Your comments mirror thoughts which have circled in and
out of my consciousness for a long time.
Rachel faded in and
out of consciousness for a while, until she was fully unconscious.
Paula, who was just shy of her ninety - fifth birthday and had been bedridden and drifting in and
out of consciousness for days, sat up in bed specifically to address her beloved husband.
You doze in and
out of consciousness for a few minutes, until you are roused from this Sunday morning bliss by a smell that could only have originated from rotting garbage mixed with poop.
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.
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.
Fundamentally, Christian spirituality is not about attaining an altered state
of consciousness but about widening the range
of genuine caring about others, so that we act
for their interest not
out of duty but
out of love.
For every work
of art is a community
of color or sound or shapes, producing
out of a variety
of elements some unity
of consciousness.
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).
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.
For example, «If I recite a, b, c, d, e, f, g, at the moment
of uttering d, neither a, b, c, nor e, f, g, are
out of my
consciousness altogether, but both, after their respective fashions, «mix their dim lights» with the stronger one
of d...» (PP1 257).
To those who claim not to operate from that world view, it should be pointed
out that an uncritical assumption
of divine causality creates obstacles
for communicating one's views to those who embrace the historical
consciousness.
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.
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 gr
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 gr
for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.
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.
-- 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.
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».
Now the third level
of consciousness that I want to lift
out of Frye's analysis he calls the level
of imagination, and the appropriate speech
for this level is what he calls «poetic language.»
But in the same context Whitehead points
out that, despite this multiplicity, it is a matter not only
of unified behavior but also
of consciousness of a unified experience, so that the explanation [260] called
for by the «miracle
of life» consists precisely in this unification.
For Ozick, however, the literary critic is herself the architect
of literary tradition, arranging works, authors, movements, and trends in conversation with one another, «teas [ing]
out hidden imperatives and assumptions held in common, and... creat [ing] the fertilizing conditions that underlie and stimulate a living literary
consciousness.»
That it is such a responsible and illuminating study is due largely to Morrissey's solid understanding that it is Voegelin's theory
of consciousness, presented and assessed here in detail in its development and refinement, that provides the key to appreciating the theological dimension
of Voegelin's philosophy and the basis
for working
out what Morrissey calls «the principles
of a Voegelinian theology.»
All that one need do, therefore, if the ordinary materialist should challenge one to explain how the brain can be an organ
for limiting and determining to a certain form a
consciousness elsewhere produced, is to retort with a tu quoque, asking him in turn to explain how it can be an organ
for producing
consciousness out of whole cloth.
For such people metaphor not only promises more than it can deliver, but its promises are too often grounded on false consciousness, so that a loss of faith in it is the beginning of wisdom — perhaps the philosopher Richard Rorty's discovery (bad news for Haeckel and his kind) that out there there is really no «out there.&raq
For such people metaphor not only promises more than it can deliver, but its promises are too often grounded on false
consciousness, so that a loss
of faith in it is the beginning
of wisdom — perhaps the philosopher Richard Rorty's discovery (bad news
for Haeckel and his kind) that out there there is really no «out there.&raq
for Haeckel and his kind) that
out there there is really no «
out there.»
It has even made a convert
out of the famed neuroscientist Christof Koch, and persuaded him to abandon his long arduous quest
for the origins
of consciousness through the ganglial forests
of the cerebral cortex.
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.
Out of the Egyptian existence
of formlessness and void Yahweh had created
for Israel a life relatively formed and ordered; certainly in the popular mind this definition
of existence continued to be valid and to provide meaning enough
for historical
consciousness, however strong the opposing judgment from core Yahwism, from prophetic Yahwism.
My
consciousness was, is, and will always be formed
out of that which does span countless eternity: that
for which exists before the moment
of what is, the Paradoxical Other, the great I AM.
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
Heinrich Graf von Bassewitz
of German farmer's association DBV said people should expect to pay more
for meat with the label, pointing
out that «consumers who complain about so - called factory farming have pushed forward this form
of agriculture through their purchase
of cheap foods and their extreme price -
consciousness.»
IBISWorld senior analyst Andrew Ledovskikh said on Monday that increasing health
consciousness among consumers was a major driver
of the shift along with drink - driving laws, the regular twice - yearly excise increases
for beer and spirits, and lock -
out laws in NSW and Queensland.
Those trainers, doctors, consultants, and spotters are all looking
for observable concussion symptoms: things like clumsy movement, loss
of consciousness, or the fencing response, which is when a player involuntarily extends his arms straight
out after suffering a brain injury.
Reprogrammed belief system, decided after originally planning elective caesarean that home birth was the go, committed time and energy into being pregnancy and preparing
for birth, faith over fear, comfortable with midwife after devoting time and energy into the relationship, created vision board and reflected daily, music at birth, swayed body, focused inwards, concentrated on breath, support from partner, relief in water pool, slipped in and
out of dreamlike
consciousness, caught baby in own hand s, profound spiritual connection, trusting
5) * Disturbed sleep: I've been having incredibly vivid dreams and nightmares — the type where you have to claw your way back to
consciousness,
out of breath, and then you remain convinced they're ever - so - slightly real
for ages after.
For another view, check
out this part
of Zephyr Teachout's lovely stream -
of -
consciousness look at on - the - ground canvassing:
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.
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.
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 those simple days, psychologists believed behaviourism had thrown
consciousness out of psychology
for good.
For Donald,
consciousness is largely a social phenomenon which grew
out of those first tentative gestures that our ancestors attempted.
«The brain at rest» is actually a hive
of activity and what it's doing is trying to sort
out information that comes in; I mean this is another, another thing that made Marcus Raichle curious about this, is we know,
for instance, that six million bits
of data go flowing in through your optic nerve from the environment around you, and then only 10,000
of those bits actually get to the brain's visual processing area and only a few hundred
of those are involved in
consciousness, and you know, the conscious processing associated with that visual activity.
Do many
of us find ourselves operating on autopilot in our day - to - day lives, saving the sensual
consciousness for dining
out, making love or getting a massage?
Don't worry about whether it makes sense; just get it all
out, whether it's stream
of consciousness, a to - do list
for later, or a 10 - page essay.
Although we were able to adjust
for changes in physical activity, we can not rule
out the possibility
of residual confounding due to health
consciousness if individuals who are eating healthier also make other healthier lifestyle changes not captured completely by our questionnaires.
Romance is possible in Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3
for both a male and female... Rogue learned that her parents, Owen and Priscilla, had sought
out the Far Banks, a world
of dreams that required a state
of heightened
consciousness to enter.
It's an unorthodox method
for honoring the spirit
of Camp Firewood, but it fits in this whacked -
out world in which an entire flannel can be contained within a ringbox and a man can live a full, fulfilling life a decade after an industrial accident merged his
consciousness with a can
of vegetables.
For those
of us who fail to see the dramatic tension
of a 1,000 - year - old alien in the form
of a young woman talking
out loud to the internal monologue
of that young woman trapped in the recesses
of the
consciousness of her presently occupied - by - an - alien body, this movie is an oddity.
The stylized visuals incorporating captions and call -
outs to pop culture form a stream -
of -
consciousness battleground
for the eponymous hero as twentysomthing Scott (Michael Cera) must battle his new true love's seven evil exes in order to win her heart and stay alive.
Jump cuts over the course
of a conversation leap forward in time and space, matching Scott's tendency to zone
out for hours before the last word he half - processed is repeated later and jolts him back into
consciousness.
He kept likening charters to the
consciousness - expanding «red pill» in The Matrix while calling
for an all -
out assault on public schools and public school educators who were irredeemable because they had taken the «blue pill»
of complacent resignation.