Spiritual concepts
Mind
In order to be able to see the Mind in the context of this site, see The Model of the Mind. For more details on why it is so key to spiritual experience see How spiritual experience works.
Mind is that group of functions allocated to the aggregate of the human being as a whole as opposed to the organs of the body. The functions of mind include those of
- the Conscious, that is reason, memory, learning, the communications system, will and so on, together with the functions of the
- Subconscious - that is the emotions, perception and the functions of imagination and creativity; along with
- the Composer function.
Mind is a spiritual concept whereas the brain is a physical concept. Mind is software, brain is hardware; the brain provides a processor for the functions of the mind, but the functions themselves do not necessarily reside in the brain.
Observations
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- 101 Zen stones - Gudo and the Emperor
- Asclepius - The class persists, begetting copies of itself
- Ashtavakra Gita - 01 Instruction on Self-Realization
- Asvaghosha - The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana - Dharma
- Asvaghosha - The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana - Symbols
- Balzac, Honoré de - Louis Lambert - 07 Conscious, Subconscious and Higher spirit
- Bhagavad Gita - Strung like pearls on a thread
- Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad
- Browne, Sir Thomas - Religio Medici - Now for my life
- Browning, Robert - Reverie - So, my annals thus begin
- Bruno, Giordano – Cause, principle and unity - Al proprio spirito
- Buddha - Diamond sutra - 18 All Modes of mind are Really Only Mind
- Burt, Sir Cyril - On the mind
- Chandogya Upanishad
- Cirlot on castles
- Concealed Treasure of Dao; Thesis of Sitting Forgetfulness
- Croll, Oswald - Preface of Signatures – 03 Preface
- Crowley, Aleister - from Yoga for Yahoos
- Damasio, Professor Antonio - Emotion
- Damasio, Professor Antonio - TED talk: The quest to understand consciousness
- Dawkins, Professor Richard - Unweaving the Rainbow - Prosopagnosia
- Democritus - Galenus Diels fr 125
- Descartes, Rene - 'God' is not matter only spirit
- Descartes, Rene - I think therefore I am
- Descartes, Rene - On appetites and emotions
- Descartes, Rene - On pain and the 5 senses
- Descartes, Rene - The cause of all things is God
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - David Hume – System and order as an indicator of the Nature of ‘God’, but not necessarily proof of one Being
- Dickinson, Emily - Experience is the angled road Preferred against the Mind
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Expanding Universe - The stuff of the world is mind stuff
- Edwin Percy Whipple - On education
- Elberfeld's horses and Hans, the Russian stallion - The horses-calculators
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Creation
- Ficino, Marsilio - Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus - Unity goodness and intellect
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Francesco Tedaldi
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Giovanni Cavalcanti
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Giovanni Cavalcanti, methods
- Gaskell, Walter Holbrook - The Origin of Vertebrates
- Godwin, Joscelyn - The Great Work
- Hawkes, Jacquetta – A Land – Past lives
- Hegel - Philosophy of Mind – There is no such thing as matter
- Holderlin, Johann - Looking outward
- Huxley, Aldous - Mind at large
- Isa Upanishad
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - Atoms and dice
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - The Universe as a great thought
- Katha Upanishad
- Kaushitaki Upanishad
- Kena Upanishad
- Kepler, Johannes - Harmonices Mundi Libri V – The Matrix
- Kepler, Johannes - Harmony and spirit
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - Misc. Quotes - On mind and body
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Mysticism of Sound and Music - On 'vibrations'
- Lalla - I’ve bridled my mind horse
- Leibniz - Function, Form, Mind and the Unmoving mover
- Leibniz - The Monadology - 02
- Leibniz - The Monadology - 03
- Lethbridge, T C - A Step in the Dark – The mind at large
- Lethbridge, T C - A Step in the Dark – The spiral, the pendulum and ascension
- Lethbridge, T C - ESP Beyond Time and Distance – The fourth dimension
- Lethbridge, T C - The Power of the Pendulum - Destiny and the Great Work
- Lindbergh, Charles - Going out of body
- Manley Hopkins, Gerald - Oh the mind, mind has mountains
- Masefield, John - Shakespeare and spiritual life
- Master Naong - Song of the Pure Land
- Miss Beauchamp - Her illness was in the mind
- Myōe – If there is faith, myriad goods will flourish like the verdant earth
- Myōe – Truly (such a thing as] one's own body does not [really] exist
- Neumann, John von - The design for a computer
- Newton, Sir Isaac - The Pipes of Pan - Laws of motion
- Observing vessels
- Parmenides - On Nature - 02 to 07
- Prasna Upanishad
- Prasna Upanishad
- Receiving wisdom when in a trance
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 34 Eighth Elegy
- Schrodinger, Erwin - Mind and Matter - Mind
- Schrodinger, Erwin - Mind and Matter - Where is Mind
- Schrodinger, Erwin - Mind and Matter - Where is the Personality
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - Reincarnation and Destiny
- Sherrington, Sir Charles - Man and his Nature - Aggregates and 'mind'
- Sherrington, Sir Charles - Man and his Nature - Mind
- Sherrington, Sir Charles - Man and his Nature - The universe is running down
- Socrates - Plato Phaedo - Systems of the Universe
- Spinoza, Baruch - Ethics - Mind
- Spinoza, Baruch - Ethics - Mind
- Spinoza, Baruch - Ethics - The autonomic system
- Spinoza, Baruch - Ethics - The nature of intellect
- Spinoza, Baruch - Ethics - Will and free will
- Still, Andrew Taylor - Body, Mind and Spirit
- Stockham, Alice Bunker - Karezza - Healing and the placebo effect
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Swami Rama - 06 The Swami and the blood-cell experiment
- Swami Rama - 10 All of the body is in the mind, but not all of the mind is in the body
- Swedenborg, Emanuel - Heaven and Hell – The Process of dying and resurrection
- Swedenborg, Emanuel - The Infinite - Where is the intellect?
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism - Androgyny and Grey
- Taittiriya Upanishad
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre - Phenomenon of Man - Brains
- Terminal lucidity in patients with chronic schizophrenia and dementia: a survey of the literature
- The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War - The Sense of the Void
- The Cloud of unknowing
- The death of Anna Katharina Ehmer: a case study in terminal lucidity.
- The Secret of the Golden Flower - 03 Turning the Light around and keeping to the Centre
- The Secret of the Golden Flower - 04 Tuning the breathing
- The story of David
- The Sutra of Hui-Neng - Cities and castles
- The Sutra of Hui-Neng - This is prajna
- Tholey, Paul - Lucidity Letters - On lucid dreaming
- Tibetan Book of the Dead - All things are manifestations of the Mind
- Tibetan Book of the Dead - The Nature of Mind
- Urantia Book - Paper 12 - The Universe of Universes - Higher spirit
- Wallace, Alfred Russell - The existence of spirit
- Whitman, Walt - Who learns my lesson complete
- Yerka, Jacek and Richard Lovelace - To Althea
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Book IV - 11. to 34.
- Youmans, Dr Edward Livingstone - Popular Science Monthly - Cause and effect
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Letter Omega - 11 and 12