Think of the Three Minds as a map of experience in which all other frameworks are situated and connected.

Each of the three configurations of mind is a major node that connects to the minor nodes in the table below. Each minor node represents a category of experiences. Through introspective practices facilitating configurational shifts of the mind and exploring the links among these nodes, the world's cultures, knowledge, and ways of experiencing can be reconciled.

Because the major nodes are configurations of identity - of you - all knowledge is organized in relationship with you.

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First Mind	Second Mind	Third Mind
individual identity	whole identity
multiplicity	unity, oneness	non-duality
subject-object focus	metasubject focus	neither subject nor object
first, second, and third order cybernetics	fourth order cybernetics
classical -> quantum mechanics	quantum -> qualia mechanics	non-mechanical
distinct boundaries	apparently superimposed boundaries	no boundaries
avidya	avidya lesha/jnanam
physical, mental	metaphysical, metamental
sleeping, dreaming	waking
clock time	rhythm, timelessness	non-sequential
body, mind	spirit, consciousness
realism, materialism	idealism	advaita
incidental joy	unprovoked joy, bliss
feeling, thinking	experiencing, being
conventional science and philosophy	first-person science, philosophy, spirituality, and mysticism
local	apparently (de-)localizing	non-local
the "minimal" self	universal self
conventional psychology, psychiatry	transpersonal psychology
"darkness"	light
I am so-and-so	I am
single lifetime	multiple lifetimes, inter-lifetimes, trans-lifetimes
subjectivity and objectivity	inter-subjectivity, meta-subjectivity
first, second, and third person perspectives	multiple and nested first person perspectives
object permanence	meta-subject permanence, impermanence
physical anatomy	anatomy as mental physiology, yogic anatomy	non-anatomic, non-physiologic
body, mind, and world	mind as body and world
body is made of smaller parts	body is the confluence of subtler fields
body as hardware	body, mind, world as developing software
"I think, therefore I am."	"I am, therefore I think."	I
in-formation	lack of formation; uncertainty

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