Blake R TempletonFounder, Son of Wisdom · Son of Wisdom · Spiritual architect for men

You Can't Heal What You're Still Connected To

2 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this sermon-style monologue, Blake Robert Templeton uses a vivid metaphor of a drug‑addicted mother and an umbilical cord to illustrate how ongoing connection to a source of harm prevents healing. He describes the baby receiving poison through the cord despite medical attempts to inject good, emphasizing that the only way to protect the baby is to sever the cord entirely. Templeton extends the metaphor to personal spiritual and emotional healing, arguing that one must cultivate a "boiling point of hatred" toward evil—an intense, purposeful rejection—to cut off toxic influences and become a "mighty" individual. The core message is that healing requires decisive, heartfelt disassociation from the source of the wound.

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boiling point of hatred, of evil. The baby was connected to the mom with the umbilical cord, and the mom starts taking drugs. So like hardcore drugs because she wants to get high. Well, that goes straight into the baby through the bloodstream, through the umbilical cord. The doctor is like, we gotta put an IV on this baby, just keep the umbilical cord connected, let's just say. And he put the IV on the baby trying to put good things back into the baby, but the mom is like laying on the hospital bed, you know, getting high while the umbilical cord's still connected, the poison's still going into the baby. So the baby's double-minded. It's not going to be able to function because the poison's willingly coming in. So we have to literally sever the umbilical cord. And that's why severing the actual flesh, cutting ties and saying, I'm not of it anymore, I actually hate it, I despise it, I'm not a part of it, I will not be a part of it. And we do that with the hatred of evil, boiling point of hatred, creating this fire within us of a mighty man.