Sentences with phrase «on individual consciousness»

What is distinctive about Sean Scully is that his work is absolutely contemporary, insists on individual consciousness and independent thinking, and is able to explore and express the essential power of the inner consciousness and of the external world in such a way as to make a really valuable contribution to the life and the history of art in a tempestuous time.»

There certainly is something that can be called a collective consciousness of the total group, but to get at it one must rely on an individual consciousness that is hopelessly hemmed in by its own individuality.

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If one considers, however briefly, what conditions will make possible the flowering in the human heart of this new universal love, so often vainly dreamed of but now at last leaving the realm of the utopian and declaring itself as both possible and necessary, one notices this: that if men on earth, all over the earth, are ever to love one another it is not enough for them to recognize in one another the elements of a single something; they must also, by developing a «planetary» consciousness, become aware of the fact that without loss of their individual identities they are becoming a single somebody.

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.

(30) Ellul urges, instead, emphasis on individuals, «humans [who would] combine into new patterns not under «la technique's» tutelage, [a] reordered consciousness [which] would begin choking out today's monolithic structure - within communications as elsewhere.»

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.

Culture relies on individual creativity to foster consciousness, which then becomes expanded and refined through critical conversation.

The Bible is viewed not only as an historical or canonical document, but as a description of the individual soul's journey of spiritual development and commentary on what happens when different states of consciousness interact with one another in the collective drama of human existence.

They say that God is love, that love is consciousness of consciousness, or experience of experience, that God is not the absolute but is «more than the absolute,» also is not without becoming or dependence on ordinary individuals for the full divine actuality.

Divine Science represents many of the New Thought denominations in declaring, «Sickness is the result of a belief in two powers; a lack of the full realization that we are, in Truth, spiritual beings... when an individual is expressing on a high level of consciousness and knows completely that he is Spirit, he can not be ill, for he is in complete harmony with the one creative power, God.»

No doubt it is true, scientifically speaking, that no distinct center of superhuman consciousness has yet appeared on earth (at least in the living world) for which it may be claimed or predicted that one day it will exercise a centralizing function, in relation to associated human thought, similar to the role of the individual «I» in relation to the cells of the brain.

Characterizing world consciousness as «a very high level abstraction which has affected the thought patterns of an individual or of a society» (p. 5), Regan goes on to show how for Whitehead the approximation to world consciousness and the development of religion are parallel.

On the other hand, in the Bible the promise of deliverance is mediated to a group primarily through the consciousness and responsiveness of exceptional individuals.

When speaking «of «persons»... beware of... anachronistically foisting contemporary notions of the person onto the ancient texts, especially since most modern Westerners tend to focus on the person as the center of individual psychological consciousness...» (p. 37).

If, abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them remind us of what we find outside of conversion that we are tempted to class them along with other automatisms, and to suspect that what makes the difference between a sudden and a gradual convert is not necessarily the presence of divine miracle in the care of one and of something less divine in that of the other, but rather a simple psychological peculiarity, the fact, namely, that in the recipient of the more instantaneous grace we have one of those Subjects who are in possession of a large region in which mental work can go on subliminally, and from which invasive experiences, abruptly upsetting the equilibrium of the primary consciousness, may come.

Some of the techniques described here are suitable for use with groups or individuals or couples when the main focus is on reeducation or consciousness raising with normally functioning people.

He did not merely copy Democritus» physics, as was commonly thought, but introduced the idea of spontaneity into the movement of the atoms, and to the Democritus world of inanimate nature ruled by mechanical laws he added a world of animate nature in which the human will operated.9 Marx thus favours the views of Epicurus for two reasons: firstly, his emphasis on absolute autonomy of the human spirit has freed human beings from all superstitions of transcendent objects; secondly, the emphasis on «free individual self - consciousness» shows one way of going beyond the system of a «total philosophy».

Rollo May describes what one experiences in such crises: «With the confrontation of non-being, existence takes on a vitality and immediacy, and the individual experiences a heightened consciousness of himself, his world, and others around him.»

Still without a discernible consciousness of the growing corollary problems, Whitehead now softens the claims to effectiveness of a theory based on mathematically formulated natural science: Such a theory is not capable of either sufficiently explaining or even replacing individual sense perceptions and their relation to the world.

On this account, consciousness can not belong entirely to individuals.

The ant colony, on the other hand, could be considered to have a higher level of consciousness than the individual ant; it is certainly more intelligent.

This implies a lack of consciousness that their individual situation impacts on everything they do, including their research work.

Justin Faerman is a visionary change agent, entrepreneur and healer dedicated to evolving global consciousness, bridging science and spirituality and spreading enlightened ideas on both an individual and societal level.

To achieve this, we need to create a new ethic of diversity, based on the ecology of consciousness, which evolutionary spirit derives in taking individual responsibility and the transformation of the present through cooperative action.

Seizures (also called convulsions or fits) are sudden electrical events that happen in the brain and they cause: A change is the patient's consciousness or awareness of what is going on around them Uncontrolled movement of the body Seizures have many manifestations, but the signs shown by an individual are usually the -LSB-...]

The works on show will explore ideas of the cyborg and the avatar raising questions of identity and individual and collective consciousness at a time of prolific social change and uncertainty when reality can often seem more like science fiction.

His current work further researches human perception and the impact of new technologies on both individual and collective consciousness.

In this exhibition, Hentschlager creates an immersive environment of sight and sound reflecting on the nature of human perception and the accelerated impact of new technologies on both individual and collective consciousness.

The Gutai group strongly leaned on the freedom of expression, creating art like it's never been done before, connecting the whole world within a sole «collective spirit of individuality» where the principles of a community consciousness were crucial, yet encouraged and gave way to individual paths.

Brain injuries can be mild, moderate or severe, usually depending on the nature and location of the forces or impact upon the brain, whether the person lost consciousness (and if so, for how long), age, sex and general health of the individual, and the post injury course of care and treatment.

This case has raised the consciousness of these issues — partly owing to the fact that Uber is becoming a household name and because of the size of the settlement — and on the real status of individual «gig» workers.

Using his charm, ancient tool bag and positive energy, the Leo King reclaims his throne and sets on his quest to lead the new world into illuminating its individual and collective consciousness.

Using his charm, ancient tool bag and positive energy, the Leo King reclaims his throne and sets on his quest to lead the new world into illuminating its individual and collective consciousness.

Attachment style, as measured by self - report questionnaires is a product of thoughts that enter an individual's consciousness whereas developmental attachment patterns assessed by narrative techniques (such as the AAP) are based on the evaluation of defensive processes, and therefore are in their method closer to the original, strange situation paradigm.