That said, the Ohm symbol floating during "Ohm Sweet Ohm" receives mind-blown "woahs" from the assembled.
To our astonishment, the talks started to go viral, and it happened because our speakers were tapping into something amazing and primal: in certain circumstances an idea resident in a human mind can be encoded in language, transmitted sonically and visually into a receiving mind, and cause that mind to resonate with the same insight and excitement felt by the originator.
"Here in the newsroom we've now read literally thousands of amazing live reviews of our man and his band and we're convinced that no other artist in the world receives such mind-boggling write-ups," we're informed.
And the Internet was a Russian roulette -- off most of the time or teasing the psyche by failing to send or receive (never mind trying to transmit any attachments!).
Summarizing this divide between al-Farabi and Avicena in another way, we might note that while al-Farabi upholds a doctrine of abstraction by which the human mind receives content from the outside world, Avicenna instead treats the mind as receiving representations of the intelligibles from the Active Intellect.
It also means that "The Infinite Mind" receives far less promotion than programs like "Car Talk," "This American Life" or "Prairie Home Companion".
Locke's theory of knowledge was based upon a kind of sensory atomism, in which the mind is an agent of discovery rather than of creation, and ideas are "like" the objects they represent, which in turn are the sources of the sensations the mind receives.
In emphasizing the need for this sort of love of God, Malebranche was returning to his view in the preface to the Recherche that it is through a union with God that the mind "receives its life, its light, and its entire felicity".
In Abulafia's Maimonidean terminology, the insights one receives when the mind is warmed up by ecstatic practice come from the Active Intellect, the wisdom of the Divine which shapes and maintains the universe, and they -- not the experience itself -- are why the practices are important.
(Edwards 1746/1959, p. 266) Holy affections are not heat without light, but evermore arise from some information of the understanding, some spiritual instruction that the mind receives, some light or actual knowledge.
A treatise about religious affections by the American preacher and philosopher Jonathan Edwards emphasised that affections were movements of the intellectual part of the soul: Holy affections are not heat without light, but evermore arise from some information of the understanding, some spiritual instruction that the mind receives, some light or actual knowledge.
