The theory of Generative Thinking claims the autonomy and sovereignty of Mind in relation to our ideas, concepts, opinions, beliefs and knowledge. Whatever we believe in God, life after death, expanding universe, Darwinian evolution, etc. is not about facts or certainties or absolutes. All this is created by our Mind, especially those ideas that refer to entities beyond the rational and the empirical, such as the soul or God.

Even our scientific knowledge is a product of our Mind, although we believe that our theories map or correspond to a physical reality outside of our Mind. That's still a moot question, since we know about the world "outside" of our Mind only through the faculties of our Mind, perception that is. We only have phenomenological access to what we believe are the real things. As long as our Mind is the only means of knowledge and belief, everything we

think of is a product of our thought process, of our Individual Mind (Exonoesis).

Since everything is a product of our Mind, the question arises, whether there is a difference between publicly observable concepts such as in science and privately held beliefs that may have experiential certainty but not scientific evidence. Both categories of concepts are concepts of the same Mind. The concept of God and the concept of an expanding universe consist basically of the same primary constituent: thought. The difference lies in the applicability of the concepts. Scientific concepts apply to a common, shared world of objects, whereas spiritual or religious concepts are germane to a less open world, a world that is the object of private and subjective experience. Every person with eye-sight can observe a particular tree. There is no disagreement over whether this

tree exists or not. However, if someone believes in God, there is no experience or sense-perception that every person can share. We have therefore to distinguish between objective and subjective concepts, both being products of our Mind. The generative act of Thinking consists in creating those objective and subjective concepts. The objective concepts are reflections of the objective world created by what I call Hyponoesis (Universal Mind).

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