Sentences with phrase «thoughts out of consciousness»

«Repression» is the term given to the mechanism that shuts thoughts out of consciousness.

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If he talks about the event character (1 / 10th of a second in length and all that) of the self, it is because he thinks that is what analysis of self - consciousness itself discloses and not because he means to construct the self out of subhuman individuals or organisms (Shalom's «event - cells»).

It certainly is good to have finally found out that Christianity is nothing more than just tradition, ritual and culture and that all the things which the Bible says about God and prayer are not true — God does not speak to or lead or guide or direct anyone or put thoughts in anyone's mind or show them signs or speak to their heart or mind or tells them what to do or calls people or chooses people or has a plan for people's lives whether they are in an altered state of consciousness / transcendent state or whether they are in an unaltered cognitive state.

I'm glad I found out that God does not speak to or lead or guide or direct me or put thoughts in my mind or show me signs whether I am in an altered state of consciousness / transcendent state or whether I am in an unaltered cognitive state.

I can totally get «wouldn't it be cool if our sense of consciousness survived our physical deaths and we got to hang out with the consciousnesses of all the people we loved who died» but the jump from that to «I'm positive we have immortal souls» seems too much like wishful thinking that's been codified by some form of group consensus.

However, if you're really determined, you can always think of yet another far - fetched factor or explanation, such as matter that comes into existence all by itself, an infinite number of universes in which every possibility has happened or will happen in its own universe, life and consciousness spontaneously arising out of inert matter, etc..

As a matter of fact, E. R. John and his colleagues have been carrying out experiments of this type to test a model of consciousness that links consciousness to the activity of a particular type of neuron.15 It appears that John's model predicts different results than the present model does, and one can think of several feasible experimental designs that would test between the two models.

If we all thought like humanists we would be shut out from the fundamental truths of being that consciousness is determinative, that all is Mind and its infinite manifestation.

I don't think I ever doubted the existence of God, or had him drop out of my consciousness.

But in the production of consciousness by the brain, the terms are heterogeneous natures altogether; and as far as our understanding goes, it is as great a miracle as if we said, Thought is «spontaneously generated,» or «created out of nothing.»

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

Your comments mirror thoughts which have circled in and out of my consciousness for a long time.

Indeed, within the field accessible to our experience, does not the birth of Thought stand out as a critical point through which all the striving of previous ages passes and is consummated — the critical point traversed by consciousness, when, by force of concentration, it ends by reflecting upon itself?

I do say that the heat of battle and the violence of combat rule out any thought or emotion except the consciousness of «kill or be killed.»

Approximately 4 out of 5 athletes did not realize that they had suffered a concussion (most likely because they thought a concussion required loss of consciousness)

i thought it was one of his best speeches yet - packed with references to everyone from Kennedy (ask not what your country can do for you), to King (we will get to the promised land), via Lincoln, Reagon and even Nixon, as Sunder points out... he demonstrates a powerful generational consciousness, the ability to join the dots between his country's social and political history, and to see his own forthcoming presidency's place in that context.

Often people with bad brain injuries seem unresponsive, but many still have thoughts, feelings, and memories flickering in and out of consciousness.

He shares his name, aptly enough, with Reeves's helper and guide in The Matrix but also with the shape - shifting Greek god of dreams, who, by acting out the thoughts of the dreamer, becomes an agent of that person's consciousness.

In yoga, we call it the «Monkey Mind» or «Chitta» where thoughts keep popping in and out of our consciousness.

«Asparagus is a very helpful food if you struggle with shyness, self - consciousness, concern over what others think of you, fear of breaking out of your shell and exposing yourself, or dread of venturing out in public.

Positive thinking helped me several times; I love Law of Attraction, Hooponopono (Hawaiian method) and working out my sub consciousness.

Similarly, do you think a man who goes every day to his job at an accounting firm, adds up beans all day long, watches popular movies when they come out, goes to his childrens» games on the weekend and has the occasional beer while cooking burgers on the grill in the backyard while not contemplating the mysteries of the universe or the necessarily self - referencing tautologies used to explain the existence of consciousness is enjoying life any less than you?

What has not been mentioned is that the «Saul - into - Paul conversion theory», published by Elaine de Kooning in Art News in 1958, was not set in Willem de Kooning's studio and did not mention a «Bell - Opticon», unlike her account of 1962.13 Additionally, while the 1958 account's introduction dramatised Kline's breakthrough to abstraction as a «transformation of consciousness», or a «revelation» of Biblical proportions, invoking the example of «Saul of Tarsus outside the walls of Damascus when he saw a «great light»», the description of Kline's technical and conceptual breakthrough in this account nevertheless resembled previous accounts of Kline's development in its gradualness, uneventfulness and thoughtfulness.14 The breakthrough that Elaine de Kooning first recounted was a product of sustained technical experimentation and logical thought on Kline's part, rather than accident or epiphany: «Still involved, in 1950, with elements of representation, he began to whip out small brushes of figures, trains, horses, landscapes, buildings, using only black paint.

Kosuth's classicism of containment destabilizes our conscious thought; we stretch our necks to view the glowing frieze only to have it fade in and out of vision, just as ideas flow in and out of the consciousness of the old and preoccupied, or the young and distracted.

Mindfulness started out as a practice in some religious traditions, and is now used to promote a calm awareness of our feelings, thoughts, perceptions, and consciousness.