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The [[metaphorical]] use of "[[stream]]" to describe mentality is characteristic of but not unique to the [[Buddhist]] literature and [[worldview]]. In [[English]] for example, "[[stream of consciousness]]" is more familiar than "mindstream". This term, "stream of consciousness" was coined by the philosopher [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Alexander+Bain Alexander Bain] in 1855 and later popularized by the psychologist, [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/William+James William James]. Bain (1855: p. 380) wrote, "The concurrence of Sensations in one common [[stream of consciousness]], — on the same cerebral highway, — enables those of different [[senses]] to be associated as readily as the sensations of the same sense." After originating in [[psychological]] [[theory]], the "stream of consciousness" metaphor became more common in English usage, and was adapted into different [[contexts]], for instance, the stream of consciousness ([[narrative]] mode) in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism literary criticism].[http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Mindstream]

The [[metaphorical]] use of "[[stream]]" to describe mentality is characteristic of but not unique to the [[Buddhist]] literature and [[worldview]]. In [[English]] for example, "[[stream of consciousness]]" is more familiar than "mindstream". This term, "stream of consciousness" was coined by the philosopher [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Alexander+Bain Alexander Bain] in 1855 and later popularized by the psychologist, [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/William+James William James]. Bain (1855: p. 380) wrote, "The concurrence of Sensations in one common [[stream of consciousness]], — on the same cerebral highway, — enables those of different [[senses]] to be associated as readily as the sensations of the same sense." After originating in [[psychological]] [[theory]], the "stream of consciousness" metaphor became more common in English usage, and was adapted into different [[contexts]], for instance, the stream of consciousness ([[narrative]] mode) in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism literary criticism].[http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Mindstream]

[[Category: Psychology]]

[[Category: Psychology]]

[[Category: Religion]]

[[Category: Religion]]