Today's Lesson in Ancient Greek

In the language of the first century Greek, developed by a Macedonian hillbilly called Alexander the Great(who had a teacher named Aristotle), the intellectual understanding of a subject was called gnosis. It is just that, intellectual understanding, what we might call “head knowledge” and it was stored in the nous (what science calls the left side of the frontal lobe). Epignosis was above intellectual understanding. (epi-above or upon). It was intellectually understood and was applicable to every aspect of a person’s life. It circulated through their entire being. It was found in the Kardia. (translated heart) and was sometimes referred to as “heart knowledge or heart belief”. It influenced thinking, decision making, feelings, memory, frame of reference, emotions and your world and life viewpoint. Many chiropractors have “head knowledge”. They were able to regurgitate what they were taught in chiropractic philosophy in school. However it had no applicable value. How much of your obstetrics course do you use or even remember? It is not circulating in your Kardia. It was of little value because it had not been accepted/believed by deduction/faith or recognized as legal by the state law and applied as a part of your chiropractic objective. It was how I learned evolution in college. I got a “B” on the exam (perhaps because I could not get too interested in learning what I believed to be nonsense). I have forgotten most of what I learned about evolution and it is of no applicable value today. I had previously accepted/believed creationism. Head knowledge worthlessly inflates the ego. There was an heretical religious sect in the first century called Gnosticism. The Gnostics believed they had a special understanding/revelation about God and spirituality and because of that, were superior to everyone else(does that sound like some of those who “practice meditation”?). Today we have agnostics(a- meaning without) who believe they are without understanding (of the existence of God).
Sid Williams use to tell the story of Billy Graham who said that his ministry took on its true value and a new emphasis and meaning when he accepted the Scriptures in full faith. In chiropractic our success, in emphasis and meaning, occurs when we accept the authority of the philosophy of the 33 principles by logic and deductive reasoning and are immersed in their practical application. That comes about when we truly understand the depth and breadth of them. That’s what Objective (Straight) Chiropractic and this blog is all about.