Sentences with phrase «study of consciousness»

Beryl Bender Birch, spiritual teacher, yoga therapist, and author of «Power Yoga», «Beyond Power Yoga», and «Boomer Yoga» has been an avid student of yoga and the study of consciousness...

Before his arrival, the study of consciousness had been largely relegated to mystics and philosophers.

Even the study of consciousness, long considered impossibly speculative, now attracts mainstream researchers.

Though traditional models of therapy described some aspects of a subjective system of «mind,» recent advancements in studies of consciousness, mindfulness, and emotion have greatly expanded views of the complex and interactive nature of the mind.

Not exact matches

One of the most influential works on that list is «Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind,» originally published by a Canadian psychiatrist in 1901.

So many studies point to the importance of dialing our brain down to a different level of consciousness to give it the capacity to adapt to unexpected stress.

Lack of secondary consciousness can not be eliminated without further study.

But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

Anyone familiar with current discussions of neuroscience, consciousness studies, and the mind - body problem will realize just how fiercely materialistic and non-dualist these fields are.

Near - death studies are about the best we have and anecdotally I think that many people do report «conscious» experience whether that's due to anoxia or otherwise there is no substantial evidence suggesting the absence of «consciousness.»

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Princestudies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin PrinceStudies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

While I have seen no studies done on this, from what I have seen, dying people are more focussed on the kinds of things noted in the article (pain alleviation, cleanliness particularly in light of the huge issue toilet - time becomes) than on whether an afterlife or mere end of consciousness that awaits them.

Philip Joranson and Ken Butigan, the editors of Cry of the Environment: Rebuilding the Christian Creation Tradition, a multi-authored theological study of the environmental crisis, speak of such inclusive care as «creation consciousness» (CE).

Most important, though lacking theoretical self - consciousness, I nevertheless acted as a theological subject attempting to rethink theological constructions from the marginal location of a «lay» woman engaged in the study of theology.

Such a beginning for a student of history is not unnatural, but if ever that boy is to become a real historian — as well may be the case — little by little the consciousness of what is excluded by his study will grow dim.

See, e.g., William Sims Bainbridge and Rodney Stark, «The Consciousness Reformation Reconsidered, «Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 20 (1981): 1 - 15.

There is a dubious link between genuine scholarship and such fashionable courses as peace studies, feminist literature, seminars in social activism, consciousness raising, semiotics, and a host of other current preoccupations.

See Angela A. Aidala, «The Consciousness Reformation Revisited,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 23 (1984): 44 - 59.

I feel a warm glow and a sense of affirmation when I learn of churches which are eliminating sexist language from their worship services and liturgy, of ministers who are studying and preaching about feminist theology and the Mother - Father God, of consciousness - raising groups and task forces on sexism in the church.

Heideggerians (and some Hegelians) would claim this is also a phenomenological question, but I reserve the term «phenomenology» for the narrower activity of the study of the givenness of experience to consciousness.

In a study of religion and nationalism, Ninian Smart writes that the flow of human events in society and individual life is such that entities that have phenomenological reality and a special shape (independent of whether they have actual existence) impinge upon consciousness and feeling.

And Berger finds in his study of contemporary transcendence that the «current occult wave (including the devil component) is to be understood as resulting from the repression of transcendence in modern consciousness.

Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh, who judge this inchoate NGO uprising as presently «the only force we see that can break the global gridlock,» finish their important study with a judgment about its high stakes: «The great question of our age is whether people, acting with the spirit, energy, and urgency our collective crisis requires, can develop a democratic global consciousness rooted in authentic local communities.

So that has led me to believe, through my findings, studies and personal mystical experiences that we do indeed have an energy called the soul and there is a consciousness beyond and out of a human body.

However, we are now in position to understand why Hartshorne and Reese, in their impressive study of conceptions of God entitled Philosophers Speak of God, define the panentheistic deity as «The Supreme as Eternal - Temporal Consciousness, Knowing and including the World.

And for those theological students who first knew the faith only in authoritarian, biblicistic or pietistic forms, study of it by way of historical consciousness proves a liberating experience.

If historical consciousness has in fact brought about a liberating way of studying and living the faith, surely it should not he kept from the churches.

The Visitors» Center at Haleakala National Park on Maui offers an intriguing study of the unexpected impact a traditional world - view can make on the modern consciousness.

Phenomenology «is the study of the phenomena in the pure consciousness.

As a new social movement rises up around the issue of global survival, it seems essential to explore the distinctive relationship between the Good News of a realm of redemption which is at once personal and cosmic, and the holistic work that is being done in fields as diverse as consciousness studies, physics and diet.

Studies of cargo cults, messianic movements, and Third World millenarianism, including widely read classics such as Peter Worsley's The Trumpet Shall Sound and Bryan Wilson's Magic and the Millennium, have paid close attention to the effects of international relations on domestic religious developments.2 In increasing numbers, books have appeared on the religious situation in strategic parts of the globe, such as the Middle East and Latin America, and with growing frequency articles on American religion refer to issues such as global consciousness, nuclear disarmament, and the effects of U.S. involvement in foreign affairs.

The study of these texts, written as they were by pagan, pre-Christian authors, led to such a new appreciation of the creative capabilities of humankind in its unredeemed state that it has been called a revolution of consciousness.

Just as the prophetic reformulation of Israel's earlier traditions generates a form of historical awareness, so our critique of the pretensions of consciousness in the critical study of texts gives us historical sense.

When he leads persons in a study of our passage from the Sermon on the Mount, master teacher Walter Wink asks them to do the following: Bring into consciousness an enemy; conduct an imaginary dialogue with that person, in which you accuse him or her of the evil he or she seems to intend, imagining what he or she might say in response; then pray for the well - being of that person.

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.»

Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness.

They combine the study of the perennial philosophy with a deep historical consciousness and an interest in exegesis and patristics.

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

Studies in which I've been engaged began with the thought that the new religious consciousness that seemed to be developing among young people in the San Francisco Bay area might be some harbinger, some straw in the wind, that would tell us of.

From the consciousness raising point of view, study groups are among the most important means of getting at the issues raised by the changing identities of women and men.

Study groups often grow out of consciousness raising groups.

In another church, a consciousness raising group developed into a program series, open to everyone, studying the relationship of the women's movement to the other ethical concerns of the church.

There are several studies, published in peer reviewed journals that are really quite suggestive that consciousness is in some way unrelated to the biological functioning of the brain.

One is the issue of consciousness studies and how they specifically impact this emergence, this change in worldviews; and specifically impact cosmology of life and the soul / spirit.

Depending on athletes to admit to experiencing concussion symptoms doesn't work due to chronic under - reporting.1 Likewise, studies show that coaches and athletic trainers can't be counted on to reliably identify athletes exhibiting signs of possible concussion for screening on the sports sidelines, especially since only 5 to 10 % of concussions involve a loss of consciousness and the onset of concussions symptoms is often delayed, especially in younger athletes.

Recent studies have shown that the use of the SAC has value in helping sports medicine professionals in detecting and quantifying acute cognitive impairment on the sports sideline (3), particularly in identifying concussions in the 90 to 95 % of cases where there is no loss of consciousness or other obvious signs of concussion.

Academy of Consciousness Studies Fellow, Princeton University, Prof. Robert G. Jahn, Director, June 26 - July 9, 1994.

The bonding period is a relatively new practice at some hospitals and is based on studies of the various states of consciousness that newborns go through.

Studies of environmental consciousness tend to focus on urban middle classes, giving the false impression that rural populations are either unaffected, do not know or do not care.

Crick, co-discoverer of DNA, spent the latter part of his career studying consciousness and in 1994 published a book about it, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The scientific search for the soul.