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Subtle may refer to: Subtle (band), a musical group consisting of members of the anticon. hip-hop collective; Doctor Subtilis, John Duns Scotus; Subtle body, an idea in mysticism, yoga, and tantra; The Subtle Knife, a novel by Philip Pullman and the second book in the trilogy His Dark Materials; Subtle, a character in The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
Subtle expressions occur when a person's emotional response to a situation, to another person or to the environment around them is of low intensity. [1] ...
The subtle body is sometimes known as manomaya-kāya, the “body made of mind” and is the means for synchronising the body and the mind, particularly during meditation. [24] The subtle body consists of thousands of subtle energy channels , which are conduits for energies or "winds" (lung or prana) and converge at chakras. [22]
The body of light, sometimes called the 'astral body' [a] or the 'subtle body,' [b] is a "quasi material" [1] aspect of the human body, being neither solely physical nor solely spiritual, posited by a number of philosophers, and elaborated on according to various esoteric, occult, and mystical teachings.
The subtle body is composed of the five subtle elements, the elements before they have undergone panchikarana, [citation needed] and contains: sravanadipanchakam – the five organs of perception: eyes, ears, skin, tongue and nose [2] vagadipanchakam – the five organs of action: speech, hands, legs, anus and genitals [2]
The etheric plane (see also etheric body) is a term introduced into Theosophy by Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant to represent the subtle part of the lower plane of existence. It represents the fourth [higher] subplane of the physical plane (a hyperplane), the lower three being the states of solid, liquid, and gaseous matter.
Adianoeta – a phrase carrying two meanings: an obvious meaning and a second, more subtle and ingenious one (more commonly known as double entendre). Alliteration – the use of a series of two or more words beginning with the same letter. Amphiboly – a sentence that may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous structure.
Subtle realism is a philosophical position within social science that, along with other forms of realism, stands opposed to naïve realism and various forms of relativism and scepticism. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term was coined by Martyn Hammersley in 1992. [ 3 ]