Basically flow is a state
of consciousness where feelings, thoughts, concepts of time and place have been suspended.
This is a state
of consciousness where people passively believe what they are told, rather than what they themselves think.
Her influence upon my work has not been triggered by a specific painting but like most cultural phenomenon, Bridget's shadow has crept onto the fringes
of my consciousness where it has remained, indelible and concrete in its assertive energy.»
Although humans operate in a physically small container called the body, we are able to reach a level
of consciousness where, ultimately, the whole universe is ourselves.
It is a state
of consciousness where the body is completely relaxed and you as a practitioner become aware of the inner world in a systematic way by following a guided instruction.
Hypnosis is often defined as an altered state
of consciousness where people become more suggestible.
«The great ones,» he says «are operating at a level
of consciousness where fear doesn't exist.»
Not exact matches
We have 75 projects in and out
of my
consciousness, so you're juggling all day long and just trying to push those boulders up to
where they need to be.
I was so cold at one point that I felt like someone who was drowning — that moment
where you're in and out
of consciousness and stuck in lala land.
One, the human translation is flawed, written by primitives compared to
where humans stand today in greater depth
of intelligence and
consciousness.
Where does the «type
of consciousness» come from that enables Christians to see the IMMORALITY
of God's support for slavery and discriminations?
For Gilkey, the «neo»
of his orthodoxy is precisely
where he remained most liberal» not just his penchant for talking about biblical symbols and myths but also his conviction that the problem
of historical
consciousness is the context for all modern theology.
We have a great understanding
of where consciousness and intelligence comes from.
And it is conscious: that is, it does not stay below the threshold
of consciousness and work there unknown to the soul (as, for instance, infant baptism is thought by some to do), but comes within the field
of awareness
where the man can «know» it as he knows any other fact
of experience.
Our special status and responsibility, however, are not limited to
consciousness of our own personal bodies, or even
of the human world, but extend to all embodied reality, for we are that part
of the cosmos
where the cosmos itself has come to
consciousness.
Everywhere, as we are well aware, the lines
of active phyletic development grow warm with
consciousness as they approach the summit; but in one clearly - marked region at the centre
of the kingdom
of mammals,
where the most powerful brains ever fashioned by nature are to be found, the lines glow red - hot; and already at the heart
of this region there burns a point
of incandescence.
This means that, boldly walking
where Kant feared to tread, Hegel has identified the content
of consciousness with
consciousness itself, with self -
consciousness, and is well on his way to giving the Kantian transcendental ego, as spirit, the «true something,» an ontological significance that Kant did not intend.
Where an important transformation seems to have taken place is at the level
of the latest link in the chain, that
of the «acquirement
of consciousness».
Where the dialogue between this newer modern
consciousness and the biblical witness is sensitively pursued, it can yield the kind
of critical insight into our understanding
of man which we desperately need in this age
of yearning and conflict.
Where you seem to slip [off the rails all the time is your contention god and / or created
consciousness exits without ANY evidence
of ANY kind except AN IDEA!
Hegel, in those difficult, often cryptic, but nevertheless profoundly rewarding pages in the final sections
of The Phenomenology
of Spirit,
where he discusses Christianity as the «absolute religion,» gives witness to the advent
of an absolute form
of Christianity which both negates all previous religion and promises a reconciliation
of all those antinomies which have plagued human
consciousness throughout its history.
As your race ascends their forms will go to a place
of waiting
where they will better learn to understand their new shift
of consciousness.
If
consciousness could exist outside
of the human brain and wasn't just something produced by the brain interacting with the environment,
where would it exist?
We have too often sought God logically in the «left brain» rather than expanding our use
of the right hemisphere
of the brain
where intuitive, prayerful, loving, visual thinking occurs —
where we pray, believe, love and develop a
consciousness of the total mind - body - spirit relationship.
The idea here is very clear: If a person is nonreligious, then TM presents itself as being nonreligious, too, so as to meet him on his own turf; then it draws him to a «unified, monistic, cosmic God -
consciousness» typical
of Hinduism, never indicating in advance
where he is headed.
I doubt that now, but I do predict a greater self -
consciousness of a Holiness bloc
of denominations grouped under the CHA,
where there is already very close cooperation in such areas as publishing and preparing Christian education materials.
Here goes another try... The Universe is a chaotic mixture
of matter (sub-atomic particles) and energy (motion and, light) in space time,
where matter, through evolution, recombines to raise up
consciousness, such as yourself.
If the occasions
of the dominant society
of human
consciousness are spatially extended, we might wonder both
where they are and how big they are.
It'll fall in line with this «group
consciousness» and «we're all one» routine
where, if you don't fall in line you'll have to be «removed like a cancer from the body
of humanity» (her phrase, not mine).
They provide the organism, or, as Santayana puts it, the psyche (this being the power
of the organism to develop and protect its form in a manner responsive to the environment) with its
consciousness (symbolic rather than literal
of what and
where it is, and
of what it is up to, but play no real part in controlling its behavior.
Here my every ounce
of concentration is involved in trying to remember
where I put it; every aim
of the moment is directed toward drawing forth into
consciousness what I know is buried in my brain somewhere and what I am confident I will uncover shortly.
We have seen that we can account for the type
of situation
where a general feeling tone persists in
consciousness as a background for a focal point
of attention.
This new
consciousness has begun to shape an emerging yet coherent view
of an interconnected world,
where humans are inextricably linked to one another, whether we like it or not, and
where all are connected to and dependent on the natural world in which we all live.
Where I would previously have been inclined to agree with Whitehead's characterization
of Bergson that the intellect cart only grasp by spatializing, I now think (and have argued above) that I had failed to recognize fully the implications
of the claim I had argued for in 1993 — that if there can be no intuition without intellect, and if intuition can grasp intelligible things without spatializing, then there is a sense in which the intellect, insofar as it is manifest in intuitive operations
of consciousness, can grasp experience without spatializing it.
This sense
of the word is best illustrated in Hosea,
where the ghastly double rupture
of marriage and covenant is in prophetic
consciousness a fait accompli, and
where the prophet draws an analogy between the relationship
of husband and wife and that
of Yahweh and his people.
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.
The church understood as the repository
of religious
consciousness, or as the apex
of «Christian» civilization, or as the private club
of moral rectitude, could no longer be the place
where the thunder and lightning
of God's grace breaks through to human beings.
It seems that
where Man is concerned the specific function
of education is to ensure the continued development
of this personality by transmitting it to the endlessly changing mass: in other words, to extend and ensure in collective mankind a
consciousness which may already have reached its limit in the individual.
Including the subjective immediacy, this «objective» immortality also includes
consciousness in those cases
where consciousness is the subjective form
of immediacy.
It reminds me also
of Peter Nagel's new book «Mind and Cosmos», heresy to some biologists and philosophers, and discussed this weekend in the National Post,
where he brings in «
consciousness», which seems to be the highest thing, yet completely ignored.
Essential to many types, if not all, is the belief that there is a supernormal state
of consciousness in which a breakthrough
of the normal limits
of consciousness raises one to a dimension
where a new state
of being comes about.
We can not bury our head in the proverbial sand about
where the collective evolution
of consciousness has brought us thus far.
T he ground
of being is revealed in the metaleptic relationship
where the divine and being dwell together in the tension
of existence is Voegelin's response to the questions
of existence and being found in the philosophy
of consciousness.
he ground
of being is revealed in the metaleptic relationship
where the divine and being dwell together in the tension
of existence is Voegelin's response to the questions
of existence and being found in the philosophy
of consciousness.
That self -
consciousness is held in abeyance by whatever decision, by whatever choice, or whatever trial
where it is made to answer a summons — even that which is the appearance
of the absolute — does not express the feebleness
of the proof
of testimony, as in Aristotle, but the finitude
of the
consciousness to which absolute knowledge is refused.
And what can this mean except that, like those planetary orbits which seem to traverse our solar system without remaining within it, the curve
of consciousness, pursuing its course
of growing complexity, will break through the material framework
of Time and Space to escape somewhere towards an ultra-center
of unification and wholeness,
where there will finally be assembled, and in detail, everything that is irreplaceable and incommunicable in the world.
Not, it is true (at least not yet, here below) synthesis pushed to the point
where it calls into being some new kind
of autonomous super-center in the depths
of the synthesized, but a synthesis which at least suffices to erect, as though it were a vault above our heads, a domain
of interwoven
consciousness, the site, support and instrument
of super-vision and super-ideas.
What at the very beginning made the first man, was, as we know, the heightening
of the individual
consciousness to the point
where it acquired the power
of Reflection.
We are just beginning to see a quantum leap forward in human
consciousness where the Big Picture is coming into focus in the minds
of many people.
Where consciousness occurs, it appears as the subjective form
of some part
of the higher phases
of experience.