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Ready for Battle? California-based Human Software Engineering Company Promises to “Vaporize” Combat PTSD. (Part 1 of 3)

“The task [of man’s transformation] is not to transform human flesh into data that can be improved through technological manipulation or engineering. Instead, it is through the incarnation––the Word made flesh––that humans are transformed by their participation in the life of God who has taken on their lives as finite and temporal creatures.” Dr. Brent Waters, D. Phil., Director Stead Center for Ethics and Values.

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Talk about new job creation. It just keeps getting more Orwellian. According to the above recruitment ad that I adapted from the Great Life Technologies website, a human engineering software firm, anyone, with a little bit of training, can help bio-engineer the fear out of soldiers suffering from PTSD. And apparently, you can make money doing it. As an added bonus, you can even cast the fear and anxiety out of yourself, just by fixing a few “bugs” inherent in your DNA.

Gee, sounds perfect, where do I sign?

So, what does “bio-engineer the fear” mean exactly? Ask Great Life Technologies. They promise a near-utopian and blissful existence for veterans suffering from PTSD and its related symptoms. Or, for that matter, most anyone suffering from trauma-based mental health issues.

Using pseudo-science mixed with New Age buzzwords like “pure awareness,” “vaporize your fear,” and “The Power of How” (strikingly similar to Eckert Tolle’s “The Power of Now”), this California-based company is out to prove once and for all that mind over matter really does work—with a little help from technology.

Now, as far as I can tell, God is nowhere to be found in this utopian formula for happiness and health anymore that He is found pseudo-science organizations and so-called “religions” such as Scientology.  In fact, both Great Life Technologies and Scientology are based on similar concepts, albeit the latter group managed to get themselves classified as a “religion” for tax-exempt purposes. Of course, by now everyone except Tom Cruise and the IRS knows it’s a cult.

What distinguishes Great Life Technologies from Scientology is that the former doesn’t pretend to be a religion. Rather, they’re providing yet another post-Christian era, humanistic “solution” to the problem of sin and suffering––maladies that have plagued mankind since the beginning of time, and which mankind has never stopped trying to fix through any means other than the one that actually works (because you’d have to first acknowledge that “sin” exists).

Similar to Scientology, in order to start living the “Great Life,” you do have to cough up a great deal of dough for your technological-based cure via bio-engineering. (I’m still looking for a cure from the effects of technology—other than wearing a bonnet and riding in a buggy.) Fortunately, unlike Scientology, with the Great Life program you don’t have to brainwash your spouse and children and/or cut off any of your dissenting family and friends (termed SPs or “suppressive persons” in Scientology lingo) to arrive at that ultimate state of “clear.”

In contrast, Christianity offers the truth free of charge: “You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free,” Jesus tells us, making it also clear to the religious leaders of his day, and to us, that it was He who was, and is, “the Life, the Way, and the Truth” —not a system of laws and regulations or man-made concepts.  I always contend that truth should also be free––as in not cost anything to attain it. In other words, Jesus Christ, who came into the world to “seek and save the lost” paid the ultimate price on the Cross for our sins so that we don’t have to. But again, you do actually have to first acknowledge that you’re a sinner who needs saving—not just a basically “good person” with “issues” who just needs a little social engineering, as series of bio-feedback sessions, a few motivational seminars, or, for the more desperate among us, complete immersion into a cult-like organization that promises to give you a heaven- on-earth existence.  The former (the Good News of Jesus Christ) is a “life saving” solution that transforms your very nature, the latter (everything but Jesus) will more likely cost you your life savings (and waste years of your life) … or a good chunk of it.

So, you might ask, what’s the big deal about social engineering anyway? Can’t it be compatible with Christianity?I mean, if it’s effective in bring some level of functionality and emotional well being to suffering humanity, who cares how much it costs?  After all, doesn’t God want us to be happy?   (Article continued ….READ PART 2-3 of this post:  Is There a Gene for the Human Spirit?_

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