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Mentality and Materiality
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mental is obviously relating to mind and material is to less intelligence.
mental capacity in respect to having the ability to create, recreate and or to be innovative.
material capacity in the sense that material things having the ability to create, recreate, and/or to be innovative.
Without the mental you don't get the material
???
What's the difference? Knowledge is knowledge. And so far mental has not been shown to be separate from material.
I think @ChristineM provided the simply answer in her post above.
but to clarify a word bias, mentality is a synonym for spirituality.
and why doesn't it?
No its not. To hold that spirituality is a thing it must be imagined using the mentality, it is not the mentality
in judaism spirit is literally mind. ruach - spirit = mind
that is what it also implies in English
From late 14c. in alchemy as "volatile substance; distillate;" from c. 1500 as "substance capable of uniting the fixed and the volatile elements of the philosopher's stone." Hence spirits "volatile substance;" sense narrowed to "strong alcoholic liquor" by 1670s. This also is the sense in spirit level (1768). Also from mid-14c. as "character, disposition; way of thinking and feeling, state of mind; source of a human desire;" in Middle English freedom of spirit meant "freedom of choice." From late 14c. as "divine substance, divine mind, God;" also "Christ" or His divine nature; "the Holy Ghost; divine power;" also, "extension of divine power to man; inspiration, a charismatic state; charismatic power, especially of prophecy." Also "essential nature, essential quality." From 1580s in metaphoric sense "animation, vitality."
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mind is not jewish or atheist. the word was influenced by previous understanding and usage.
your culture, like my culture, was influenced by past cultures, like it or not.
cooking isn't french any more/less than italian. its simply a different way of doing the same thing. in this case it was simply a different way of saying the same thing.
janesix
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I don't know what you mean by material capacity.
alchemy is a science about mind, there are a lot of mystery cults that used such methods.
carl jung used it in his psychoanalysis
i explained to you.
can material things create other material things. can it recreate, can it generate creative things like symbolism, abstract ideas, et al.
I don't know what those are, so I can't say.
Yes (see Joseph Campbell); and symbolic things can create abstract and material things (see George Orwell).
et. al.