Presences

Yeats associates these demoralizing images with what he refers to as "Presences" -- entities "That passion, piety or affection knows,/And that all heavenly glory symbolise."

A Late Bloom From a Master Jim Zinsmeister 2009

But the gist of it was that he had been gradually becoming conscious of what he called 'Presences' in his world.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

Thomas McEvilley does a good job of explaining the physiology of this process in his 1982 article "Negative Presences in Secret Spaces: The Art of Eric Orr:"

John Seed: Inside Eric Orr's Zero Mass at MCASD La Jolla John Seed 2011

Thomas McEvilley does a good job of explaining the physiology of this process in his 1982 article "Negative Presences in Secret Spaces: The Art of Eric Orr:"

John Seed: Inside Eric Orr's Zero Mass at MCASD La Jolla John Seed 2011

Thomas McEvilley does a good job of explaining the physiology of this process in his 1982 article "Negative Presences in Secret Spaces: The Art of Eric Orr:"

John Seed: Inside Eric Orr's Zero Mass at MCASD La Jolla John Seed 2011

The wonderfully evocative Other Presences surrounds the solo trumpet with much more complex textures, sounds suggested by Tibetan ritual horns, while the duets between the piano and the sampled birdsongs in the concerto are full of wonderful ideas, with seamless transformations of natural and musical sounds between the soloist and the ensemble of 17 instrumentalists.

Harvey: Bird Concerto with Pianosong etc – review 2011

Thomas McEvilley does a good job of explaining the physiology of this process in his 1982 article "Negative Presences in Secret Spaces: The Art of Eric Orr:"

John Seed: Inside Eric Orr's Zero Mass at MCASD La Jolla John Seed 2011

We fought about many things over the years, including his choice not to write about his double life when he wrote his autobiography, Presences.

Adelia Moore: 'Take a Marine Like Me' Adelia Moore 2010

We fought about many things over the years, including his choice not to write about his double life when he wrote his autobiography, Presences.

Adelia Moore: 'Take a Marine Like Me' Adelia Moore 2010

Episcopal Bishop Moore, in his autobiography, Presences: A Bishop's Life in the City, wrote that the end of the Cold War had left the United States "like a wounded rooster crowing on the top of the dung heap."

Obama's Minister "Hates America" But When My Father Said the Same Sort of Things He Became a Hero To The Republicans 2008