unembodied

unembodied

(ˌʌnɪmˈbɒdɪd)
adj
1. not having a body; disembodied or without material form
2. not organized into a body (in, for example, an organization)
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Adj.1.unembodied - not having a material bodyunembodied - not having a material body; "bodiless ghosts"
incorporeal, immaterial - without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit"
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Perhaps it may be that my mind is wrought To a fever* by the moonbeam that hangs o'er, But I will half believe that wild light fraught With more of sovereignty than ancient lore Hath ever told-or is it of a thought The unembodied essence, and no more That with a quickening spell doth o'er us pass As dew of the night-time, o'er the summer grass?
It is pleasant to analyze feelings while they are still only feelings, and unembodied in the social fabric.
I am satisfied that our spirits embodied have a converse with and receive intelligence from the spirits unembodied, and inhabiting the invisible world; and this friendly notice is given for our advantage, if we knew how to make use of it.
That I shall not discuss, and perhaps cannot account for; but certainly they are a proof of the converse of spirits, and a secret communication between those embodied and those unembodied, and such a proof as can never be withstood; of which I shall have occasion to give some remarkable instances in the remainder of my solitary residence in this dismal place.
the fog a bleared lens is a mirror an inward looking glass returning gray for green for glance and gaze blank stares one's very image morphed in its mute whites rephrased a lemma not the thing itself unembodied for an interval of hours out of that cloud of almost recovered unknowing an alphabet of silhouettes a lexicon made legible a stroke a branch a bramble calligraphs of other houses a ladder leant against a wall not only what's closest a stake at the property line and like memory behind the tipped bent upright stalks a sort of sunlight
While our focus has been on autonomous vehicle control, GR can be a foundation for (unembodied) proactive decision aids in collaborative decision-making contexts.
Level III has the structure of the 90 degree angle or a 4fold division, which generates a constellation of properties: stasis, distinctness & identity (this- and-not-that), neutralness, insulation, boundaries/form/pattern, and simultaneity-space where time/change is "factored out", and it is ontically definite and objective (such as a concept or class) but is itself unembodied, as an idea or archetype living in the mind.
Jacob toggles through realities: his quotidian existence where he faces the failure of the opening of his latest piece, which was once imbued with all his hopes for artistic success; and the attainment of an unembodied wisdom that shares threads with shamanic paganism, Buddhism, and Christian mysticism (though many traditions flow together in the stream of expanded consciousness Jacob relates).
A third category consisted of messages with content emanated from some "unembodied intelligence of unknown type," conventionally known as "guides" or "guardians." A fourth category involved messages with content ostensibly derived from the mind of the surviving personality from whom the communication was claimed to come.
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