For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from consciousness to nonexistence, with all the attendant fear and humiliation of absolute helplessness, it would be very hard to live.
After Pierce died, he mostly passed from the American consciousness, except as one of a series of presidents whose disastrous tenures led to civil war.
What is far harder to predict is whether the nearly unprecedented attention it is attracting will pave the way for a broader revival of public interest in boxing, or will instead with a final bang mark the sport's passing from mainstream consciousness for good.
"The closest concept I can think of that could describe the transition from the human consciousness to the proto-consciousness that Stuart Hameroff talks about is death," says Athanasiou. "A moment where our consciousness passes from the human realm into another realm that is undetectable by human senses.
Doors are also a favorite choice, and usually connect to imagery about transcending, evolving or passing from one state of consciousness into another.
That intentional object of the perceptual cognition is, according to Yogācāra, none other than the subliminal impressions (vāsanās) passing from their latent state contained in the storehouse consciousness (ālayavijñāna) to their conscious level.
All you do is explore, passing your consciousness from object to organism and back across seemingly infinite biomes, planets, and celestial bodies.
3 The novel has a particular technical feature; it passes from mind to mind, showing us the world as a consciousness moves through it.
"There is a cycle of trauma imprinted on Palestinian consciousness, passed down from generation to generation," Rita Giacaman, professor of public health at Birzeit university, says.
THE image of the deaf Beethoven clawing at his piano, trying to force from it sounds that he could hear, has passed into the popular consciousness.
Now even an infinitely quick transition would, as it sank from consciousness, have to pass through each of these intermediate states.
