Each includes all the earlier ones, providing continuity. Each of the many minds or experiences has its own existence, not just as an idea in one mind, although the most permanently significant residence of each mind is in the ever-growing mind known as God. Many New Thoughters who are not yet familiar with prehension attempt to explain how everything is united yet related by resorting to the theory that there is only one mind, but this presents great problems of how there could be freedom and even genuine human and other existence. Prehension, as the only form of immanence, does away with any need for such a theory. We can continue to say that everything is in God and God is in everything, but we should reject physical-like notions of inclusion.
Inclusion is prehension.
In addition to God's perfectly, permanently prehending every other mind with a clarity impossible to non-divine minds, an even more important distinction is that God has a different function. God is the mind or spirit or experience or succession of experiences required by all non-divine minds in order for them to have the opportunities to differ to some extent from earlier minds. God is correlative, complementary, to the other minds. God provides other minds with the possibilities that they need, and they provide God with the actualities, the accomplishments, that God needs for the ever-growing divine store of experience. Giving, as well as taking When we consider intuition, usually we are looking at things from the viewpoint of getting.