Shields argued that novels are often flashes of "narrative legerdemain"; he calls for "serious writing," in which "the armature of overt drama is dispensed with, and we're left with a deeper drama, the real drama: an active human consciousness trying to figure out how he or she has solved or not solved being alive".
He mentioned a recent stint in prison, described reading Bakhtiyarov's book, "Active Consciousness," in his jail cell every day, and the transformational effect that psychonetics had had on his political and philosophical consciousness.
Be it instinct or active consciousness, animals have and make known very compelling interests.
Over time, family visits tapered off... India receded from our active consciousness.
Therefore, the more decisions you make with active consciousness, the more assert active control over your destiny.
In study after study, Owen and Laureys -- and other researchers -- have discovered clear signs of active consciousness in dozens of vegetative patients.
The two men are almost never seen in the same frame, and yet the ever-mobile camera seems to ping-pong restlessly between them, as though blurring them into one shared, active consciousness.
Starting in the mid-1920s, their developing national awareness transformed into a more active national consciousness, with a heightened determination to protect the interests of the Ceylon Tamil community.
Our capacity for attention to one thing rather than another is for James the sign of an "active element in all consciousness,…a spiritual something…which seems to go out to meet these qualities and contents, whilst they seem to come in to be received by it".
To some extent this suggests an active and growing Pan-Islamist consciousness, at least among radical Islamists.
