How the mind works with the four givens

The mind-brain-body is the source of past, present and future perceptions. Past perceptions in our memories intermingle with present sense perceptions. But the mind also takes into account the indwelling Will To Godhood, Spirit Within, Inward Dynamis. Then these are synthesized in the verdicts we make about reality, past, present and future. These are the four givens.

How we define reality depends on the information and knowledge we have from the four givens and how we balance these in our unity of knowledge. Everyone does not have the exact same reality, but realities tend to be basically the same because we have the same basic sense perceptions.

I prefer to simply say it is the mind which synthesizes the four givens. I do go on to define the Soul as a specific, desire-free state, at the Zenith of the Mind, which is a state accomplished by blocking all input from the four givens. Alas, in traditional mysticism this has included blocking (see The Great Spiritual Blockade)  the Spirit or the Will To Godhood which exists at the Zenith of the Soul (see the Twofold Path).

The four givens do not rightly define “idealism” but seem to define an idealistic realism or a theological materialism. The Will or Spirit is a supermaterial reality, as is the evolved-to Godhood, which are now seen through intellectual intuition, so the term idealism remains as the intellectual intuition of something that is supermaterial but not yet defined by modern empirical science, and is not spiritual.