The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.

William S. Burroughs taught the cut-up technique to musician Genesis P-Orridge in 1971 as a method for " altering reality ".

Combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively.

This technique is not so often used in scene however, as it may break the reality of a scene.

The beliefs and techniques of Magi vary enormously, and the ability to alter reality can only exist in the context of a coherent system of belief and technique, called a paradigm.

As animation is completely free of the constraints of gravity, momentum, and physical reality, it is an ideal technique for science fiction and fantasy on television.

Theatre technique is part of the playwright's creative writing of drama, as a kind of mimesis rather than mere illusion or imitation of life, in that the playwright is able to present a reality to the audience that is different, yet recognisable to that which they usually identify with in their everyday lives.

In reality the geoid does not have a physical meaning under the continents, but geodesists are able to derive the heights of continental points above this imaginary, yet physically defined, surface by a technique called spirit leveling.

In reality, the technique was neither new ( it had been known since 1854, and was extensively studied during the previous twenty years ), nor did it produce the yields he promised.

However, if in Cabral's works developed poetic technique mostly serves the depiction of objective reality, in Vinícius it serves the depiction of a deeply felt and highly subjective mood-above all, of sexual love.

The third plot line concerns Martin Burke, a pioneer in psychotherapy who uses a technique which allows him to directly enter and interact with a patient's psychology-the " Country of the Mind "-through a sort of virtual reality.

Kreutzer's TV station " Channel 3 " is about to start a new television format, " Church Windows ", which creates a virtual reality on the basis of popular shows like sitcoms, using a new technique called " Mimecom ".

His innovative ' rocking ' technique ( like Budd's sliding squat thrusts ) was widely copied, but none of his rivals could get anywhere near him, and though Sherwood again pushed him close in the squats section, in reality Jacks was in a class of one here.

There are several basic principles of reality therapy that must be applied to make this technique most successful.

As one recent commentator put it: ' For Flusser, photography is not only a reproductive imaging technology, it is a dominant cultural technique through which reality is constituted and understood ' ( Claudia Becker, Image / Thinking, POP 2. 2, p. 251 ).

For example, entire sequences of the Family Guy two-part episode " Stewie Kills Lois " and " Lois Kills Stewie " are revealed to have taken place within a virtual reality simulation, upon which a character asks whether a potential viewer could be angry that they have effectively watched a dream sequence, but this technique can also be effective and its use lauded when the status of dream or reality is left more ambiguous as it was in The Wizard of Oz.

Walters traces the dream sequence technique of revealing one thing to be another ( revealing what the audience thought was a dream to actually be reality ), back to magic lantern shows features " slipping " or " slipper " slides in which ; some lantern slides for examples would feature two sheets of glass with different images painted on each, say a cocoon and a butterfly.

Although in political reality adoption was an alternative technique to aim for the same result in terms of succession ( succeeding to produce one genealogically " false " but politically satisfactory dynasty of so-called " Adoptive Emperors "), constitutionally, this was a horror as the republic had never been abandoned in law, so monarchical succession in the Principate, however realistic, was officially out of the question, regardless of the trappings during the Dominate ; designation could at least be justified by qualitative criteria.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.

The poet was by definition a realist, his imaginings and parables being natural organizations of reality.

A nation may go to war on some trifling pretext, when in reality it may have been guided by an unconscious instinct that its very life was at stake.

Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.

This error was compounded by declaring the recession to be `` a statistical one '', and not a reality.

But in the moment of truth everyone could see that the U.S. was in reality the principal.

These never ceased to suggest that if, in the eyes of Marx and Lenin `` full communism '' was still a very distant ideal, the establishment of a Communist society had now, under Khrushchev, become an `` immediate and tangible reality ''.

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

the granular texture thus created likewise called attention to the reality of the surface and was effective over much larger areas.

That the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal, gradient frequencies, across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met??

Soon after the method changed, visitors began asking how he managed to irrigate his soil to keep it looking moist, when in reality, it was the soil treatment alone that accomplished this.

Perhaps this was reality and Dale Nelson, the actor, was delusion ; ;

It was this timeless unity that was all-important, and not its temporary manifestations in the world of reality.

All of the elements of the experience were impossible and yet the reality of them was heavy upon him and he resolved never again to visit the temple at Fudomae.

Schweitzer's passionate quest was to discover a universal ethical philosophy, anchored in a universal reality, and make it directly available to all of humanity.

In the panentheistic model of process philosophy and theology the writers Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne rejected that the universe was made of substance, instead reality is composed of living experiences ( occasions of experience ).

This Ecumenical council declared that Jesus Christ was a distinct being of God in existence or reality ( hypostasis ), which the Latin fathers translated as persona.

In reality, however, the number of chariots in Ahab's forces was probably closer to number in the hundreds ( this due to archaeological excavations of the area and the foundations of stables that had been found ).

Initially led by Canovas del Castillo as moderate prime minister, what was thought at one time as a coup aimed at placing the military in the political-administrative positions of power, in reality ushered in a permanent civilian regime tat lasted until the 1931 Second Republic.

In reality, this goal was divided into three main efforts — to prepare for future invasion, to seek revenge against Persia, and to organize a means of dividing spoils of war.

The original commission that reached Salieri in 1783 – 84 was to assist Gluck in finishing a work for Paris that had been all but completed ; in reality, Gluck had failed to notate any of the score for the new opera and gave the entire project over to his young friend.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

It holds that quantum mechanics does not yield a description of an objective reality but deals only with probabilities of observing, or measuring, various aspects of energy quanta, entities which fit neither the classical idea of particles nor the classical idea of waves.

This New Life is endless, and even after my physical death it will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation of falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust ; and who, to accomplish all this, do no lustful actions, do no harm to anyone, do no backbiting, do not seek material possessions or power, who accept no homage, neither covet honor nor shun disgrace, and fear no one and nothing ; by those who rely wholly and solely on God, and who love God purely for the sake of loving ; who believe in the lovers of God and in the reality of Manifestation, and yet do not expect any spiritual or material reward ; who do not let go the hand of Truth, and who, without being upset by calamities, bravely and wholeheartedly face all hardships with one hundred percent cheerfulness, and give no importance to caste, creed and religious ceremonies.

Hence, there can be neither void nor vacuum ; and true reality can neither come into being nor vanish from existence.

While this instrument is in reality a conical-cylindrical bore hybrid, neither truly euphonium nor baritone, it was almost universally labeled a " baritone " by both band directors and composers.

Al-Yafi ‘ i, Ibn ‘ Ata ’ Allah and others have declared that they considered Ibn ‘ Arabi a walî, noting that the language which Sufis use is appropri ¬ ate among the experts in its usage and that the knower of Allah (‘ ârif ), when he becomes completely ab ¬ sorbed in the oceans of Unity, might make some statements that are liable to be misconstrued as indwelling ( hulûl ) and union ( ittihâd ), while in reality there is neither indwelling nor union.

Critical theory defends the primacy of neither matter ( materialism ) nor consciousness ( idealism ), arguing that both epistemologies distort reality to the benefit, eventually, of some small group.

* » Kjer ni spoznavne realnosti, ne more biti zgodovine ( žensk ) in ne samozavedajoče se družbe « (» Where there's no cognitive reality, there can be neither history women nor selfconscious society «), Apokalipsa, 2005, no.

" Some examples are simpler: the McDonald's " M " arches allegedly make the material promise of endless amounts of identical food from the store, when in " reality " the " M " represents nothing, and the food produced is neither identical nor infinite, as a person would expect from a fast food restaurant .< ref > Joe L. Kincheloe The Sign of the Burger: McDonald's and the Culture of Power ( 2002 ), a study of McDonald's and its use of signifiers to achieve power in hyperreality.

The T-state is neither ' actual ', nor ' potential ' ( categories replacing in Lupasco's system the ' true ' or ' false ' values of standard bivalent logic ), but a resolution of the two contradictory elements at a higher level of reality or complexity.

Residing between the Pattern Web and the chaos of the Wyld, it ensuring that neither the order of the Weaver nor the chaos of the Wyld prevailed throughout reality, removing all that was not harmonious.

Rabbis and other trained leaders officiate at intermarriages between Jews and non-Jews, and the Humanistic Judaism movement, unlike the Conservative and Orthodox Jewish denominations, does not take any position or action in opposition to intermarriage, rather it affirms that " Intermarriage is an American Jewish reality -- a natural consequence of a liberal society in which individuals have the freedom to marry whomever they wish ... that intermarriage is neither good nor bad, just as we believe that the marriage of two Jews, in itself, is neither good nor bad.

Some have argued that the distinction between objective and subjective assessments is neither useful nor accurate because, in reality, there is no such thing as " objective " assessment.

To the Nondualist, reality is ultimately neither physical nor mental.

He advises her to face the reality that Harry might be killed, which neither his wife nor daughter-in-law did and were crushed by despair.

Separated for much of the book, the twins become more independent of each other, and learn that neither they nor reality itself is as ordinary as they previously supposed.

In reality however, neither Doc Scurlock nor Chavez y Chavez rode with Billy the Kid following the Lincoln County War.

Rome chose not to choose between the two candidates, and granted neither the title of Patriarch, even if from 1811 it was Augustine Hindi who in reality ruled the Church.

In reality, Barberini was neither ; he had appointed himself " Prince " of the Palestrina comune bought by the Barberini family and was " illustrious " because he had amassed great wealth during his uncle's reign as Pope.

Residing between the Pattern Web and the chaos of the Wyld, it ensured that neither the order of the Weaver nor the chaos of the Wyld prevailed throughout reality, removing all that was not harmonious.