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RBF Definitions
What is your conception of mental health?"
RBF: "I start off with my saying that when I feel great I don’t feel anything. I am astonished at how quickly one forgets it when pain is gone. There is a synergetic whole. When we say ‘I feel great,’ it means you feel nothing and are absolutely wide open receptively.
“As you know, I make a great differentiation between the brain and the mind. I see the brain of all creatures as always coordinating the input from Universe of the physical senses. The brain then makes a special package and remembers these special cases. Brains are always dealing in special cases. Mind is the capability of human creatures–that we don’t know any other creatures to have–to make from time to time a discovery of relationships existing between special cases that are not in any one special case considered separately. This is really almost another statement of synergy, which is the behavior of wholes unpredicted by the behavior of parts. Mind can discover what those synergetic relationships are.”
