ll matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to
vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together ....
We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent MIND.
This MIND is the matrix of all matter."
Max Plank - from a 1944 speech in Florence, Italy
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re complex and fantastic than anyone imagined.
Now science is delving deeper into what we know of the mind.
Neuro-psychoanalysis is a movement within neuroscience and psychoanalysis to combine the insights of both disciplines for a better understanding of mind and brain.
The notion that our souls are flesh is profoundly troubling to many, as it clashes with religion. Dualism and religion are not the same: You can be dualist without holding any other religious beliefs, and you can hold religious beliefs without being dualist. But they almost always go together. And some very popular religious views rest on a dualist foundation, such as the belief that people survive the destruction of their bodies.
If you give up on dualism, this is what you lose.
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een provided than - "FROM A PIONEER IN THE FIELD OF MENTAL HEALTH" and his groundbreaking book on the HEALING POWER OF 'MINDSIGHT' - the capacity for INSIGHT and EMPATHY that allows one, as an integral part of the ONE, to make positive changes in your brain - such that THE MIND is in control of the BRAIN - NOT the BRAIN in control of the MIND.
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Added by Michael Grove at 22:19 on December 17, 2012
is the opening to the book The Hundredth Monkey, by Ken Keyes. (See below.) The story is based on research with monkeys on a northern Japanese Island, and its central idea is that when enough individuals in a population adopt a new idea or behavior, there occurs an ideological breakthrough that allows this new awareness to be communicated directly from mind to mind without the connection of external experience and then all individuals in the population spontaneously adopt it. "It may be that when enough of us hold something to be true, it becomes true for everyone." (Watson, p148)
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organization, business or nation, when we keep an open mind and heart and consider the big picture, we educate ourselves about cultural similarities and mutual concerns, learn from our mistakes, take action when necessary, and allow others to teach us from their perspective.…
Added by Michael Grove at 16:22 on December 13, 2010