LSD, it turns out, is one of the most potent consciousness-altering substances known; an amount the size of a grain of salt can induce swirls of emotion, and shimmering clear senses in which the ordinary becomes extraordinary, luminous, meaningful.
Decreased vmPFC-PCC RSFC has also been found with psilocybin (21), a nonselective 5-HT2A receptor agonist with potent consciousness-altering properties.
"She had a kind of sexual confidence combined with intelligence, edginess and social consciousness — a potent combination," he said.
"She had a kind of sexual confidence combined with intelligence, edginess and social consciousness -- a potent combination," Mr. Hajdu said.
The McDonald's Coffee Lady entered the public's consciousness as a potent symbol of the tort system run amok and marked a turning point in efforts by industry to thwart its chief adversaries.
The difficulty, always, in our current run of crazes is telling what is potent — real and likely to change consciousness — from what is just passing and transient.
The EFF – a potent blend of Leninism with black consciousness – believes it can win the youth from the ANC and that the absence of Mandela will make it easier.
Here we see the creation of a new market, a new demand and one in which that factor of style-consciousness plays assuredly a potent part.
The second issue, once it trickles into national consciousness, is just as politically potent: the government's bonfire of regulations.
Though the empirical arguments, like the zombie claims, require one to consider seriously whether some forms of consciousness may be less causally potent than is typically assumed, many theorists regard the empirical data as no real threat to the causal status of consciousness.
Ally that existential commitment to a fearless pretentiousness and political consciousness, and you've got a potent mix.
