Sentences with phrase «centers 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.

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

The centers of consciousness, acquiring autonomy as they emerge into the sphere of reflection, tend to escape from their own phylum, which granulates into a line of individuals.

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.

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.

Reason multiplies itself by the multiplication of personal centers of consciousness and by the development and transmission of cultures.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.»

To repeat what I have already said, under these purely enforced conditions the center of consciousness can not achieve its natural growth rising out of the technical center of social organization.

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).

The ego is still the center of consciousness, but the self becomes the center of the whole personality.

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.

Because of its emotional and spiritual affect, the high vibrational aroma of frankincense essential oil is commonly used in prayer and meditation, helping a person drop out of their mind and Ego and move into presence with their spirit or center of consciousness.

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

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.

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First, one must unequivocally renounce one's individual selfhood as the center and ground of consciousness and experience.

Once this dualistic form of consciousness is negated and transcended by a dialectical movement of thinking or vision, then the world or reality no longer stands forth as autonomous and apart, and is known or experienced as being integrally and necessarily related to the center and ground of consciousness.

No, following the confluent orbits of their centers, the grains of consciousness do not tend to lose their outlines and blend, but, on the contrary, to accentuate the depth and incommunicability of their egos.

So we may assume that sporadically, in the course of time, numerous centers of indeterminacy and consciousness can and must have appeared in sidereal space, of which our own Earth is one.

They are «dimly conscious» in two senses: (1) as experiences, they do not normally rise to the stature of conscious centers competing for control of the organism, but they have appetitions and aversions in their own right so that it seems appropriate to label them «dimly conscious»; (2) they are perceived only dimly by the members of the regnant society, i.e., the regnant society has these particular occasions as dim, vaguely felt, negative «scars» on the data of what is clearly perceived in full consciousness.

In pathological cases this experience can burst into consciousness and there can be multiple centers of control competing for authority over the entire organism.

If by the fundamental mechanism of union the elements of consciousness, drawing together, enhance what Is most incommunicable in themselves, it means that the principle of unification causing them to converge is in some sort a separate reality, distinct from themselves: not a «center of resultance» born of their converging, but a «center of dominance» effecting the synthesis of innumerable centers culminating in itself.

... It is the essence of myself — a center of pure consciousness and self realization.

This means that when the seat of existence was located in the unconscious, individual identity through time was far less exclusive than it became with the axial shift of center to consciousness.

The harmony in which a person once found himself with God during the Middle Ages has been destroyed, and God no longer stands at the center of the human consciousness.

At the center of the book is Frank's pondering of the story of Jacob in Genesis as imposed on his consciousness through a Chagall print which hung in the Franks» living room:

In Augustine a new consciousness takes shape, one that finds the originating and firm center of certainty in the self - awareness of the self as existing, thinking and willing.

The Phenomenology of Spirit is the work in which Hegel first fully realized his most fundamental and original thinking, one centered in a radically new philosophical method of pure dialectical negation (Aufhebung), a negation which is negation, preservation, and transcendence simultaneously, and which is the deepest driving power not only of consciousness and history but of absolute Spirit itself.

And if the pure subject of consciousness is the deepest center of nineteenth century thinking and vision, now that subject is violently disrupted, as most deeply understood by Nietzsche himself, and in the wake of that disruption there has occurred the advent of a truly anonymous consciousness and society.

A higher state of consciousness diffused through the ultra-technified, ultra-socialized, ultra-cerebralized layers of the human mass, but without the emergence (neither necessary nor conceivable) at any point in the system of a universal, defined and autonomous Center of Reflection: this, by the first hypothesis, is all we are entitled to look for or desire as the eventual highest end of hominization.

But the liver also, the kidneys, and the bowels were for them important centers of human consciousness and volition.

Historically, this does not actually occur until the full birth of the modern world, and then it subjectively or interiorly occurs in the realization that God is dead, a realization inaugurating a new universal self - consciousness, which is the very center and ground of an apocalyptic explosion and transformation of the world.

For its reflective and inventive forward spring it is in some sort necessary that Life, duplicating its evolutionary motive center, should henceforth be sustained by two centers of action, separate and conjoined, one of consciousness and the other of complexity.

No doubt it is true, scientifically speaking, that no distinct center of superhuman consciousness has yet appeared on earth (at least in the living world) for which it may be claimed or predicted that one day it will exercise a centralizing function, in relation to associated human thought, similar to the role of the individual «I» in relation to the cells of the brain.

Man's consciousness moved into the center of a stage cleared of unconscious mythical power.

Within this social organism there would arise «a spiritual center, a supreme pole of consciousness, upon which all the separate consciousnesses of the world may converge and within which they may love one another».5 This super-consciousness would evolve in the same way that personal consciousness does within the complex physiology of the human organism.

Possibly the human species, by successfully responding to current challenges, could become so united in love and goodwill that there would be some kind of spiritual center linking all humans together in a commonality of consciousness.

It must reach and act upon us, not only indirectly, through the universal network of physical synthesis, but also, and even more, directly, from center to center (that is to say, from consciousness to consciousness) by touching the most sensitive point in ourselves.

I mean the rise on our inward horizon of a cosmic spiritual center, a supreme pole of consciousness, upon which all the separate consciousnesses of the world may converge and within which they may love one another: the rise of a God.

The Visitors» Center at Haleakala National Park on Maui offers an intriguing study of the unexpected impact a traditional world - view can make on the modern consciousness.

When speaking «of «persons»... beware of... anachronistically foisting contemporary notions of the person onto the ancient texts, especially since most modern Westerners tend to focus on the person as the center of individual psychological consciousness...» (p. 37).