0 relating to activity of the mind: --
He claimed that noetic experiences were real, influencing our health, our behavior, and our lives.
However, both his semantic memory and noetic consciousness remained unimpaired.
In noetic consciousness, an item is familiar but the episode in which it was first encountered is absent and can not be recollected.
It needs to be made coadunative, compresent by an act of will through objective feeling and noetic ideation.
This is his doctrine of noetic pluralism.
Recall that, despite their disagreements, both the theistic union and monistic identity camps believe that the noetic part of the soul is transcended in mystical union itself.
Divine beliefs formed from that noetic mechanism could be (and in many cases would be) false.
All of these instances of contact can be looked at as parts of one's noetic experience.
In such a noetic structure, theistic belief will not be based solely on the basis of argument or evidence.
