Watching the color palette, you feel as if you'd been banged on the head and were struggling to attain consciousness — everything is a bit off, darker or lighter than life, and the clangorous rock score, by NEO, adds to the disorientation.
Kant distinguishes between the kind of acts of synthesis needed to attain consciousness of individual objects and the kind of acts of synthesis needed to attain consciousness of a number of objects at the same time as a single array of objects experienced by a single subject (Brook 1994, p. 123).
"Oh you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed on those who came before you so that you might attain consciousness" The Holy Qur'an, 2 183.
Although Political Philosophy was not part of the core curriculum in the universities, and although the writings surveyed above were generally not produced with the idea of contributing to a philosophical discipline, by the end of the middle ages the discipline of political philosophy (or political theology) had attained self-consciousness and a sense of constituting a tradition.
By the time of Mr. Castaneda's death from liver cancer five years ago, believers in his writings had even begun to practice Tensegrity, a series of meditation movements that Mr. Castaneda described as helpful in attaining higher consciousness.
As we have seen, from the perspective often associated with existential philosophy, Ortega averred that for the individual to transcend the determinacy of his or her being and attain individual consciousness he or she has to make free choices and decisions.
Finally he presents his own views, remarking that "Consciousness attained its apogee through deliberation, which depends on judgment, which is the result of impulse and inhibition" (p. 171).
Ascetic practices in this life become a means to attain self-consciousness of the ontic luminosity of the soul.
To admit that such mechanical, lumpen craft can attain the full consciousness, and self-consciousness, of great art ends the debate.
Once consciousness is attained, the burden of impressions accumulated in those forms prevents the soul from realizing its identity with God.
