Sentences with phrase «peak experience»

Returning to pursuits that provide you with peak experiences of flow throughout life keeps your energy and creativity fresh, flexible, and alive in you, opening possibilities for further adventures and joys.

They could have more peak experiences of living and ministry.

It marked the brothers» peak experience in film, their fastest, craziest, funniest film before leaving Paramount and going to MGM, where their films became longer, slower and more expensive.

Anyone who doubts this ought to reread that brilliant, genreconscious postmodernist (not existentialist) Soren Kierkegaard on sin, grace and the decentered Christian self Even the otherwise happy recovery of the traditions of Christian spirituality in our day are also in danger of becoming further fine - tuning, further new peak experiences for the omnivorously consuming modem self.

Natural awareness of beauty can vary with our state of preparedness, but we can all recognise peak experiences of beauty that awaken or startle us and remain long in our memories.

First, it is true that precious peak experiences of maximal creativity are sporadic and unpredictable; but we should remember that in process thought, creativity is a universal metaphysical category exemplified to some degree by all events.

Liberal Christians can thank Hauerwas for being so careful to identify what James and Niebuhr cared most about: the growth of individuals as they pursue peak experiences of intimate knowledge (James) and build on those experiences to spread justice in the world (Niebuhr).

Mystical peak experiences are valued over the rationality and control by reason seen by adults as valuable.

The transcendental nature of peak experience results from transmutation such that the polarities felt in ordinary experience as oppositions or contradictions come to be felt rather as contrasts within the Void,

(See Abraham H. Maslow Religions, Values?And peak experiences (Columbus: Ohio State University Press 1964), pp. 91 - 96.)

The deepening or intensification of feeling that is characteristic of initial and low level LSD experience attains full import in the more significant peak experience.

There is a huge culture around using substances to facilitate peak experiences on the dance floor - which can actually be quite a gateway for people to experience levels of interconnectedness and bliss they didn't know existed.

We also have outdoor rock climbing at Peak Experiences and Manchester Climbing wall, which offers a unique chance to climb with the city skyline as a backdrop.

Though while the Peugeot is being piloted by rally legend Sebastien Loeb, at the Toyota's helm will be Nobuhiro Tajima (more commonly known as Monster Tajima), a man with over 20 years of Pikes Peak experience.

Certainly the Hogsback Mountain peaks experience cappings of snow, and the village regularly follows suite.

Designed to bring the best of the outdoors in, the Whitney Peak experience focuses on health, local food and heritage, and quality entertainment.

Thus, OSW generation could help offset the exceptionally high demand peaks experienced around 6:00 p.m. during summer months, which require grid operators to dispatch costly (and often inefficient) generation assets.

«When people reflect on their sex lives, they usually remember peak experiences when sex was spontaneous and new,» says Kerner.

Hoffman, Edward, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Peak Experiences in Childhood: An Explanatory Study

But thousands of youth dabble in drug use, particularly «pot,» to share in a peer - group ritual, for a «peak experience,» or simply to try something exciting of which the square adult world vigorously disapproves.

In Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences, social psychologist Abraham Maslow noted how the great religions of the world developed around the religious experiences of the prophet and his or her early followers.

The learning that is supposed to come from what the late Abraham Maslow immortalized as the «peak experience» proves to be an elusive commodity for the person trying to translate it into a better life 365 days a year.

The emphasis on the value of experiencing pleasure, love, and peak experiences, makes for a whole new and freer approach to sex on the part of many young people, an area which is particularly distressing to parents who view the new morality of youth as immorality.

Guilt, anxiety, emotional development, religious conversion, peak experiences, and responses to death are among the phenomena in human life which can be analyzed by the psychologist.

Have you ever had any sort of mystical experience, or as A. H. Maslow puts it in humanistic terms, a peak experience?

Most youth hunger for what Maslow called «peak experiences.»

Peak experiences are much more than emotional «trips.»

Proceeding from the whole group to small groups to couples, focus on values and on ways to encourage each other's continuing spiritual development, resolve religious conflicts, increase «peak experiences» in marriage, celebrate our struggles and growth together, and deepen experiences of nurturing trust in the Spirit of life and love

At the end of an intensive group it is well to point out that something of a letdown is natural after any mountain - peak experience.

The fullest extension of this phenomenon occurs in the peak experience of being one with the universe, which is the discovery that the individual act of becoming is «the universe incarnating itself as one» (PR 375).

It is difficult to explain the peak experience in terms of a simple expansion of consciousness because the type of consciousness exhibited in this experience seems to represent a transcendent disconnection from the ordinary, discriminate modes of consciousness:

-- Spiritual growth, the enhancement of one's values, meanings, «peak experiences,» and relationship with God, is central to whole - person growth.

The most fundamental opposition transmuted into contrast in the peak experience is the object / subject differentiation.

From the perspective of this peak experience one feels not so much that he is in an expanded state, but rather that ordinary consciousness is only a partial, incomplete aspect of true consciousness.

-- Religions, Values and Peak Experiences.

Grof's work shows, however, that the peak experience usually follows successive sessions of working up through lower - level material and that it can lead to the integration of spiritual values into one's way of life (RHU 154, 208).

The effect of the peak experience is to promote what Whitehead calls «Peace,» which is «a broadening of feeling due to the emergence of some deep metaphysical insight, unverbalized, and yet momentous in its co-ordination of values» (AI 367).11