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.
I shall assume that the process thinkers are right in holding that an adequate metaphysics of time must recognize dynamic becoming in nature as well
as in human consciousness.
The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative
role in human consciousness.
(16) The startling
changes in human consciousness that came in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries which are associated with the Enlightenment and modernity have made us aware that the world in which we live is a social contrivance that carries with it important costs and gains.
We are in the midst of a Copernican shift in human consciousness [thought patterns] which is why there is so much conflict between people of good will.
it not only presupposes the truth of faith and pure doctrine, but also calls for that truth to be
situated in the human consciousness and calls for a definition of the attitude, or rather the many attitudes, that go to make the individual a believing member of the Church.
In particular do this with respect to what Wojtyla says when he quotes the Council's remark that «the Church is always advancing towards the plenitude of divine truth,» and then interprets this to be about situating the
truth in human consciousness and attitudes, and to be calling for an enrichment of faith in the subjective and existential sense.
By so doing we encourage men to emphasize man's sin rather than God's grace; we prompt them to let sin usurp the place of
God in human consciousness; we lead them to become more sure of sin than of the Gospel.
Some see the emergence of post-modernism as a shift
in human consciousness just as radical as the shift from mediaevalism to modernism.
Further, as summarized by a new generation of moral philosophers with a keen interest in neuroscience including Jesse Prinz, Jonathan Haidt, and Jonathan Greene, among many others, emotionality is
pervasive in human consciousness.
D: I am excited about the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence because I think it would be a branching - out
point in human consciousness.
Even though the odds for silence and stillness may be stacked against us, there are more people now than ever feeling an organic and inspired call toward turning inward, and this points to an
awakening in human consciousness.
The exhibition explores how Cézanne's painting style developed, how he learned from the impressionists, and went on to develop an innovative geometrical approach,
grounded in human consciousness.
Using the twin prisms of art and science, Portal presents a gateway through which to examine how trances, visions and dreams
manifest in human consciousness, becoming the raw material that both artists and scientists interpret.
If Alois Riegl's seminal text «The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and Origin» (1903) posits a monument's signal purpose as maintaining human culture «alive and
present in the human consciousness,» Sassolino's damnatio memoriae questions the value of history in the contemporary imaginary.
In his book DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Strassman proposes that DMT secreted by our own brains plays a profound
role in human consciousness.
Then God and heaven... are now and here; and a
change in human consciousness, from sin to holiness, would reveal this wonder of being» (Unity of Good [First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1887], p. 37).
We have passed through several revolutions — the cosmological, the biological, and the anthropological — that have created a radical
shift in human consciousness.
He writes explicitly: «I shall assume that the process thinkers are right in holding that an adequate metaphysics of time must recognize dynamic becoming in nature as well
as in human consciousness.
Yet there is also through the Old Testament frequent reference to organs or parts of the body to which are ascribed special functions, or, in some cases, near - independence,
in human consciousness and action.
The birth of the concept of social justice coincided with two other shifts
in human consciousness: the «death of God» and the rise of the ideal of the command economy.
Language, according to Whitehead, still abstracts and reproduces elements of experience that can be «most easily reproduced»
in human consciousness (MT 34).
It is the journey of primordial matter through its marvelous sequence of transformations — in the stars, in the earth, in living beings,
in human consciousness — toward an ever more complete spiritual - physical intercommunion of the parts with each other, with the whole, and with that numinous presence that has been manifested throughout this entire cosmic - earth - human process.
I believe that we are on the verge of a Copernican shift
in human consciousness.
Secular humanists talk of the «Shift» or of a «Copernican Revolution»
in human consciousness.
The daily fluctuations of energy levels are known as the circadian rhythm and play and important role
in human consciousness.
Follow up with other language such as visualize or see, sense, perceive, mental image, and experience, as these terms are congruent with imagination's role
in human consciousness.
The architecture of space that is
in the human consciousness, which allows for isolation and emotional neglect needs a more defined understanding of it's infrastructure.