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There is a passage in the Bible’s letter to the Ephesians that has loomed over me for decades, ever since I deciphered it in the original Greek. Here’s how I render it:
They went plodding along in the ineffectiveness of their awareness, their channel of intellect being dimmed. The hardening of their core and their ignorance made them non-participants in the higher life. And so they became numb. Surrendering both integrity and control, they busied themselves in a reverse catharsis.
Each of these sentences contains a great deal of meaning, but here we’ll focus on the ineffectiveness of their awareness.