Sentences with phrase «center of consciousness»

Presumably, the complete destruction of all transcendent reality would mean total alienation among all individual centers of consciousness.

The art world's perpetual male adolescent came off all too eager to please, with soft - core porn, old jokes, and big money at the very center of his consciousness.

Is it the Christian spirit, on the contrary: the spirit of service and of giving; Man struggling like Jacob to conquer and attain a supreme center of consciousness which calls to him; the evolution of the earth ending in an act of union?

But, the objection goes, the proposal adopts a view of human persons as centers of consciousness above all subjects, a view of faith as a specific mode of that consciousness, and a view of theology as that faith brought to an exquisite level of critical self - awareness.

Yet a truly modern subject or «I» is a doubled or self - alienated center of consciousness, and is so in a uniquely Cartesian internal and radical doubt, one never decisively present in previous cognitive or philosophical thinking, although its ground had been established by Augustine's philosophical discovery of the subject of consciousness.

There is need of an Omega or Center of Attraction that will unite all the personal centers of consciousness through the bond of love and thus be a source of liberation from the forces of hate and the demonic in us.

40 In The Descent Into Hell he admonishes us that the apocalyptic call of faith will pass us by as long as we affirm the inherent reality of a private center of consciousness.41 A will strong enough to affirm the death of an autonomous, transcendent God is identical to a will strong enough to renounce all claims to an autonomous selfhood.

In the Christ event, «human structures, already impregnated with the seeds of Redemption through antecedent events, became articulate and responsive with a sensitivity and receptiveness that literally thrust upon the social community a new level of consciousness, a new center of consciousness and concern» (RE 258).

Cobb's method is more open theologically to particular and individual centers of consciousness than is my own, and this makes possible for him a pragmatic engagement and concern which is foreign to my way of theological thinking.

Perhaps an example taken from the level of noogenesis or the evolution of personal centers of consciousness would serve our need best, since the universe in its evolution has tended toward personalization and union in terms of love.

We have to expect the universe to converge in the eschatological future; there has to be a critical threshold of radical transformation in which all the complexifying personal centers of consciousness are unified in an ultimate center of unity, if we are to be faithful to the mechanics and laws of the evolutionary process.

Intercessory prayer for «all sorts and conditions» of men and women requires us to bring them from the margins back to the center of our consciousness to attend to their well - being.

I recognize and affirm myself as a center of consciousness.

She leads the women in a disidentification, self - identification exercise to become aware of their center of consciousness, which is more than their roles or subpersonalities.

This exercise is a way of identifying the «I,» or center of consciousness, around which personal synthesis can occur.

One's actions from this center of consciousness will then actualize the norms, perpetuating them relative to one's own position and perspective within the grid of the intersubjective society at large.

Gone, too, (at least virtually and in aspiration), is the infernal circle of egocentrism, meaning the isolation, in some sort ontological, which prohibits our escape from self to share the point of view even of those we love best: as though the Universe were composed of as many fragmentary universes, repelling each other, as the sum total of the centers of consciousness which it embraces.

The transient and the contingent have moved to the center of consciousness.

In The Descent Into Hell, Altizer states: «Accordingly, visions of a new apocalyptic compassion must inevitably appear in the form of madness or chaos to all those who can still find life or hope in an individual center of consciousness.»

In The Descent Into Hell, Altizer claims that the more divided and fallen is consciousness, the more divided and alien to each other are the centers of consciousness, and the more God will appear in a purely transcendent form.

Allow your center of consciousness to move down out of the head and into the heart space.

The reflective process of contemplation utilizes the word - forming habit of the mind in a directed way, so as to transcend not only body and breath, but most importantly, to go beyond the mind to the realization in direct experience the True Self, the Atman, or Center of Consciousness.

All over the globe we are going to be lighting up these centers of consciousness and exercise, for both the body and mind.

(If The Decalogue sometimes suggests Rear Window without a Jimmy Stewart, this recurring stranger / voyeur may partly fill Stewart's «center of consciousness» function.)