28 April 2010
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?
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That has been President Packer's argument virtually every time he has talked about either the Word of Wisdom or Revelation (which is a lot):http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=3afd3ff73058b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD
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