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The universal mind, or universal consciousness theory, is a metaphysical concept suggesting an individuating essence of all beings and becomings in the universe. It includes the being and becoming that occurred in the universe prior to the emergence of the concept of mind, or "persona" according to Carl Jung. This term refers to a singular, select consciousness within each being. The human aspect of universal (global) consciousness, in the opinion of Jacob Robert Davis, can network. It addresses psychological being and becoming. The interactions that occur in that process without specific reference to the physical and chemical laws that try to describe those interactions. Those interactions have occurred, do occur, and continue to occur. Universal consciousness is the source that underlies those interactions and the awareness and knowledge they imply.
The most original aspect of Anaxagoras's system was his doctrine of nous ("mind" or "reason"). A different Greek word, Gnosis (knowledge), better reflects what is observed in the wider world of organic and inorganic beings than just the human world.
Chu Ch’an says, “The universal mind, therefore, is something to which nothing can be attributed. Being absolute goes beyond attributes. If, for example, it were to be described as infinite, that would exclude from it whatever is finite, but the whole argument of the book is that the universal mind is the only reality and that everything we apprehend through our senses is nothing else but this mind. Even to think of it in terms of existence or non-existence is to misapprehend it entirely.” pp. 8–9
The term surfaced again in later philosophy, as in the writings of Hegel. - Hegel writes:
Ernest Holmes, the founder of the Science of Mind movement:
New Thought author Charles Haanel said of the universal mind and its relationship to humans:
The nature of the universal mind is said to be omnipresence.
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