Sentences with phrase «out of consciousness as»

I bobbed in and out of consciousness as she spoke, the lower half of my body lodged in the propeller of a boat.

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«The cameras being around definitely brought out a higher level of consciousness in the office as to how everyone dressed each day,» Bryan Zaslow said.

McDonald's remains a player that's out to win because as the health consciousness of customers has changed so too has its menu.

(As a historical explanation it may be pointed out that the consciousness industry in Russia at the time of the October Revolution was extraordinarily backward; their productive capacity has grown enormously since then, but the productive relationships have been artificially preserved, often by force.

It arouses in us sensations we have never had before, never anticipated having as though we had broken out of our normal mode of consciousness and possess joys [«Joy»] not promised to our birth!

A consciousness which could reveal and intuit an object without being conscious of itself as doing so would be an unconscious consciousness, which (as Sartre points out) is absurd.

Yet Bultmann still remains reluctant to interpret Jesus» present as based upon historical encounter: «This judgement of his about his present comes from his own consciousness of vocation; thus he creates it out of himself; and it is not, as was later the case in his Church, based upon looking back upon an event decisive for him.

It is also pointed out that the term translated «person» meant in the Greek world a mask and not, as in modern usage, a centre of self - consciousness.

It was not Kierkegaard or Chesterton or Barth — Updike's much - admired knights of Christian faith — who called God «the eternal not - ourselves» or who spoke of biblical language as a human net «thrown out at a vast object of consciousness.»

It is very true, as Capek points out (1:351 f.), that James (lid not extend, in the Psychology, his conclusions beyond the aspects of the stream of consciousness in the way Bergson did.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

«Yet,» says Tolstoy, «whilst my intellect was working, something else in me was working too, and kept me from the deed — a consciousness of life, as I may call it, which was like a force that obliged my mind to fix itself in another direction and draw me out of my situation of despair....

cit., p. 62 f.) But the I that steps out of the relational event into consciousness of separation retains reality as a seed within it.

The modern historian, as Friedrich Gogarten has pointed out, sees history as a linear process of evolution, comparable to the flow of experience reflected in the consciousness of the unrelated I.

Jesus's Messianic consciousness was probably influenced by the apocalyptic Book of Enoch, in which the form, but not the person, of the servant has pre-existence, and by the events of the end which may have led Jesus to step out of the concealment of the «quiver» and imagine himself, after the vision of Daniel, as in his own person the one who will be removed and afterwards sent again to the office of fulfillment.

Both Sartre and Merleau - Ponty build on Bergsonian along with Husserlian foundations and succeed in answering, to a significant degree the questions surrounding this first concern.77 The second aspect is the metaphysical issue of the concrete relation of the vital and the inert (or being and non-being, if you prefer a traditional vocabulary), including the role of consciousness treated as «a substance spread out through the universe,» to use Merleau - Ponty's description of Bergson.78 In the first aspect we ask what consciousness does and what it experiences or «knows» as a result, while in the second we ask about the relationship between what consciousness is (in relationship to everything else that is) and what that has to do with what it does.79

But, as was pointed out above, the degree of consciousness potentiates despair.

But then on the other hand how on earth can one expect to find an essential consciousness of sin (and after all that is what Christianity wants) in a life which is so retarded by triviality, by a chattering imitation of «the others,» that one hardly can call it sin, that it is too spiritless to be so called, and fit only, as the Scripture says, to be «spewed out»?

He correctly points out that hymnody has had a powerful influence on Anglican consciousness, with hymns providing a teaching modality as well as beauty in the worship of God.

-- Last but not least, as members of the human species, our universal responsibility is to encourage comprehension and appreciation for the excellence of the human spirit in all its manifestations; and for inspiring awe and wonder for a cosmos that brought forth life and consciousness and holds out the possibility of its continued evolution toward higher levels of insight, understanding, love, and compassion.

The only thing, as far as I am concerned, that keeps us permanent is our belief in the value of goodness, and how we translate that into daily action, even across the boundaries of race, gender, class, and creed... That is real permanence precisely because it does not, as a form of consciousness, submit to dogma that, with the way reality and history simply IS, or plays out, CAN NEVER give us all the answers...

As the embryo and then fetus grow we move through levels of potential consciousness that start out lower than a flatworm.

The global culture will evolve, if it evolves at all, out of the spread of global consciousness (as described in Chapter 8)-- a consciousness of the human predicament, an appreciation of humanity's dependence on the earth, and a willingness to act jointly in response.

However, if you're really determined, you can always think of yet another far - fetched factor or explanation, such as matter that comes into existence all by itself, an infinite number of universes in which every possibility has happened or will happen in its own universe, life and consciousness spontaneously arising out of inert matter, etc..

A similar judgment is tendered by William Seager, who points out that if the psychological is supervenient upon the physical, it is so in a way that is crucially different from the way in which liquidity is supervenient upon certain molecular states, because we have no idea as to why the joint activity of insentient neurons should give rise to consciousness (MC 179).

As a matter of fact, E. R. John and his colleagues have been carrying out experiments of this type to test a model of consciousness that links consciousness to the activity of a particular type of neuron.15 It appears that John's model predicts different results than the present model does, and one can think of several feasible experimental designs that would test between the two models.

But now we must ask to what extent the common conception of God itself derives from the same kind of projection of the human consciousness out into the unknown, as that which initiated animism, Platonism and the doctrine of immortality.

As you can see, my ongoing work undercut the primacy of reflection that at first was left out of the critique of the illusions of consciousness.

As Richard Grunberger points out in Twelve - Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany [Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971], «the incessant official demonization of the Jew gradually modified the consciousness even of naturally humane people,» so that the populace became indifferent to Jewish suffering, «not because it occurred in wartime and under conditions of secrecy, but because Jews were astronomically remote and not real people.»

Mythic consciousness, with its need to return periodically to the origins of the cosmos, cancelled out any inkling of time as an irrecoverable series of events.

But in the production of consciousness by the brain, the terms are heterogeneous natures altogether; and as far as our understanding goes, it is as great a miracle as if we said, Thought is «spontaneously generated,» or «created out of nothing.»

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

Indeed, within the field accessible to our experience, does not the birth of Thought stand out as a critical point through which all the striving of previous ages passes and is consummated — the critical point traversed by consciousness, when, by force of concentration, it ends by reflecting upon itself?

The emphasis of this book so far has been largely on awarenesses, on attitudes important for counselors and ministers as they face the ethical and psychological issues growing out of the rising consciousness of women.

After all, if we «swallow the camel» by not challenging the notion that unplanned natural forces gave rise to all living things, starting from nothing but nonliving chemicals, and «strain out the gnat» of man's consciousness as the sole exception to an otherwise completely natural explanation, are we not allowing religious beliefs to interfere with scientific explanation?

10:7 - 9) He took a body in order that He might suffer; He became man, that He might suffer as man; and when His hour was come, that hour of Satan and of darkness, the hour when sin was to pour its full malignity upon Him, it followed that He offered Himself wholly, a holocaust, a whole burnt - offering; - as the whole of His body, stretched out upon the Cross, so the whole of His soul, His whole advertence, His whole consciousness, a mind awake, a senseacute, a living co-operation, a present, absolute intention, not a virtual permission, not a heartless submission... His passion was an action.»

She laments that prochoice advocates see the woman who suffers «guilt and despair to be out of touch with her own needs, either deficient in feminist consciousness or victimized by Right - to - Life propaganda»; prolife advocates perceive the woman who displays no feelings as «inhuman and insensitive or as a victim of a culture that permits her to be indifferent to the value of life and provides her with no other options.»

Nonetheless, music, as literary and cultural critic George Steiner insists, «is brimful of meanings which will not translate into logical structures or verbal expression... Music is at once cerebral in the highest degree — I repeat that the energies and form - relations in the playing of a quartet, in the interactions of voice and instrument are among the most complex events known to man — and it is at the same time somatic, carnal and a searching out of resonances in our bodies at levels deeper than will or consciousness.»

They are aware as never before of the «historically contingent» nature of all human consciousness, that is, of how even the most apparently objective knowledge is conditioned and relativized by the context out of which it is nurtured.

However, it is quite possible to distinguish between an active and a passive form of the offended consciousness, if we take care to remember that the passive form is so far active as not to permit itself wholly to be annihilated (for offense is always an act, never an event); and that the active form is always so weak that it can not free itself from the cross to which it is nailed, or tear the arrow from out its wound.5

As the rotating system goes,»86 was to be the turn of the Western Hemisphere, so that the U.S. now found itself with a golden opportunity, enhanced when Brazil dropped out of the bidding, to stage the Cup and thus powerfully imprint the game on the consciousness of the nation.

Endorphins, the body's natural opiates, produce an altered state of consciousness and aid us in transmuting pain: and the fight or flight hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline (epinephrine and norepinephrine - also known as catecholamines or CAs) give us the burst of energy that we need to push our babies out in second stage.

i thought it was one of his best speeches yet - packed with references to everyone from Kennedy (ask not what your country can do for you), to King (we will get to the promised land), via Lincoln, Reagon and even Nixon, as Sunder points out... he demonstrates a powerful generational consciousness, the ability to join the dots between his country's social and political history, and to see his own forthcoming presidency's place in that context.

Karen Hinton, de Blasio's former press secretary, who was recently placed in a medically induced coma after suffering a serious head injury, as of Saturday was coming out of sedation but hadn't yet regained full consciousness.

The thalamus normally acts as a filter, winnowing out extraneous sensory information before relaying data to the cerebral cortex, the seat of memory, attention, language, and consciousness.

Somehow, we construct meaning out of those senses, experience that slippery property known as consciousness and perhaps even possess that elusive quality we call intelligence.

The cortex is responsible for a good degree of the contents of consciousness, and if I take out an awful lot of cortex, there gets to be a point where it's debatable as to whether you're conscious or not.

One year into her Ph.D. in Blanke's Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Lenggenhager helped develop an experimental concept aimed at recreating out - of - body experiences in healthy subjects as a way to study distorted self - consciousness.

As Marton suggests, the artists at Creedmoor effortlessly capture a disturbing vision that for many trained artists, burdened by self - consciousness, remains out of reach.

In fact, it is as if our consciousness is out on the golf course like the CEO of a big company while all the underlings are working.