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ANNOTATION:
Global Mind Change: Consciousness as Causal Reality by Willis Harman, Ph.D. 1988

THREE METAPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVES

.M-1 MATERIALISTIC MONISM
 (Matter giving rise to mind)
 .M-2 DUALISM
 (Matter plus mind)
.M-3 TRANSCENDENTAL MONISM
 (Mind giving rise to matter)

 > M-3 Mind or consciousness is primary, and 
       matter-energy arises in some sense out 
       of mind. The physical world is to the 
       greater mind as a dream image is to the 
       individual mind. Ultimately the reality 
       behind the phenomenal world is contacted, 
       not through the physical sense, but 
       through the deep intuition. Consciousness 
       is not the end-product of material 
       evolution, rather, consciousness was here 
       first!

       Willis Harman, Ph.D., President of the 
       Institute of Noetic Sciences


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