After spending over a week in bed drifting in and
out of consciousness in an alcoholic haze, she reached a realisation.
Not exact matches
Every few months, the ongoing upheaval
in the digital - music business forces its way into the public
consciousness — Rdio goes bankrupt, Pandora hangs
out a «For Sale» sign and then gets rid
of its CEO, artists and labels ramp up their criticism
of YouTube.
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.
«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.
While fading
in and
out of consciousness and refusing to put his seatbelt on, he offered Caban vague directives while uttering curses.
(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.
(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.)
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!
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.
The intuitional evidence for belief
in Allah, the belief based upon the recognition
of Allah by our inner
consciousness, is brought to our attention
in the Qur» an by pointing
out the important psychological fact that there is an instinctive feeling
of faith
in Almighty Allah, the Creator
of the universe, which comes to men when they are free from inclinations, or the distractions
of dull routines, or when surprised by the question
of the origin
of the universe, or when faced with hardships or misfortunes which they can not overcome by themselves.
It is by getting lost
in rivalry with competing interests that prayer slips
out of life, and disappears from
consciousness by the back door.
Jesus and his disciples
in the
consciousness of their mission drive
out demons and heal the sick.
The sad truth is that even the language
of Christian sign and symbol has largely died
out in people's
consciousness, so deep is the sterilising effect
of secularism upon our culture now.
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.
We must ask whether the physical and historical continuity that evolutionary theory posits,
in its picture
of life and
consciousness arising from a soup
of chemicals, rubs
out the hierarchical distinction
of levels.7
If he talks about the event character (1 / 10th
of a second
in length and all that)
of the self, it is because he thinks that is what analysis
of self -
consciousness itself discloses and not because he means to construct the self
out of subhuman individuals or organisms (Shalom's «event - cells»).
Thus, J. R. Lucas points
out that such a criterion for time involves not only technical tense - logical difficulties, 7 but also involves a denial
of the basic intuition that time is a concomitant
of consciousness — we are aware
of time even
in the most tranquil
of environments (TTS 13).
Religious awareness, Pannenberg explains, arises
out of the rudimentary
consciousness of the difference between «I» and «world» found already
in the act
of trust, which is then augmented by one's presence
in a family.
Brightman's reasoning is from the «inside
out» (empirical)
in both cases;
in this regard he calls himself an «empiricist
of consciousness, 48 which also explains his willingness, evidently motivated by a fondness for his method, to collapse epistemological and metaphysical questions.
The biologist H. Allen Orr, writing
in the New York Review
of Books, «has the decency to concede that it is not at all obvious how
consciousness could have originated
out of matter.»
The practice
of Transcendental Meditation is said to lead first to «transcendental -
consciousness»; this
in turn opens
out into «cosmic -
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.
Thus those elements
of our experience which stand
out clearly and distinctly
in our
consciousness are not its basic facts» (PR 245).
For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness
of those aspects
of our modern
consciousness which cut the heart
out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender
in us a sense
of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective
in which our love
of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.
«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....
Women are critical
in molding the ethical
consciousness of families — to deal with the pressure
of modern life and the demands it makes, on particularly the young, to break
out of the norm and to experiment with life.
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.
Though the Word breaks
out into the daylight
of consciousness only with the birth
of persons and human history, faith allows us to discern a great promise even
in the very earliest moments
of the cosmic adventure.
It certainly is good to have finally found
out that Christianity is nothing more than just tradition, ritual and culture and that all the things which the Bible says about God and prayer are not true — God does not speak to or lead or guide or direct anyone or put thoughts
in anyone's mind or show them signs or speak to their heart or mind or tells them what to do or calls people or chooses people or has a plan for people's lives whether they are
in an altered state
of consciousness / transcendent state or whether they are
in an unaltered cognitive state.
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.
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.
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.
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.
in relationship to everything else that is) and what that has to do with what it does.79
In the foregoing there is steadily pointed out a gradation in the consciousness of the self: first came unconsciousness of being - an eternal self (III.B a), then a knowledge of having a self in which there is after all something eternal (III.B b), and under this (1 i and ii, 2) there were again pointed out gradation
In the foregoing there is steadily pointed
out a gradation
in the consciousness of the self: first came unconsciousness of being - an eternal self (III.B a), then a knowledge of having a self in which there is after all something eternal (III.B b), and under this (1 i and ii, 2) there were again pointed out gradation
in the
consciousness of the self: first came unconsciousness
of being - an eternal self (III.B a), then a knowledge
of having a self
in which there is after all something eternal (III.B b), and under this (1 i and ii, 2) there were again pointed out gradation
in which there is after all something eternal (III.B b), and under this (1 i and ii, 2) there were again pointed
out gradations.
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»?
I'm glad I found
out that God does not speak to or lead or guide or direct me or put thoughts
in my mind or show me signs whether I am
in an altered state
of consciousness / transcendent state or whether I am
in an unaltered cognitive state.
If liberation theology arose
out of a
consciousness of the oppression
of the people by the capitalist system, then there is surely greater need
of a theology
of liberation
in this age
of globalization.
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...
It seems clear to me (I have been putting off and coming
out of the religion
of men for 28 years) that the clear teaching
of Scripture is that Man IS a Body AND Spirit
in combination — and the experience
of this interaction is the ephemeral thing we call
Consciousness — «Soul».
[1] John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae (Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1995), 65: AAS 87 (1995) 476, recalls that «Pius XII affirmed that it is licit to relieve pain by narcotics even when the result is decreased
consciousness and a shortening
of life, «if no other means exist, and if,
in the given circumstances, this does not prevent the carrying
out of other religious and moral duties.»
Barbara Brown points
out, «Biofeedback may provide the instrument to excise the cataracts
of scientific vision that so long have prevented participation
of the mind
of man [sic]
in the survival and evolution
of his own
consciousness and psyche.»
Only one - which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities
of being and doing with which you toy,
out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor
in the experience
of the mystery
of life, and the
consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your I».
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.
But we will
in faith continue to shape new ways
of speaking about the things
of God informed by events that spill
out of our own histories and self -
consciousness.
While Jesse was being taken back to his room, he was fading
in and
out of consciousness from the drugs.
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).
Whitehead is careful to point
out, however, that perception
in the mode
of presentational immediacy is not identical with the entire content
of our present
consciousness.