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Mental Faculties...
Primitive Capacities
- Memory: The capacity to re-enter our apprehension of an
experience.
- Imagination: The mind can stimulate the sensory
interpretation pathways of the brain, generating a reactionary mode that
can be used to condition the mind for actual experience. Can also be
channeled into dysfunctional conditioning if the mind is not disciplined
in its explorations.
- Emotion: Source of motivation, for survival and
self-gratification. The mechanism the mind uses to sustain focus.
- Dreaming: The capacity to prepare our life energy to
accomplish our chosen goals. The full extent of this capacity is a
spiritual manifestation, and we will return to it in that context.
- Intuition: Knowledge irreducible to understanding that
guides us in manifesting our will. This is an artifact of the complexity
of time.
Reflective Capacities
- Consciousness: Awareness of change in the environment or
self.
- Intelligence: The ability to modify our response to a
stimulus in order to maximize beneficial and minimize adverse impacts
encountered in past experience.
Synthetic Capacities
- Understanding: The ability to relate abstractions to
concrete experience.
- Strength: Power over our selves; power over our
subjective reality.
- Courage: The capacity to do what we believe is right,
regardless of the anticipated consequences.
- Wisdom: The capacity to invest our personal energy to
optimal effect.
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