Seth Taylor

The universe bears everywhere the fingerprints of its Creator

Progress is achieved when more people have more power

@TeeplesCY God loves blessing His children

Someone praying for you in another building can change your brain in real time. There is a study that proves it. Researchers at North Hawaii Community Hospital placed 11 people inside fMRI scanners, fully isolated. In a separate building, spiritual leaders who knew them personally sent focused intentions toward them at random two-minute intervals. The receivers had no way to know when. Their brains lit up at the exact moments the senders focused on them. Specific regions associated with attention and awareness activated on cue. The odds of this happening by chance were less than one in seven thousand. Most people have never heard of this. Here are three more. Hand-holding and pain. Researchers placed 22 couples under EEG caps. When the woman was in pain and her partner held her hand, their brain waves synchronized. The more empathy he felt for her, the more their brains coupled. The more their brains coupled, the more her pain decreased. Touch combined with focused care produced a measurable analgesic effect. The lead researcher got the idea while holding his wife's hand during the birth of their daughter. Two brains in shielded rooms. A Mexican neuroscientist named Jacobo Grinberg ran a series of experiments at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Two participants meditated together for 20 minutes. Then they were placed in separate electromagnetically shielded rooms more than 14 meters apart. One participant was shown 100 random flashes of light. The other, hooked to an EEG with no sensory contact of any kind, registered matching brain-wave responses one out of every four flashes. Pairs who had not bonded showed nothing. Group prayer. Andrew Newberg at Thomas Jefferson University has spent more than two decades scanning the brains of praying nuns, meditating monks, and chanting Sikhs. His imaging work shows a consistent pattern. The frontal lobes activate. The parietal lobes quiet. The effect amplifies in groups. Brains in shared prayer entrain to one another the way two pendulums swinging in the same room eventually fall into the same rhythm. These studies measure what physically happens to the human nervous system when people focus caring attention on each other, in the same room or at a distance. The findings are consistent across labs, methods, and decades. The basic finding, that human brains synchronize during empathic connection, is now mainstream neuroscience. Newberg alone has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers. People have been doing this for thousands of years and calling it prayer. Christians alone offer a window into the variety. Latter-day Saints kneel as families. Catholics pray the rosary. Protestants join hands in prayer circles. What is actually happening when you pray? On the imaging, something measurable. On the EEG, something synchronized. On the pain scale, something diminished. Prayer works.

I wonder if people had the same disdain for their brothers and sisters and offered the same criticism about Abraham. Genesis 14:18-20 Maybe you're having a rough day. I hope you are blessed today with the peace only Jesus can bring. I know he loves you and me and He is my Savior and King.

This demonic church hijacked and rewrite God’s plan to control your relationship with the savior and your salvation through ridiculous harmful coercive control just as the devil wanted to do and they help themselves to 10% of your income to boot. Gatekeepers and deceivers

@JeffreyHarmon I’m glad to hear this story. Did you make this?

@JeffreyHarmon Best days ever

They also won’t stop until dad can’t move anymore haha

@elonmusk truth is actually kind

Accurate

Huge congrats to The Story of Everything team! Nice job on the Certified Hot rating from Rotten Tomatoes. That's so awesome! I went to the theaters again last night to see it again with more people. Big audience and they loved it, clapped and cheered. I'm such a fan of this project and the visual. I keep learning something new each time I watch it. I'm not professionally affiliated nor get kick backs or anything. I just love it! And hope for the best of success to them. Get showtimes here fandango.com/the-story-of-e…

I went with about a dozen family friends to see this in Houston this past weekend and they all loved it. Teens kept talking about it all the ride to the hotel and how much they learned and loved it. I was happy to hear they even texted their friends to go see it and they brought it up in discussion the following day. It's SO good. Great job to Brian Bird, Jason Pamer, Eric Esau, Stephen Meyer, Dr James Tour, Peter Thiel, It's only in theaters for a few more days so catch it while you can. If you want to go, I'd happily buy you a ticket if I know you :) There's even some promos that let students go free! I've seen it a few times now and learn and smile more about the beauty, light, and truth it shares. It's truly a project that continually brings me such joy and glory in God!!

Predictions: Likely changes in the economy with more self-driving Teslas and other self-driving cars. Or, how full self driving cars become a deflationary asset. 1/ Most cars today are primarily parked and depreciating, with only occasional driving. They are liabilities that decrease in value year after year. This is a terrible waste. Instead of losing thousands of dollars a year on a depreciating asset, the car can earn you thousands of dollars a month by actively driving people, delivering goods, or charging. Only when none of those are happening should it be dormant. 2/ With self-driving cars, your car won’t need to stay dormant in the parking lot all day. It can take you to work, return itself home for family errands, drive other people around as a taxi to earn you revenue, and then pick you up whenever you need it. 3/ Because the car isn’t latent in a parking lot all day and gets redirected throughout the day, you won’t need to own as many cars. More people can utilize the same car with some time flexibility. 4/ Fully self-driving cars allow much better conversations. It becomes easier to face your fellow passengers and enjoy the ride more. The person who used to be in the ‘driver’ seat can now fully engage with everyone. The car is about to become a safer and more enjoyable place. 5/ I’ve already comfortably slept in my Tesla a few nights when outside was a frigid 8°F and I was happily resting in 66°F Camp Mode. Self-driving vehicles will allow people to comfortably sleep instead of staying in an Airbnb or hotel. Bathrooms and showers will still be necessary though. 6/ Future cars will likely have full office setups or comfortable sleeping arrangements. It would make sense to start small businesses building internal 3-axis sleeping and bedding suspension systems that instantaneously respond to bumps or curves. A 3-axis system will take the unavoidable potholes and react immediately to make those bumps imperceptible to the sleeper. 7/ With self-driving cars, you won’t actually need to keep a car in your garage or driveway. You’ll easily be able to summon a vehicle at a moment’s notice or reserve a specialized off-road vehicle as easily as shopping on Amazon. 8/ Services like DoorDash currently require a human driver to collect the food. Businesses that optimize for driverless pickup will out-perform the rest. Driverless pickup could be much faster since the car won’t need to find parking, wait for the order, or deal with the driver getting in and out. 9/ Parking garages will need to quickly adopt high-speed charging infrastructure to stay relevant. 10/ You may live farther away more easily in cheaper housing. Parking on the side of the road can be a thing of the past, residential roads can be much narrower and less expensive to build, and driveways can disappear. Houses and yards will become much more attractive as large swaths of concrete are replaced with greenery or food-producing gardens. 11/ Cars could utilize 'Choo Choo Mode', which would let cars approach within 1 foot of each other and traveling at high speeds on the highway. They will act as a hive-minded network so they all brake and maneuver at the exact same time. Being that close reduces air friction and lets everyone in the convoy travel faster and more efficiently.

@5Solas2 seems to be similar to writing the same thing before the book of Mark, Luke, or John if you can only have one gospel. The Book of Mormon is another witness of Jesus Christ.

I've never found one, but if I did I would probably do this...

@KanekoaTheGreat Kishkumen right there

BREAKING: President Trump post video of shooter running past security

Our finite experience and finite ways to worship continue to have truth revealed of the Infinite and Intimate

@JesusSavesUs777 Quick reminder, only Jesus gets to make this judgement. Not you.

Are Mormons true Christians?

Physics will have to explain biology because biology is a higher and more encompassing science.

No it’s definitely not too late. Difficult maybe. But worth it 100%. It’s maybe the best thing we did for our 2 younger kids was to pull them out of public school even though they already had teachers and friends established. Their friend groups expanded, their love for learning grew and they are better prepared for the road ahead than kids who thought they controlled the road.

If you have young kids, don’t enroll them in public schools and instead elect to homeschool them. For many of us who have kids in their teens, it’s too late. Do not let these people have control over your children

The world is full of beauty way beyond survival and it makes my heart swell in praises to my Creator. These scenes in Provo give our family delight!

@ITalkOfChrist @2footgiraffe

I sat through the most unconventional Elders Quorum meeting of my life today. It was AWESOME! Today was the first EQ meeting of our brand new ward in Tennessee. We met in the high council room, sitting face-to-face in a circle around the large conference table. No way you were gonna zone out on your phone there! To start the meeting, we stood and sang "Rise up, O Men of God." That alone was powerful. Many of us hadn't sung a men’s hymn like that since the last General Conference Priesthood session. Then we were invited to huddle shoulder to shoulder-- like a football team-- to bow our heads and pray specifically for one another and the brotherhood we were forming. We went around the room and each brother shared a bit about himself, including one way he saw the Lord's hand during the past week, and one way he planned to sacrifice for his God and his family during the upcoming week. The atmosphere loosened quickly. Testimonies grew personal as men discussed trials, admitted to slipping in their scripture study, and shared miraculous ways God showed up in their lives. Then the EQ Presidency member leading the meeting shared the "lesson." He choked up a bit and couldn't explain why. That's okay. 😉 He told us every meeting would follow this format: join in a mighty song of Zion, prayer shoulder to shoulder, and "speak one with another concerning the welfare of our souls." And every member should feel free to ask for a priesthood blessing from his brothers in the quorum. One good brother raised his hand and asked for a blessing for the circumstances going on in his life. When volunteers were asked to form the circle, many hands went up-- even brothers who didn't know him. There were snacks, too. Chips, candy bars, even protein bars for the gym bros. Then another football huddle closing prayer. Our first quorum activity is already scheduled. We're meeting at a brother's house to grill chicken. Each member is bringing a side and his favorite rub or marinade (drop your best recipe in the comments). I listened to the quorum members talking in the hallway after the meeting. The consensus: "That was the best quorum meeting I've ever had. For the first time in my adult life, I'm actually excited about Elders Quorum!" I've heard of wards who've done this format from @LeadingSaints, @CwicShow, and others, but I'd never actually seen it before. It was really cool to be a part of. I'm pumped to see where this will lead for our brand new Elders Quorum brotherhood! PS: the EQ Presidency member who ran this first meeting is here on X, too. @ShaunTagatauli. Give him a follow. He's good people.