Sentences with phrase «nothing mystical»

Following the Lost model, Burke is stuck on an island of civilization in the mountains, but the model breaks down when it becomes clear that there is nothing mystical about Wayward Pines.

Nobody has a clue how it all fits together and that's what I was trying to do in my contribution to this issue is to remind people how fantastically complicated and mysterious the brain is; and there is nothing mystical about it.

But Vinge laid down the modern version, which was that consciousness — there is nothing mystical about it — that consciousness as it occurs in human brains is something that is the result of physical processes and biological processes and chemical processes and because of that it will be reproducible.

Smith says that while there's «nothing mystical» about the pineal and parapineal organs, they do enable extraordinary abilities.

Nothing mystical about what it causes to happen to the parochial reflex in religious folks — we see it all over the place.

There's nothing mystical or supernatural in this.

There is nothing mystical or magical about them unless you know nothing about chemistry and salinity and water tempuratures.

Not exact matches

And of course the mystical life, the mystical search, is the search for the God who is nothing.

On the contrary, a fully mystical regeneration annuls or dissolves both spatial location and temporal duration; hence, the Oriental mystic invariably speaks of a timeless Eternity, a Nothing, or a Void.

As Vergote remarks quite accurately «The religious content of mystical visions is not different from the content of faith; figurative representations are derived from natural perceptions., As far as revelation is concerned, visions add absolutely nothing.

Sin is not this mystical toggle switch that if it's on, you're nothing BUT a sinner.

Fred is telling you how some people come to believe, and you are countering with the claim that his explanations need not involve the «mystical» or the «supernatural» and that nothing he has said has proven the existence of God or established the truth of the Christian stories.

Whether or not Jung may truly be identified as a Gnostic (and he has so identified himself on numerous occasions), there is nothing in what he describes as individuation that is not far more fully present in classical mystical ways of both the East and West.

In all this I say nothing of any mystical insight or persuasion that the total frame of things absolutely must be good.

What I really worry about is this idea I call it the romantic mystique — that romantic love is mystical and incomprehensible and wonderful and you shouldn't try to figure out what's going on with it, there's nothing you can change, it is what it is and there's nothing you'd want to change because it's perfect.

There is nothing magical — no mystical chemical reaction happens.

I know that I love a good unicorn craft and There is nothing I enjoy more than stumbling upon a craft involving my favorite mystical creature!

While it's essentially nothing like a Terrence Malick movie («Malick-esque» being the most abused term of 2013), what it does share spiritually with that mystical filmmaker is a sense of curiosity and wonder with a similar patience to explore the silences and mysteries of nature.

We had heard mystical rumblings back in 2010 that Marvel and Disney wanted to add the Sorcerer Supreme to the their then - burgeoning roster of superhero movies, but nothing came of it.

A failed (though ambitious) experiment in mystical sci fi horror, Dante 01 emerges from its very long gestation to resemble nothing so much as a poorly translated Heavy Metal comic strip.

For the unfamiliar, Legend of Kay is an action platformer that has you travelling the mystical land of Yenching fighting the evil animal invaders (no this has nothing to do with Kung Fu Panda).

In My Amazon bestseller made me nothing at Salon, Wensink doesn't just burst the bubble, he smears the soap all over that face of mystical anticipation.

For a mystical experience, there's nothing quite like a visit to the ATM Cave (Actun Tunichil Muknal), in western Belize near San Ignacio Cayo District.

N.E.R.O or Nothing Ever Remains Obscure is a puzzle based first person game which is set in a fictional mystical world.

If you have ever wondered what the end of the world will look like, then hopefully it will be nothing like the tale told in Extinction: a story about the last member of an order formed to battle against mystical 100ft tall Orc beasts known as Raven» ii.

The story found Lara trapped on a mystical island and forced to survive against an army of cultists with nothing but her will, her wit, and a whole lot of explosions.

In Street Fighter 4, Elena wears... well, she wears almost nothing, but the bands that she wears on her arms, legs and neck vaguely suggest African tribal culture, and she possesses that stereotypical character trait of a mystical connection to the earth.

For me, that is part of their emotional power, although there is nothing symbolic or mystical in my work» - Richard Long

My personal opinion — based on nothing other than a subjective feeling — is that the black paintings do provide a contemplative experience I would call mystical.

I also read all these fantasy books when I was maybe 8 or 9 or 10 or so by Anne McCaffrey about dragons in a mystical fantasy earth where, I can't totally remember, but in one quest the protagonists were traveling towards the place where the land ends and maybe there's nothing beyond it.

There is nothing even slightly mystical nor pretentious about it.

While he alludes to some mystical un-struck balance, it sounds unlikely that he either understands the conversation around or is particularly concerned by the all - or - nothing proposition of requiring tech companies to create backdoors into their products that would allow the government to bypass encryption.

Nothing too mystical going on here.