The big values that it once represented, such as the symbolizing of up-to-date consciousness, aren't exactly debunked, but they've become worn smooth from use.
The earliest English language uses of "conscious" and "consciousness" date back, however, to the 1500s.
Her belief in music's power to heal, transform, and raise consciousness dates from her childhood.
Sheinkopf says Trump's attacks present an opportunity for Clinton opponents to remind voters of the seamier aspects of the Clinton presidency that for many pre-dates their political consciousness.
For a lot of younger Democrats, in particular, whose political consciousness dates back only as far as 1994 or even to the more recent days of Clinton's impeachment, the origins of Clintonism have become not only murky but also irrelevant.
Other authors date the origins of consciousness to the first animals with nervous systems or early vertebrates in the Cambrian over 500 million years ago.
For his subsequent thinking other sources come into play: the Bernau (or L-manuscripts) contain notes on time-consciousness dating from 1917-18, and the C-manuscripts contain material on the topic from the late 1920's to the early 1930's.
In 1997, the Pure Consciousness project saw Date Paintings installed in nursery classrooms in 21 locations from Abidjan to Istanbul, from Reykjavik to a rainforest in Colombia.
It's not that the date is carved into his consciousness, but the experience is still relevant, still a part of what drives him.
Of course, personal transformation, that quieter variant of the American dream, has been the goal of numerous practices and programs -- from Gestalt therapy to Eastern religious practices, from encounter groups to EST -- that have been grouped together by some as the Human Potential movement, an explosion of interest in consciousness and spirituality dating from the early 1960's.
The slow germination of this revolution in consciousness can be dated at least to the 18th century, toward the end of which a country finally emerged -- America -- that officially refused to play the old game of whose religion was true, and took a generously agnostic view of religious truth: you may believe what you like, and so may I, and neither can impose belief on the other.
