Sentences with phrase «individual centers of consciousness»

Presumably, the complete destruction of all transcendent reality would mean total alienation among all individual centers of consciousness.

In The Descent Into Hell, Altizer states: «Accordingly, visions of a new apocalyptic compassion must inevitably appear in the form of madness or chaos to all those who can still find life or hope in an individual center of consciousness.»

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First, one must unequivocally renounce one's individual selfhood as the center and ground of consciousness and experience.

This means that when the seat of existence was located in the unconscious, individual identity through time was far less exclusive than it became with the axial shift of center to consciousness.

The centers of consciousness, acquiring autonomy as they emerge into the sphere of reflection, tend to escape from their own phylum, which granulates into a line of individuals.

No doubt it is true, scientifically speaking, that no distinct center of superhuman consciousness has yet appeared on earth (at least in the living world) for which it may be claimed or predicted that one day it will exercise a centralizing function, in relation to associated human thought, similar to the role of the individual «I» in relation to the cells of the brain.

When speaking «of «persons»... beware of... anachronistically foisting contemporary notions of the person onto the ancient texts, especially since most modern Westerners tend to focus on the person as the center of individual psychological consciousness...» (p. 37).