Sentences with phrase «mode of consciousness»

The individual must train the mind and induce a mode of consciousness.

And yet, in some mode of consciousness or other, our minds would have to make contact with this encompassing purpose, or it with us, if we are to talk about it at all.

What would this mode of consciousness be, and what would be its relation to scientific knowledge?

This is accomplished by the statesmen, whose mode of consciousness is properly that of «universality.»

But Whitehead does maintain a general correlation between one's economic condition and one's mode of consciousness.

This mode of consciousness, according to Whitehead, is displayed primarily by the fortunate classes, whose economic position allows them the freedom to reflect upon the inherited values, laws, and customs.

Rather, the sense of a deeper, purposively ordering presence in nature would reside in the nonscientific mode of consciousness that we have called faith.

However, there is a mode of consciousness by which we at the human level of emergence might become aware, in a non - controlling, non-comprehensive sort of way, of possible higher purposive principles and patterns of influence operative in the cosmos.

This mode of consciousness is «present as a kind of feeling for life, in man's pre-scientific consciousness and has as such impressed itself on modern man's everyday experience of life».1 As a result «man's consciousness of his own identity has become weaker and more damaged in the course of human progress.

How this metamorphosis takes place; how a force existing as motion, heat, or light can become a mode of consciousness; how it is possible for aerial vibrations to generate the sensation we call sound, or for the forces liberated by chemical changes in the brain to give rise to emotion, — these are mysteries which it is impossible to fathom.

Meaning, which requires expression through the narrative mode of consciousness, appears to dualistic thinking as the concoction of our alienated subjectivity.

He concludes: «The point is that a mystical idea is a product of the conceptual intellect, whereas a mystical experience is a nonintellectual mode of consciousness» (TM 5).

But even this formulation suggests that there is a purely receptive mode of consciousness, a mode which Hall certainly thinks should be given greater importance even if it is not entirely «substituted» for the «active mode.

That would indeed be a very different mode of consciousness!

But once the reflective consciousness existed, it embodied an immense new value in itself, so that a psychic life aimed at its own heightened richness tended to aim at the enhancement and strengthening of this new mode of consciousness.

In Farley's case the circle is broken by introducing a subjective construal of habitus, and hence of theology, as a mode of consciousness.

It is clear from his autobiographical statements that Paul was able to move freely from one mode of consciousness to another, from the left hemisphere to, the right, and back again — from law to grace, from mystical experience to ethical evaluation.

To speak of a total vision from the perspective of a particular and individual mode of consciousness is to speak of that which is other than our consciousness and experience.

We have also become aware that the anthropocentrism that characterizes much of the Judeo - Christian tradition has often fed a sensibility insensitive to our proper place in the universe.2 The ecological crisis, epitomized in the possibility of a nuclear holocaust, has brought home to many the need for a new mode of consciousness on the part of human beings, for what Rosemary Ruether calls a «conversion» to the earth, a cosmocentric sensibility (Ruether, 89).3

Roszak believes the ideal of scientific objectivity has created a narrowing of our sensibilities, a diminished mode of consciousness.

It arouses in us sensations we have never had before, never anticipated having as though we had broken out of our normal mode of consciousness and possess joys [«Joy»] not promised to our birth!

But there are two modes of consciousness of self: nonthetic prereflective self - awareness and the thetic reflective self - awareness, only the latter of which has the structure of intentionality.

The world of Mahayana Buddhism provides us with multiple examples of concrete modes of consciousness and experience in which not even the hint of such distinctions is possible.

There is also a chiasm between thought and its object: «Being is the «place» where the «modes of consciousness» are inscribed as structurations of Being (a way of thinking oneself within a society is implied in its social structure), and where the structurations of Being are modes of consciousness» (VIV 253).

The finite entity may lack consciousness and may want the powers of thought and language to become aware of this experience, or the finite entity may suppress that foundational experience during its concrescence as it develops its «normal» modes of consciousness and articulates its «practical» and «secular» concerns, but the experience of God's eternity is never wholly absent.

It is difficult to explain the peak experience in terms of a simple expansion of consciousness because the type of consciousness exhibited in this experience seems to represent a transcendent disconnection from the ordinary, discriminate modes of consciousness:

Because of this fact human experience can not truly transcend itself, nor can ordinary and extraordinary modes of consciousness be utterly disjoined.

11 Whitehead appears to base his differentiation of social classes primarily on the different modes of consciousness they represent and not on economic considerations such as forms of labor (Hegel).

Not exact matches

The first goal of a Leninist party is to educate the proletariat, so as to remove the various modes of perceived false consciousness the bourgeois have instilled in them, instilled in order to make them more docile and easier to exploit economically, such as religion and nationalism.

In transcending being and consciousness, all normal modes of prehension and understanding also have been eliminated.

In the datal mode, consciousness stands in a thetic, intentional relation to that of which it is conscious; and that of which it is conscious is transcendent to it as an object of awareness.

Insofar as one partakes of this deepened mode of modern consciousness, one is made aware of depths and nuances in the complexities of man's existence which at once sober one with the limits of man's reason and perceptive powers, and awaken one to the very dimensions of experience to which the themes of the Christian faith bear witness.

To focus entirely on paradigmatic modes of thought is to pull away from attending to consciousness, and therefore, to the human act of sense - making.

The two natural modes of human thought, according to Bruner, are paradigmatic thought (logico - scientific thinking that rests on description, explanation and verification) and narrative thought that weaves together action and consciousness (NPM) 3 Consciousness is the thinking, feeling and willing of the consciousness (NPM) 3 Consciousness is the thinking, feeling and willing of the Consciousness is the thinking, feeling and willing of the human person.

«If the left hemisphere can be termed predominantly analytic and sequential in its operation, then the right hemisphere is more holistic and relational, and more simultaneous in its mode of operation» (Robert Ornstein, The Psychology of Consciousness [Viking, 1973], p. 68).

Although at times Scenes seems to be administering the physic of the consciousness movement in rather heavy doses, the film is too complex to be dismissed as a celebration of «How to Save Your Own Life» in the mode of Erica Jong, Jerry Rubin or Gail Sheehy.

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.

In man we have seen that symbolization superseded organization by signals as the predominant mode of significantly organized consciousness, and that this constituted reflective consciousness.

«7 It is the former mode of pre - or subconscious perception — exhibited in the behavior of bodily organs and tissues, manifest and directly observable also throughout the sentient but nonhuman world, and bearing a close resemblance to William James's «stream of consciousness» or «blooming, buzzing confusion» — upon which our conscious knowledge of the «causal nexus» may be grounded.

Nothing is more important in Hegel's logic than its purely and totally forward movement, this is its greatest innovation in the perspective of all other logics, just as at no other point is the modern consciousness itself more clearly distinct from virtually every other mode or form of consciousness.

Again, even if what is thus apprehended is of the same kind, the distinction is great enough — has enough breadth — to require consciousness to function by modes that themselves appear as different in kind.

And so any mode of existence or consciousness that assists us toward truthfulness about ourselves must be functioning in the interests of that desire and of the truth it seeks.

Whitehead is careful to point out, however, that perception in the mode of presentational immediacy is not identical with the entire content of our present consciousness.

Chastened by our new awareness of the historicity, relativity, and linguistic constraints that shape all modes of human experience and consciousness, we may nonetheless attempt here to demonstrate that there already exists, even in the consciousness of skeptics and critics of revelation, a natural and ineradicable experience of the fact that reality at its core has the character of consistency and «fidelity» that emerges explicitly in the self - revelation of a promising God.

The phenomenon of subception discussed by Rogers and selective inattention reported by H. S. Sullivan demonstrate that it is possible for the organism as a whole to conform to or experience events that the higher conscious processes will fail to detect.23 Hence, the inhibiting and habit - ridden structures of consciousness are transcended by perception in the adverbial mode.

Perception in the mode of presentational immediacy locates it in clear consciousness there - now in the place where the tooth's aching occurred a fraction of a second ago.

Heat and light, being modes of motion, «phosphorescence» and «incandescence» are phenomena to which consciousness has been likened by the production - theory: «As one sees a metallic rod, placed in a glowing furnace, gradually heat itself, and — as the undulations of the caloric grow more and more frequent — pass successively from the shades of bright red to dark red (sic), to white, and develope, as its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.»

This may be granted if we are talking about mentality in the mode of human consciousness.

In an electron, for example, the moments of memory, enjoyment and anticipation would not add up to «consciousness,» but they would at least count as a mode of «mentality,» in our extended sense of the term.

Science is a mode of knowing adequate to grasp what lies below consciousness in the hierarchy.