I am neither condoning nor condemning world religions or the idea of unitive consciousness, carbon. From Wordnik.com. [Avatar: A Western take on Eastern ideas (and I’m not sure that’s good) | MovieChopShop] Reference
Note the emphasis laid upon it by Wordsworth, who indicates self-knowledge as the mark of those who have attained the "unitive" stage; see p. 66 above. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism in English Literature] Reference
Dr. Griffiths said, that it seems likely the human brain is wired to undergo these "unitive" experiences, perhaps because of some evolutionary advantage. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
But what if there is no unitive dimension to begin with?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
The unitive end of marriage is simply a union of love and life. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Ocamb: Catholic Priest Defies Church Over Antigay Ballot Initiative] Reference
What I find remarkable about this encyclical is its unitive character. From Wordnik.com. [Spe Salvi | Mind on Fire] Reference
I would draw the line at not separating the unitive from the procreative. From Wordnik.com. ["If I do discriminate, it's that I only want healthy, intelligent people."] Reference
These are not mystical in the narrow sense, because not unitive experiences. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism] Reference
Catholic teachings prohibit a separation of the procreative from the unitive. From Wordnik.com. ["[B]irth control ... messes with God’s will, God’s will to permanently relieve me from cat litter duty. Because God has nothing better to do."] Reference
By identifying ourselves with the first we can come to unitive knowledge of the second. From Wordnik.com. [The Perennial Philosophy] Reference
The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Perennial Philosophy] Reference
(On “unitive” experiences see Smart 1958 and 1978, and Wainwright, 1981, Chapter One.). From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism] Reference
Spiritual practice is an open system that seeks connection in unitive life with the other. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » A Change Is Gonna Come] Reference
It is important to understand that the unitive end of marriage is sufficient for a valid marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Ocamb: Catholic Priest Defies Church Over Antigay Ballot Initiative] Reference
It is that unitive power which arises out of the manifold relations and associations of domestic life. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
This is not conception within the marital act and is totally divorced from the unitive act of marriage. From Wordnik.com. [The difficult issue of embryonic adoption] Reference
LG's is a better argument than HH's because it bypasses any problematic appeal to unitive significance. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic condom debate II] Reference
The unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground has, as its necessary condition, self-abnegation and charity. From Wordnik.com. [The Perennial Philosophy] Reference
As noted above, the separation of the procreative and the unitive inevitably leads to a culture of "use.". From Wordnik.com. ["If I do discriminate, it's that I only want healthy, intelligent people."] Reference
It actually explains why the unitive significance of genital activity cannot dispense with the procreative. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
Is the unitive meaning of the conjugal act contained just in the sensation, however intense, that it can produce?. From Wordnik.com. [A celibate expert on marriage] Reference
So you fundamentally sever the relationship between marriage and its simultaneous unitive and reproductive function. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » There’s Always Next Year] Reference
Somehow the procreative has been understood to be inseparably connected with the unitive as described in Ephesians 5. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
Suppressing the procreative in favor of the unitive corrupts the latter and thus makes us readier to kill for our pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-pansexualism: right for (some of) the wrong reasons] Reference
The spokespeople for dissension and divisiveness are in stark contrast with the unitive and wise thread espoused by the opposing view. From Wordnik.com. [Locke Rush: Ground Zero -- The True Jihad] Reference
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