How Do You Tease Out Mind?

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In his book, The Foundations of Personality, Abraham Myerson wrote the following passage:

The history of Man’s thought is the real history of mankind. Back of all the events of history are the curious systems of beliefs for which men have lived and died. Struggling to understand himself, Man has built up and discarded superstitions, theologies and sciences.

Early in this strange and fascinating history he divided himself into two parts–a body and a mind. Working together with body, mind somehow was of different stuff and origin than body and had only a mysterious connection with it. Theology supported this belief; metaphysics and philosophy debated it with an acumen that was practically sterile of usefulness. Mind and body “interacted” in some mysterious way; mind and body were “parallel” and so set that thought-processes and brain-processes ran side by side without really having anything to do with one another.

Herein lies my dilemma. If you read the Spirit Blog, you already know what my issue is: I’m having a hard time teasing out topics about the mind, body and spirit and categorizing to each section. These three “parts” are so integrated, it is hard to tease them apart. I would like to know your thoughts on some of these.

So, would you do me the favor of taking this short survey?