What is "transcended"

Usage examples of "transcended".

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.

As such, the Soul or self-system can span the entire spectrum of development (except the higher limits, where it is transcended or becomes the Absolute).

They spoke from the center of a mythic worldview, even as their own substantive Reason transcended it, and even as their own contemplation transcended Reason.

At (causal) gnosis, both the myths (literal) and the rationality (ethical) would be transcended, having thus served their purpose.

What at one stage is worshiped and identified with becomes at the next stage precisely that which must be transcended, fought, and differentiated from: the God of one becomes the Devil of the next, becomes a reminder of what we once were and should not slide back into, that slide being "sin," devolution, regression, retreat.

And at the next stage, when Reason became the God of the Enlightenment, the God of monotheistic and mythic religions became the oppressive Devil of free thought and full human potentialthe God of mythic religions now had to be fought, overcome, transcended: it became the Devil of the Enlightenment.

For an instant she stiffened, overwhelmed by the primitive power of his kiss, then she softened beneath his invasion, responding to the raw need in him, a need that transcended simple male hunger.

More real, for face transcended both, passed down through the generations from hand to hand as surely as ritual bronzes.

But Lindsay was caught by an indefinable quality of the bowl that transcended its battered history.

Lindsay knew one thing with a certainty that transcended rational memory: as a child, she had been followed and then something horrifying had happened, something that had been her fault.

He was like the scarred bronze bowl he had given her – the quality of the original creation had transcended the battering of existence.

Yet the presence of the imperial burial suit comforted him, reminding him that the best of humanity transcended the worst.

There was an integrity to the piece that transcended whatever guilty or greedy souls might have owned it in the past.

He had watched over them, had given them a sense of peace and well-being that transcended physical boundaries, and gave promise that benevolence and goodwill were still accessible in some comers of the world to all.

Rather, there was an affinity between them that transcended passion and need.