*" Awareness of symbolic meaning is awareness of a specific idea ; kavanah is awareness of an ineffable situation.

Jewish and Christian tradition viewed Moses as the author of Exodus and the entire Pentateuch, but by the end of the 19th century the increasing awareness of the discrepancies, inconsistencies, repetitions and other features of the Pentateuch had led scholars to abandon this idea.

At this time popular awareness of the idea of reincarnation was boosted by the Theosophical Society's dissemination of systematised and universalised Indian concepts and also by the influence of magical societies like The Golden Dawn.

His letter explained his motivations as being rooted in an idea that the brain is a reducing valve that restricts consciousness and hoping mescaline may help access a greater degree of awareness, ( an idea he later included in the book ).

Articulating the idea of something not conscious, or, actively denied to awareness, with the constructs of language has been a process of human thought and interpersonal influence for millennia.

Rubinstein compared large-group awareness training to certain principles of cognitive therapy, such as the idea that people can change their lives by interpreting the way they view external circumstances.

:( iv ) illumination or insight ( where the creative idea bursts forth from its preconscious processing into conscious awareness ); and

The IAO was established after Admiral John Poindexter, former United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan and SAIC executive Brian Hicks approached the US Department of Defense with the idea for an information awareness program after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on ; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am-of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain-or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things [...] I have no idea whatever of my soul.

In 1985, former actress Melina Mercouri, then Greece ’ s Minister of Culture, and her French counterpart Jack Lang came up with the idea of designating an annual Capital of Culture to bring Europeans closer together by highlighting the richness and diversity of European cultures and raising awareness of their common history and values.

These terms also convey the idea that our nature as intrinsic awareness has many qualities that make it perfect.

There are several market research practices that may be used: ( 1 ) concept testing, which evaluates reactions to a film idea and is fairly rare ; ( 2 ) positioning studios, which analyze a script for marketing opportunities ; ( 3 ) focus groups, which probe viewers ' opinions about a film in small groups prior to release ; ( 4 ) test screenings, which involve the previewing of films prior to theatrical release ; ( 5 ) tracking studies, which gauge ( often by telephone polling ) an audience's awareness of a film on a weekly basis prior to and during theatrical release ; ( 6 ) advertising testing, which measures responses to marketing materials such as trailers and television advertisements ; and finally ( 7 ) exit surveys, that measure audience reactions after seeing the film in the cinema.

In computer science context awareness refers to the idea that computers can both sense, and react based on their environment.

From a psychology point of view, context awareness is the idea that societies may be constructed, however they are still based on reality, and hence should be aware of the history and context surrounding social interactions.

Nevertheless, early political, economic and cultural advances gave Catalonia " a mode of organization and an awareness of its own identity which might in some ways be described as national, though the idea of popular or national sovereignty did not yet exist " ( Balcells 9 ).

( Only in dzog-chen, with the idea of ' awareness ' pa do we find something similar.

Parallels drawn between the idea of the astral and that of the unconscious mind have been noted above, for Sigmund Freud inherited Mesmer's awareness of the animal self, the value of hypnosis, trance and dream, replacing the physical idea of the life-force with a purely psychological paradigm of libido, id and subconscious mind.

Interactionism, or the idea that individuals have more awareness, skill and power to change their own situation, links to several other theories.

* Repression: The process of attempting to repel desires towards pleasurable instincts, caused by a threat of suffering if the desire is satisfied ; the desire is moved to the unconscious in the attempt to prevent it from entering consciousness ; seemingly unexplainable naivety, memory lapse or lack of awareness of one's own situation and condition ; the emotion is conscious, but the idea behind it is absent.

But such an indirect awareness or perception is itself an idea in one's mind, so that the correspondence theory of truth reduces to a correspondence between ideas about truth and ideas of the world, whereupon it becomes a coherence theory of truth.

These include the idea of antroposophy in which four modes of awareness are distinguished: wakefulness ( conferring with dhyana ), dream ( conferring with dharani ), sleep ( conferring with pratyahara ) and moment of death or absorption of spirit ( conferring with samādhi ).

Thus the student of literature may sometimes find it helpful to classify a poem or an essay as being in idea or in ideal content or subject matter typical or atypical of its period.

The very idea of there being `` count rules '' implies that there is some sort of proportion to be expected between the amount of congestive activity and the extent of the breakaway ( run up or run down ) movement.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

Indeed, he rather relished the idea of being of the same rough texture as some of his subjects.

Scholars in support of the idea of Amos being from the North also say it makes more sense because of Amaziah's accusation of conspiracy found in chapter seven, verse 10.

Jay comments that this is sometimes seen as an early reference to the idea of the transmission of grace through the apostolic succession which in later centuries was understood as being specifically transmitted through the laying on of hands by a bishop within the apostolic succession ( the " pipeline theory ").

Among Schoenberg's teaching was the idea that the unity of a musical composition depends upon all its aspects being derived from a single basic idea ; this idea was later known as developing variation.

The Talmud amplifies this idea, mentioning her as being one of the " four women of surpassing beauty in the world.

Alexander advances the idea that it is would not be God ’ s fault to create a being that would bind the ‘ corrupt ’ with the ‘ clean ’.

* The idea of replicant models being mass-produced, and in particular a woman identical to Rachael existing, is also from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

For the writer of the Book of Hosea, this idea of marriage is not far from the truth, but it is a " male perspective " that is being endorsed here.

Deane and J. R. Thomson write this valid conclusion, “ The Book of Obadiah is occupied with one subject – the punishment of Edom for its cruel and unbrotherly love conduct towards Judah ...” One can link this idea of punishment to one of the major prophets “ Ezekiel ” who “... interprets the exile to Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem as deserved punishments for the sins of those who themselves committed them .” Verses 3-7 in Obadiah explain to the reader the reason for the punishment theme, “ Confidence in one ’ s power, intelligence, allies, or the topographical features of one ’ s territory is often mentioned as an attribute of those who foolishly confront the Lord and are consequently punished .” Although destruction is vital to understanding Obadiah, it is of note to understand the destruction being a consequence of action.

A popular legend at the time was of the Amazons, a tribe of fierce female warriors who socialized with men only for procreation and even removed one breast to become better warriors ( the idea being that the right breast would interfere with the operation of a bow and arrow ).

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

The idea of being " born again in Christ " inspired some common European forenames: French René / Renée ( also used in the Netherlands ), Dutch Renaat / Renate, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Renato / Renata, Latin Renatus / Renata, which all mean " reborn ", " born again ".

A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.

This idea may be traced back to early Chinese shamanistic beliefs, such as the king being the axle between the sky, human beings, and the Earth.

The machines are released on a deserted island, the idea being that once the available metal is all used and they start fighting each other, natural selection will enhance their design.

In the Superman: The Animated Series episode " The Late Mr. Kent ", wherein Clark Kent is presumed dead, Superman expresses frustration at the idea of not being Clark and having to be someone else instead (" I am Clark Kent.

In contrast to the Jewish view of being morally balanced, Original Sin refers to the idea that the sin of Adam and Eve's disobedience ( sin " at the origin ") has passed on a spiritual heritage, so to speak.

However, Brian Wilson has stated that the idea of the record being a " concept album " is mainly within the way the album was produced and structured.

Instead of records being stored in some sort of linked list of free-form records as in Codasyl, Codd's idea was to use a " table " of fixed-length records.

Hofstadter's 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop carries his vision of consciousness considerably further, including the idea that each human " I " is distributed over numerous brains, rather than being limited to precisely one brain.