Idea 92: Your depth mind at work
The functions of the conscious mind – analyzing, synthesizing and valuing – can also take place on a deeper level. Your depth mind can dissect for you, just as your stomach juices can break down food into its elements.
The depth mind, for example, is capable of analyzing data that you may not have known you had taken in, and comparing it with what is filed away in your memory bank. It is also capable of more than analysis. It is also close to the seat of your memory and the repository of your values. It is also a workshop where creative synthesis can be made as if by an ‘inscrutable workmanship’.
An organic analogy for its function is the womb, where after conception a baby is formed and grows from living matter. ...
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