Sentences with phrase «away from consciousness»

But it may actually start to slip away from consciousness if the visuals don't come.

Your lifelong routine of three square meals a day doesn't just melt away from your consciousness once you start cleansing.

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I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

But when knowledge enters «consciousness has moved away from instinct».

To focus entirely on paradigmatic modes of thought is to pull away from attending to consciousness, and therefore, to the human act of sense - making.

The narrator's exploration of the depths of his imagination transforms him into a disembodied consciousness which soars away from the earth.

With a suddenness which is unprecedented in Christian history the whole body of Christian believers in every part of the Western world has awakened to the consciousness that the entire secular order of the modern world, instead of moving steadily toward the acceptance of Christianity, has been for centuries moving steadily away from it.

In the philosophy of men like G.W.F. Hegel, Kierkegaard saw theories about stages of human consciousness and progress in world history that he thought could lead Christians away from reliance on Scripture as a source of truth about human life.

The criteriology of the divine, Nabert says, «is the expression of the greatest effort that consciousness can make in order to take away the conditions which prevent it from attaining complete satisfaction, when it attempts in the very core of its finitude to justify itself, to change itself into a radical purity of its intention.

Since all we are are neurons and since our consciousness»em erged» via mechanisms which favoured improved survival of the progeny, all we believe are illusions to keep our moods up and ourselves away from suicide and to persevere against hardship of existence.

Analogous to this are also feelings, consciousness, and intentions, which the child initially attributes to all beings and eventually limits to animals and humans; typically, as the previous statements about passivity and self - movement indicate, feelings, consciousness, and intentions are explicitly taken away from «things.»

But it is with Freud and Philosophy9 that I decisively broke away from the illusions of consciousness as the blind spot of reflection.

«It is with Freud and Philosophy that I broke away from the illusions of consciousness as the blind spot of reflection.

It is more comprehensive since it takes into account more caringly those segments of cosmic process that appear to us to be regressive, to move away from further enhancement of consciousness and away from the ideals we set up for our human existence.

In this manner the Teacher thrusts the learner away from him, precisely by serving as a reminder; only that the learner, in thus being thrust back upon himself, does not discover that he knew the Truth already, but discovers his Error; with respect to which act of consciousness the Socratic principle holds, that the Teacher is merely an occasion whoever he may be, even if he is a God.

Commitment to marriage can be strengthened «only through a change of heart and mind, a new consciousness about the meaning of commitment itself, and a turning away from the contemporary model of relationships offered by Madison Avenue, Wall Street, or Hollywood.»

All of this strongly suggests a shift in theological attention, away from the much - vaunted engagement with modern consciousness and its theoretical products.

Of course, this drift of subjectivity away from the cosmos, an alienation prepared for by ancient dualistic mythology, can not be mended by a restoration of pre-rational, naive consciousness.

If an anecdotal analysis of our social consciousness and spiritual formation leaves us with the realization that, as Brown says, «there are some selective lenses by means of which we read Scripture, and... those lenses need to be torn from our eyes,» (15) then how do we tear them away?

Finally, the rigidity of the church's centralized authority makes it peculiarly difficult for it to change past rulings, even though the consciousness of the majority of its laity and of its theological experts may have shifted dramatically away from earlier formulations.

We used to buy a cheap, unbranded gallon of pastel green lime sherbet from the supermarket, but apparently health consciousness has done away with the availability of that.

Your well - considered post does say this, my point is to push us further into our own process as I believe this (and the discussions unfolding on blogs such as this are part of this evolving consciousness) helps move us toward a one - world consciousness that is secure enough to tolerate diverse opinion and at the same time wise enough to recognize, and lovingly steer away from, that which is harmful to ourselves.

«That, to me, is just a short hop, skip, and a jump away from what might be consciousness.»

At the time I was a few weeks away from my final university exams in philosophy and neuroscience, both of which addressed consciousness.

These progressive stages of focusing support our chosen direction, bring our attention away from external stimuli toward the goal of clear and aware consciousness.

As the crew frantically try to find something to stop him from permanently slipping away from reality, his consciousness finds itself wandering around a strange ethereal environment between the two realities.

And now, another Irish person, long shod of any semblance of catholic guilt that might ever have wriggled its way into my consciousness (if any), retreats back to bed, from where I report to you, Zbigniew Preisner scoring my surroundings, the scent of nail polish undercutting any romantic notions that that might inspire, as I'm now lured away from the temptation of over-writing this tardy little piece, filling it with the kind of florid prose I despise almost as much as I employ.

Room is a still, contemplative film for much of the time, and when the pace picks up its like being ripped away from a nightmare into consciousness only to find yourself free falling towards the ground a mile below.

As Clowes traces the dissolution of their friendship, iconic markers of coming - of - age float to the foreground: self - consciousness in the face of revealing genuine interest; fear of breaking away from the comforts of childhood; the earnest desire to leave home; and the heartbreak of realizing a friendship is over.

The only real way to get away from those fantasy - driven expectations is to try and drop your self - consciousness as you travel, to simply accept each moment for what it is.

I came away from this little experiment in social consciousness with an unexpectedly profound revelation and more questions.

June 25 - July 30, 2011 My Dear Friends: Those keynote events, which recently awakened your planet to faith and to action, have torn away the last veils of denial from the Collective Consciousness.

However, from around 2010, wishing once more to return a overly bloated self - consciousness away from such intensely inward - gazing introspection to neutrality, he began to turn his perspective towards other people.

However, as time went on, Hepworth's use of strings moved away from purely modernist principles and became better associated with her growing consciousness of the landscape: «The strings were the tension I felt between myself and the sea, the wind or the hills», she claimed (B. Hepworth, quoted in H. Read, Barbara Hepworth: carvings and drawings, London, 1952, section 4).

Inspired by an out of body experience the artist had at the age of eleven, the exhibition considers strands of Eastern and Western spirituality in across the artist's work in the way that it attempts to break away from the chains of physical existence and into a space of timeless consciousness:

He dwelled mostly outside popular consciousness, an invisible giant since the 1950s, because in 1951, the same year that Leen's famous photograph was published in Life magazine, the very moment that this group of young Americans were skyrocketing to international recognition, Pousette - Dart walked away from it all.

Augmented intelligence refers to the same set of technologies that comprise AI, but the term is preferred by some parties because it steers us away from the misconception that AI somehow replicates or substitutes for human consciousness.

Even though I am a cultural anthropologist with academic insights into human behaviour, psychology, and consciousness, I won't bore you with long academic speeches that are miles away from your hands - on reality - most of what you read on these pages will have a firm root in experience, typically my own as a mother.