…hope and healing culminated in Supernatural (1999).
Stevenson shows the binary opposites of the supernatural and nature in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
This confidence in the supernatural is common among Tibetans, though not universally celebrated.
Consider first a reductive account that identifies the ethical properties with some natural or supernatural property.
This includes creative energy, which is thought to emanate from supernatural sources.
In The Hunchback of Notre Dame the Roma are associated with witchcraft and the supernatural.
Hence, the world becomes a profane reality that is wholly isolated from both the sacred and the supernatural.
As a philosophical theory, naturalism aligns philosophy with science and the natural world—rejecting the supernatural.
This does not mean that specific beliefs are wired, but that the brain is predisposed to believe in supernatural agents.
So if, indeed, the most plausible supernatural creatures are those which most resemble reality, the question becomes: which part?
In addition, in films that present a supernatural interpretation, there is the further problem of how to depict those events visually.
Dreams were the only way to acquire the supernatural protection, guidance, and power that were considered necessary for success in life.
Scientific explanations do not appeal to supernatural entities such as gods or angels (fallen or not), or to non-natural forces (like miracles, karma, or Qi).
The upshot is that god would be ruled out by both of these principles because supernatural explnations or appeals to such supernatural explanations are ruled out by methodological naturalism .
The most important Nuu-chah-nulth ceremony was the shamans’ dance, a reenactment of the kidnapping of an ancestor by supernatural beings who later gave him supernatural gifts and released him.
Märchen, plural Märchen, folktale characterized by elements of magic or the supernatural, such as the endowment of a mortal character with magical powers or special knowledge; variations expose the hero to supernatural beings or objects.
Although naturalism denies the existence of truly supernatural realities, it makes allowance for the supernatural, provided that knowledge of it can be had indirectly—that is, that natural objects be influenced by the so-called supernatural entities in a detectable way.
Neither “impersonal power” nor “supernatural power” implies the true meaning of mana, however, because mana usually issues from persons or is used by them, and the concept of a supernatural sphere as distinct or separate from a natural sphere is seldom recognized by the peoples who use the term.
And, even though the African people do not consider God and other supernatural beings as the sources of their moral values and principles, nevertheless, they are ever aware of the powers of the supernatural beings and are ever ready to exploit their munificence for the promotion of human welfare, prosperity, and happiness.
committed to two kinds of entities (the natural and the supernatural), two kinds of external relations (the natural and the supernatural), two kinds of causation (the natural and the supernatural), two kinds of non-topic-neutral properties (the natural and the supernatural), and so on, whereas naturalism is committed to only one kind in each of these categories. (2013: 52)
supernatural
adj all
- not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material
Example: supernatural forces and occurrences and beings
noun person
- supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
Example: She doesn't believe in the supernatural
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committed to two kinds of entities the natural and the supernatural two kinds of external relations the natural and the supernatural two kinds of causation the natural and the supernatural two kinds of non-topic-neutral properties the natural and the supernatural and so on whereas naturalism is committed to only one kind in each of these categories 2013 52