Sentences with phrase «fundamental consciousness of»

The structure of prayer must be determined in each case in such a way as to maximize the fundamental consciousness of change, dependence, etc., and their implications.

A reader might take the phrase «the primal phenomenon» to mean or imply some fundamental consciousness of the self, as though the first and most apparent thing of all is «our own existence as experiencing subjects or selves.»

Not exact matches

But there is perhaps a use we might make of the postmodern in apologetics, for the collapse of modernity may allow believers to speak once again about God without defensiveness or self - consciousness, may allow believers both to escape political categorization as liberal or conservative and to escape the modern view that sees political categories as fundamental.

Creativity, the most fundamental metaphysical characterization of experience, must therefore transcend consciousness.

Of course, this does not mean that quanta have sense experience or consciousness, but even in human beings, these are not fundamental.

In its fundamental freedom — true not just for the becoming of each moment of the human consciousness but for all of creation — everything that emerges into a new present is not bound either by its past (fatalism) or by God (determinism).

Initiated as we are, moreover, into a historical consciousness that has unveiled a whole new world of New Testament thought and imagery, a world that is subject neither to theological systemization nor to translation into modern thought and experience, how can we hope to ascertain the fundamental meaning for us of the original Christian faith?

The hitherto scattered fragments of humanity, being at length brought into close contact, are beginning to interpenetrate to the point of reacting economically and psychically upon each other; with the result, given the fundamental relationship between biological compression and the heightening of consciousness, of an irresistible rise within us and around us of the level of Reflection.

Nevertheless, a fundamental question arises as to the identity of consciousness and experience.

Normally in such cases he can only change with the Church's whole consciousness of its belief, if such a change really takes place in respect of a more precise discernment of the fundamental moral guiding principles or of certain applications of these to new situations.

For example, what has come about in the shift of imagery exemplified in the new physics and in emergent thinking generally represents not so much a reaction as a radical reconception of fundamental notions, altering the modern consciousness itself.

The source of the problem, as he sees it, is this set of assumptions: that those elements that are prior (clearest) in consciousness are genetically primitive, that sensory data are the most primitive data of experience, that the elements of experience most clearly expressed by language are the most primitive, and that conscious introspection is the best way to identify the most fundamental elements of experience.

The harmony is the fundamental abstract structure, which, although below the consciousness of the student, has an irresistible appeal:

Whereas Aristotle, as we have seen, took the first factor to be peculiar to conscious experience and the second to be the more general factor lying at the base of consciousness, Whitehead took the subject - object structure as general and fundamental and interpreted causal efficacy in terms of it.

Moments of spirit (i.e., total states of consciousness) are, for him, like natural moments inasmuch as they are fundamental units of existence in which essences are actualized in an intensive fashion.

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.

The creation images found in the parables of Jesus concern the role of nature in an agricultural context and «engage those fundamental layers of human consciousness at which we feel our relationship with nature.

The results of these processes may or may not reach consciousness, in dreams or in waking life, but in either case they can be conveniently described as unconscious in their fundamental character.

In its place has come a new consciousness of the ambiguity and the inadequacy, even the distorting effect, of that method if it alone contributes to or fashions our fundamental view of reality.

In the New Thought setting of ultimate oneness, and the conviction that «God is all there is,» evil is regarded not as a fundamental part of the universal order, but as the byproduct of a human consciousness of separation.

As is evident, these questions raise all sorts of fundamental issues for Christian theology: about God, about «revelation,» about the decisiveness of the event of Christ — and corresponding questions for members of each of the other faiths (e.g., how veridical or «absolute» in this context is the «higher level of consciousness» of the Buddhists?).

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.

Here is the unreasonable, unwelcome contradiction, the necessary fact that we hide from consciousness because its implications run counter to the fundamentals of human morality.

Education, «civilization,» even leisure, seem to Whitehead to be necessary» before either individuals or society can operate upon sufficiently general (i.e., non-selfish) criteria to make world consciousness a possibility.24 However, as we have already seen, world consciousness in Whitehead is the basis of social ethics and in close affinity with what he would want to designate as the fundamental religious impulse, the maximization of value.

If we all thought like humanists we would be shut out from the fundamental truths of being that consciousness is determinative, that all is Mind and its infinite manifestation.

For the fundamental presumption behind democratic societies is that the consciousness of something called the common citizen is privileged no matter what kind of formation it may or may not have had.

What does Balthasar mean, for example, when he says that the Church is a collective subject who has a single consciousness in Christ (analogy of the «body of Christ») and at the same time says that in the fiat of Mary the Church receives «her fundamental and constitutive feminine dimension» (Fr Campbell's words)?

Meland's notion of the appreciative consciousness is illustrative of a fundamental tenet of process thought highly relevant to the field of education.

Sacraments also well illustrate a third of the fundamentals — the consciousness of dependence.

What matters is that in the interacting development of these two basic trends upon which Mankind is continuing to build itself, technical organization and the growth of reflective consciousness, the second should acquire an ever greater predominance and degree of autonomy, conformably with the fundamental law of «vital in - folding».

Consciousness is then the fundamental reality in the universe of which all existence is a manifestation yet which itself is beyond any final qualification.

Through these experiences the «That» was realized as pure, transcendent, unqualified Consciousness, such that Aurobindo could conclude that, «Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence — it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it — not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself&raqConsciousness, such that Aurobindo could conclude that, «Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence — it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it — not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself&raqConsciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence — it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it — not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself&raqconsciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it — not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself&raqconsciousness arranging itself» (LY 236).

Consciousness is absolutely fundamental for Aurobindo, and creativity is for Whitehead, so it is the purpose of this subsection to compare the experience of these two fundamental realities.

It may establish a mechanism, but it does not achieve any fundamental synthesis; and in consequence it engenders no growth of consciousness.

It should be noted, however, that Whitehead does allow great diversity in the ways in which his fundamental categories are applied to different levels of being; he does not, for instance, ascribe consciousness to lower - level organisms, much less to inanimate objects.

Whitehead's theory of consciousness illustrates the way in which he conceives of fundamental emergents, or threshold crossings, in a process that also has a basic continuity.

Each of these dualisms (organic - inorganic, instinct - intelligence) derived from a more fundamental source; in the first case, the primordial flux, and in the second case, consciousness (CE 204).

As I shall take it in this book, the central core of religious consciousness is a fundamental trust, primordially expressed in symbols and stories, that reality is ultimately caring.

There is something about the First World War that makes it a fundamental part of our national consciousness.

Consciousness, we have suggested, has two fundamental properties [see the July / August 2009 column by Christof Koch, «A Theory of Consciousness»].

As for Linde, he is especially interested in the mystery of consciousness and has speculated that consciousness may be a fundamental component of the universe, much like space and time.

They really alter consciousness in this fundamental way and therefore they are very powerful tools to understand the nature of consciousness,» says Robin Carhart - Harris of Imperial College London, who carried out the new study.

It is as much of a speculation as the idea that consciousness is fundamental and that it causes brain activity and creates the properties and objects of the material world.

In fact, reducing the speed of thought in just the right places is crucial to the fundamentals of consciousness.

Studying the brain can involve tackling some fundamental questions such as the nature of consciousness or how we form and retain memories.

Listening to the latest scientific findings, it seems to become more and more clear that life and consciousness are truly fundamental to any real understanding of the universe.

They've found, at the most fundamental level of their own consciousness, a sense of true health and vitality that spills over into other aspects of life.

We'll retreat together in exploration to meet, greet, and welcome everything as its fundamental quality - Oneness - everything a part of and made of one non-dual consciousness.

Although becoming a good observer of the classroom environment is, itself, a fundamental aspect of teacher expertise (Berliner, 1986, 2004) and pedagogical content knowledge (Shulman, 1986), overcoming self - consciousness in order to observe oneself critically is also a substantial challenge, especially when self - observation involves viewing classroom video recordings (Greenwalt, 2008).

Conscious brains are a hybrid device, part generators of squiggly electric current waves and part receivers of mind waves from the field of consciousness, the most fundamental of the quantum fields that fill the universe.