Sentences with phrase «not alter your state of consciousness»

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Fundamentally, Christian spirituality is not about attaining an altered state of consciousness but about widening the range of genuine caring about others, so that we act for their interest not out of duty but out of love.

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.

The question of course is: how does a person like me who is experiencing psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena while in an altered state of consciousness know whether or not it is god who is communicating with them?

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 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.

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?

I'm glad I found out that God does not speak to or lead or guide or direct me or put thoughts in my mind or show me signs whether I am in an altered state of consciousness / transcendent state or whether I am in an unaltered cognitive state.

But, although some of the specific experiences, such as pains, may be (at least virtually) determined by the brain (at least in what we usually consider «normal,» as distinct from «altered,» states of consciousness), others, such as thoughts and decisions, are not, but are based upon the mind's self - determination.

«We still can not claim that this is an altered state of consciousness,» Mazzoni says.

For those of you who desire to harness the medicinal benefits of cannabis but, like me, are not wanting to alter your state of consciousness, CBD is a beautiful, extremely effective alternative.

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.»