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Psychic Mind - The subconscious, or unconscious mind, in which we receive psychic impressions. It is at work when we sleep, dream, and meditate. It is our direct link with the Divine, and with the larger, nonphysical world around us.
Subconscious Mind - Part of the mind which functions below the levers we are able to access in the course of a normal working day. This area stores symbolic knowledge, dreams, the most minute details of every experience ever had by a person.
Sub-subconscious Mind - Vasana chitta.
See: mind (five states of mind).
Demiurgic Mind - Demiurgic Mind. See MAHAT; UNIVERSAL MIND
Subsuperconscious Mind - Anukarana chitta.
The superconscious mind working through the conscious and subconscious states, which brings forth intuition, clarity and insight.
See: mind, chitta, consciousness, samskara, Satchidananda, vasana Three phases of mind, Five states of the mind.
Intellectual Mind - Buddhi chitta.
The faculty of reason and logical thinking. It is the source of discriminating thought, rather than the ordinary, impulsive thought processes of the lower or instinctive mind, called manas chitta. Buddhi chitta is of the manomaya kosha.
See: buddhi, mind (individual).
Conscious Mind - The analytical, materially-based, rational half of our consciousness. The part of our mind that is at work while we balance our checkbooks, theorize, communicate, and perform other acts related to the physical world.
Conscious Mind - CONSCIOUS MIND: the controlled, intellectual part of mind that does everyday work. The rational part that thinks.
Instinctive Mind - awareness, mind, chitta, consciousness, maya, tattva, world, five states of mind.
Group Mind - A section of the Switchboard consisting of two or more metapatterns linked into an identity circuit. Term is used for those formed telepathically in rituals but can also be used to refer to mobs or other cases of crowd hysteria.
Individual Mind - At the microcosmic level of individual souls, mind is consciousness and its faculties of memory, desire, thought and cognition. Individual mind is chitta (mind, consciousness) and its three-fold expression is called antahkarana, "inner faculty" composed of:
buddhi ("intellect, reason, logic," higher mind);
ahamkara ("I-maker," egoity);
manas ("lower mind," instinctive-intellectual mind, the seat of desire).
From the perspective of the 36 tattvas (categories of existence), each of these is a tattva which evolves out of the one before it. Thus, from buddhi comes ahamkara and then manas. Manas, buddhi and ahamkara are faculties of the manomaya kosha (astral or instinctive-intellectual sheath). Anukarana chitta, subsuperconsciousness, the knowing mind, is the mind-state of the vijnanamaya kosha (mental or intuitive-cognitive sheath). The aspect of mind corresponding directly to the anandamaya kosha (causal body) is karana chitta, superconsciousness.
See: mind, ahamkara, antahkarana, buddhi, chitta, manas, universal mind, consciousness.
Inner Mind - The mind in its deeper, intuitive functions and capacities- the subsuperconscious and superconscious.
Psychic Mind - PSYCHIC MIND: the subconscious, or unconscious, mind in which we receive psychic impulses. The psychic mind is at work when we sleep, dream, and meditate.
Instinctive Mind - Manas chitta. The lower mind, which controls the basic faculties of perception, movement, as well as ordinary thought and emotion. Manas chitta is of the manomaya kosha.
See: manas, manomaya kosha, yama-niyama.
Superconscious Mind - Karana chitta.
The mind of light, the all-knowing intelligence of the soul. The psychological term is turiya, "the fourth," meaning the condition beyond the states of wakefulness (jagrat), "dream" (svapna), and "deep sleep" (sushupti). At its deepest level, the superconscious is Parashakti, or Satchidananda, the Divine Mind of God Siva. In Sanskrit, there are numerous terms for the various levels and states of superconsciousness. Specific superconscious states such as: vishvachaitanya ("universal consciousness"), advaita chaitanya ("nondual consciousness"), adhyatma chetana ("spiritual consciousness").
See: mind, chitta, consciousness, samskara, Satchidananda, vasana, Three phases of mind, Five states of the mind.
Conscious Mind - The external, everyday state of consciousness.
See: mind.
Superconscious Mind - Karana chitta.
See: kala, mind (five states), mind (three phases), Satchidananda, tattva.
Conscious Mind - that part of the brain which we have access to in the course of a normal waking day. It is the part of the mind which holds retrievable memory and other easy to recall information. (CMM)
Subsubconscious Mind - Vasana chitta ("mind of subliminal traits").
The area of the subconscious mind formed when two thoughts or experiences of the same rate of intensity are sent into the subconscious at different times and, intermingling, give rise to a new and totally different rate of vibration. This subconscious formation later causes the external mind to react to situations according to these accumulated vibrations, be they positive, negative or mixed.
See: mind, chitta, consciousness, samskara, Satchidananda, vasana, Three phases of mind, Five states of the mind.
Intellectual Mind - awareness, mind, chitta, consciousness, maya, tattva, world, Three phases of mind, Five states of the mind.
Four Unlimited Mind - The mind of Bodhisattva:
Kindness;
Compassion;
Delight;
Renunciation.
Universal Mind - In the most profound sense, mind is the sum of all things, all energies and manifestations, all forms, subtle and gross, sacred and mundane. It is the inner and outer cosmos. Mind is maya. It is the material matrix. It is everything but That, the Self within, Parasiva, which is timeless, formless, causeless, spaceless, known by the knower only after Self Realization. The Self is the indescribable, unnameable, Ultimate Reality. Mind in its subtlest form is undifferentiated Pure Consciousness, primal substance (called Parashakti or Satchidananda), out of which emerge the myriad forms of existence, both psychic and material.
See: awareness, mind, chitta, consciousness, maya, tattva, world Three phases of mind, Five states of the mind.
Conscious Mind - Jagrat chitta ("wakeful consciousness").
The ordinary, waking, thinking state of mind in which the majority of people function most of the day.
See: awareness, mind, chitta, consciousness, maya, tattva, world, Three phases of mind, Five states of the mind.
Superconscious Mind - Karana chitta, the strata of intuition, benevolence and spiritual sustenance. Its most refined essence is Parasakti, or Satchidananda, allknowing, omnipresent consciousness, the One transcendental, self-luminous, divine mind common to all souls.
See: awareness, mind, chitta, consciousness, maya, tattva, world, Three phases of mind, Five states of the mind.
Demiurgic Mind - Demiurgic Mind.The same as "Universal Mind". Mahat, the first "product" of Brahma, or himself.
Universal Mind - Universal Mind The sum of the states of kosmic consciousness grouped under the human expressions thought, will, understanding, and feeling, collectively expressed in the Sanskrit as mahat. During deep sleep, the human mind is in abeyance on the physical plane, because our consciousness is not affecting the physical brain which in waking hours expresses it, although during the svapna (sleeping-dreaming) state the brain dreams; and similarly in the cosmos at the manvantaric dawn universal mind "was not" because there was as yet no vehicle for its expression through the cosmic hierarchies, this vehicle being the collective Ah-hi or hosts of dhyani-chohans. Universal mind remained during pralaya in a state of intense spiritual-intellectual activity, as the permanent root of subsequent cosmic mental action arising during manvantara. Universal mind is the manifested One, from the still more abstruse One or kosmic unity, and simultaneously with the evolution of universal mind the cosmic supreme One or hierarch also manifests itself in manvantara as avalokitesvara (Logos or atman) through its veil, universal substance or mulaprakriti -- a unity with triple aspects. It is the mother of the manasaputras or sons of mind, and is kosmic buddhi or mahabuddhi.
All generalizing terms such as universal mind have various applications, because nature is built throughout on analogical structure and function, and hence what applies to the great likewise applies to the small. Thus universal mind is applicable either to a solar system, a galactic system, or a system comprising a number of galaxies, etc.
See also MAHAT; UNIVERSAL SOUL
Subsuperconscious Mind - Anukarana chitta.
See: kala, mind, tattvas.
Universal Mind - The collective intelligence of the universe. The ultimate and totally-inclusive supernormal intellect.
Sometimes used to mean "collective unconsciousness."
Subconscious Mind - Samskara chitta ("impression mind").
The part of mind "beneath" the conscious mind, the storehouse or recorder of all experience (whether remembered consciously or not) - the holder of past impressions, reactions and desires. Also, the seat of involuntary physiological processes.
See: awareness, mind, chitta, consciousness, maya, tattva, world, Three phases of mind, Five states of the mind.
Subconscious Mind - Samskara chitta.
See: aura, conscience, mind (five states of mind), consciousness.
Science Of Mind - Textbook of Religious Science, written by its founder, Ernest Holmes.
School Of Mind - Idealist-oriented Neo-Confucian school founded by Lu Hsiang-Shan which emphasized innate knowledge of the mind.
Bodhi Mind - The spirit of Enlightenment, the aspiration to achieve it, the Mind set on Enlightenment.
It involves two parallel aspects:
the determination to achieve Buddhahood and
the aspiration to rescue all sentient beings.
Contact Mind Reading - A technique simulating telepathy, in which the ''mind reader'' (who generally holds a hand or arm) responds to slight muscle movements produced unconsciously by the person whose mind is apparently being read. Also known as Muscle reading, Cumberlandism or Hellstromism.
Cycle Of Soul-mind Progression - Theory: every eighteen years, seven months and a few days there occurs a particular relationship between a person''s soul-mind and the etheric world; beginning at the age of 18/19 and then following at the ages of 37/38, 55/56, 74/75
Mind Sciences - A generic, general classification of religious groups that teach that human beings are inherently divine and that mind or thoughts are energy forms that can create and/or alter reality.
Most often used in reference to the American religions formed since the middle of the 19th century, especially the New Thought Movement that denies the actuality of sin, sickness, and/or death and promotes health though mental practices.
Mind Power Technique - The process through which one can develop increased mental powers, i. e. to read minds, see auras and perceive the future.
Mind Control - Specific methods of brain-washing that can be employed by political or spiritual leaders that may result in a diminished capacity for critical thinking and suppression of autonomy in their followers.
These methods are believed to involve an intense social influence conditioning program which may include a closed system of authoritarian control, manipulative, group dynamics, a system of punishment and rewards, induced dissociation or trance induction, information control, fraud, coercion, and double binds.
Depending on the number and intensity of undue influence elements, and a person''s own unique susceptibilities, one may experience a pseudo personality change and marked debilitation, compliance, and servitude.
Treatise On The Mind Aspiring For Enlightenment - (Jpn.: Bodai-shin-ron; Chin.: P''u-t''i-hsin-lun) A work attributed to Nagarjuna (c. 150-250) and translated into Chinese in the eighth century by Pu-k''ung (Skt Amoghavajra). Another account attributes the work itself to Pu-k''ung. No Sanskrit version is extant. The Treatise on the Mind Aspiring for Enlightenment teaches the important Buddhist concept of aspiration for enlightenment and encourages the development of a mind that seeks Buddhahood. It defines three aspects of a mind that aspires for enlightenment, from the standpoint of Esoteric Buddhism: (1) great compassion to save all living beings, (2) great wisdom to know what sutra is supreme, and (3) meditation. The work also explains various kinds of contemplation put forth in Esoteric Buddhism. Kobo, the founder of the Japanese True Word (Shingon) school, valued this work, and it was widely studied in his school.
Body-mind Rhythmic Movement - A system created by Susan Kramer. Elementary academic instruction using rhythmic movement patterning as a way to develop and reinforce the bodymind connection.
Silva Mind Control - A personal development system developed by Jose Silva.
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