But the research also shows that scientists can safely and reliably provoke a mystical experience in a laboratory, meaning they now have an unprecedented chance to study the nature of the mystical experience itself, using brain scanning and other techniques to probe the biological basis of a puzzling human phenomenon that has powerfully shaped the world's religions.
To be sure, the younger men lived in an era when the outsider mentality that so powerfully shaped their Southern fathers -- both the ne'er-do-well Vernon Presley and the relentlessly striving Al Gore Sr .-- has been subjected to powerful forces of cultural nationalization, including, as it happens, rock music.
(Julian) Providing bags for children in care may overlook the 'systemic and structural social inequalities that powerfully shape the lives of these children' (Swalwell and Apple, 2011: 372), but it does recognize the importance of bolstering their self-esteem so they feel validated.
The main tenet of his theory is that development is powerfully shaped by the interactions between the child's own biology, immediate family, community environment, and the larger society.
I still believe that, but also see that the hive on Eighth Avenue is powerfully shaped by a culture of like minds — a phenomenon, I believe, that is more easily recognized from without than from within.
In the 1970s the social psychologist Henri Tajfel gave us the concept of social identity the understanding that an individual's identity is powerfully shaped by group allegiances.
Hart et al [ 35] discuss the underlying ideology of the "good death concept" as a means for social control, stating that the choices and opportunities of dying people are powerfully shaped and constrained by those caring for them, and that patients may implicitly be expected to conform to the normative values of the "good death concept ".
One lesson of the Clinton years, surely, is that a politician's reputation can be powerfully shaped by flamboyant or illogical acts during the final days of his term.
Historian Fred Turner has chronicled how cultural entrepreneurs such as Stewart Brand and the editors of Wired magazine powerfully shaped tech's image of itself – so powerfully that even the 20-year-old founder who has never heard of Brand or never read Wired in the 90s is living in the world they created.
Kavanagh powerfully shaped the poetry of a later generation of writers, in particular that of Seamus Heaney.
They were powerfully shaped artifacts suggesting strong character.
