Definition: Mind

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Revision: 10 Aug 2025

Mind

Context for consciousness.
Context for content.
Context for creativity.
Context for dynamism.
Context for experience.
Context for ideas and ideation.
Context for imagination.
Context for thinking and thoughts.
The entirety of all levels of thought and thinking processes.
Creativity is a function of mind.
Imagination is a function of mind.
Intellect is a function of mind.
Memory is a function of mind.
The Mind, a.k.a. Supreme Mind, is the single mind that is all minds.
The Mind is the context in which the whole of consciousness arises.
The Mind is the context for all content, all creativity, all dynamism, all experience, all ideas and ideation, all imagination, all thinking and thoughts.
Seemingly individual and collective minds are all the one Mind.
Fragmented mind is the state of semiconscious sentient beings.
Local mind seems to be small and separate, and is occupied with the outer world.
Nonlocal mind is transcendent of the outer world and also immanent in what appears to be the outer world.
Nonlocal mind operates within oneness, where all possibilities are immediately available.
The one Mind is inherently nonlocal.
Higher mind is nonphysical and nonlocal.
Supreme Mind is beyond all dreaming and all negation.
Supreme Mind is beyond fragmentation.
As Mind is defragmented, unreality and untruth fall away.
When the Mind is healed all the way, the Heart is healed all the way, and vice versa, for they are one.