

One morning I took some pain killer (don't worry your head, it was Tylenol) and began to wonder, is our ability to feel pain (and other bodily sensations) connected to our ability to feel and receive the Spirit and the Holy Ghost? My experience has been that I often feel thoughts from the Holy Ghost instead of merely thinking them. So, one reason for not taking some drugs may not be just to avoid the habit-forming characteristics of the drugs, but may be because of how they dull our feeling and thus the Spirit and also promptings of the Holy Ghost. Any thoughts?

con-science

My first post is not the first thing I ever thought of, but the thought that created this blog. Here goes with my bulleted thoughts...

• conscience is con-science (as presently formulated)
• "con" refers to how conscience and science are incommensurable
  
• conscience includes morality/ethics, moral agency, and meanings
• conscience is the way that God gets through to all of us and tells us the basic moral code we should be living
  
• science (as presently formulated) seeks to describe the world (through observation/experimentation and theorizing) but not to explicitly prescribe how we should live in the world
• I say "explicitly" here since science (especially psychology) tells us what good and bad are through its research methods, conclusions, and applications (e.g. therapy)
• I may one day come back to "explicitly," although a few of my peeps have already covered the topic well

That's all for the first post. Stay tuned for more musings (as they come to me).