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n. 1 (context science fiction English) The leading or controlling mind in a groupmind. 2 (context spirituality English) In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri%20Aurobindo's "integral psychology", the highest of the mental planes of consciousness.
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Overmind may refer to:
Overmind (originally Over-Mind) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Usage examples of "overmind".
There was no room for two Fichtean Overminds lording it over the same boxworld.
Overmind chose you to do its work, if you have no trace of the paraphysical powers latent in mankind.
Overmind really wanted was to spread itself out across the reaches of the galaxy, dispersing its members to different star systems so that it could grow.
Her consciousness drowned equally with his in the passionate fulfilment -- Ty was not unmindful of motivation in his surrogates -- but meanwhile her three tongues, as well as inner and outer skin, returned a great deal of data to the knowledge collectors in the Ty-Laurie overmind.
In the Sanctuary of the Scrutators they were admitted to a solemn reading of the sayings of the prophetess (two chanters and a dozen intoners), given instruction for those faithful to the Overmind, and supplied with the names of co-religionists on Hobb's Land.
And second, now that the two overminds are in contact, real communication will doubtless ensue—and we both know that there are no secrets in psychospace.
Who better than the individual who had mediated the first contact between the overminds, preventing the human one from panicking?
Education, then, would be rapid, fed right into their overminds without need for vocal instruction.