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buddhi (theosophy) The spiritual soul, the faculty of discriminating, the channel through which streams divine inspiration from the atman to the ego, and therefore that faculty which enables us to discern between good and evil — spiritual conscience
Calabi-Yau manifold a broad class of geometric spaces that were shown to be mathematically possible. They are complex shapes of even dimensions where a particular six dimensional case is of special interest to string theory, serving as a candidate for the geometry of the theory's six hidden or extra dimensions.
cathexis the investment of mental or emotional energy.
chimera (Websters) An imaginary monster compounded of incongruous parts. An illusion or fabrication of the mind.
chirality (Wikipedia) In geometry, a figure is said to have chirality if it cannot be mapped to its mirror image by rotations and translations alone. For example, a right shoe is different from a left shoe.
coherent superposition (Amit Goswami Ph.D - "Self Aware Universe") A multifaceted quantum state with phase relations among its different facets (or possibilities). The state of "non-local" consciousness before its quantum collapse to its state of self awareness.
collective unconscious (Carl Jung) Collective Unconscious collects and organizes personal experiences in a similar way with each member of a particular species.