Sentences with phrase «experienced by the mind»

Material substance was considered to be an independent reality which produces the aspects directly experienced by the mind.

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The hope is that projects like Absolut deadmau5 that only require a smartphone and cheap Google (goog) Cardboard headset to operate will help consumers experience and be captivated by some form of VR, never mind that it's not as immersive or breathtaking as the higher - end devices.

Such novel experiences help unleash your imagination by forcing the mind out of its tendency to rely on categories and take shortcuts, according to neuroscientist Gregory Berns.

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Because your reality is continually created by your mind working in concert with itself, there is simply no reason to believe that your «real» out - of - body experience was created by some other process.

It is in his Critique that he posits that a priori knowledge is possible only if the world itself depends on the way the human mind structures its experience, through insights Kant found by examining Copernican astronomy.

The finest hours in the history of this noble country were experienced when the spiritual fuel generated by that ethos was internalized within the hearts and minds of its people.

3 And smaller numbers seek, or are influenced by, experiences of clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition, and other extrasensory perceptions that provide clues to their views of the personal as well as the cosmic mind.4

In that search, the individual and the community are open to inspiration from many quarters, but inspiration that is tested by the mind of Christ and the common experience of the group.

As has been noted, Holloway argues that a proper appreciation of how sex should be used needs to bear in mind the fact that our present experience of it is coloured by concupiscence.

But he has been given powers of body and mind and qualities of forethought and the ability to profit by experience.

Our minds, our worldviews, are molded by our childhood environments and, perhaps to a lesser degree, by our experiences.

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

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

There is no evidence for a god, and there is no evidence that people have ever experienced anything inside their minds that pointed to something that was objectively true OUTSIDE of their minds, but which could not be experienced by others unless they too had a «personal experience» of it.

And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.

The hope of human brotherhood can only be realized when, and as, the divergent mind religions of authority become impregnated with, and overshadowed by, the unifying and ennobling religion of the spirit — the religion of personal spiritual experience.

Again Hartshorne, having conceded that, relatively speaking, molecules are mindless, denies that they (or their constituents) are totally lacking in experience and continues: «the panpsychist... further will not admit that the lower degrees of awareness are due to the dilution of mind by its mixture with increasing doses of another something, matter» (BH 170).

For him, as for Whitehead too, dualism of mind and matter is replaced by a gradation of higher and lower degrees of experience.

Most of us have been strongly influenced by these since birth and have great difficulty in finding freedom we have not yet experienced the necessary renewing of mind.

And Whitehead says that he does not think it is inevitable that the human mind spatializes, though it often does this, and when it does, one way or another, whether through partiality or something else, it deforms the object of knowledge and of experience... [But] Bergson believed that, at least to some significant degree, the spatializing tendencies of the human intellect and of human intelligence, can be overcome by a biology and a physics that is less mechanistic.

These objections are likely to be reinforced in the minds of those who make them by the qualifications which Buber sets for the philosophical anthropologist: that he must be an individual to whom man's existence as man has become questionable, that he must have experienced the tension of solitude, and that he must discover the essence of man not as a scientific observer, removed in so far as possible from the object that he observes, but as a participant who only afterwards gains the distance from his subject matter which will enable him to formulate the insights he has attained.

His College: The Undergraduate Experience in America (Harper & Row, 328 pp., $ 19.95), a report sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, describes the dusky condition of liberal education in recent years, but he writes with the hope of a sunrise in mind.

A debate in which the thoughts are not expressed in the way in which they existed in the mind but in the speaking are so pointed that they may strike home in the sharpest way, and moreover without the men that are spoken to being regarded in any way present as persons; a conversation characterized by the need neither to communicate something, nor to learn something, nor to innuence someone, nor to come into connexion with someone, but solely by the desire to have one's own self - reliance confirmed by making the impression that is made, or if it has become unsteady to have it strengthened; a friendly chat in which each regards himself as absolute and legitimate and the other as relativized and questionable; a lovers» talk in which both partners alike enjoy their own glorious soul and their precious experience — what an underworld of faceless spectres of dialogue!

In his Confessions Augustine redirected reason inward in a fateful focus upon the content and structure of his own mind and soul, as he now experienced them — illumined by grace.

A mind or soul stretched by a new experience, a new idea a new friendship, never returns to its former shape.

I thereafter even came to the conclusion that this experience was showing me exactly how man was inspired by god to write the bible, it must have been showing me just how the holy spirit influenced the mind and thoughts of the men who wrote the bible.

I would accept this stress on the importance of the categories of understanding imposed by the knower, but I would want to attribute them less to the given structures of the mind (as in Bohr's neo-Kantian view) than to the limitations of our experience and imagination.

It seems clear that the human mind does not possess innate patterns by which the materials of sense experience must be formed.

The minimal claim of process thought is that «by reason of the relativity of all things» each actual entity is preserved everlastingly in the divine experience.154 «God is immortal,» Hartshorne writes, «and whatever becomes an element in the life of God is therefore imperishable... I think the idea of omniscience implies that we have such an abiding presence in the mind of God.

There is nothing more painful than the helpless attempt at the interpretation of religious documents or monuments by one who does not know what «awe» is or to whom these testimonies to man's search for communion with ultimate reality are just the dead records of the experience of «sick - minded» or backward people.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

Taking the role of an open - minded skeptic, Berger asks probative questions about religion without being bound by tradition, church, scripture, or personal experience.

As his mind turned increasingly to philosophy, the physicist in him sought to understand the whole of reality and not only man, whilst the aesthete in him interpreted all reality by extrapolation from human experience, thus finding aesthetic value in all actuality.

If you abort this process of yelling at God about why this text is so difficult to understand, you will never experience the joy that comes when God, by His Holy Spirit, opens your mind and eyes to the meaning of the text, and without this joy of having God teach the text to you, you will never be able to have true joy in teaching the text to others.

By failing to see the place of mind in nature as well as nature in mind, modern philosophy has been unable to put forth an adequate account of the relation between the two, one which would assign to each its due importance as a constitutive element in our experience and in existence as such.

By developing the mind, our inner qualities, we can experience perfect wholeness and contentment.

By approaching the question of mind and nature in this way Whitehead is able to provide us with an aesthetically rich understanding of nature, which at the same time preserves a necessary role for reason and the search for truth as an indispensable element in the determination of conscious experience, the enhancement of our aesthetic sensibilities, and the general advancement of civilization as such.

But if, for the reasons outlined earlier in this chapter, the Easter message was already beginning to take shape in the minds of the disciples, of Peter in particular, the experience of seeing Jesus in his glorified state would have the effect of authenticating the Easter message and of causing the Easter faith to take possession of whoever heard it, and of those, in turn, who were convinced by the apostolic testimony.

Just as our physical bodies have evolved to suit the particular conditions on this planet and that of no other known to us, so our minds and spirits have been shaped by our experience to be at home in the particular historical period in which we live.

Some might contend that it is vain to replace a dualism of mind and matter by an equally baffling dualism of merely sensitive in contrast to cognitive experiencing.

Interpretation, the key method of analytical therapies, is rejected as a counterproductive mind - game by which therapist and client both avoid experiencing the «now» fully.

As if by changing their mind will somehow change their heart, an experience, their life.

about our powerlessness to penetrate in this sense beyond the primitive vision shared by the earliest human minds; that is to say, the impossibility of our advancing a step towards the direct or indirect perception of all that is hidden behind the veil of tangible experience!

In many ways these stories were a projection of the conflicts aroused in his own mind by his confrontation with the world he experienced.

Even if the Servant figure is consistently or only at times conceived as an individual (on the pattern of a Jeremiah, or perhaps the prophet himself, or a contemporary, or someone yet to appear), the very individualization is obviously shaped in the prophet's mind, consciously or unconsciously, by his people's corporate experience in the days from Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus.

Suppose that there were two men: a double - minded man, who believes he has gained faith in a loving Providence, because he had himself experienced having been helped, even though he had hardheartedly sent away a sufferer whom he could have helped; and another man whose life, by devoted love, was an instrument in the hand of Providence, so that he helped many suffering ones, although the help he himself had wished continued to be denied him from year to year.

But, although some of the specific experiences, such as pains, may be (at least virtually) determined by the brain (at least in what we usually consider «normal,» as distinct from «altered,» states of consciousness), others, such as thoughts and decisions, are not, but are based upon the mind's self - determination.

Panexperientialists certainly can not affirm this maxim in the sense in which it is intended by materialists, namely, that any difference in the mind's experience would depend upon a difference in the brain but not vice-versa.

The twice - born, by contrast — the «sick souls» and «morbid - minded» — are all too aware of the existence of evil, indeed, of the «experience of evil as something essential.»