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Mind Refreshed: Ancient Keys to Mental Health
Mental Health, specifically anxiety, is the number one health issue worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This mind-illness is a tragic situation, but what is even more tragic is science, philosophy, and religion don't know what the mind is! How can you expect to alleviate anxiety when you don't understand the foundation?
Mind Refreshed broaches the crux of the matter. This book is a practical workbook following Sam Kneller's Mind-Body Problem Solved, where he explains what consciousness and mind are based on theology. Genesis 2:7 says God breathed neshama (the breath of life) into each human. This is consciousness. Job 32:8 reveals there's a second spirit in humans, the ruach, which is the mind. These two spirits work intimately to confer on humans their humanity.
Humanity can be summarized by the five traits of consciousness each human purpose, conduct, reasoning, socialization, and rulership. When these are in alignment, there's a sense of peacefulness. The opposite leads to anxiety.
The key point to remember is that this mental makeup applies to all human beings regardless of race, beliefs, or gender. The solution to anxiety is Biblical, but it applies to all people because everyone possesses consciousness and a mind. Every person is different because each of us has, doesn't have, or is misusing our purpose, conduct, reasoning, socialization, and rulership.
Alleviating anxiety involves identifying the easiest barriers to overcome in these five areas of life and replacing them with doorways to walk through.
The real question is, what are the doorways, and where do we find them?
That is what Mind Refreshed reveals. It is a practical workbook to help you remediate, slowly but surely, your anxiety and replace it with the peace you so crave.
Mind Refreshed broaches the crux of the matter. This book is a practical workbook following Sam Kneller's Mind-Body Problem Solved, where he explains what consciousness and mind are based on theology. Genesis 2:7 says God breathed neshama (the breath of life) into each human. This is consciousness. Job 32:8 reveals there's a second spirit in humans, the ruach, which is the mind. These two spirits work intimately to confer on humans their humanity.
Humanity can be summarized by the five traits of consciousness each human purpose, conduct, reasoning, socialization, and rulership. When these are in alignment, there's a sense of peacefulness. The opposite leads to anxiety.
The key point to remember is that this mental makeup applies to all human beings regardless of race, beliefs, or gender. The solution to anxiety is Biblical, but it applies to all people because everyone possesses consciousness and a mind. Every person is different because each of us has, doesn't have, or is misusing our purpose, conduct, reasoning, socialization, and rulership.
Alleviating anxiety involves identifying the easiest barriers to overcome in these five areas of life and replacing them with doorways to walk through.
The real question is, what are the doorways, and where do we find them?
That is what Mind Refreshed reveals. It is a practical workbook to help you remediate, slowly but surely, your anxiety and replace it with the peace you so crave.
295 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 1, 2025
About the author
Sam Kneller
19 books1 followerSam Kneller was born in London and has lived around the world in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Spain, Canada, Israel and Belgium with the last 35 years in France. I spent 25 years in the Christian Ministry in Canada and France. In the late 90’s, I taught webmastering and carried out technical writing.
In 1998 I started BonjourLaFrance.com, a successful site for travel and tourism in France, and am now occupied with webmastering, studying, teaching, speaking and writing.
From my sheltered life at the age of 17 Sam Kneller went to the Middle East to continue my schooling and was immersed in a ‘world and mind opening experience’, living in Israel, learning Hebrew and reading Time magazine cover to cover.
At 19 Sam Kneller moved to Belgium to be plunged into Europe, French and the diamond industry. 1968 was another year of big change, in a quest for understanding, I gave up a life of affluence and moved to the UK to resume my college education.
I’ve always had an interest in how things, anything and everything, work. I remember standing for hours watching construction sites, fascinated by the equipment and the building process. This lead me to the fields of mathematics and physics and later my inquisitive mind ended up posing questions about life itself.
My personal life voyage has taken me places I never dreamed of and my writing journey will take you on an investigative adventure into unchartered territory beckoning to be discovered.
In 1998 I started BonjourLaFrance.com, a successful site for travel and tourism in France, and am now occupied with webmastering, studying, teaching, speaking and writing.
From my sheltered life at the age of 17 Sam Kneller went to the Middle East to continue my schooling and was immersed in a ‘world and mind opening experience’, living in Israel, learning Hebrew and reading Time magazine cover to cover.
At 19 Sam Kneller moved to Belgium to be plunged into Europe, French and the diamond industry. 1968 was another year of big change, in a quest for understanding, I gave up a life of affluence and moved to the UK to resume my college education.
I’ve always had an interest in how things, anything and everything, work. I remember standing for hours watching construction sites, fascinated by the equipment and the building process. This lead me to the fields of mathematics and physics and later my inquisitive mind ended up posing questions about life itself.
My personal life voyage has taken me places I never dreamed of and my writing journey will take you on an investigative adventure into unchartered territory beckoning to be discovered.
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March 25, 2025
Sam, here is what I managed to get for you as a review, as I did not read the entire book but got far enough to have a substantial review for you! I have to go on my semiannual trip out of town, which is why I was unable to gather up a complete review, but going page by page, up to page 21, here is my review for you:
Page 1: Some scientists claim that the fifth dimension goes beyond space and time, unlocking the multiverse. However, consciousness, which comes in the form of kinetic energy, is the 0th dimension, beyond which we have space! Time is an illusory concept. It does not exist outside of thermodynamics and physical entropy laws!
Page 2: A comment on the belief in God (the Elohim). Not everyone believes, but have to believe to elevate the soul to the status of "child of God" as opposed to just a "son" or "daughter" of man, and as you mentioned, quoting 2 Corinthians 6:18, " I will be a Father to you. And you shall be my sons and [my] daughters, says the Lord Almighty" we have it that to be elevated to the status of "son" or "daughter" of God, you have to be 'worthy' because he is the Father of all believers; therefore, maybe it is necessary to believe also, as much as it is necessary to do the good works of God? It seems that Yeshua, being a Nazarene born in Galilee, believed in the Law that defines unity with the Elohim; as we sow through our efforts, we reap through ascension in our next lives. The ancient Egyptians may have believed in something similar, because they believed in human life in other worlds, that every human had to do their best in order to live better lives in the next world.
Page 4: regarding the composition of humans, we have a mind which is separate from our physical brain, yet the brain is just an organ in the body. René Descartes argued that the mind and body are fundamentally different substances, yet the brain is an organ inside the body, and there is no brain-mind distinction to be made. Therefore, the composition should be, in my humble opinion: mind, body and consciousness (includes the consciousness of the Elohim and individual consciousnesses of human beings); regarding the human capacity for doing both wrong and right (both evil and good), Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who came to the conclusion that "evil" is a weakness in humans, whereas good is the strength of will (the will to power); I think we would both agree that the interdependent genders of masculinity for the man and effeminity for the woman are both important traits of the human species for the longevity of the cycles of life and procreation in the human species, just as I believe we would both agree that humans have traits that distinguish us significantly from the animal, such as consciousness through language, thought and a wide variety of emotions. I do not believe in freedom of will, as local realism was a scientific hypothesis that was recently falsified in physics, and as you may know, all other 'sciences' build from the physical sciences.
Page 5: In certain Eastern philosophies (Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism &c.) they view the creation story a little different than in Western philosophies. In Jainism, for instance, the universe is believed to have always existed, with cycles of birth, death and rebirth at the level of living creatures. In Hinduism, you may recall how Brahma emerges from a lotus flower in the navel of Vishnu, who is in a state of eternal sleep on the cosmic waters. The "humans emerging from the clay" or "human being created as through a potter's wheel" story is typically Western metaphysics. There are other "scientific" metaphysics which can be conjointly analyzed, such as the theory of the multiverse, which is also metaphysics, because manifolds exist outside of the three dimensions of space (up/ down, to/ from, left/ right), or the universal coordinate system, and therefore, are not real! Yet, it is important to distinguish between Western philosophy and Eastern philosophy when considering a discussion of spirituality as an improvement upon 'religion' which I believe we both acknowledge to be necessary, Mr. Kneller, because religion has not served a useful purpose in making humans 'better' in any way, just as science has failed to do the same, yet understanding the cyclicality of existence in Eastern theosophy (theological philosophy), versus the noncyclical creation of Western theosophy is important in improving our relationship to each other, the Earth, our universe and ultimately, God. The reason humans came up with the pejorative "big bang theory" of creation in science is because for a very long time, Western theosophy has had a dominant stance over Eastern theosophy as a driving force in the scientific literature. Imagine if the opposite were true, that instead of Western theosophy, Eastern theosophy had dominated human thought all over the planet, thereby creating a different type of epistemology? The Greek word ἐπιστήμη or épistème in French is a word that has been used to represent the philosophy of knowledge ever since the time of Socrates (perhaps other pre-Socratic philosophers may have worked painstackingly to develop these ideas), but instead of the 'philosophy of knowledge' being called epistemology, imagine if it were 'Hikmah' or 'Ilm' instead, Arabic conceptualization of knowledge? Maybe the word could have been 'Merrekh' had it been the case that the Egyptians were not conquered by the Assyrian army or Rome, shortly after the love affair between Cleopatra and Julius Caesar was found out about by Roman clergymen and generals.
Page 5: Lord or YHVH (the unpronouncable four letter tetragram) and Elohim is plural because YHVH is a tetragrammation of 1. Presence, 2. Breath, 3. Life and 4. Love, encapsulating the omnipresent mercy of what in English we refer to as "Lord" and in modern Hebrew we may refer to as "Adonai." Elohim, on the other hand, epitomises the concept of "godhood" (which is different from just saying God).
Page 5: Different people have different understandings of the word: "soul." I once read a book by a melchizedekian who believes that "spirit" is one (the Spirit of God) and souls are many (the souls of living creatures that abound all over the eternal universe).
Page 13: It is interesting how every human being that lives on the face of Gaia (the Earth) can become a child of God, as Yeshua, through salvation of sin (the crucifixion) and then reception of Χριστός, yet to be part of His family, one ought to have been found worthy of salvation?
Page 16: I am understanding that Jesus / Jehoshua / Yehoshua / Yeshua as a very spiritual man who promoted the Nazarene way of life. 14 John 6 says "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." There are two ways to interpret this verse. One way is the physical way, but you take the Ego outside, and you are left with the metaphysical interpretation: that no one gets to the creator except through Christos, the "anointed" also mashiyah in Hebrew. John 1:1 can be interpreted as "In the beginning was the Law, and the Law was with God, and the Law was God." Does not Jesus Christ epitomize the "Law"? Professor John Lennox once said that we live in a "word-based universe" and it had to have been the case that the Word of God was here before the Universe even had a chance to sprout into existence!
Page 20: "best-prepared baby room ever for humans in their infant [stage]."
Page 21: When you say, "Labor in whatever our field of interest, be it manual or sedentary" I believe the correct word here is "menial."
Page 1: Some scientists claim that the fifth dimension goes beyond space and time, unlocking the multiverse. However, consciousness, which comes in the form of kinetic energy, is the 0th dimension, beyond which we have space! Time is an illusory concept. It does not exist outside of thermodynamics and physical entropy laws!
Page 2: A comment on the belief in God (the Elohim). Not everyone believes, but have to believe to elevate the soul to the status of "child of God" as opposed to just a "son" or "daughter" of man, and as you mentioned, quoting 2 Corinthians 6:18, " I will be a Father to you. And you shall be my sons and [my] daughters, says the Lord Almighty" we have it that to be elevated to the status of "son" or "daughter" of God, you have to be 'worthy' because he is the Father of all believers; therefore, maybe it is necessary to believe also, as much as it is necessary to do the good works of God? It seems that Yeshua, being a Nazarene born in Galilee, believed in the Law that defines unity with the Elohim; as we sow through our efforts, we reap through ascension in our next lives. The ancient Egyptians may have believed in something similar, because they believed in human life in other worlds, that every human had to do their best in order to live better lives in the next world.
Page 4: regarding the composition of humans, we have a mind which is separate from our physical brain, yet the brain is just an organ in the body. René Descartes argued that the mind and body are fundamentally different substances, yet the brain is an organ inside the body, and there is no brain-mind distinction to be made. Therefore, the composition should be, in my humble opinion: mind, body and consciousness (includes the consciousness of the Elohim and individual consciousnesses of human beings); regarding the human capacity for doing both wrong and right (both evil and good), Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who came to the conclusion that "evil" is a weakness in humans, whereas good is the strength of will (the will to power); I think we would both agree that the interdependent genders of masculinity for the man and effeminity for the woman are both important traits of the human species for the longevity of the cycles of life and procreation in the human species, just as I believe we would both agree that humans have traits that distinguish us significantly from the animal, such as consciousness through language, thought and a wide variety of emotions. I do not believe in freedom of will, as local realism was a scientific hypothesis that was recently falsified in physics, and as you may know, all other 'sciences' build from the physical sciences.
Page 5: In certain Eastern philosophies (Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism &c.) they view the creation story a little different than in Western philosophies. In Jainism, for instance, the universe is believed to have always existed, with cycles of birth, death and rebirth at the level of living creatures. In Hinduism, you may recall how Brahma emerges from a lotus flower in the navel of Vishnu, who is in a state of eternal sleep on the cosmic waters. The "humans emerging from the clay" or "human being created as through a potter's wheel" story is typically Western metaphysics. There are other "scientific" metaphysics which can be conjointly analyzed, such as the theory of the multiverse, which is also metaphysics, because manifolds exist outside of the three dimensions of space (up/ down, to/ from, left/ right), or the universal coordinate system, and therefore, are not real! Yet, it is important to distinguish between Western philosophy and Eastern philosophy when considering a discussion of spirituality as an improvement upon 'religion' which I believe we both acknowledge to be necessary, Mr. Kneller, because religion has not served a useful purpose in making humans 'better' in any way, just as science has failed to do the same, yet understanding the cyclicality of existence in Eastern theosophy (theological philosophy), versus the noncyclical creation of Western theosophy is important in improving our relationship to each other, the Earth, our universe and ultimately, God. The reason humans came up with the pejorative "big bang theory" of creation in science is because for a very long time, Western theosophy has had a dominant stance over Eastern theosophy as a driving force in the scientific literature. Imagine if the opposite were true, that instead of Western theosophy, Eastern theosophy had dominated human thought all over the planet, thereby creating a different type of epistemology? The Greek word ἐπιστήμη or épistème in French is a word that has been used to represent the philosophy of knowledge ever since the time of Socrates (perhaps other pre-Socratic philosophers may have worked painstackingly to develop these ideas), but instead of the 'philosophy of knowledge' being called epistemology, imagine if it were 'Hikmah' or 'Ilm' instead, Arabic conceptualization of knowledge? Maybe the word could have been 'Merrekh' had it been the case that the Egyptians were not conquered by the Assyrian army or Rome, shortly after the love affair between Cleopatra and Julius Caesar was found out about by Roman clergymen and generals.
Page 5: Lord or YHVH (the unpronouncable four letter tetragram) and Elohim is plural because YHVH is a tetragrammation of 1. Presence, 2. Breath, 3. Life and 4. Love, encapsulating the omnipresent mercy of what in English we refer to as "Lord" and in modern Hebrew we may refer to as "Adonai." Elohim, on the other hand, epitomises the concept of "godhood" (which is different from just saying God).
Page 5: Different people have different understandings of the word: "soul." I once read a book by a melchizedekian who believes that "spirit" is one (the Spirit of God) and souls are many (the souls of living creatures that abound all over the eternal universe).
Page 13: It is interesting how every human being that lives on the face of Gaia (the Earth) can become a child of God, as Yeshua, through salvation of sin (the crucifixion) and then reception of Χριστός, yet to be part of His family, one ought to have been found worthy of salvation?
Page 16: I am understanding that Jesus / Jehoshua / Yehoshua / Yeshua as a very spiritual man who promoted the Nazarene way of life. 14 John 6 says "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." There are two ways to interpret this verse. One way is the physical way, but you take the Ego outside, and you are left with the metaphysical interpretation: that no one gets to the creator except through Christos, the "anointed" also mashiyah in Hebrew. John 1:1 can be interpreted as "In the beginning was the Law, and the Law was with God, and the Law was God." Does not Jesus Christ epitomize the "Law"? Professor John Lennox once said that we live in a "word-based universe" and it had to have been the case that the Word of God was here before the Universe even had a chance to sprout into existence!
Page 20: "best-prepared baby room ever for humans in their infant [stage]."
Page 21: When you say, "Labor in whatever our field of interest, be it manual or sedentary" I believe the correct word here is "menial."
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