Sentences with phrase «people in trances»

«She could make parakeets and balloons disappear from her hand, and put people in trances and make them rise up into the air.

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There was a time when I was, independently, reading Behe and all about intelligent design and was thoroughly involved in debating «evolutionists» and arguing with people accusing them of thinking only within the «trance» of science.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

There have been persons in the Bible who, while praying, fell into a trance — an altered state of consciousness — and heard voices (emphasis is mine in the following scriptures):

One of the biggest successes in his 15 years of dj» ing and producing, is the popular A State of Trance radio show, listened to by more than 20 million people in over 60 countries each week.

We got a window into the heartache and joy that is only possible to experience as a parent, as well as a snapshot of the kinds of parents most people don't want to be: a drunk mother who embarrasses and ignores her children, a highly negative and depressive father, a mother who quizzes her child incessantly to perform in front of strangers, and then BAM, pull me out of my «oh yeah, I agree they suck» trance, next in line for how not to parent was the negative caricature of an AP mother.

Some people are lucky and can automatically put themselves in a painless trance but others need practice and guidance.

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

One school claims that hypnosis fundamentally alters a subject's state of mind; the other believes that there is nothing radical about it, that all the strange experiences and odd behaviors typically associated with hypnosis can be observed in people who are not actually in a hypnotic trance.

His research has included brain scans of people in prayer, meditation, rituals, and trance states, as well as surveys of people's spiritual experiences and attitudes.

His research includes taking brain scans of people in prayer, meditation, rituals, and trance states, in an attempt to better understand the nature of religious and spiritual practices and attitudes.

Im a foot person, hate snobby people, am a sucker for game shows, love 80s music, trance / techno music, love dogs, hate okra with a passion, tired of movie remakes because there is no more originality in Hollywood.

On souk day, people act as if in a trance.

Many people find themselves in a meditative trance as they watch and listen to ocean waves.

One of the artists will enter into a state of trance in order to contact the other side, acting as a medium for the audience in the attempt to bridge the gap between the actual room and the space and people that exist in another dimension.