We find such centralized control present in our individual human experience, and we have immediate introspective
awareness of the conscious experience that functions in this control.
Not exact matches
Even if the analogy were sound, i.e., even if there were such
awareness of the self, the real effect
of distinguishing unconscious and
conscious awareness is not to preserve the authority
of the
experience of the self to which the process thinker is appealing, but instead to underscore the philosophical weakness
of the appeal to such privileged and direct
experience.
And it is
conscious: that is, it does not stay below the threshold
of consciousness and work there unknown to the soul (as, for instance, infant baptism is thought by some to do), but comes within the field
of awareness where the man can «know» it as he knows any other fact
of experience.
Introspectively, my position is verified by the shifting nature
of conscious attention, with its structure
of a central focal
awareness surrounded by an horizon
of indeterminate yet always accessible oblique
experience, upon which the searchlight
of attention may at any moment be turned.
A traumatic
experience prolonged in unconscious memories may be brought up to
conscious awareness and thus re-entertained without the shackle
of the past.
The personality which develops throughout these cycles
of transition is not a substantial «self» but rather a dynamic «nexus» or «pattern» that continually incorporates
experiences while gradually expanding its
conscious awareness of, and response to, the relational factors which constitute it.
More precisely, from a Whiteheadian standpoint, we should say that, if God is loving, then we all feel this, at some level, all the time, so that the only extraordinary feature
of mystical
experiences is that in them this feeling
of the holy rises to the level
of conscious awareness.
The recreation
of this proposal in the
conscious, definite, and intellectual
awareness of the beholder is called a «propositional feeling,» and it is this feeling which is aesthetic
experience.
The evidence indicates that in the growth
of conscious experience mere
awareness is prior and primordial.
We can be aware in a general way
of the role
of our eyes in mediating visual
experience, but we have no
awareness of the work
of the brain or
of the process by which its work is translated into our
conscious experience.
There are still those who reject the use
of the term «
experience» in any way more inclusive than
conscious experience, and we must agree that the term derives its central connotation from such
awareness.
A person is essentially one who is aware
of relationships — who is
conscious of self as over against not - self — and it is the
experience of dependence which provides this
awareness.
The psychic processes, which were the content
of conscious and unconscious
experience, became for them also the objects
of awareness, and these were, to an astonishing degree, thereby subjected to
conscious control.
Indeed one might say that liturgical worship by and large speaks not so much to the
conscious attention
of its participants as to those profound and almost unconsciously
experienced areas
of human life where men live in terms
of feeling - tone,
of unutterable emotion, and
of profound subconscious relationships, with an almost intuitive
awareness of the «more» which is deep down in the structure
of reality.
Only by a process
of physical and conceptual «prehensions,» «feelings» and «
experiences» — through several levels
of increasing
awareness — do we arrive at a final resolution in acts
of self - cognition and
conscious purpose.13 In other words, Whitehead believed that
conscious and purposive acts are the tip
of a «prehensive» iceberg that remains below the level
of consciousness, yet participates in every moment
of concrescence, resulting in novelty and creativity in an evolving universe.
Researchers also tested the validity
of conscious experiences using objective markers for the first time in a large study to determine whether claims
of awareness compatible with out -
of - body
experiences correspond with real or hallucinatory events.
He says that Anderson's work fits Freud's first definition
of repression — an intentional attempt to banish distressing
experiences from
conscious awareness.
This second component, which operates mostly outside your
conscious awareness, is a function
of the subconscious programs or beliefs about money, wealth, abundance that you have inherited plus what you have picked up throughout your own life
experiences.
When counseling, we help others
experience the existence
of their original identity, so that they can drop the addictive personality with its old habits and formulate positive habits with
conscious awareness.
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awareness of eco-friendly textile usage, like recycled polyester fibres, and hopefully create a new in - store
experience for all environmentally
conscious denim lovers.
Only by doing so can these
experiences by assimilated into
conscious awareness, into what the child already knows
of the world.
However remaining transparently aware
of and curious about potential out
of awareness family
experience that has not yet reached
conscious understanding is crucial.
Increasing
awareness of the impact
of these past
experiences and
of our
conscious and unconscious feelings helps us change.
So what I
experience of you will be different than you'd expect in a typical coaching OR clairvoyant session because
of my
conscious awareness and insight.
As your child hears his
experience echoed back, he gains a
conscious awareness of what is going on and what is important to him.
I think about my clients and their
experiences from a psychodynamic framework; meaning that I believe that the problems clients face are rooted in both current and past relational
experiences as well as in feelings outside
of conscious awareness.