In the epilogue to his novel The Devils of Loudon published earlier that year, Huxley had written that drugs were “ toxic short cuts to self-transcendence ” For the Canadian writer George Woodcock, Huxley had changed his opinion because mescaline was not addictive and appeared to be without unpleasant physical or mental side-effects, further he had found that hypnosis, autohypnosis and meditation had apparently failed to produce the results he wanted.

Soon after the publication of his book, Huxley wrote to Harold Raymond at Chatto and Windus that he thought it strange that when Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton wrote the praises of alcohol they were still considered good Christians, while anyone who suggested other routes to self-transcendence was accused of being a drug addict and perverter of mankind.

In all these areas a central change was the adoption of certain ideas of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, especially the notion that the self-transcendence of the world by man was a possibility and duty, but one that could never be conclusively fulfilled.

Ideally, self-transcendence would be found in religion, but Huxley feels that it is unlikely that this will ever happen.

Carl Zimmer claimed that, given the low explanatory power of VMAT2, it can be characterized as a gene that accounts for less than one percent of the variance of self-transcendence scores.

Based on research by psychologist Robert Cloninger, this tendency toward spirituality is quantified by the self-transcendence scale, which is composed of three sub-sets: " self-forgetfulness " ( as in the tendency to become totally absorbed in some activity, such as reading ); " transpersonal identification " ( a feeling of connectedness to a larger universe ); and " mysticism " ( an openness to believe things not literally provable, such as ESP ).

* The anthropological basis of LdL is related to the pyramid or hierarchy of needs introduced by Abraham Maslow, which consists, from base to peak, of 1 ) physiological needs, 2 ) safety / security, 3 ) social / love / belonging, 4 ) esteem / self-confidence and 5 ) being / growth through self-actualization and self-transcendence.

Living in worsening poverty, neglecting his health, and drinking excessively, Jarry went on to write what is often cited as the first cyborg sex novel, Le Surmâle ( The Supermale ), which is partly a satire on the Symbolist ideal of self-transcendence.

Krzysztof Kieślowski's Decalogue series: the problem of the protagonists and their self-transcendence.

Cloninger later incorporated self-transcendence as a spiritual dimension of personality in the Temperament and Character Inventory.

Cloninger described the specific combination of high self-transcendence, low cooperativeness, and low self-directedness as a " schizotypal personality style " and research has found that this specific combination of traits is associated with a high risk of schizotypy.

Low cooperativeness and self-directedness combined with high self-transcendence may result in openness to odd or unusual ideas and behaviours associated with distorted perceptions of reality.

On the other hand, high levels of cooperativeness and self-directedness may protect against the schizotypal tendencies associated with high self-transcendence.

In order to identify some of the specific genes involved in self-transcendence, Hamer analyzed DNA and personality score data from over 1000 individuals and identified one particular locus, VMAT2, with a significant correlation.

However, Dr. Hamer has hypothesized that self-transcendence makes people more optimistic, which makes them healthier and likely to have more children.

There are those who believe that some of the phraseology suggests that man has the capacity for self-transcendence.

In everyday language, " transcendence " means " going beyond ", and " self-transcendence " means going beyond a prior form or state of oneself.

Mystical experience is thought of as a particularly advanced state of self-transcendence, in which the sense of a separate self is abandoned.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

The measure was instantly taken, as always in such cases, of public men at many levels.

A shielded thermocouple was used to measure the upstream temperature of the transpiring gas.

To measure the surface temperature of the anode plug, the surface was scanned with a pyrometer.

I make no attempt to measure the enduring satisfaction and material well-being of a man who went to work on graduation from high school and was highly successful in the business which he entered.

He told the committee the measure would merely provide means of enforcing the escheat law which has been on the books `` since Texas was a republic ''.

The $6,100,000,000 measure, which was passed last Monday by the Senate, provides for forty-year mortgages at low down-payments for moderate-income families.

A measure of how hot the stock was, can be found in what happened to it on the market as soon as trading began.

The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness -- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.

Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab ( and who had used Van den Broek's hypothesis in his Bohr model of the atom ), decided to test Van den Broek and Bohr's hypothesis directly, by seeing if spectral lines emitted from excited atoms fit the Bohr theory's demand that the frequency of the spectral lines be proportional to a measure of the square of Z.

Jean-Robert Argand introduced the term " module " ' unit of measure ' in French in 1806 specifically for the complex absolute value and it was borrowed into English in 1866 as the Latin equivalent " modulus ".

This measure, which was intended to diminish opposition, was paralleled by the introduction of new courtly dignities, like that of panhypersebastos given to Nikephoros Bryennios, or that of sebastokrator given to the emperor's brother Isaac Komnenos.

Johnson had been so obsessed with the measure that he was said to be " a little cracked on the subject ".

Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

Remarkably, it seems that a measure blocked before the assembly voted on it did not need to go back to the assembly if it survived the court challenge: the court was enough to validate it.

* Customary acre-The customary acre was a measure of roughly similar size to the acre described above, but it was subject to considerable local variation similar to the variation found in carucates, virgates, bovates, nooks, and farundels.

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

The aim of the expedition was to measure the length of a degree along a meridian, close to the pole, and compare the result with a similar expedition to Peru, today in Ecuador, near the equator.

This was the first attempt to measure the intensity of starlight with a tool other than the human eye.

, two years after its implementation began, the security situation of inside Colombia has shown some measure of an improvement and the economy, while still fragile, has also shown some positive signs according to observers, but relatively little has yet to have been accomplished in structurally solving most of the country's other grave problems, possibly in part due to legislative and political conflicts between the administration and the Colombian Congress ( including those over the controversial project to eventually re-elect Uribe ), and a relative lack of freely allocated funds and credits.

It has been shown that this feature is a general measure of the size of the star, and thus of the total luminosity output from the star.

It involves a great departure from the methods of political action established in this country, where reforms, and especially financial reforms, have always been considerate and even tender ... I do not yet see the ground on which it can be justly held that any one description of property should be more heavily burdened than others, unless moral and social grounds can be shown first: but in this case the reasons drawn from those sources seem rather to verge in the opposite direction, for real property has more of presumptive connection with the discharge of duty that that which is ranked as personal ... the aspect of the measure is not satisfactory to a man of my traditions ( and these traditions lie near the roots of my being )... For the sudden introduction of such change there is I think no precedent in the history of this country.

It can be shown as a consequence of the above properties that μ ( U ) > 0 for every non-empty open subset U. In particular, if G is compact then μ ( G ) is finite and positive, so we can uniquely specify a left Haar measure on G by adding the normalization condition μ ( G ) = 1.

" ( Condorcet 1791 ) Four objects used in making measurements in everyday situations that have metric calibrations are shown: a tape measure calibrated in centimetre s, a thermometer calibrated in Celsius | degrees Celsius, a kilogram weight, and an electrical multimeter which measures volt s, ampere | amps and ohm s.

The new altimeter used a series of high-pitched sounds like those made by a bat to measure the distance from the aircraft to the surface, which on return to the aircraft was converted to feet shown on a gauge inside the aircraft cockpit.

His original definition involved measure theory, but it was later shown that it can be expressed in terms of Kolmogorov complexity.

Another measure of central obesity which has shown superiority to BMI in predicting cardiovascular disease risk is the Index of Central Obesity ( waist-to-height ratio-WHtR ), where a ratio of >= 0. 5 ( i. e. a waist circumference at least half of the individual's height ) is predictive of increased risk.

Drivers in cars without air conditioning were also found to be more likely to honk their horns ( Kenrick & MacFarlane 1986 ), which is used as a measure of aggression and has shown links to other factors such as generic symbols of aggression or the visibility of other drivers.

Most sources in condemning the practice seem to be referring to a wide, slow, perceptible oscillation in pitch, usually associated with intense emotion, whereas the ideal for modern vibrato, and possibly in earlier times as well, was to imitate the natural timbre of the adult singing voice, from which a measure of vibrato ( it has since been shown ) is rarely absent.

The top and bottom five countries by this measure ( taken from The World Factbook's 2012 estimates ) are shown below.

If a line is perpendicular to another as shown, all of the angles created by their intersection are called right angles ( right angles measure π / 2 radians, or 90 °).

However, in the Cuban vernacular, the term refers to the figure shown below in the first measure.

On instruments using decimal measure, as shown in the diagram below, the indicating scale would have 10 graduations covering the same length as 9 on the data scale.

However, new studies using sensitive DNA techniques have shown that through immunological response the virus can either be cleared or suppressed to levels below what polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) tests can measure.

While a general proof can be given that almost all numbers are normal ( in the sense that the set of exceptions has Lebesgue measure zero ), this proof is not constructive and only very few specific numbers have been shown to be normal.

The figures shown in brackets are VA value added a measure of how pupils ' performance has improved, and AGG aggregate score the sum of the percentages of pupils achieving the expected levels in English, maths and science ( thus the maximum possible is 300 ).

The Heat Index ( as shown in the table above ) is a measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is factored with the actual air temperature.

Money is the common Medium of Exchange and its most important and essential function is that it is ' measure of value '... Hifzur Rab has shown that market measures or sets value of various goods and services using the medium of exchange / money as ' unit ' i. e., standard or the Yard Stick of Measurement of Wealth.

When clave is written in two measures, as shown above, the measure with three strokes is referred to as the three-side, and the measure with two strokes — the two-side.

The siguiriyas are normally played in the key of A Phrygian with each measure ( or compás ) consisting of 12 counts with emphasis on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 8th and 11th beats as shown here:

There exist literally hundreds of various assessment tools, although only a few have been shown to have both high validity ( i. e., test actually measures what it claims to measure ) and reliability ( i. e., consistency ).

The first measure of his power is shown in Queen of Sorcery when Maas says to Salmissra his power is " untried and undirected but is very strong.