Most dramatically, Mr. Van Sant shed an entire subplot, about the mysterious Clock People, keepers of the keys to cosmic consciousness, and the source of the original film's final image (as well as the clock on the paperback cover).
You see, Eiichi, the difficulty is that the working class in America is utterly without a revolutionary consciousness and the source of whatever rebellion there is in this country comes, not from people who function within the economy, but from the growing number of young people who feel profoundly alienated from their country and its history.
In addition, human consciousness is the source of the "not" because it is itself a "nothingness".
It is through the exercise of doubt that we get to raise the key question as to whether we necessarily have to posit a transcendent reality existing independently of consciousness as the source of validation for knowledge.
Voluntary control, as an important aspect of consciousness and the source of attention, is critical for regulating mental computations including emotional processes.
At the heart of the tribe's belief system is "Aluna" – a kind of cosmic consciousness that is the source of all life and intelligence and the mind inside nature too.
The human heart-mind was not only posited as the seat of the concept of mind or consciousness and thus the source of both emotions and reasoning, but was also perceived as a kind of sense organ by the ancient Chinese.
Programs have emphasized the importance of power within, as a means to develop FSWs' self-esteem, confidence, and consciousness of the sources of their HIV vulnerability [ 14, 18, 23].
One result of this is that the eternal consciousness itself can be the source of both virtue and vice (PE 176).
Modern western thought emphasizes the brain as the source of consciousness.
