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Originally Posted by Mephibosheth
According to WL, the spirit is an organ for apprehending spiritual things just as the body is an organ for contacting the material world. He adds on and goes further to say that the spirit is actually a 'vessel' purposely created for containing God.
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Witness Lee had a lot of teaching about the human spirit, exercising the spirit, etc.
A line in a hymn said, "Get out of your mind, get your spirit in gear!" As a kid, I heard a lot that I should "get out of my mind."
Is there something in the Bible that indicates we should "get out of our mind"?
A rapper named Lil John has a track called "Get Outta Your Mind." It's a little unpleasant (Lil John is famous for screaming a lot), and I'm pretty sure he's talking about getting wasted. This reminds me that someone mentioned awhile back that Philip Lee was known to have shared marijuana, on occasion, w/some church young people.
Considering Recovery culture, I have to say that pot use does not strike me as all that out-of-sync w/being a member of the Lord's Recovery. While it may not be particularly helpful for fist-pumping spirit-exercising in the meetings, it really doesn't hurt when you're in that mellow, not-asking-too-many-questions, post-meeting mode.