Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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men-¹

PIE base ‘to think’, with derivatives referring to various qualities and states of mind and thought. See also *mei-no- ‘to think’.

Other derivatives include mental, mantra, mention, comment, demonstrate, summon, monitor, mania, manic, monster, mosaic, music, museum, automatic, amnesia, and amnesty.

[Pokorny *men-3 ‘to think; mind, spiritual activity’, p. 726–728, *mendh- ‘to direct attention to; vivacious’, p. 730.]

megalomania

The Greek root of mania had a wide range of meanings, including ‘madness’, ‘insanity’, ‘enthusiasm’, ‘inspiration’, ‘passion’, and ‘prophecy’, indicating the many different ways in which Divine energies become manifest within humans. That is ‘what is’. None are to be condemned or admired.

mind

As mind is etymologically associated with memory, we can primarily consider it to be a store of concepts, as mental images resident in individual psyches, as abstractions from the Cosmic Psyche.

As such, the mind is highly energetic, a quite different conception of energy from that associated with Einstein’s famous equation E = mc2.