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III/A. INTUITIONS (SPIRITUAL AND RATIONAL PERCEPTIONS) III/B: RATIONALITY III/C: ACTS OF JUDGMENT
II/A: FEELINGS (HOT COGNITIONS OR REASONING PRESSURES) II/B: THOUGHTS (EVALUATIONS & IMPLICATIONS) III/C: ACTS OF NORMATIVE EVALUATION
I/A: EMOTIONS (SENSATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS) I/B: IMAGERY (REPRESENTATIONS AND ATTRIBUTIONS) III/C: ACTS OF MEMORY-KNOWLEDGES
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LEVEL,MATURITY, AND FULLNESS OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC FUNCTIONING:
A RATIONAL ANALYSIS

  maturity LEVEL fullness    
ALPHA BETA GAMMA DELTA
A/B/C
READING
(Fullness)
A/B/C
WRITING
(Fullness)
A/B/C
NOTE TAKING
(Fullness)
A/B/C
SEARCHING
(Fullness)
to CHARACTERIZE to PROMOTE to PRESENT to CATALOGUE
LEVEL III ORGANIZATIONAL FUNCTIONS ( ="JUDGMENT")  
A. describing objects & shapes (9) A. identifying cultural values (18) A. writing a review & making recommendations A. word matrices (such as this table (36)
B. word analagies games (8) B. learning etymologies (17) B. modeling briefs or white papers (26) B. knowing & using the L of C of other system (35)
C. looking up definitions & defining words (7) C. writing an essay, article, book or making a docudrama tape (16) C. making up budgets & schdules in simul. managing tasks (25) C. making a glossary of terms in an area (34)
LEVEL II NORMATIVE FUNCTIONS (= "OBJECTIVITY")  
TOPICS THEMES PERSPECTIVES NETWORKS
A. retelling exercises (6) A. making vivid illustrations (15) A. seeking to arouse interest (24) A. (33)
B. making explicit causal attributions (5) B. metaphor exercise (14) B. evaluating peer writing (23) B. (32)
C. making a personal encyclopaedia (4) C. writing a composition, dialog, or poem (13) C. (22) C. writing summaries & abstracts (31)
LEVEL I INFORMATIONAL FUNCTIONS (= "COHERENCE")  
INDEXING OUTLINING SELECTING CLASSIFYING
A. memorizing text for a prize (3) A. logic games or activities (12) A. (21) A. (30)
B. reading quizzes or tests (2) B. diagramming tasks (coying & alternating them (11) B. knowledge quizzes or games (20) B. (29)
C. making lists, indices, & directories (1) C. making a composition outline or outlining some text (10) C. highlighting exercises (underlining or quoting) (19) C. giving titles to things (objects & events) (28)
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The Development of Judgment

(Ohdner) (Education of the Will)
11/82

  A B C  
III. HIGH
SIMPLE
FINE
UNIVERSAL
GENERAL
PRINCIPLED NOVMEN
Freedom & LOVE

Pleasure from Effort of Will in Meditation & Reflection

NEW WILL
(CONNATE IDEAS)

TACIT THINKING

RIGHT ACTION FROM GOOD

SEEING THAT TRUTHS ARE SO

CONCLUSIONS OF GOOD
  Afeection forseeing truths Conclusions Perception of Good CONCLUSIONS OF TRUE (ESSENTIAL USES OF KNOWLEDGE)
Abstracting from Love of Understanding CONFIRMATIONS Good-Evil
True-False
Spiritual Truth
 
II. RECOMBINATION Affection of truth & reasoning & forming conclusions COMMON SENSE (rationality)
ACQUIRED CONSCIOUSNESS
PERCEPTIONOF JUSTICE
Warranted-Unwarranted
Just-Unjust
Right-Wrong
Legal-Illegal
(Civil & Moral Truths)
(Knowledge) MEANINGS FROM SENSE IMPRESSIONS

NB: " " means "EXTRACTED FROM"

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ANALYSIS VS. SYNTHESIS (DIRECTION OF HEIGHT)

(a posteriori)
INDUCTION & ANALYSIS
from FIRST PRINCIPLES TO EFFECTS (angelic wisdom)
(a priori)
DEDUCTION & SYNTHESIS
first-------(Bk/W origin) first-------(Bk/W origin)
III
NAKED TRUTHS
III BAJED/REVEALED TRUTHS
level II heighth level II heighth
CLOTHED APPRCES.
ULTIMATE
I (Y/G Ground)
COVERED UP TRUTHS
ULTIMATE
I (Y/G Ground)
FROM EFFECTS TO CAUSES & PRINCIPLES.
(this included scientifit rational thought develpment)
(this includes "preconceived principles "which are (dogmas) confirmed in ultimates through biased selection of ultimates)
FROM LOW TO HIGH FROM HIGH TO LOW
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4 5 6 OUTWARD DEPTH 3 2 1 INWARD DEPTH
A / B / C (breadth) A / B / C (breadth)
DEVELOPED ANTOLOGY UNDEVELOPED ANTOLOGY
ACTUALIZING SELF SIMULATING SELF
GENUINE ACTS REHEARSALS
CONCRETIZING ABSTRACTING OUT*
MANIFESTING (3-D 2-D 1-D)**
REAL CAUSE ( B C) DISCRETE DEGREES
(VS. INSTRUMENTAL CAUSE: C1 C2) (VS. C1 C2 C3... Cn OR CONTINUOUS DEGREE)
FROM INMOST TO OUTMOST FROM OUTMOST TO INMOST

EDUCATION OF THE WILL (DIRECTION OF DEPTH)

*= removal (or "separation") of quantity (matter, time, space, person, number) from quality (form, substance, correspondence, state).
** = "D" = dimensions of constraint or limitations.

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12/82 "Seed" "Tree" "Fruits"
  A ------> B ------> C
  WILL/AFFECT LOVE UNDERSTANDING/TRUTHS/FAITHS BEHAVIOR/DEEDS
QUALITY/STYLE
LEVEL III
SPRITUAL IQ
(ORGANIZATIONAL)
RELIGIOUS MOTIVES
LOVE OF ALL
COMPASSION & FORGIVENESS & ALTRUISM FROM LOVE OF GOD
SUPERCONSCIOUS HEAVENLY DOCTRINE
SPIRITUAL TRUTHS
HIGHER CONSCIOUS PURE ATTRACTIONS
PERCEPTION OF GOOD AND FIRST PRINCIPLES
LEVEL II SOCIOMORAL IQ (NORMATIVE) SHAME
GUILT
ANXIETY
PRESSURE TO CONFORM
SHARED GAINS
RATIONAL THOUGHTS & REASONINGS
CONSCIOUS
MORAL TRUTHS
CONSCIENCE
(DICTATES)
INFORMATION
EVALUATION
ABILITIES
MEMORY OF IMMATERIAL IDEAS
DECENCY/HONESTY IN DEEDS BEHAVING WITH EQUITY & JUSTICE
MORAL BEHAVIORS
I. MATERIAL SCIENTIFIC IQ (INFORMATIONAL) ZERO-SUM
COMPETITIVE
SELF-SEEKING
REWARDS/GAINS
NEEDS/IMPULSES
STRIVINGS LOVES
AVOIDANCES
SATISFACTIONS
SUB-CONSCIOUS
CIVIL TRUTHS & INFORMATION PROCESSING
ABILITIES & STRATEGIES
CITIZENSHIP SKILLS
SOCIAL COMPETENCE SKILLS
MEMORY-KNOWLEDGES (CONCRETE IDEAS)
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The Rational Mind: Composition and Processes

(H. Odhner) ( A/B/C-collapsed)

W

Bk

USE

LIBERTY

WILL

DETERMINING INTO THE WILL (PRECIPITATION)
FREE CHOICE DEDUCTION FROM JUDGMENT (CONVICTION)
ABUSE OF FREEDOM
REJECTION OF TRUTH
RIGHT USE OF THOUGHT OPENS THE RATIONAL *
WRONG USE OF THOUGHT PREVENTS RATIONAL MIND
TAUGHT BY PARABLE AND EXAMPLE
PERCEPTION OF LAWS OF UNIVERSAL WORTH (Mercy)
CONCLUSION BASED ON MORAL JUDGMENT
Br

Bu

RATIONALITY
UNDERSTAINDING
JUDGMENT FROM ANALYSIS AND ANALOGY
MORAL VIRTUES OR VICES = ACQUIRED & CONFIRMED AFECTIONS
FOR TRUTHS & FALSEHOODS (THESE GOVERN IMAGINATION)
PERCEPTION OF ABSTRACT VALUES (Honesty, Moderation, etc.)
RESOLUTION (OF CONTENTION POINTS)
ATTRIBUTION ERROR OR ERRORS OF THOUGHT = CONCLUSIONS FROM APPEARANCES
THOUGHT-FORMING & TRANSFORMING (NEW ELEMENTS)
UNDERSTANDING OF NEW RELATIONS (BETWEEN ITEMS OF EXT. MEMORY)
INTERIOR NATURAL MEMORY *
MEMORY OF ABSTRACT THINGS (Rules, Values, Laws)
Y/G   INGENUITY = CLEVER RECOMBINATIONS
EXTERNAL NATURAL MEMORY FROM SENSES & IMAGINATION & MEMORY OF MATERIAL IDEAS
REGENERATION THROUGH REMAINS   * The opening up of the rational is through
i) innocent affections in infancy (CELESTRIAL)
ii) association of material ideas with truths and concepts of order and form (SPIRITUAL) (RATIONAL)
iii) religious ideas. (MORAL) (RATIONAL)
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The Basic Ennead of the MIND


Philosophical, Psychological, & Religous Foundations
(Swedenborg) (Ohdner) (James)
11/82


SPIRITUAL IDEAS (GOOD/EVIL)

REVEALED TRUTHS (True/False)

SPIRITUAL/RATIONAL VALUES
(CELESTIAL WILL)
A
GOOD-EVIL
TRUE-FALSE
INTUITIVE PERCEPTIONS

SELECTION IN FREEDOM

SPIRITUAL/RATIONAL IDEAS UNDERSTANDING
B
LOVE-HATE
(correspondences)
MEMORY OF ABSOLUTES (TRUTHS & GOOD) SPIRITUAL/RATIONAL PRODUCTS LEVEL III RATIONAL MIND
(MIXED SPIRITUAL/CELESTIAL)
NON-MATERIAL IDEAS

CONSCIENCE/JUSTICE

MORAL VALUES
SPIRITUAL WILL
FAIR-UNFAIR
PROPER-IMPROPER
A
EQUITY/REASONING

SELECTION IN LAWFULNESS

MORAL IDEAS UNDERSTANDING
B
APPROPRIATE-INAPPROPRIATE
(thought relations)
MEMORY OF THINGS IN THOUGHT MORAL PRODUCTS
C
LEVEL II MORAL MIND
(MIXED RATIONAL/NATURAL)
KNOWLEDGE SCIENCE MATERIAL VALUES
(SENSUAL WILL)
A
CORRECT-INCORRECT
COMPLETE-INCOMPLETE
INFORMATION MEMORY OF THINGS

SENSED SELECTION

MATERIAL IDEAS UNDERSTANDING
B
SAME-DIFFERENT
(sense attributes)
(time & space)
IMAGERY IN NECESSITY MATERIAL PRODUCTS
C
LEVEL I NATURAL MIND
(SENSORY ORIGIN ONLY)
(A & B= spiritual substance)
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The Organization & Operations of the Mind:
The Ennead of Religious Behaviorism (see H. Odhner)

EVOLVING GOOD AFFECTIONS FOR THE LORD'S PURPOSES FOR US THINKING ABOUT DIVINE PROVIDENCE IN D.R. OPERATION PERCEIVING TRUTHS OR THE ENDS OF EXISTENCE  
POSITIVE BIAS OR DESIRE TO CONFIRM REVEALED DOCTRINE OF LIVING (FAITH) CONNECTING EXPERIENCES TO REVEALED TRUTHS EXECUTING IN PRACTICE OF THOUGHT & DEED THE COMMANDMENTS OF RELIGION
LOVE OF LORD, CHURCH, & NEIGHBOR FROM GOOD COGNITIONS OF TRUTHS & THE WORD ORGANIZATION OF EXPERIENCES & KNOWLEDGES
  BIBLE THERAPY & REGENERATION  
STRIVING TO ORDER ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO DIVINE REVELATION COGNITIONS OF FAITH & DOCTRINE EXTERNAL RITUALS OF THE CHURCH (SACRAMENTS)
IDEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION & BIAS HERESIES & SCHOLASTICISM IN RELIGION LIFESTYLE JUSTIFICATIONS & ENACTMENTS
MORAL PERVERSIONS FROM FALSE PERSUATIONS MENTAL SPACE & TIME INHERITED & ACQUIRED EVILS
MORAL IDEALISM PSYCHOTHERAPY, EST, etc. MEMORY OF CIVICS & MORALITY: RULES, THOUGHTS & DEEDS
CHARACTER-BUILDING EFFORTS LOGIC OF VIRTUE VS. FOLLY OF VICE DIGESTION & EVALUATION OF EXPERIENCES
AFFECTIONG FOR TRUTHS, IMAGES, IDEAS & KNOWLEDGES HABITS & SKILLS MEMORY FOR PARTICULARS
DELIGHTS FOR SENSORY PLEASURES AUTOMATIC SELF MEMORY OF BODILY EXPERIENCES
YEARNING & LUSTS FOR APPETITES SENSUAL WILL ASSOCIATION OF MATERIAL IDEAS IMAGERY KNOWLEDGES OF GOOD & TRUTH
REINFORCEMENT & DRIVE REDUCTION & CONSUMMATORY REWARDS & GAINS ARTIFICIAL - MECHANICAL INTELIGENCE OPERATIONS (lower LOGIC) PERCEPTUAL REDINTEGRATION
ROLE MODELING STRIVINGS PRACTICE & REHEARSALS WORDS & SYMBOLS
ROLE-BEHAVIORS
NEGATIVE EMOTIONS FROM MORAL & SPIRITUAL PERVERSIONS GESTALT, CONTIGUITY, & SIMILARITY LAWS SCRIPTS & FANTASIES & DREAMS
SCIENTIFICS
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The Interiors of the Rational Mind


(H. Odhner) ((A/B/C collapsed))
11/82

SOUL INFLUX (UNKNOWN/UNKNOWABLE)
SPIRITUAL ORIGIN: PROCESS ONLY
(content is NATURAL)
Bk
Br


PURE INTELLIGENCE (PERCEPTION OF SPIRITUAL TRUTHS) SENSITIVE TO INNER RELATIONAL PATTERNS IN INTERIOR OF THE NATURAL BUT NOT SENSED BY THE NATURAL ITSELF HIGHER CONSCIENCE/INNATE.CONNATE IDEAS/LOVE/WISDOM/REMAINS PURE INTELLECT*/INNANTE INTUITIONS OF TRUTHS/ABSOLUTES/UNIVERSALS/RATIONAL TEMPLATES OR CONCORDANT HARMONIES THAT CORRESPOND WITH AXIOMATIC OR PRIME NATUAL VERITIES AND LAWS (UNCONSCIOUS ARCHETYPE) (TRANSPERSONAL) (INTENTIONAL-STRUCTURES) (COLLECTIVE MIND)


THINKING/REASONING/TRANSFORMING/CREATING IMAGINATION/IMAGERY/EXT. MEMORY SENSATION/PERCEPTION/IMPRESSION
NATURAL ORIGIN
CONTENT
PROCESS
Bu


* Pure intellect considers all things by an absolute true/false judgment that is intuitively apperceived, thus sees simultaneously (outside time/space) what the natural mind sees and experiences successively (in time/space). (no successive steps of building up, as in analysis or derivation or generalization, or abstraction -- instead it is synthetic and synecdochic and teleological). Pure intellectual things ("wisdom") can be expressed indirectly by analogy as parable. The organic substance of the pure intellect is the highest (thinnest) of natural subsances (their essence or inmost) and is located inthe inmost of the cortical gland's "cortex" - matter. Within this highest natural, and giving it life and function, is spiritual substance which is of a higher degree and unconnexted except by corresponding harmony. Hence this is a plane of interaction between spiritual and natural in the human mind/body system.


Swedenborg's Religious Behaviorism Part 1
Swedenborg's Religious Behaviorism Part 2
Swedenborg's Religious Behaviorism Part 3
Swedenborg's Religious Behaviorism Part 4
Swedenborg's Religious Behaviorism Part 5
Swedenborg's Religious Behaviorism Part 6

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