Sentences with phrase «so from a consciousness»

Though a so - called Christian working for justice, peace, and order in the created world, MacArthur did so from a consciousness informed by the hegemonic ideologies of the first world, ideologies that sought to divide existing communities.

Not exact matches

The online music business has been a shark - infested pool almost from the moment the Internet hit the popular consciousness, so it's not surprising that a new player like Tidal is suffering from growing pains.

With a focus on social consciousness, service for others and education, I learned some of the greatest lessons of my life so far, from amazing professors.

But just as there is no cause and effect within the realm of the Higher Consciousness, so too the created worlds do not extend from it in a way of cause and effect.

And, again, this form of evangelicalism so differs from the others that the Germans have had to invent a new word, Evangelikal, to describe the growing evangelical self consciousness in Europe after the Lausanne Congress on Evangelization that represented the neo-evangelical coalition.

So neither the use of mind - altering drugs nor the achievement of altered consciousness distinguishes peyotism from mainstream faiths.

We can refrain from futile inquiry into the mind of God, while still asking what part of the Jewish consciousness was so ruptured by the Temple's destruction that we still plead for its restoration.

So difficult is the achievement of balance in human thought and experience that one sees even the Bible moving from an original sense of social solidarity, lacking adequate recognition of individuality, to a sense of the value of the single human soul, in danger of lacking adequate consciousness of social obligation.

If I seal up the entry into my heart I must dwell in darkness — and not only I, my individual soul, but the whole universe in so far as its activity sustains my organism and awakens my consciousness, and in so far also as I act upon it in my turn so as to draw forth from it the materials of sensation, of ideas, of moral goodness, of holiness of life.

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

-- He receives accordingly the eternal condition in the Moment, and is aware that he has so received it; for otherwise he merely comes to himself in the consciousness that he had it from eternity.

Without his putting himself in a religious frame of mind, creating for himself religious experiences, awakening within himself a so - called natural consciousness of God, thus without his being compelled to adopt forms of consciousness which he can no longer recapture, he must be encountered in his life, which has become secular, by the good news from the Lord of the world, who has committed himself in the man Jesus of Nazareth to the world and the secularity of the stable and the gallows («without the camp» of religion, Hebrews 13:13) 15

I hadn't really thought about it much, but I'd have to say that mostly, it's as not - God, because daily life is so distracting; though the awareness of being immersed in God is not usually far from my consciousness.

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.

If this is so, the cure for impotence is not more faith in mere mechanism — in her case, schemes from the consciousness movement for reprocessing the self.

«The immediate content... so fills his consciousness that nothing else can exist beside and apart from it.»

Let us now say good - by for a while to all this way of thinking, and turn towards those persons who can not so swiftly throw off the burden of the consciousness of evil, but are congenitally fated to suffer from its presence.

Furthermore, whatever was the case with his «Messianic consciousness,» Jesus, in so far as we know him from the Synoptic tradition, did not summon his disciples to have faith in Christ.

The newness of America, so prominent in the consciousness of the early European observers, and which we have still not entirely outgrown even though it is nearly 500 years since Columbus (from the point of view of Europe) «discovered» America, had another important consequence.

The «heightened consciousness» might not have been so dramatic, because society hadn't yet developed such a severe disconnect from nature as we have today.

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 intellect is required by consciousness to master materiality; it does so through fabrication and anticipation, the formal relations for these operations being derived from action.

But what is even more certain, so that it becomes self - evident when we observe the revolutionary biological superiority of Thought over Instinct, is that if a given Phylum X, shall we say, preceding the anthropoids, had succeeded in passing the barrier separating reflective consciousness from direct consciousness, Man would never have come into existence: instead of him, Phylum X would have woven and constituted the Noosphere.

In the religious consciousness, that is just the position in which the fiend, the negative or tragic principle, is found; and for that very reason the religious consciousness is so rich from the emotional point of view.

To understand the significance of the world forces of collectivization, and what it is that they so imperiously demand of us, we need to look down from a great height and contemplate, in their widest, most general aspect, the organic relationships linking consciousness and complexity within the Universe.

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).

«2 «What reason can learn from itself (thus Hegel) is revelation, and so God is incarcerated in consciousness.

If, abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them remind us of what we find outside of conversion that we are tempted to class them along with other automatisms, and to suspect that what makes the difference between a sudden and a gradual convert is not necessarily the presence of divine miracle in the care of one and of something less divine in that of the other, but rather a simple psychological peculiarity, the fact, namely, that in the recipient of the more instantaneous grace we have one of those Subjects who are in possession of a large region in which mental work can go on subliminally, and from which invasive experiences, abruptly upsetting the equilibrium of the primary consciousness, may come.

Among philosophers working on the mind / body problem, the word «qualia» stands for all those features of consciousness that give awareness its specific identity as a particular kind of experience: the redness of red, the sadness of depression, the piquancy of papaya juice, the irksomeness of traffic jams, the crankiness that comes from insomnia, the hurt feelings arising from playground taunts, and so forth.

what is necessary and a very important change for us today and the future is our conscience, and this requires global consciousness necessary for our long term needs and survival, we need a faith that will compel us to unite to address the problems of survival, in the future, a few thousand years from now the glacial period cycle is due, earth will no longer be hospitable and we either have to immigrate to other planets or, develope a system that will protect us, the natural calamities like floods, typhoons, sub zero temperatures, will become our big problem in the future, so we need a religion that will guide our conscience from simplistic self survival towards a more holistic view of reality.Our oneness with ourselves and Him is the primary tenets or doctrines of this religion.

Heat and light, being modes of motion, «phosphorescence» and «incandescence» are phenomena to which consciousness has been likened by the production - theory: «As one sees a metallic rod, placed in a glowing furnace, gradually heat itself, and — as the undulations of the caloric grow more and more frequent — pass successively from the shades of bright red to dark red (sic), to white, and develope, as its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.»

From this standpoint it is at once apparent that, to unify the living forces of humanity, at present so painfully at odds, the direct and effective method is simply to sound the call - to - arms and form a solid block of all those, whether of the right or the left, who believe that the principal business of present - day Mankind is to achieve a breakthrough straight ahead by forcing its way over the threshold of some higher level of consciousness.

In this, consciousness can be considered a derivative power of the human person, an active power arising from the rational an object, a what but also a subject, a who, and primarily so 6 principle of the human soul.

The temporal point of departure is nothing; for as soon as I discover that I have known the Truth from eternity without being aware of it, the same instant this moment of occasion is hidden in the Eternal, and so incorporated with it that I can not even find it so to speak, even if I sought it; because in my eternal consciousness there is neither here nor there, but only an ubique et nusquam.

Humanity is so distant from reaching our potential and higher consciousness because of religion.

At this point his state of being is so separated from God, that he has no consciousness of Him.

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

As consciousness slowly regained, I remembered I had made an apple cake the night before, so I threw the idea of the avocado cake to the wayside as the prospect of a sugar - laden, pretend - healthy cake breakfast whispered to me from the kitchen.

So, from that consciousness he must buy a main striker.

It's too much to talk about all that here, so I will limit my discussion to how Ava, the robot, seduces and basically destroys Caleb, who was chosen by Nathan, his employer, to interact with her to see if she passes the Turing test, which examines if a machine has consciousness and is indistinguishable from a human.

The government also appears to have decided that it will not be able to proceed with this reform on any kind of cross-party basis, and so is keen to test out the conviction that the procedural reforms associated with EVEL will be employed on sufficiently few occasions that they may slip from political consciousness, while also looking substantive enough to satisfy the aspirations of its backbenchers.

My style was to provoke the needed consciousness and invite the involvement of our people so that you had moral outrage from the general populace.

Even Blair chose to avoid «Marxistant» societal analysis, so as to liberate the individual from the confines of class consciousness and rigid, collectivist boundaries.

Please indulge me (and remember this is coming from the dude who predicted Sean Eldridge would only lose by five percentage points last year, instead of the 30 or so he actually lost by) as I project my consciousness into the foggy future to predict how the pieces will slide across the board...

The question if and, if so, how the construction of mental scenarios is linked to a specific «autonoetic» form of consciousness is particularly interesting from the philosophical point of view.

But beyond that, Lee knows that, with Thriller, Jackson's rise to the preeminent perch in popular music was also the period that would begin a decline into self - consciousness, self - doubt, eccentricity, fear, and ultimately withdrawal from the world that inspired so much of Jackson's best work.

Combining the performances from Michael Clayton and Up in the Air with the hurting consciousness of a hired killer, Clooney should get the attention of Oscar this season and deservedly so.

From the cloudy opening POV shots of Jean - Dominique regaining consciousness, Kaminski fills the screen with life and beauty, so that it's not at all as depressing as it sounds.

The rest of the class, however, is buried deep within pop culture's consciousness, much like the sketches from which they spawned, only more so, without regularly - scheduled exposure in syndication and coverage in SNL's frequent trips down memory lane.

I didn't even know his name, or only when it was too late, only when I saw a photo in the newspaper, showing him after he had been stabbed several times, with his shirt half off, and about to become a dead man, if he wasn't dead already in his own absent consciousness, a consciousness that never returned: his last thought must have been that the person stabbing him was doing so by mistake and for no reason, that is, senselessly, and what's more, not just once, but over and over, unremittingly, with the intention of erasing him from the world and expelling him from the earth without further delay, right there and then.