Sentences with phrase «consciousness of who»

Nothing much came of the 2009 conference, but at least it raised the consciousness of those who might be interested in going ahead with real - world experiments.

If the event succeeds in raising the consciousness of those who attend about the plight of homeless cats in NYC than it has succeeded.

Aregbesola stated that his administration, building on the achievements of the past successive government, had positioned the people to realise their greatest potentials by bringing them to the consciousness of who they are as Omoluabi (the virtuous people).

From birth we evolve a self - consciousness of who we are.

So powerful is the force of social influence that unjust racial appraisals infect the consciousness both of those who are discriminated against and of those who discriminate.

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I was so cold at one point that I felt like someone who was drowning — that moment where you're in and out of consciousness and stuck in lala land.

Ads featuring SpongeBob aren't going to cut it in the eyes of the modern consumer, who has unfettered access to nutrition data online and a consciousness about the production and retailing of the items they buy.

It seems that buying and melting companies, that guy who stands in the vault with fake security guards with the gold coins and other companies of their ilk have finally come into the mainstream of the American consumers» consciousness.

Fifty years and 4,500 stores later, the company narrative is now engrained in the Canadian consciousness: the Hall of Fame hockey star and his police - officer partner who created not only a coast - to - coast coffee behemoth, but a slice of national pride.

To me, that is what motivates me the most, because when I first started as an entrepreneur I wish I had a network with like - minded people who are on the same stream of consciousness.

Secondly, if you take a Jungian dream analysis overlay to the Wizard of Oz and in Jungian dream analysis they say everybody who shows up in your dream is actually part of your collective consciousness, trying to tell you something that you're not listening to while you're awake.

and in Jungian dream analysis they say everybody who shows up in your dream is actually part of your collective consciousness, trying to tell you something that you're not listening to while you're awake.

... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who just likes to have an unassaiable argument which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion of god to go on with their everyday lives.

But then you are floating the fantastical and totally unsupported by any evidence idea that the one who died somehow still will have a form of consciousness.

But tragic is he who lives beneath the weight of some unforgivable act, living without consciousness of the damage of his sin.

Lance argues, in fact, that the omega - point of all evolution is neither Hegelian self - consciousness nor Teilhardian cooperation but the perpetual possibility of orgasm, the beast with two backs, the thinking reed who is also walking genital.

In fact, he is in the counterculture tradition with those Americans who between the two world wars, their higher consciousness having been inspired not by golden mushrooms but by Karl Marx as filtered through the minds of Lenin and Stalin, wanted as quickly as possible a lasting abundance for everyone.

From one angle the use of the quadrilateral merely brings to self - consciousness factors that seem to be present in all theological reflection, even among those who deny that they are operating with multiple norms.

I am someone who was fairly involved with the EC movement for several years, but I exited around 2010 — partly because I no longer resonated with the (what seemed to me) increasingly inbred nature of the dialogue, and because (probably more importantly for me) my trajectory was taking me beyond specifically post-Evangelical, emergent conversations, and into an exploration of higher consciousness in general.

to ihaftr, thats why we have to make a paradigm shift in our concept of Who is God from dualism, meaning He is separate from us to Holism, one with Him, This is very significant this shift for it will have a profound effect on the development of our concsience, Social responsibility and even altruism will be high virtue in this level of consciousness.

Yes, the spirits we speak of are levels of consciousness... now, if there are people who were there when the church split, and who havn't recovered from it, or who just expect a split, there might be some work that needs to be done to change that consciousness.

For one who sees the universe in the guise of a laborious communal ascent towards the summit of consciousness, life, far from seeming blind, hard or despicable, becomes charged with gravity, with responsibilities, with new relationships.

Even though the title «Son of God» is used in the account of the Baptism, presumably the origin of Jesus» Messianic consciousness — as many modern scholars interpret the passage — nevertheless the whole idea of his acceptance of death is formulated in terms of the heavenly Man who has power and authority upon earth, (Mark 2:10, 28) who fulfills what is written of him, who dies and rises again, and is to come in glory as the supreme advocate or judge.

If all those who suffer in the world were to unite their sufferings so that the pain of the world should become one single grand act of consciousness, of sublimation, of unification, would not this be one of the most exalted forms in which the mysterious work of creation could be manifested to our eyes?

They are much like the physicists of the past who refused to see life as the direction toward which physical, mechanical and chemical transformations were tending, or again like the biologists of old who refused to see in consciousness the direction that life was tending.

There are those who think that a major shift in human consciousness is taking place, one aspect of which is an emphasis on spiritual experience rather than intellectual truths about religion.

Anyone who becomes free from mind, Karma, can fully embody God consciousness and becomes a Guru (equivalent of a prophet).

I feel that the religious excitement that is supposed to come to people who meditate on the flame of a single dark candle in an otherwise dark room was no greater than the pleasure I felt when I looked down a gun - sight and become very close to my own mind and consciousness.

Without his putting himself in a religious frame of mind, creating for himself religious experiences, awakening within himself a so - called natural consciousness of God, thus without his being compelled to adopt forms of consciousness which he can no longer recapture, he must be encountered in his life, which has become secular, by the good news from the Lord of the world, who has committed himself in the man Jesus of Nazareth to the world and the secularity of the stable and the gallows («without the camp» of religion, Hebrews 13:13) 15

It was not Kierkegaard or Chesterton or Barth — Updike's much - admired knights of Christian faith — who called God «the eternal not - ourselves» or who spoke of biblical language as a human net «thrown out at a vast object of consciousness.»

One way is to say that if you introduce the consciousness of the observer as one of the variables of the world you are still in a regress since it implies that there is an awareness of the consciousness by a further observer who sees his state of consciousness, and so on.

The word God is a Christian word, and often when Christians use it, we refer, not to a relational Bodhisattva who adapts to each situation, but rather to a changeless and independent Consciousness who saves only Christians and who is cut off from the world by the boundaries of divine transcendence.

It seems to me that the value of consciousness lies in who created it rather than in how it happens.

Minute by minute, the existence of Israel mocks the pagan gods, the divine beings who rise out of the consciousness of all peoples but which are gentile gods because they are deifications of humanity and the forces of nature rather than the true, living God of Abraham.

What is it about our stories that should be taken seriously by those who advance theories of moral behavior as a product of evolution, or those who regard consciousness and selfhood as congeries of computational patterns constructed by neurons?

Dohen was one of a small cadre of exceptional laywomen who helped to transform the consciousness of American Catholics during the decade prior to Vatican II.

But that does not mean we should minimize its contribution or fail to see it for what it truly is: an attempt to reject the empty posturing of the pseudo-intellectual album - oriented Rock - as - Art consciousness cult of the Post-Pepper era and to re-create the primal persona of the Rocker as Car Thief, Dropout, and Guy Who Beats Up Creeps.»

It is impossible, for example, to disregard one of India's greatest discoveries: that of consciousness as witness, of consciousness freed from its psychophysiological structures and their temporal conditioning, the consciousness of the «liberated» man, of him, that is, who has succeeded in emancipating himself from temporality and thereafter knows the true, inexpressible freedom».

To those who claim not to operate from that world view, it should be pointed out that an uncritical assumption of divine causality creates obstacles for communicating one's views to those who embrace the historical consciousness.

In fact, the radical consequences for domestic issues of this growing black international consciousness — usually dubbed anti-Americanism by the vulgar right — frightens the new black conservatives, who find themselves viewed in many black communities as mere apologists for pernicious U.S. foreign policies.

Stark also dissents from the views of two giants of sociology: Max Weber, who regarded religious consciousness as nonrational, and Èmile Durkheim, who contended that ritual, not belief, is the core of religion and that society itself, not God or the gods, is the real object of worship.

Let us now say good - by for a while to all this way of thinking, and turn towards those persons who can not so swiftly throw off the burden of the consciousness of evil, but are congenitally fated to suffer from its presence.

Jesus's Messianic consciousness was probably influenced by the apocalyptic Book of Enoch, in which the form, but not the person, of the servant has pre-existence, and by the events of the end which may have led Jesus to step out of the concealment of the «quiver» and imagine himself, after the vision of Daniel, as in his own person the one who will be removed and afterwards sent again to the office of fulfillment.

Both the mystic, who directs himself to the negation or the emptying of consciousness, and the prophet, who calls for a total reversal of all worldly conditions, have chosen a path of abolishing the profane.

A good way to continue our exposition now is to connect it with the challenge which William James, who had championed «psychology without a soul,» issued to philosophers in his famous essay of 1904, «Does «Consciousness» Exist?»

This way of putting the connection would seem somewhat strange to those who promoted art as a substitute for religion at the turn of the century, however, for it exhibits a consciousness both about the art object and about the language of religion and art which had not yet informed criticism or religion.

but fortunately there are psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of consciousness.

If human consciousness survives the evaporation of brain tissue then perhaps the «spirit» of St. Nicholas is alive and well and knows I care about who he was, and what he did while he was here.

Whilst this approach was disturbing for many Christians at the time, it again meant that defenders of Christianity, instead of calling for a leap of faith, could start from historical events and argue from them to the divinity of Jesus Christ His divinity was seen as the perfection of his humanity and this fitted with the approach of Schleiermacher, who saw Jesus, whose consciousness was entirely taken up with awareness of God, as «the ideal representative of religion».

I feel a warm glow and a sense of affirmation when I learn of churches which are eliminating sexist language from their worship services and liturgy, of ministers who are studying and preaching about feminist theology and the Mother - Father God, of consciousness - raising groups and task forces on sexism in the church.