It pertains to our own conscious experience both of the external world and our own inner feelings, and by extension to
the conscious experience of others.
The regnant society is one part of this nexus, but my experience in any moment includes both the clear conscious experience of the regnant society and the dimly
conscious experiences of the other members of the nexus.
Not exact matches
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.
, where Brightman explicitly rejects Kant's approach as non-empirical, and then characterizes his own method, using James» phrase, as «radical empiricism» which «will assume no source
of information about the real,
other than the
experience of conscious persons» (23).
For him, our
experience as we
experience it is not given in God's
conscious experience, it is known indirectly by God, albeit perfectly (since God's reasoning can not fail), and God wants it that way; «When God intuits me, I am not a part
of him, but he wills that I should be
other than himself, yet known by him.
Assuming that I make the identification, he poses a dilemma; either my
experience does not have the unity, the togetherness required by a single
experience (and this because my
experience includes both the clear,
conscious experience of the regnant society and the dim
experience of other members
of the nonsocial nexus); or, my
experience is that
of a super entity which inherits from the ego and from the
other occasions
of the nonsocial nexus, and, since inheritance requires contiguity, this latter alternative presupposes acceptance
of a doctrine
of regional inclusion.
the belief on the existence
of the devil was concieved by theologians
of the past thousands
of years, there was no
other way
of explaining the bad
experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind
of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part
of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part
of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the
conscious part
of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality
of the universe ahead
of us, The
experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part
of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point
of not believing the practices
of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part
of their learning process.
Nevertheless, I believe that even for the highly
conscious individual there are
other relations to
other individuals in the unconscious dimensions
of experience.
He thus becomes
conscious of himself as one among the many individuals presented to each
other through sense
experience.
Because the identity by which I am constituted is primarily a unity
of conscious experience, this sharp division
of myself from all
others is real.
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.
All that the facts require is that the power should be both
other and larger than our
conscious selves [The Varieties
of Religious
Experience, 1902 (Modern Library), p. 515].
With the emergence
of conscious alternatives
of action, ethics becomes possible, for now some options may be
experienced as better and
others as worse.
For him the object
of conscious experience — and he knew
of no
other kind
of experience — was primordially the sensuously given world.
We may speak by analogy with Hartshorne's «neoclassical theism»
of Whitehead's neoclassical empiricism» precisely because it is a self -
conscious revision
of the classical tradition on the one hand and can be seen to consist in an analysis
of the formally possible doctrines regarding the character and content
of experience on the
other.
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.
For Piaget, the ontological egocentricity
of the child was due primarily to the fact that the child does not yet differentiate its selfhood from the Being
of the universe (RME 110, 241); therefore, the child is not yet
conscious of itself as being
other over against the world and, therefore, interprets the whole reality according to its own
experience.
It is not true that liturgical worship entirely fails to speak to the strictly
conscious levels
of human
experience; it does indeed speak to these, but it has richer connotations and implications; and it is these which do most
of the «work» in liturgical as distinguished from didactic or
other types
of Christian worship.
But it does require that both philosophers and psychologists never lose sight
of what is given in self -
conscious experience; that any attempt to show that the sell -
conscious experient is an emergent from
other beings, psychic or not, be consistent with what is displayed in personal self -
conscious experience.
In his letter
of December 10, 1934 Brightman shares Hartshorne's worry, «that
other selves are merely inferred but never given,» and goes on to present his own empiricist colors «I'd like to be able to make sense out
of the idea
of a literal participation in
other selves... whenever I try, I find myself landed in contradiction, in epistemological chaos, and in unfaithfulness to
experience...» Brightman's argument is that any «intuition» (for him a synonym for «
experience»), «is exclusively a member
of me,» but the object
of that intuition is «always problematic and distinct from the
conscious experience which refers to it.»
In
other words, these biblical stories, which are not self -
conscious literary creations but genuine emergents from the
experience of a religious community — these stories are attempts to express an understanding
of the relation in which God actually stands to human life, and they are true in any really important sense only if that understanding is correct.
There is a self -
conscious use
of archetypes from
other genres that contributes to making Star Wars such an enjoyable
experience.
On the
other hand, we may reflect on the nature
of our own
conscious experience and intuit some notion
of mentality.
Negatively, it meant that whatever aspect
of conscious or unconscious
experience could be conceptualized or objectified was distinguished as
other than, alien from, and, finally, even indifferent to the self.
This hardening occurs to the extent that particular gaps, such as that between self -
conscious human
experience and that
of animals, is asserted to be fundamentally different from all the
other gaps to be found in 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.
19:6), help and serve each
other by their marriage partnership; they become
conscious of their unity and
experience it more deeply from day to day....
When I corresponded with the public (and we got a fair number
of emails every week), I tried to be
conscious of the fact that I was representing not only the organization, but in some sense the environmental movement itself — if someone had a bad
experience with us, it could easily color their perception
of our issues and
of other groups working on them.
Asked whether brain organoids can achieve consciousness without sensory organs and
other means
of perceiving the world, Koch said it would
experience something different than what people and
other animals do: «It raises the question, what is it
conscious of?»
The key insight that emerged is that the
experience of danger follows two pathways in the brain: one
conscious and rational, the
other unconscious and innate.
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.
It ignores
other valid research regarding the internal motivations, feelings and
conscious experiences of the subject, in this case, the dog.
While completely clothed and comfortable using breath, sound, gaze, movement and
other simple techniques participants will learn from
experience as we explore
conscious touch, as well as the physical and emotional aspects
of the space between.
IT WOULD BE MY PRIVILEGE TO HELP YOU TO LEARN: * Get into your heart * Quiet your mind * Organize your thinking *
Experience «Being Present» * Be real with yourself and
others * Get comfortable with discomfort * View challenges as opportunities to grow * Get clear on what is happening inside
of you * Learn to be centered and calm during turmoil * Accept «what is» without resisting, in order to feel peace * Become aware
of your feelings without getting lost in them * Feel more comfortable about facing fears and the unknown * Step out
of your thoughts and view them from a calm place inside * Learn to take clear,
conscious action steps in life that are guided by your inner wisdom.
The
other 30 %
of couples who
experience an increase in satisfaction in their relationship accomplish that through specific
conscious efforts; it isn't by pure luck.