Franklin Merrell-Wolff elaborates on why he avoids the use of the word ‘mind’ and discusses its ambiguity by commenting on a lengthy quote from Jung’s introduction to The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation. He presents an outline of the story of Western philosophy to help clarify this issue and goes on to suggest that a precise analysis of the nature of consciousness requires the recognition of three functions of consciousness; namely, sense perception, conceptual cognition, and introceptual Realization.