The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals…

The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment. Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

Sourced, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)

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When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I’ve been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That’s a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we’re in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do. - View Quote Details on When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate…
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Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. - View Quote Details on Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of…
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Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies. - View Quote Details on Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
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Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions. - View Quote Details on Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure…
Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two. - View Quote Details on Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two.