Not exact matches
The result is basically a «convertive piety» with its
call to self
conscious conversion, the
experience of the «new birth,» and a life of «holiness» that is demonstrably and empirically distinct from the rest of the world in its expression of «actual righteousness.»
Below the
conscious stream there is a great mysterious area, now
called the subconscious, where, at differing levels, there move emotional forces set in operation by past
experiences.
In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of
experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our
conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so -
called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).
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.
We are not imputing
conscious experience to the proton or the cell but something analogous that can correctly be
called subjectivity.
But in both cases the prehensive unifications what Whitehead
calls the actual occasions of
experience, are highly selective unifications of other prehensive unifications,
conscious or not.
The
experience of the first rite of passage for the women clergy I have talked with varies from the male
experience in the following ways: The young woman is likely to have a similar inner
experience of a mystical «
call,» or in some other way feel led to make a
conscious decision to train for the ministry.
Also, what I
call «
conscious occasions are what Whitehead
calls «final percipient occasions of human
experience.
It is through symbols, those of art, poetry and especially religion, that the intrinsic value of cosmic reality insinuates itself into the
conscious experience of those organisms that we
call human beings.
Disregarding the over-beliefs, and confining ourselves to what is common and generic, we have in the fact that the
conscious person is continuous with a wider self through which saving
experiences come, («The influence of the Holy Spirit, exquisitely
called the Comforter, is a matter of actual
experience, as solid a reality as that of electro - magnetism.»
Peppered with practical, hands - on examples from Dr. Tsabary's real - life
experiences with the countless families she has helped journey consciously together, A
Call to
Conscious Parenting is a manual for giving our children the opportunity to shine and dazzle with their natural state of being.