Sentences with phrase «which human consciousness»

He began to imagine a contemporary art of the possible, in which human consciousness would regard itself as inseparable from the invisible, elemental energies of the cosmos.

Instead revelation is what fully opens up for faith the horizon within which human consciousness is set free to pursue the truth through its various disciplinary approaches.

Projected forwards, this law of recurrence makes it possible for us to envisage a future state of the Earth in which human consciousness, reaching the climax of its evolution, will have attained a maximum of complexity, and, as a result, of concentration by total «reflection» (or planetization) of itself upon itself.

The criteriology of the divine corresponds to the greatest divestment of which human consciousness is capable in order to affirm an order freed from the limitations from which no human existence can deliver itself.

Luhrmann argues that this involves a distinctive «theory of mind» in which human consciousness is continuously open to supernatural presences, both divine and demonic.

For both sexes there is Terence McKenna's promise of an «Archaic Revival» in which human consciousness and the world will be psychedelically transformed by way of the magic mushrooms McKenna discovered in the rain forests of the Amazon.

Not exact matches

He outlines three forms of consciousness: the simple consciousness of animals and humans; the self - consciousness of humans, which includes reason and imagination; and cosmic consciousness, which transcends factual understanding.

I am not sure what more I would add... That we need to develop utterly new moral, ethical and social philosophies that recognize human consciousness as embedded in a process of evolutionary ecology which is in turn embedded in a thermodynamic process.

The primary aim of the project is to create the technologies that will enable an individual's consciousness to be uploaded to a nonbiological host, which would ultimately enable humans to live forever.

Today, computers process information in a fundamentally different manner than the technology that produces human consciousness, which is neuroscience.

... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who just likes to have an unassaiable argument which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion of god to go on with their everyday lives.

Hans Urs von Balthasar has insightfully traced the ways in which the identification of God, creation, and human consciousness strongly shaped both the theistic and atheistic streams of eighteenth - and nineteenth - century Romanticism.

We are in the midst of a Copernican shift in human consciousness [thought patterns] which is why there is so much conflict between people of good will.

He also refers to a presumably relevant property of human consciousness whereby, when consciousness entertains abstractions, «there is always present a preservative instinct aiming at the renewal of connection, which is the reverse of abstraction» (MT 169).

Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary reflective consciousness which is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart of reality.

The other side of human nature, which in this life is inseparably linked with the body but without being identical with it, is variously called spirit, mind, consciousness, ego, psyche, soul, or personality.

There are those who think that a major shift in human consciousness is taking place, one aspect of which is an emphasis on spiritual experience rather than intellectual truths about religion.

1830), Schleiermacher made a similar but quite different move, concentrating on the human self - consciousness, which he determined to be characterized by «the consciousness of being absolutely dependent, or, which is the same thing, of being in relation to God.»

When humans experience this harmony «they call it aesthetic experience Aesthetic experience is experience in which many influences vivify instead of neutralize one another and at the same time do not impair or destroy the clarity of consciousness....

The human consciousness is dependent for its vitality, interest and development on keeping open at least some of these channels, which are the only means of contact man has with the world around him.

Hegel, in those difficult, often cryptic, but nevertheless profoundly rewarding pages in the final sections of The Phenomenology of Spirit, where he discusses Christianity as the «absolute religion,» gives witness to the advent of an absolute form of Christianity which both negates all previous religion and promises a reconciliation of all those antinomies which have plagued human consciousness throughout its history.

While in one sense it is correct to identify this consciousness and experience as a human phenomenon, in another sense it is not; for a total vision, or a quest for it, must negate and oppose every isolated and particular expression of experience, and therefore it must set itself against everything which is given or immediately present to us as consciousness or experience.

(30) Ellul urges, instead, emphasis on individuals, «humans [who would] combine into new patterns not under «la technique's» tutelage, [a] reordered consciousness [which] would begin choking out today's monolithic structure - within communications as elsewhere.»

Laszlo himself refers to some of the most obvious textual citations which show that Whitehead's philosophical method is grounded in the data of human consciousness.

The reaction of nature is a blindingly flashing red - light that man's actions are unnatural; that he need be true to his inner demands, which acted upon automatically set a proper balance within human consciousness and adjust the physical conditions in the entire creation around him.

For Hartshorne, monads and God are realities — which make it possible for human consciousness to emerge and construct more or less adequate ideas and accounts of them.

In each of these cases Wood's proposal is consistent with acknowledgment of pluralism because the proposal assumes no universal structure in «human nature» — neither a universal structure of «reason» nor one of «consciousness» — to which these pluralisms could be reduced as to a least common denominator.

Taking note of the altered world - consciousness of human beings in this century, according to which Being is to be understood in strictly interpersonal terms, Mühlen suggests, first of all, that the classical expression homoousios, as applied to the Son's relationship to the Father, does not necessarily mean that the Son is of the same substance as the Father but only that he is of equal being (gleichseiendlich) with the Father (VG 13).

We need only to look about us at the multitude of disjointed forces neutralising each other and losing themselves in the confusion of human society — the huge realities (broad currents of love or hatred animating peoples and classes) which represent the power of awareness but have not yet found a consciousness sufficiently vast to encompass them all.

Without the process of biological evolution, which produced the human brain, there would be no sanctified souls; and similarly, without the evolution of collective thought, through which alone the plenitude of human consciousness can be attained on earth, how can there be a consummated Christ?

to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.

The existence of the human «stream of consciousness» to which these belong is not denied, as it is by those monistic behaviorisms and materialisms which attempt to avoid Cartesian dualism while still not questioning Cartesian metaphysical analyses of «matter» and «mind.»

Events in the stream of human consciousness which are actual and supposedly spacy find no support here by analogy for their imperceptibility.

This new consciousness has begun to shape an emerging yet coherent view of an interconnected world, where humans are inextricably linked to one another, whether we like it or not, and where all are connected to and dependent on the natural world in which we all live.

Using the Deuteronomic Creed as model, Dalit theology can construct the historical Dalit consciousness which has to do with their roots, identities and struggle for human dignity and «for the right to live as free people created in the image of God.»

Today more than ever before we feel the need — and also see a greater possibility — of objectifying the problem of the subjectivity of the human being... [W] e can no longer go on treating the human being exclusively as an objective being, but we must also somehow treat the human being as a subject in the dimension in which the specifically human subjectivity of the human being is determined by consciousness.

By virtue of the emergence of Thought a special and novel environment has been evolved among human individuals within which they acquire the faculty of associating together, and reacting upon one another, no longer primarily for the preservation and continuance of the species but for the creation of a common consciousness.

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

Since the future depends in part on man's consciousness and will, on decisions which have not yet taken place, no certainty of the future is possible within the boundaries of the human world.

As Mrs. Eddy said, «The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus» time, from the operation of divine principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation.»

With regard to the level below human consciousness the previous phase out of which the current state has originated is irreversibly past.

Yet even in its crude and cruel forms religion has been doing humanity this service: it has kept alive the consciousness of something in human life which must not be violated.

In short, we must get as close as we can to that almost inconceivable state in which our consciousness, divorced from all human association, stands naked in face of the Universe.

As we have said, human endeavour, viewed in its natural» aspect, is tending towards some sort of collective personality, through which the individual will acquire in some degree the consciousness of Mankind as a whole.

In the passage of time a state of collective human consciousness has been progressively evolved which is inherited by each succeeding generation of conscious individuals, and to which each generation adds something.

The two processes are inevitably linked in their structure, the second requiring the first as the matter upon which it descends in order to super-animate mt.. This view entirely respects the progressive effective concentration of human thought in an increasingly acute consciousness of its unitary destiny.

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 creation images found in the parables of Jesus concern the role of nature in an agricultural context and «engage those fundamental layers of human consciousness at which we feel our relationship with nature.

The gradations in the consciousness of the self with which we have hitherto been employed are within the definition of the human self, or the self whose measure is man.

To him, this Kingdom was not located in another place called heaven or in a future millennium, but could best be described in modern terms as a level of consciousness in which one recognized the immanence of God in human life and the interconnected, interacting, interdependent nature of the entire human species.