They consisted in timeless, passionate states of contemplation and communion, largely unattached to 'before and after'" (Keynes, "My Early Beliefs," 83).
Bermudez and his team wanted to know if buildings specifically designed for contemplation elicited brain activity similar to that found in "internally induced" states of contemplation.
"Hmm," Nancy said, closing her eyes and trying to look as if she was in a state of deep contemplation.
At 5 p.m. on Sunday, the Hawk Cam installed to monitor the bird showed Violet in a state of avian contemplation, seemingly comfortable, if a bit fidgety.
He does not offer a hagiography of Augustine, discussing his sexual exploits in great detail – both heterosexual and, Lane Fox implies strongly, homosexual – and seeking to explore how a life of casual sin might usefully cede into an anguished state of divine contemplation.
The production opens with the extraordinary image of a man suspended in midair in a chair (it's Herzen, played by Brian F. O'Byrne), in a state of somber contemplation, overtaken and swallowed by what appears to be an ocean rising into a tidal wave.
The aim of epistemological ascent is to free oneself eventually from the lower psychic faculties, including the lower rational ones, in order to enjoy a state of pure contemplation.
When the subject's transition to the tranquil, will-less state of aesthetic contemplation occurs easily, that is, when the objects "meet that state halfway," becoming "representatives of their Ideas by virtue of their intricate and at the same time clear and determinate form" (WWR I, 225), then the subject experiences the beautiful.
The queue is spent memorising false birthdays and post-codes, often subduing a group of giddy 17 year olds into a state of concerned contemplation.
