Sublime

what appears to be independently operating intelligences that speak to us in dreams and on shamanic voyages and seem to

MIND is a sort of star-chart in reverse: an assembly of memory, conditioned response, and past action held together in a network of electricity and endocrine signaling, rendered down to a single moving point of consciousness.

In OBEY mode, our thoughts and feelings dominate us;

Robert Waggoner cleverly calls the “conscious unconscious.”

The mind is, therefore, a survival mechanism, and its method of survival is primarily the use of emotions. Thoughts are engendered by the emotions and, eventually, emotions become shorthand for thoughts.