Sentences with phrase «in psychic phenomena»

This scene could be read as either an arbitrary acknowledgment of Lincoln's documented interest in psychic phenomena or a brief opportunity for Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kamiński to reprise their watery fishbowl motif from Minority Report, but it really serves the more interesting, ambitious purpose of establishing Lincoln as a comedy of the narcissism that binds prophecy with political policy.

You could be very interested in psychic phenomenon, you could be a scientist who studies psychic phenomenon and even believe in it, and not be a spiritualist.

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It seems to them that this is an insecure foundation on which to build the whole Structure of Christian belief and the way of life which follows from it; especially since such experiences may not be unique, for there are possible parallels, not only in the visions of the saints but in many alleged psychic phenomena.

The doctor analyses the psychic phenomena which the patient brings before him according to the theory of his school, and he does so in general with the co-operation of the patient, whom the tranquilizing and to some extent orienting and integrating procedure tends to please.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

As I tried to show in the preceding part, we also know something about the structure and function of that part of brain matter to which psychic phenomena correspond.

It seems the world is made up of: — persons who enter a mystical state and experience oneness and tranquility — persons who have adverse reactions as their minds dissociate resulting in their experiencing psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena

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?

The question of course is: how does a person like me who is experiencing psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena while in an altered state of consciousness know whether or not it is god who is communicating with them?

The much more complicated integration in large molecules of neurons and of neurons in an active brain would lead to still more complicated systemic relations and not only to protopsychic ones, but also to real psychic phenomena, to sensations and mental images.

In spite of all our knowledge about direct correspondence of physiological brain processes and psychic phenomena, some modern philosophers and psychologists still doubt that any kind of localization could be possible.

All psychic phenomena are merged in a stream of consciousness.

All these scriptures / Biblical teachings created a problem for me as over the years when I would experience psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena as a result of intense / deep prayer and meditation, I actually thought that God was trying to show me a sign or tell me something or he was leading me in a particular direction.

Some behavior ~ istically oriented psychologists try to avoid the idea of freedom altogether, both by explaining psychic phenomena exclusively in physical and biological terms and by minimizing the role of theory construction in the process of psychological inquiry.

The insight that revolutionized the analysis of dreams — that the characters in the dream represent psychic phenomena within the dreamer — has a certain applicability to the analysis of other texts as well.

The distinctiveness of James's empiricism is his insistence that one has not been empirical enough if he or she focuses on what is general in experience; rather, the full extent of experience comes only when one experiences this group, this person, this psychic phenomenon without excluding anything significant — even if, especially if, what is experienced can not be subsumed under some general characteristic.

All psychic phenomena (sensations, mental images, feelings, thoughts and processes of volition) are merged in our stream of consciousness.

Looked at from the outside, it is certainly not visible as love in the real sense of the word, but only as a phenomenon of spiritual or psychic history which is open to various interpretations.

There is a magazine similar to one published in this country called Time Out and they ran an ad in there saying, «Are you interested in truth psychic phenomena?

In those days, the theory was that spiritualism and psychic phenomenon had some sort of undiscovered force that was causing these effects.

One of his earliest films was Scott Hicks» 2001 drama «Hearts in Atlantis,» in which he played Bobby, an 11 - year - old boy who spends a fateful 1960 summer with a mysterious older neighbor who introduces him to a world of grown - up wisdom and (this being a Stephen King adaptation) eerie psychic phenomena.

After being inundated in grant applications related to «psychic phenomena, UFOs, and the achievement gap,» Hughes and Shelton eventually clarify that they were just chatting about the Duffer Brothers Netflix show Stranger Things.

Interested in colonialism as both a psychic and material phenomenon, Gray explores blackness and labor within celebrity.

An early fascination with making the invisible visible, Gamble combined fantastic abstraction in traditional landscapes in an exploration of psychic and natural phenomena.