Higher consciousness

As I signed up for a class called “Embodied Discourse” I had no idea what to expect; the only information I knew was that I was about to take a Goal 1 course. If someone asked me on week one or even two what “embodied discourse” meant in terms of this course, I believe my response would be something along the lines of: “I don’t know, but we do yoga every day!” As the course progressed, if someone asked that same question, my response transformed more to: “It’s about integrating your mind and…

The artwork evokes the meaning of birth, death, time, human consciousness, baptism and it also links to violas psychological experience as a child. During the beginning of the film a man standing naked near the pool contemplates then decides to leap into the water, this links to when viola jumped into a lake as a child…

Louise Hart once said, “Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.” To be “considered” happy food, shelter, and clothing seem to be the only requirements, what about the desire for attention, companionship, communication, and the feeling of wanting to be understood? Humans never want to be alone so to satisfy desires self-confidence has to be high and happiness tends to be a goal to reach. Through…

Substance dualism is the perspective that both physical substance and mental substance make up the world and exist independently. This philosophy sees the mind and the body as two separate things. As a result, the mind cannot be explained in terms of the brain. Substance dualism can be explained by the separation of pure mind and pure matter. Reductive physicalism is different than substance dualism because they do not include nonphysical stuff. This perspective views the world as made only of…

Ambition is something everyone has. Your ambitions strives and makes you achieve your goals. However, too much ambition can corrupt and destroy a person. Ambition is like a drug, small amounts can make you feel great, but too much can kill you. Shakespeare clearly portrays the negative effects of too much ambition throughout his play The Tragedy of Macbeth. He uses the main character, Macbeth, to show us how excessive amounts of ambition can lead someone to their doom. In the beginning of…

Avicenna in his major work Kitab Al-Najat argues that the human soul is not material. He argues that the rational faculty, namely the soul, does not know through physical organ. In this sense, he can prove that the soul is not inhered in the material body, therefore indicating that the soul is immaterial. Avicenna argued in Kitab Al-Najat that “for there is no organ between the rational faculty and itself, nor does one intervene between it and its organ or between it and the fact that it knows”.…

In his article “The Naked Face,” Malcom Gladwell outlines Ekman’s psychological view of face reading. The well renowned psychologist believes that the face is the best evidence a person has to offer about their emotions because most facial expressions are not made consciously. The face can be unpacked by every separate expression that pertains to a universal meaning. On the other end of the spectrum, the semiotic view proposed by Wierzbicka’s sees the face as a network of signs. And while there…

Sometimes we see ourselves in front of the mirror and we ask “is that me?” Is that the reflection of myself or who is the image in front of me? Our mood depends on the ways we see ourselves or the way people perceive us. How our environment decides the way we see ourselves and sometimes we confront ourselves and we ask who is the real me and the answer is they are all real or there is not a real one. Twenty years ago I left my country with the idea to travel the world and and meet new or…

For Cowie, process of identification through fantasy is not a form of distortion but expressions of deep wishes. It is from two students of Jacques Lacan- Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis (Laplanche and Pontalis, 1986) that Cowie got the inspiration for her formulation on ‘fantasy’. Fantasies do not entail the subject to obtain the desired object but through imagination puts oneself in a situation, a scene where the subject can chart out the possibilities of pleasure. Cowie depends…

listener or the person being aimed at .Those feelings must be comparable in which it allows both sides to have related feelings. He decides to represent art as a form of human activity where one tends to express an emotion (Tolstoy,180-179) .Thus, the higher the level of individuality,…