psychomental

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 2 21:37:54 UTC 2009


"Combining the spiritual or psychic and the mental." Not in OED.

1991 Bruce Lincoln  *Death, War, and Sacrifice *(Chicago: U. of Chi. P.)**
145:   A well-articulated example of this is found in the samurai ideal of
"no-mind," this being that psychomental state – cultivated by years of
meditation and training in martial arts – in which the samurai’s body and
arms act as if automatically, with no hesitation born of thought, weakness,
or doubt.

Google Books has hundreds, going back at least to Madame Blavatsky.

JL
-- 
"There You Go Again...Using Reason on the Planet of the Duck-Billed
Platypus"

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