Spiritual concepts
Reason
In order to be able to see how Reason fits in to the overall function of the Mind see The Model of the Mind. For more details on why it is so key to spiritual experience see How spiritual experience works.
The result of the Reasoning process – a course of action which has been obtained by using Memory and various strategies – inference, deduction and so on and by Traversing the Database of facts or by using Learnt function.
Observations
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- Ahmad Ahsai, Shaykh - Kitab Sharh al-Ziyara - Seraphiel’s Trumpet
- Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness - 03 Knowledge of the Self
- Amiel, Henri - On inspiration
- Aristotle - De Anima - Perceptions and the soul
- Aristotle - History of Animals - Tree of Life
- Aristotle - On Sleep and Wakefulness - Dreams
- Artaud, Antonin
- Asvaghosha - The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana - Spiritual interactions
- Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations - Nature and reason
- Avicenna - The Canon of Medicine - The unbalanced mind
- Bergson, Henri - Matter and Memory - Memory and Perception
- Beuys, Joseph - Honey Pump 05
- Bhagavad Gita - Strung like pearls on a thread
- Blake, William - And this is the manner of the Sons of Albion in their strength
- Chesterton, G K - Orthodoxy - Reason is itself a matter of faith
- Chesterton, G K - Orthodoxy - What drives change
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Windlestraws
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - Mind over Matter
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - The Positive and negative powers
- Damasio, Professor Antonio - Reason and emotion
- De Morgan, Augustus - Formal Logic – Necessary reasoning
- Descartes, Rene - I think therefore I am
- Emily Jane Pfeiffer - The winged soul
- Ficino, Marsilio - Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus - On the good health and poor health of the body and the soul
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Francesco Tedaldi
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Giovanni Nesi
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Giovanni Nesi, the passions
- Frost, Robert - We disparage reason
- Godwin, Joscelyn - The Great Work
- Goya, Francisco - The sleep of reason produces monsters
- Hegel - Philosophy of Mind – Reason
- Hume, David - Animals have similar functions to humans
- Hume, David - Decision making and what influences the Will
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Al-Kahf wa al-raqim - 060 Section 5
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 03 Chapter One
- Katha Upanishad
- Kepler, Johannes - Harmony and spirit
- Khunrath, Heinrich - Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeterna 1602
- Koestler, Arthur - Misc. Quote - The dangers of reason
- Leibniz - Love must give us the greatest pleasure of which we are capable
- Leibniz - The Monadology - 03
- Leibniz - The Monadology - 04
- Leibniz - The Monadology - 05
- Master Naong - Song of the Pure Land
- Neumann, John von - The design for a computer
- Nicholle, Charles - The nature of blue sky thinking
- Plotinus - The Enneads - All the virtues without exception are purifications
- Plotinus - The Enneads - The Soul
- Plotinus - The Enneads - The use and act of Reason is a characteristic Act of the Soul
- Pordage, John - On God
- Ramana Maharshi - Sat Darshan - As in a well of water deep
- Romance of the Rose - Meeting lady Reason
- Saint Thomas Aquinas - On the dangers of spiritual experience
- Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Idea - Losing yourself in perceptions
- Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Idea - Reducing desires
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - Reincarnation and Destiny
- Socrates - Epictitus The Enchiridion - Learning from experience
- Socrates - Plato Phaedo - Reality
- Spinoza, Baruch - Ethics - On the nature of God
- Stockham, Alice Bunker - Karezza - On the spirit and the soul
- Swedenborg, Emanuel - The Infinite - Where is the intellect?
- Taittiriya Upanishad
- The Cloud of unknowing
- Trine, R W - In tune with the Infinite - Illumination