Sentences with phrase «psychic phenomenon as»

What's the distinction between a spiritualist, like Conan Doyle, and someone who researched psychic phenomenon as a possible scientific force?

All these scriptures / Biblical teachings created a problem for me as over the years when I would experience psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena as a result of intense / deep prayer and meditation, I actually thought that God was trying to show me a sign or tell me something or he was leading me in a particular direction.

Not exact matches

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

As I tried to show in the preceding part, we also know something about the structure and function of that part of brain matter to which psychic phenomena correspond.

But it is sufficient for our questioning that the conclusion is justified that fish, too, absolutely behave as if they have psychic phenomena.

It seems the world is made up of: — persons who enter a mystical state and experience oneness and tranquility — persons who have adverse reactions as their minds dissociate resulting in their experiencing psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

The assumption of interactionism has the advantage that it explains why increasingly complicated psychic phenomena evolved and why they must not be regarded as epiphenomena.

They scrupulously avoid introspective data and they treat what have traditionally been regarded as directly intuited psychic phenomena, such as perception, memory, will, and emotion, solely as theoretical inferences from observed behavior.

The insight that revolutionized the analysis of dreams — that the characters in the dream represent psychic phenomena within the dreamer — has a certain applicability to the analysis of other texts as well.

The first thing to give us pause, as we survey the progress of human collectivization, is what I would call the inexorable nature of a phenomenon which arises directly and automatically out of the conjunction of two factors, both of a structural kind: first, the confined surface of the globe, and secondly, the incessant multiplication, within this restricted space, of human units endowed by ever - improving means of communication with a rapidly increasing scope for action; to which may be added the fact that their advanced psychic development makes them preeminently capable of influencing and inter-penetrating one another.

If, for instance, my encounter with another's love should vouchsafe to me a new understanding of self, what happens is by no means restricted to consciousness, at least if consciousness is to be taken as a psychic rather than as an existential phenomenon, which is what Thielicke and others wrongly suppose.

Looked at from the outside, it is certainly not visible as love in the real sense of the word, but only as a phenomenon of spiritual or psychic history which is open to various interpretations.

This scene could be read as either an arbitrary acknowledgment of Lincoln's documented interest in psychic phenomena or a brief opportunity for Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kamiński to reprise their watery fishbowl motif from Minority Report, but it really serves the more interesting, ambitious purpose of establishing Lincoln as a comedy of the narcissism that binds prophecy with political policy.

On her blog, Sally writes about science - and speculative / utopian fiction, romance, psi and psychic phenomena, quantum physics and the multiverse timelines theories, writing, marketing, self - publishing / indie authors, dreams, personal stories, biology, culture, psychology, Buddhism, Judaism, meditation, current events and whatever else strikes her as interesting.

Interested in colonialism as both a psychic and material phenomenon, Gray explores blackness and labor within celebrity.

McKenzie sometimes plays with the idea of not documenting work as does Tino Sehgal... as well both artist practice a similar project inspired by the Situationist and other avant - garde groups such as the Fluxus whose program works at the manipulation of existential psychic phenomenon — ambiance and mood.

The exhibition approaches the two phenomena that draw on the unconscious, the dream as well as the psychic injury — the trauma, with over 40 contemporary artistic positions.

I never planned to have this be something I did even semi-professionally as my whole experience with psychic phenomena started with a tragedy.