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He acknowledges that a few shamans very likely transcended their own path and disclosed causal and nondual occasions, but the central and most defining characteristics of shamanism seem to be quite clearly subtle-level phenomena.

Charlene Spretnak's States of grace, as only one of many examples, gives an unrelenting history of Woman as Eternal Victim, which is presumably meant to empower women, but actually and profoundly dissolves the power of women in the very first step by defining them as primarily molded by an Other.

And this is why Hegel maintained that the central defining characteristic of Reason (vision-logic) was its capacity to unify opposites and see identity-in-difference.

Several terms in the Lower-Left are carried over from Up from Eden and Eye to eye: pleromatic (physical/material), uroboric (reptilian/brain stem), and typhonic (paleomammalian/limbic), although these are all used in a very general sense (both here and in Eden), to indicate worldviews where these elements, although by no means the sole determinant, loom large in its primary concerns, often defining its most general atmosphere (and sometimes its most scarce resource).

This malevolent Other was simply assumed to be Generic Male, and Oppression Studies 101 was set in motion, with the bizarre goal of empowering women by first defining them as powerless.

Thus classification by perspectives is relevant to psychology, and is essential in defining what we mean by one mind.

I do not wish to suggest that the way in which I have been defining perceptions is the only possible way, or even the best way.

It is clear that, if our analysis of physical objects has been valid, this way of defining sensations needs reinterpretation.

In their intrinsic nature, though they often differ from sensations by being more dim or vague or faint, yet they do not always or universally differ from sensations in any way that can be used for defining them.

Exactly the same thing applies in defining accuracy of thought or perception.

Finally, there is the formal problem of defining truth and falsehood, and deriving the objective reference of a proposition from the meanings of its component words.

But if this be the case, it is a result to be demonstrated, not a premiss from which to start in defining truth and falsehood.

But we found no way of defining images except through their causation.

The only issue is the task of defining the application of property rights to this particular sphere.

The question of defining the application of property rights has arisen frequently, in the wake of major scientific discoveries or inventions, such as the question of oil rights, vertical space rights, etc.