In Dream of Scipio, Cicero describes what seems to be an out of body experience, of the soul traveling high above the Earth, looking down at the small planet, from far away.

After several rounds of debate between Job and his friends, in a divine voice, described as coming from a " cloud " or " whirlwind ", God describes, in evocative and lyrical language, what the experience of being the creator of the world is like, and rhetorically asks if Job has ever had the experiences or the authority that God has had.

This position is sometimes referred to as eliminative materialism: the view that consciousness is a property that can be reduced to a strictly mechanical description, and that our experience of consciousness is, as Daniel Dennett describes it, a " user illusion ".

# A rich full life – he describes the life of the fully functioning individual as rich, full and exciting and suggests that they experience joy and pain, love and heartbreak, fear and courage more intensely.

This subjective experience is often called a quale ( plural qualia ), and it describes the private " raw feel " or the subjective " what-it-is-like " that is the inner accompaniment of many mental states.

The problems other philosophers have had with Mill's position center around the following issues: Firstly, Mill's formulation encounters difficulty when it describes what direct experience is by differentiating only between actual and possible sensations.

" Glazer describes how " John's accidental transformation from drifter to national figure parallels Capra's own early drifting experience and subsequent involvement in movie making ... Meet John Doe, then, was an attempt to work out his own fears and questions.

However, Raymond Williams in Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left Review describes Orwell as a " successful impersonation of a plain man who bumps into experience in an unmediated way and tells the truth about it.

He had experience with the epidemic, referring to it as very long lasting, and describes its symptoms and his treatment of it.

Shearer describes his experience on the show as a " living hell " and he did not get along well with the other writers and cast members.

Shearer describes his experience on the show as a " living hell " and " not a real pleasant place to work.

Subjective Idealism ( immaterialism or phenomenalism ) describes a relationship between experience and the world in which objects are no more than collections or " bundles " of sense data in the perceiver.

Lovelock refused to use the shaved and anaesthetised rabbits that were used as burn victims, and exposed his own skin to heat radiation instead, an experience he describes as " exquisitely painful ".

Herman Kuhn, quoting from Tattvarthasutra, describes karmas as " a mechanism that makes us thoroughly experience the themes of our life until we gained optimal knowledge from them and until our emotional attachment to these themes falls off.

Crowley describes the experience of invocation:

In Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman, he describes his experience of mania as " the most perfect prescription glasses with which to see the world ... life appears in front of you like an oversized movie screen ".

Multimedia ( as an adjective ) also describes electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content.

Also in the Symposium, Plato describes how the experience of the Beautiful by Socrates enables him to resist the temptations of wealth and sex.

Following Aristotle ’ s lead, he describes categories of the understanding, such as the notion of cause and effect, which inevitably mediate our experience of the world and give us the objects of our experience.

It describes the relationship between the fundamental objects of physical reality and those of everyday experience as well as those of a more abstract social nature.

Catatonia describes a profoundly agitated state in which the experience of reality is generally considered to be impaired.

The concept of linguistic relativity describes different formulations of the principle that cognitive processes such as thought and experience may be influenced by the categories and patterns of the language that a person speaks.

The author Arrian, during his personal experience in Spain, describes hare hunting with Galgos in a manner almost identical to that used nowadays in Spain, adding that it was a general Celtic tradition not related to a social class.

The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured.

Even in contemporary India the term rasa denoting " flavor " or " essence " is used colloquially to describe the aesthetic experiences in films ; " māsala mix " describes popular Hindi cinema films which serve a so called balanced emotional meal for the masses, savored as rasa by these spectators.

The unknown author of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea describes this route and the ports and trade goods along the coasts of Africa and India around AD 70.

The geography of India describes the geographic features of India, a country in South Asia.

In Europe and India, " multi-purpose vehicle " ( MPV ) describes the general vehicle type without reference to its size.

* 900s BC: India — Vedic India — Yajnavalkya writes the Shatapatha Brahmana, in which he describes the motions of the sun and the moon.

A letter in The Times ( London ), January 16, 1905, signed by Oswald Crawford, describes auction bridge as first played in 1904, while a book by " John Doe " ( F. Roe ), published in Alláhábád, India, in 1889, puts forward auction bridge as an invention of three members of the Indian Civil Service stationed at an isolated community, designed a three-handed form of bridge to compensate the lack of a fourth player.

Philostratus describes Apollonius as a wandering teacher of philosophy and miracle worker who was mainly active in Greece and Asia Minor but also traveled to Italy, Spain and North Africa and even to Mesopotamia, India, and Ethiopia.

He describes an encounter between Burzoe and a Raja visiting from India.

* The United Kingdom Select Committee on Environmental Audit 1999 ; Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix 7: Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights ( TRIPs ) and Farmers ' Rights interestingly lists and describes the cases of turmeric ( India ), karela ( India ), quinoa ( Bolivia ), brazzein berries ( Gabon ), and others.

c. 1030-Al-Biruni's India describes the game of chaturaji.

In the Rukh describes how Gisborne, an English forest ranger in India at the time of the British Raj, discovers a young man named Mowgli, who has extraordinary skill at hunting and tracking, and asks him to join the forestry service.

The hero's experience is recorded in " notebooks ", which are compiled to form the actual narrative, and which serve to record his unusual, mostly sexual, experiences in British India — the narrator describes himself as dominated by " a devilish indifference " towards " all things having to do with art or metaphysics ", focusing instead on eroticism.

His best known literary work is his The History of British India where he describes the acquisition of the Indian Empire by England and later the United Kingdom.

" In Norrland we have an India within our borders, if only we realize we should be taking advantage of it " ( I Norrland hava vi inom våra gränser ett Indien, blott vi förstå att bruka det ) is a quote attributed to Axel Oxenstierna that fairly well describes the attitude.

Rushdie describes Nargis's portrayal of Mother India as follows:

The text describes Thomas ' adventures in bringing Christianity to India, a tradition later expanded upon in early Indian sources such as the " Thomma Parvam " (" Song of Thomas ").

In Greek mythology the word describes a tribe of dwarfs, first described by Homer, the ancient Greek poet, and reputed to live in India and south of modern day Ethiopia.

Since an amendment in 1976, the constitution of India describes the country as ' secular ', and generally most mainstream political forces describe themselves as ' secular '.

" hearing, listening "), often spelled sruti or sruthi mainly in South India, is a term that describes the sacred texts comprising the central canon of Hinduism and is one of the three main sources of dharma and therefore is also influential within Hindu Law.

Beyond the Red Sea, the manuscript describes the coast of India as far as the Ganges River and the east coast of Africa ( called Azania ).

Nine Bells ( 1983, India Navigation ) is a conceptual album in which Johnson performs on 9 bells, evenly-spaced and hanging from the ceiling .< REF > Allmusic entry Greg Sandow ( 2003 ) describes Nine Bells, " in which he walked, at a steady rhythmic pace ( and, if I remember correctly, for more than an hour ), among nine suspended burglar alarm bells, systematically exploring all the possible paths among them.

The epic Mahabharata describes them as forest-dwelling, and mentions their being encountered by Sahadeva, a Pandava general who led a military campaign to south India.