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As Dr. Leonard Orr has noted, the human mind behaves as if
it were divided into two parts, the Thinker and the Prover.
The Thinker can think about virtually anything. History
shows that it can think the earth is suspended on the backs of
infinite turtles or that the Earth is hollow, or that the Earth is
floating in space4
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comparative religion and philosophy show
that the Thinker can regard itself as mortal, as immortal, as both
mortal and immortal (the reincarnation model) or even as nonexistent
(Buddhism). It can think itself into living in a Christian
universe, a Marxist universe, a scientific-relativistic universe, or
a Nazi universe—among many possibilities.
As psychiatrists and psychologists have often observed (much
to the chagrin of their medical colleagues), the Thinker can think
itself sick, and can even think itself well again.
The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one
law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.
