Sentences with phrase «examples of phenomena like»

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So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

These are but two examples of a phenomenon that has spread like wildfire in recent years.

Like Charles Darwin's famous finches, which evolved a wide range of beak shapes and sizes to exploit the different foods available in the Galápagos Islands, these cichlids represent a textbook example of what biologists term an adaptive radiation — the phenomenon whereby one lineage spawns numerous species that evolve specializations to an array of ecological roles.

For example, Cassini discovered that the Saturn satellite Enceladus is a mini-world of active jets — geyser - like phenomena that blast out water vapor and ice particles from the huge, salty ocean that lies beneath the moon's icy crust.

Examples of this iatrogenic phenomenon in education include certain aspects of policies and practices like achievement - level tracking, the assignment of homework, the standards movement, and compulsory education.

Cao's art bridges into visual arts with the use of popular culture and shifts through different subcultures and phenomenon to create the surreal landscapes that she is most known for — actors incased in Burberry behaving like dogs reenact a hysteric day in the office, ordinary people dancing to hip - hop on the street, people dressed in Chinese shopping bags and a stage production incorporating Guangzhou's street youths are just a few examples of using the city's everyday life to analyze and render the current social situation where traditions and new influences are constantly in conflict.

As the tiny house phenomenon gains traction in these difficult economic times, we've seen great examples of thinking large but living small from places like New Mexico, to Texas, Georgia and even the near - Arctic.

While many active phenomena, some of a very alarming nature, may be tied causally to things like ENSO or the decadal oscillations, that merely pushes back one causal level the question of whether the behavior of those cycles is being altered by changes in the planet's heat budget (for example, are destructive tropical cyclones becoming more frequent or not?