Not exact matches
Even if this doesn't result
in immediate transactions, it establishes your brand
more firmly
in the
consciousnesses of potential consumers.
I expect, however, that there will be three first - order effects that will be very similar to those that followed the BP spill: 1) increased public
consciousness of the dangers inherent
in transporting oil and oil products and
more aversion to having these products moved nearby; 2) increased calls for alternatives to oil rather than alternative means of transporting oil; and 3) decreased trust
in regulators» and firms» abilities to sufficiently mitigate risks from transporting oil.
I am not sure what
more I would add... That we need to develop utterly new moral, ethical and social philosophies that recognize human
consciousness as embedded
in a process of evolutionary ecology which is
in turn embedded
in a thermodynamic process.
«It leaps up to the top of your
consciousness pretty quickly — I think
in many ways it's
more worrisome than all the other stuff,» Poloz told The Canadian Press
in an interview Wednesday at the bank's headquarters
in Ottawa.
He became famous within a certain world but entered public
consciousness after he raised the price
more than 55-fold for Daraprim
in September from $ 13.50 per pill to $ 750.
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.
I am someone who was fairly involved with the EC movement for several years, but I exited around 2010 — partly because I no longer resonated with the (what seemed to me) increasingly inbred nature of the dialogue, and because (probably
more importantly for me) my trajectory was taking me beyond specifically post-Evangelical, emergent conversations, and into an exploration of higher
consciousness in general.
This planet, the level of harm and exploitation, the fact that the suffering of other creatures is needed for carnivores (many humans) to live tells me that those
consciousnesses are not any
more interested
in answering the prayers of humans than the symbiotic bacteria that help us get by
in our bodies.
Deeper than the common act of vision
in which it expresses itself, and
more important than the common power of action from which it emerges by a sort of autogenesis, there is the reality itself to which we must look forward, the reality constituted by the vital union of all the particles endowed with reflective
consciousness.
A decline of conscious attention, as
in exhaustion,
in which the figure - ground structure dissolves into a homogeneous field, illustrates that
consciousness is derivative from a
more complex experience, which I have located
in the overwhelmingly nonconscious occasions
in the «nonsocial» nexus.
It's somewhat easier and much
more satisfying to develop and maintain a perception of that God - personality and -
consciousness in myriad actions and manifestations all around and about.
The anguish of feeling that one is not merely spatially but ontologically imprisoned
in the cosmic bubble; the anxious search for an issue to, or
more exactly a focal point for, the evolutionary process: these are the price we must pay for the growth of planetary
consciousness; these are the dimly - recognized burdens which weigh down the souls of Christian and gentile alike
in the world of today.
process of spatial expansion (from the infinitesimal to the immense),
in the same way and still
more clearly it presents itself to us, physico - chemically, as
in process of organic involution upon itself (from the extremely simple to the extremely complex)-- and moreover this particular involution «of complexity» is experimentally bound up with a correlative increase
in interiorisation, that is to say
in the psyche or
consciousness.6
The patient is next invited to be seated
in a reclining chair, taught to relax all his muscles, calmed by soothing words, and
in a state of physical relaxation and mental quiet the unwholesome thoughts and untoward symptoms are dislodged from his
consciousness, and
in their place are sown the seeds of
more health - giving thoughts and better habits.
The
more I ponder this mystery the
more it assumes
in my dreams the aspect of a «turning inward» of
consciousness, an eruption of interior life, an ecstasy.
Teilhard relates this movement towards the planetary unity of civilizations with what he describes as the increasing convergence of men
in a
consciousness which is super-individual and with the passing years
more and
more super-national; and he has some specifically Christian things to say about that movement and its meaning.
But equally there could simply be disconnected sentience throughout the universe with a few pockets of true
consciousness in more complex organizations... some of which we recognize, others which we may not.
While I have seen no studies done on this, from what I have seen, dying people are
more focussed on the kinds of things noted
in the article (pain alleviation, cleanliness particularly
in light of the huge issue toilet - time becomes) than on whether an afterlife or mere end of
consciousness that awaits them.
The consequent nature of God is the gathering up of all the values as they arise and their conservation
in an everlasting
consciousness that grows from
more to
more as each epoch rises and perishes and delivers up the value which it has achieved to this cosmic
consciousness.
Normally
in such cases he can only change with the Church's whole
consciousness of its belief, if such a change really takes place
in respect of a
more precise discernment of the fundamental moral guiding principles or of certain applications of these to new situations.
I think you are onto something here... I do believe
in God myself, but
more in a collective
consciousness type of way.
Therefore I think it might be useful to distinguish between two different types of civil religion, both operative
in America and distinguishable perhaps
more in the minds of the analyst than
in the
consciousness of the people.
Deleuze (1994) 14 - 15: «When the
consciousness of knowledge or the working thought of memory is missing, the knowledge
in itself is only the repetition of the object it is played, that is to say repeated, enacted instead of being known... the less one remembers, the less one is conscious of remembering one's past, the
more one repeats it.»
In the area of story and imagination, religious educators have perhaps been
more attentive than general educators because of the
consciousness that religious traditions are carried largely by story.
2 Shalom: For the beginnings of such a theory, see my essays «On the Structure of the Person: Time and
Consciousness» (
in Dialectics and Humanism, Journal of the Polish Academy of Science, 1975) and,
more particularly, «The Problem of the Person: Philosophy and the Neurologists» (to appear
in Dialectics and Humanism, 1979).
In this way Whiteheadian metaphysics represents a
more adequate solution to the problems of meaning and
consciousness, while at the same time providing a strong philosophical basis for the realism and causalism of science.
Thus Hume reduced causation to the repeated temporal contiguity of sensations, for he found nothing
more in consciousness to bind a cause with its effect.
For the associationists, a school of thought descended from Humean psychology, all that can be found
in the flow of
consciousness are the various sensations and the
more pale ideas, juxtaposed to one another, but with no relation except this juxtaposition to bind them.
The list of benefits attributed to regular Transcendental Meditation — 20 minutes with one's mantra, twice a day — is reminiscent of the labels on bottles of «snake oil» sold from medicine wagons
in former days: improvements
in metabolism and blood pressure, relaxation from anxiety, clearer and
more creative
consciousness, improved social relations.
«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).
Johan is implicated
in the
consciousness movement
in a
more philosophical sense than Marianne.
For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern
consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender
in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and
more eternal perspective — a perspective
in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.
If this is so, the cure for impotence is not
more faith
in mere mechanism —
in her case, schemes from the
consciousness movement for reprocessing the self.
Whereas Aristotle, as we have seen, took the first factor to be peculiar to conscious experience and the second to be the
more general factor lying at the base of
consciousness, Whitehead took the subject - object structure as general and fundamental and interpreted causal efficacy
in terms of it.
«
Consciousness only illuminates the
more primitive types of prehension so far as these prehensions are still elements
in the products of integration.
Today
more than ever before we feel the need — and also see a greater possibility — of objectifying the problem of the subjectivity of the human being... [W] e can no longer go on treating the human being exclusively as an objective being, but we must also somehow treat the human being as a subject
in the dimension
in which the specifically human subjectivity of the human being is determined by
consciousness.
It is
more hegemonic and comprehensive
in its approach and succeeded
in capturing not only resources and labour but also the public
consciousness.
As
consciousness of one's separateness grows, it becomes
more and
more difficult to overcome the distance through relation; heightened insecurity and need for decision produce an ever greater temptation to accentuate the distance and take refuge
in the pseudosecurity of the world of It, the world of ordered objectivity and private subjectivity.
It is incipiently rational, because its attention is directed to data supplied by the receptive
consciousness, and insofar as the reflective
consciousness becomes free from the dominance of the unconscious, these data must play a larger and
more direct role
in their own interpretation.
Matter does not remain lifeless and completely dispersed, but gradually converges upon itself and evolves
in the direction of
more complex life and eventually
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.
It would be possible and
more consistent to assume that all «matter,» including electrical fields, has a protopsychical nature, but can only become experienced when it is integrated
in certain complicated physico - chemical systems and pertains to a stream of
consciousness (cf. Part 6).
She leads the women
in a disidentification, self - identification exercise to become aware of their center of
consciousness, which is
more than their roles or subpersonalities.
It certainly is good to have finally found out that Christianity is nothing
more than just tradition, ritual and culture and that all the things which the Bible says about God and prayer are not true — God does not speak to or lead or guide or direct anyone or put thoughts
in anyone's mind or show them signs or speak to their heart or mind or tells them what to do or calls people or chooses people or has a plan for people's lives whether they are
in an altered state of
consciousness / transcendent state or whether they are
in an unaltered cognitive state.
When immediacy is assumed to have self - reflection, despair is somewhat modified; there is somewhat
more consciousness of the self, and therewith
in turn of what despair is, and of the fact that one's condition is despair; there is some sense
in it when such a man talks of being
in despair: but the despair is essentially that of weakness, a passive experience; its form is,
in despair at not wanting to be oneself.
On the other hand, the clearer
consciousness of himself (self -
consciousness) a man has
in committing suicide, the
more intense is his despair,
in comparison with that of the man whose soul, compared with his, is
in a confused and obscure condition.
With every increase
in the degree of
consciousness, and
in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the
more consciousness, the
more intense the despair.
He is even
more explicit: judgment and
consciousness are «very rare» phenomena
in the realization of propositions (PR 184/281, 259/396, 263/402).
Just as
in primitive man intelligent interpretation of signals continued alongside the
more comprehensive reflective
consciousness, so now the rational
consciousness came into being alongside the mythical
consciousness, but without overthrowing its inclusive dominance.
The task therefore is not to fight religion but,
more clearly stated here than before, to set up a society
in which religious
consciousness will die out.