Reply #4: One Mind [View All]

[mojaverose]

I decided when I was about 15 years old that there is only one mind, and we all use it.
How else explain the phenomena that names for children become popular out of the blue, or that inventions are never single, but pop up in several places at the same time, when Nobody had thought about it before?
I know that religionists and scientists don't like my theory, because it supposedly demeans the importance of the individual. But, if each individual is impacting that mind equally, I don't see any contradiction. In fact, if you think of the Body as fingers on a hand it makes perfectly good sense.

Before anybody guffaws, let me say that, one day when I was 8 I was staring at the map in school. My teacher asked me what I was thinking that had taken me so far away from the class. I told her that I was wondering if all the continents were, at one time, one big continent. If you move South America it fits under Africa, India fits between Asia and Australia, etc. Her response I will never forget. "If that isn't the Dumbest Idea I ever heard!"

So, who guffaws last?