Sentences with phrase «into altered states of consciousness»

Essays by curators and scholars examine her extensive research into altered states of consciousness; the introduction of the Mythic Being — her subversive masculine alter - ego; her media and installation works from after 1980, which reveal and challenge stereotypes of race and gender; and the global conditions that illuminate the significance of her art.

Most of all, I wanted to protect the inner spaciousness that would allow me into the altered state of consciousness that was my children's world, and that would keep me connected to the exquisite beauty of all that was happening.

So in practice, the history of meditation may have started when a heavy - browed caveman or cavewoman sat down one evening after a long day of hunter - gathering, stared at the fire, and slipped into an altered state of consciousness.

Drumming often takes people into an altered state of consciousness.

«With the help of hypnosis, I bring a person into an altered state of consciousness when he can recall the information he needs.»

Not exact matches

This is not to say that practices ascetics engage in can not be entered into as tactics or methods: fasting, silence, vegetarianism, chanting, formal meditations, and celibacy, if freely entered into as methods (never as «good works» — for they are not such), may prove helpful for some people bent on self - purification or the unleashing of altered states of consciousness.

Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and prayer coupled with the theology about how prayer and God work in a Christian's life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.

There have been persons in the Bible who, while praying, fell into a trance — an altered state of consciousness — and heard voices (emphasis is mine in the following scriptures):

Given these Biblical examples, how does a pastor tell persons that they are not supposed to pray intensely or pray to the point of falling into a trance — an altered state of consciousness?

Slot and his co-authors found an evolutionary clue to why the mushrooms gained the ability to send human users into a state of altered consciousness.

Every one of us slips into this mysterious state of consciousness every night, yet we are only now waking up to its mind - altering powers

Unlike in the movies — you are now seeing a swinging fobwatch — real life hypnotherapy entails the therapist talking to the client to help them relax into what is known as an «altered state of consciousness» or trance.

In Shamanism, for instance, the practitioner «reaches altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.»

Barbara Rose states: «The essential act for Tàpies is not depiction or representation but the transformation of matter into spirit... This metaphysical transformation characterizes the duality and tension in Tàpies» art... The purpose of art, then, is to alter and heighten consciousness, bringing us into contact in the most powerful way with reality, not as it is pictured but as it literally exists in time and space... In this series of recent paintings, one sees Tàpies in full possession of his powers.»

As you can see below, the symptoms affect almost all parts of the body, including the mind via altered states of consciousness from the fever, and in the most severe cases, can even turn into life - threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever with gastrointestinal bleeding, blood plasm leakage, and dangerously low blood pressure.