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Mind and Consciousness - St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology saet.ac.uk Jun 20, 2024 3 facts
claimJohn Calvin, in his 1960 work, interprets the biblical passage Ecclesiastes 12:7 as equating 'spirit' with 'soul', asserting that when the soul is freed from the body at death, God becomes its keeper.
quotePaul along with most Jews and other early Christians habitually thought of man as a duality of two parts, corporeal and incorporeal, meant to function in unity but distinct and capable of separation [...] There is no single formula by which Paul expresses his dualist view of human nature, but terms such as ‘inner man’, ‘spirit’, ‘mind’, and ‘heart’ all refer to the incorporeal aspect or part, and terms such as ‘outer man’, ‘flesh’, ‘body’, ‘members’, and so forth all refer to the corporeal aspect or part.
quoteMoreover, there can be no question that man consists of a body and a soul; meaning by soul, an immaterial though created essence, which is his nobler part. Sometimes he is called a spirit.
(PDF) Indigenous Concepts of Consciousness, Soul, and Spirit researchgate.net 1 fact
claimDifferent cultures possess distinct understandings regarding the concepts of consciousness, soul, and spirit.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimGreek thinkers associated with panpsychist thought include Anaxagoras, who identified the unifying principle (arche) as mind (nous); Anaximenes, who identified the arche as spirit (pneuma); and Heraclitus, who stated that the thinking faculty is common to all.
PSYCH-K: Subconscious Belief Change Guide for Australia bodhiholistichub.com 1 fact
procedureBefore changing a belief, a PSYCH-K facilitator checks with what Williams calls the 'Superconscious Mind'—also referred to as Spirit, Higher Self, or divine wisdom—to confirm that the change aligns with the individual's highest good.
Non-Reductive Physicalism - Theories of Consciousness theoriesofconsciousness.com 1 fact
quoteNancey Murphy stated: "Human persons are physical organisms whose complex functioning gives rise to consciousness, thought, and spirit—all without recourse to dualist substances."
Something Rich and Strange: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 ... smuralis.wordpress.com Apr 16, 2012 1 fact
claimSri Aurobindo envisioned that the involuted Spirit must progress through Matter, Life, and Mind into higher planes including Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition, and Overmind, ultimately uniting with the Supermind to achieve an all-transforming unity and integrity.
Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us Jan 29, 2024 1 fact
claimMaterialists argue that while post-materialists can account for the hard problem of consciousness using an external immaterial substance like a soul or spirit, they fail to explain how this external consciousness is combined or decombined in the brain to create the phenomenal unity of subjective, first-person consciousness.