Sentences with phrase «of consciousness which»

Apologies for repeating myself through the «authoritative» words of Lewis via the enlightened stream of consciousness which is Doc Snow and out of the physical cyberspace of Tamino's Open Mind and back to the redundant past comments on Real Climate.

MadeIn artist collective held a solo exhibition of its new works titled Action of Consciousness which explored the concept of action.

This frequency has kept mortality at the forefront of my consciousness which I use the emotional toll as fuel for my making and research.

There is some lovely prose worthy of this author, but much of the novel is Malik's stream of consciousness which is sometimes amusing or interesting, but is sometimes rather tedious.

He taught how one can grow in self - knowledge with a learning, observing and listening mind and thereby come upon a transformation of consciousness which is a real change and not just a change of concepts in the head.

Research on the origin of the observer allows discovery of consciousness which is the common denominator of all people, regardless of their national, racial and religious affiliation.

If A and B represent two minds, largely private, but nevertheless capable of interacting directly or indirectly: A perceives certain regularities in its stream of consciousness which it ascribes to an external reality, B; but, as it does not enter into B's stream of consciousness, it in general tends to consider B as merely an unconscious source of disturbance, i.e., as matter.

What else can this mean except that, as shown by the development of nervous systems, there is a continual heightening, a rising tide of consciousness which visibly manifests itself on our planet in the course of the ages?

In these terms the unity of consciousness which Hartshorne raised previously is explained by Brightman in interactive terms between distinct consciousness and not in terms of a continuum (my word) of one single consciousness.

How about it as a state of consciousness which brings us to a dimension which has a higher energy than this one.

Granted that this is not the subjectivity of consciousness which Whitehead considers to be the task of philosophy to correct, but subjectivity as the primary metaphysical situation, it seems self - evident that unless subjectivity at the metaphysical level is mitigated, the same also can not be secured at the level of consciousness.

Stace makes the point that most of our intellectual processes are tied to sensations and images but that in mystical consciousness there are no external sensations at all, for one has gone beyond the level of the consciousness which relies upon such sensory input and of the intellectual processes which demarcate and integrate this sensory input.

This idea of a consciousness which posits itself in positing its contents undoubtedly constitutes the strongest resistance to any idea of revelation, not only in the specific sense of the religions of the book, but also in the larger, more global sense that we have just connected to the poetic function of discourse,

Gone, too, (at least virtually and in aspiration), is the infernal circle of egocentrism, meaning the isolation, in some sort ontological, which prohibits our escape from self to share the point of view even of those we love best: as though the Universe were composed of as many fragmentary universes, repelling each other, as the sum total of the centers of consciousness which it embraces.

The «Catch 22» — and the reason for appropriating the name «original sin» instead of simply describing these conditions as the way of things — is that personal action depends upon structures of consciousness which themselves involve seeds of their own transcendence.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

Is it the Christian spirit, on the contrary: the spirit of service and of giving; Man struggling like Jacob to conquer and attain a supreme center of consciousness which calls to him; the evolution of the earth ending in an act of union?

The empirical dimension of religious experience is founded on a sensitivity to what Whitehead has discerned as the value matrix of existence, whose religious meaning is grasped in the moment of consciousness which fuses the value of the individual for itself, the value of the diverse individuals for each other, and the value of the world - totality.

Without his putting himself in a religious frame of mind, creating for himself religious experiences, awakening within himself a so - called natural consciousness of God, thus without his being compelled to adopt forms of consciousness which he can no longer recapture, he must be encountered in his life, which has become secular, by the good news from the Lord of the world, who has committed himself in the man Jesus of Nazareth to the world and the secularity of the stable and the gallows («without the camp» of religion, Hebrews 13:13) 15

Thus we have a harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses which together make up a sort of super-consciousness; the earth not merely covered by myriads of grains of thought but enclosed in one single enveloping consciousness so that it forms, functionally, a single vast grain of thought on a sidereal scale of immensity, the plurality of individual acts of reflective consciousness coming together and reinforcing one another in a single unanimous act.

Not exact matches

Building a great company is just as hard as building a sh — ty company, which is just as hard as sitting on your couch all day — in the sense that it all costs roughly the same number of hours of consciousness, the same number of heartbeats, the same number of synapses firing.

He outlines three forms of consciousness: the simple consciousness of animals and humans; the self - consciousness of humans, which includes reason and imagination; and cosmic consciousness, which transcends factual understanding.

These answers are the correct answer if you're a Kardashian or a brand like Apple or Facebook, each of which have such a huge footprint in the public's consciousness that Zuckerberg or Kim becoming a parent or endorsing a new kind of breakfast sandwich is automatically news.

It also impacts how people view you, which can lead to heightened levels of self - consciousness (which can detract from focus on work - related tasks).

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.

Schoolcraft was responsible for coming up with the copy, which combined stream - of - consciousness musings with earnest but casual explanations of the product and the company's mission.

Intentional listening unlocks greater self - awareness, which is a state of consciousness that leads to joy and fulfillment.

The primary aim of the project is to create the technologies that will enable an individual's consciousness to be uploaded to a nonbiological host, which would ultimately enable humans to live forever.

Morning pages is a powerful stream of consciousness writing exercise that is not intended to yield publishable material, but which can help you get your pen moving and your thoughts flowing — even if you never intend to share them with the rest of the world.

Outside groups like Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation — which offers sustainable housing to residents of the Lower Ninth Ward — Global Green USA and AmeriCorps all helped bring about a sea change in consciousness about sustainable housing and renewable energy, Cantin says.

Our mission is to discover, develop and commercialize core principles of nature which give rise to information, consciousness and intelligence.

Comparison leads to feelings of self - consciousness, which can manifest itself into social anxiety or destructive perfectionism tendencies.

I choose to live life to the fullest through joy of discovering His «art» like fractals, birth, consciousness, seasons, animals, the «mighty deep» thanks to a Creator rather than accidental and inconsequential life, while hanging in the perfect orbit between burning up and freezing, complete with the earth's own washing machine, the ocean, which cycles on accidental moon power.

Substantially, Gahl says: In the moment in which the penitent confesses a behavior that constitutes gravely sinful matter, committed without full consciousness and deliberate consent, the confessor will explain to him the doctrine of the Church regarding his particular problem and will refuse to impart absolution if the penitent will not commit himself in the future to avoid that behavior.

It is only that after death we lose consciousness of time and assumed we would wake up again after 10000 real years minus our remaining lifetime, which would be still about 10000 years, we would feel that only a moment had gone by after we had died.

But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who just likes to have an unassaiable argument which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion of god to go on with their everyday lives.

But then he wants to argue that the problem of making quantum measurements requires consciousness for its resolution — which, if true, would certainly strengthen the case for his nonmaterialist interpretation of mind.

Hans Urs von Balthasar has insightfully traced the ways in which the identification of God, creation, and human consciousness strongly shaped both the theistic and atheistic streams of eighteenth - and nineteenth - century Romanticism.

We are in the midst of a Copernican shift in human consciousness [thought patterns] which is why there is so much conflict between people of good will.

The Viennese modernists trod their chosen path with the consciousness of a necessity which seemed to them almost like fate....

As my friend Pastor Richard John Neuhaus has so eloquently put it, «the Holocaust is in modern consciousness the icon of barbarity by contrast with which civilization is defined.»

For both sexes there is Terence McKenna's promise of an «Archaic Revival» in which human consciousness and the world will be psychedelically transformed by way of the magic mushrooms McKenna discovered in the rain forests of the Amazon.

For the consciousness of that experience of the self is mediated by the dialectical examination or analysis which brings it to consciousness.

The technical distinction between receivers and transmitters reflects the social division of labor into producers and consumers, which in the consciousness industry becomes of particular political importance.

The buildings and statues were not static but dynamic in the consciousness of the inhabitants of the first - century world, they were places about which regular public rituals, processions, sacrifices, and feasts would be centred, in which all members of the community would often to some extent be involved.

The programs of the consciousness industry must subsume into themselves their own results, the reactions and the corrections which they call forth, otherwise they are already out of date.

It is, then, these unconscious valuations of pure conceptual possibilities which rise to consciousness in God's propositional feelings about the world.

(Other issues were also at stake, especially a shift in eschatology in which premillennialism tended to erode the commitment to social reform and probably various sorts of social class sortings out, but the themes sketched above better represent the fundamentalist self - consciousness.)

George Orwell's bogey of a monolithic consciousness industry derives from a view of the media which is undialectical and obsolete.