By George A. Boyd ©1999
Band of Mind |
Default Mode |
Function |
Content |
Conscious |
Reason |
Reason |
Logical analysis, deductive reasoning, reality testing, criticism |
Metaphor |
Analogy, finding ways objects are similar, telling stories or parables |
Monitoring |
Becoming aware of present time experience of the external senses,
sensations arising within the body, the feelings, thoughts, and
the reactions of the ego |
Subconscious |
Memory |
Recall |
Requesting specific information from the Subconscious storehouse
of experience |
Suggestion |
Programming the Subconscious mind to carry out a specific command |
Fantasy |
The activity of the astral brain. The ability to create novel combinations
of sensations in a dreaming, reverie, hypnotic or meditation state |
Visualization |
The ability to create an intended image at will |
Metaconscious |
Intellect |
Goal Setting |
Creating an image of an intended result, committing to achieve
it and planning the steps to carry it out |
Problem Solving |
Using the intelligent strategies of the intellect to solve problems
in verbal, mathematical, written, and symbolic form, both academically
and in applied situations in daily life. |
Introspection |
Comparing speech and behavior against the standards of Conscience |
Reflection |
Inductive reasoning, the ability to reflect on the meaning of abstract
ideas and their implications |
Insight |
The ability of the Intuition to examine the activity of any vehicle
of the Conscious, Subconscious and Metaconscious mind |
Superconscious |
Discernment |
Dialectical reasoning |
Reflection on the pairs of opposites and finding their synthesis |
Reception |
Listening inwardly to the intuitive guidance of the Soul |
Mandalic reasoning |
Discernment of the correspondences of any abstract concept or archetypal
form by identifying its counterpart in multiple vehicles or upon
different Planes |
Radiation |
Sending out ideas to others in the ethers through the suffusion
of the Illumined Mind |
Gnosis |
Discernment of the true essence that is the ensouling entity |