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Global About Blog The mission of Access Consciousness ® is to create
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Global About Blog The mission of Access Consciousness ® is to create
a world of consciousness and oneness.
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a world of consciousness however, realizing that they're indeed extracting Earthen materials and selling that back to us, perhaps it wouldn't be a horrible idea to help the world's population by giving back a fraction and some.
As that which was ordained beyond all willing and all comprehension, moira was also a darkness surrounding the radiant, but all too narrow,
world of consciousness.
Not exact matches
Worse, the success
of these dark futuristic depictions, hit - series like Black Mirror, Hunger Games, West
World, Altered Carbon and the likes, are nothing more than evidence
of a collective
consciousness with a pessimistic outlook.
Morning pages is a powerful stream
of consciousness writing exercise that is not intended to yield publishable material, but which can help you get your pen moving and your thoughts flowing — even if you never intend to share them with the rest
of the
world.
But when you suspend your own experiences as the marker for how the
world works, it allows space in your
consciousness to better receive and understand the plight
of your customers, Especially when they don't mimic your own.
After years
of development and flickering just outside
of mainstream
consciousness and acceptance, record high prices for the most popular blockchain - based cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and newcomer Ethereum and an embrace
of the technology's core principles by some
of the
world's largest institutions may mean that blockchain technology is ready for its close up.
The success
of Carlsberg and Tuborg's products in all parts
of the
world is attributed to the quality
consciousness, the know - how and the technological proficiency.
The
world has moved on, leaving these elements
of the Christian Church that can not adjust to new knowledge or a new
consciousness lost in a sea
of their own irrelevance.
The Experience
of God shows that our experiences
of being,
of consciousness, and
of bliss or enjoyment could not come about in the
world of materialistic naturalism.
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.
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.
In fact, he is in the counterculture tradition with those Americans who between the two
world wars, their higher
consciousness having been inspired not by golden mushrooms but by Karl Marx as filtered through the minds
of Lenin and Stalin, wanted as quickly as possible a lasting abundance for everyone.
The buildings and statues were not static but dynamic in the
consciousness of the inhabitants
of the first - century
world, they were places about which regular public rituals, processions, sacrifices, and feasts would be centred, in which all members
of the community would often to some extent be involved.
It is, then, these unconscious valuations
of pure conceptual possibilities which rise to
consciousness in God's propositional feelings about the
world.
Finally, the explosion to satellite communications in the eighties matched in the most recent years with fiberoptic switching systems and computer processing
of cash, words, images, and data — the internetting
of global
consciousness — has swept up most human endeavors from local names and habitations into the global context
of international trademarks, common credit cards, shared diets,
world class athletics, and intercontinental rock concert tours.
Here Lindblom quotes with strong approval Harold Knight, The Hebrew Prophetic
Consciousness (London: Lutterworth Press, 1948), p. 96: «Here we have a state of the highest integration, for the attention is wholly focused upon a single object which gradually fills the consciousness until the connexion between the subject and the outside world is b
Consciousness (London: Lutterworth Press, 1948), p. 96: «Here we have a state
of the highest integration, for the attention is wholly focused upon a single object which gradually fills the
consciousness until the connexion between the subject and the outside world is b
consciousness until the connexion between the subject and the outside
world is broken.»
Only the dualistic form
of the modern Western
consciousness, which is grounded in an absolute distinction between the subject and the object
of consciousness, instills us with the seemingly irrevocable sense that the
world or reality stands wholly outside
of consciousness itself.
The prereflective cogito (nonthetic self - awareness) is involved as a necessary structure in both
consciousness as mere revealing intuition (prereflective positional
consciousness of the
world) and
consciousness as knowledge (reflective positional
consciousness of the past self).
Our special status and responsibility, however, are not limited to
consciousness of our own personal bodies, or even
of the human
world, but extend to all embodied reality, for we are that part
of the cosmos where the cosmos itself has come to
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 Prince Booth.
Needless to say, then, were this metaphor to enter our
consciousness as thoroughly as the royal, triumphalist one has entered, it would result in a different way
of being in the
world.
The first stems from the fact that the
consciousness of inevitable imperfection is easily converted into a belief in some actual state
of perfection lying beyond the present actual imperfect
world.
As never before in the history
of the Christian
consciousness, the modern Jew has appeared and has been real as the suffering servant, the broken one in whose agony the
world can behold and know the pain
of humanity.
Once this dualistic form
of consciousness is negated and transcended by a dialectical movement
of thinking or vision, then the
world or reality no longer stands forth as autonomous and apart, and is known or experienced as being integrally and necessarily related to the center and ground
of consciousness.
If all those who suffer in the
world were to unite their sufferings so that the pain
of the
world should become one single grand act
of consciousness,
of sublimation,
of unification, would not this be one
of the most exalted forms in which the mysterious work
of creation could be manifested to our eyes?
In truth, at the rate the
consciousness and the ambitions
of the
world are increasing, it will explode unless it learns to love.
The anguish
of feeling that one is not merely spatially but ontologically imprisoned in the cosmic bubble; the anxious search for an issue to, or more exactly a focal point for, the evolutionary process: these are the price we must pay for the growth
of planetary
consciousness; these are the dimly - recognized burdens which weigh down the souls
of Christian and gentile alike in the
world of today.
For example, in the nineteenth century we
of the West began to be aware
of other cultures,
of other peoples and civilizations around the
world, in a way that had not before been part
of our
consciousness.
The ultimate integrity
of the
world requires the deepening
consciousness of those involved in its systemic outworking and their rejection
of alienating canonic structures.
Initiated as we are, moreover, into a historical
consciousness that has unveiled a whole new
world of New Testament thought and imagery, a
world that is subject neither to theological systemization nor to translation into modern thought and experience, how can we hope to ascertain the fundamental meaning for us
of the original Christian faith?
This traditional form
of faith is the product
of a divided
consciousness: it can only know redemption as a reconciliation with an Other lying beyond itself, and must experience the actuality
of the present as a
world merely awaiting its transfiguration.
The aversion to supernaturalism or to any appearance
of dualism that seemed to threaten or to undo the assumption
of «one -
world order
of meaning» has rendered the modern
consciousness peculiarly insensitive to the great themes
of Christian faith that have meant to point beyond man's own human powers and resources.
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.
It is also pointed out that the term translated «person» meant in the Greek
world a mask and not, as in modern usage, a centre
of self -
consciousness.
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
Scandalously to oversimplify his argument, it is, says Heidegger, the history
of this nihilistic impulse to reduce being to an object
of the intellect, subject to the will, that has brought us at last to the age
of technology, for which reality is just so many quanta
of power, the
world a representation
of consciousness, and the earth a mere reserve awaiting exploitation; technological mastery has become our highest ideal, and our only real model
of truth.
He articulates a
world view which combines the classic search for being with the radical historical and temporal
consciousness of the twentieth century.
Each
of the Nine will then use their gifts to raise that part
of the
worlds understanding and when they are done faith will no longer be needed, for all truths will be revealed as is the need to speed up this shift
of your
consciousness.
Religious awareness, Pannenberg explains, arises out
of the rudimentary
consciousness of the difference between «I» and «
world» found already in the act
of trust, which is then augmented by one's presence in a family.
Therefore, Wigner says that the
consciousness of the observer is inherently involved in the
world.
Deep - seated motives, dispositions and intentions do not appear to have the same kind
of temporality as the clocked events
of the physical
world or the events
of a supposed «stream
of consciousness.
If one rejects hyletic data and the transcendental ego, as Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau - Ponty do, then
consciousness takes on a somewhat different function: it does not constitute the meaning
of the
world; rather, it «presents» and appropriates a
world already filled with meaning.
Although the formulation
of the question was not always precise, the everyday experience
of black suffering, arising from black people's encounter with the sociopolitical structures controlled by whites, created in my
consciousness a radical conflict between the claims
of faith on the one hand and the reality
of the
world on the other.
One way is to say that if you introduce the
consciousness of the observer as one
of the variables
of the
world you are still in a regress since it implies that there is an awareness
of the
consciousness by a further observer who sees his state
of consciousness, and so on.
Consciousness basically involves an awareness
of the
world and one's own experience
of the
world, and also an effort to make sense
of the
world (CC 299 - 317).