Instead, the universe is the expression of a universal mind that transcends personal awareness.
However, as argued above, the universe is the expression of a universal mind, not of human imagination, not of human minds.
Equally strong are statements from the eminent British astronomer and physicist Sir Arthur Eddington: "The universe is of the nature of a thought or sensation in a universal Mind".
Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are the living record of a universal mind.
For me, music is existing in a universal mind that's out there all the time.
The Idealists F.H. Bradley, Josiah Royce, and William Ernest Hocking saw individuals as mere aspects of a universal mind.
In order to defend the Christian dogma of personal immortality, Philoponus broke with the common Aristotelian and Stoic interpretation of a single universal mind operative in all people and taught that each person possesses an individual intellect.
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What is meant by "the Absolute" depends, of course, upon the philosopher in question; it might be taken to mean God, an overarching universal mind, or simply the class of all possible thoughts.
The belief in God, a supreme being, an all knowing deity, universal mind, or an all powerful emergency room nurse who doesn't have to ask for insurance, is not the problem.
The individual human mind is an expression of the Universal Mind, and the universe is its material manifestation.
