The chiasm enacted through physical feelings not only remains beneath
the level of conscious experience, but also below that of clear, sharp sensory perception in feelings of presentational immediacy.
But this much is clear: those factors found on the most basic
level of conscious experience are precisely those that he attributes to the world at large.
Not exact matches
More precisely, from a Whiteheadian standpoint, we should say that, if God is loving, then we all feel this, at some
level, all the time, so that the only extraordinary feature
of mystical
experiences is that in them this feeling
of the holy rises to the
level of conscious awareness.
In this, as Lincoln discovered in the tragic days
of the Civil War, we find a
level of experience which does the seemingly impossible
of making us firm in the right, «as God gives us to see the right,» but also humble because we are
conscious that «the Almighty has his own purposes.»
And because consciousness is not a simple phenomenon but admits
of differences,
of «
levels»
of consciousness,
of more or less complex supplemental phases, our
conscious experience can be more or less temporal.
Process suggests that most
of the relations that we
experience are much deeper than the
conscious levels of our being.
Basically, his solution takes the form
of distinguishing two different
levels of human
experience, or
of more or less
conscious thinking about
experience, on only the deeper
of which is there an
experience of God that is both direct and universal.
The distinction Hartshorne insists on making here as applied to our present question can be expressed by saying that, whereas mere
experience or feeling
of God can be not only direct but immediate, high -
level thought or cognition
of God, being mediated, as it is, by the
conscious judgment or interpretation
of such feeling, is
of necessity mediate.
It is not true that liturgical worship entirely fails to speak to the strictly
conscious levels of human
experience; it does indeed speak to these, but it has richer connotations and implications; and it is these which do most
of the «work» in liturgical as distinguished from didactic or other types
of Christian worship.
Then come complex multicellular organisms, societies
of animals with new emergent properties at the ecosystem
level, and, finally
conscious beings who create culture, use symbolic language — and
experience the first intimations
of transcendence.
As the
level of transcendent meaning attempts to gather our human consciousness into its embrace it becomes enfleshed in forms that are familiar to us in our
conscious experience.
It would seem that this sudden transfer
of control
of behaviour from a lower to a higher
level of the hierarchy — analogous to a quantum jump — is the essence
of conscious decision - making and
of the subjective
experience of free will.
What happens in a crisis, or in any less dramatic problem situation involving unexpected, puzzling or discordant
experiences, is this sudden shift
of control
of an ongoing activity to a higher
level in the many -
leveled hierarchy, from a semi-automatic to a more
conscious performance, because the decision to be made or the problem to be solved is beyond the competence
of the automatic pilot and must be referred to higher quarters.
Only by a process
of physical and conceptual «prehensions,» «feelings» and «
experiences» — through several
levels of increasing awareness — do we arrive at a final resolution in acts
of self - cognition and
conscious purpose.13 In other words, Whitehead believed that
conscious and purposive acts are the tip
of a «prehensive» iceberg that remains below the
level of consciousness, yet participates in every moment
of concrescence, resulting in novelty and creativity in an evolving universe.
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Conscious Connections» providers have various backgrounds, training, and
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-- 1997 Family Empowerment Program — Program Director and Supervisor 1998 - 2000 Redirecting Children's Behavior Parent Educator — 1999 Certified Hypnotherapist — 2000 Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Florida — 2000 Redirecting for a Cooperative Classroom Trainer — 2003 Certified Psych - K Practitioner — 2007 Landmark Education Introduction Leader — 2008 - 2010 Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist in Maryland — 2011 Developing Capable Young People Facilitator — 2011
Conscious Discipline Summer Institute — 2011 Post Graduate Degree Bowen Center for the Study
of the Family — 2012 - 2013 Emotional Focus Therapy Training for Couples Externship — 2013 Discernment Counseling Certified — 2013 Landmark Education Communication Course Curriculum — 2013 Dynamic Attachment Repatterning
Experience Level 1, 2, 3 — 2014 Emotional Focus Couples Therapy Training Externship — 2013 Core Skills — 2013 - 14 Core Skills Plus — 2014 - 15 Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy Training & Education
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Level 1 &
Level 2 AEDP — Diana Fosha Ph.D Immersion — 2015 Essential Skills — 2015 - 16 Working with a Neurobiological Legacy
of Trauma — Janina Fisher Ph.D — 2015 - 16