numinous

• “The term numinous is also used by C.G. Jung to depict a spiritual experience involving some kind of alteration of ego-based consciousness (i.e. "altered states").”

  Earthpages.ca - Think Free

• “The term numinous is often said to have been coined by the German Lutheran scholar Rudolf”

  Earthpages.ca - Think Free

• “Just as many of the people who believe in numinous coincidence and supernatural intervention are secretly hoping to prove that it is they themselves who are the pet of the universe, so many of those who overcompensate for inferiority are possessed of titanic egos and regard other people as necessary but incidental.”

  The Zealot

• “I think that our experience of the numinous is both undeniable and entirely biological: the state of spiritual peace is the result of tickling some evolved center of our brain, a bit of neurology that conferred a survival advantage on our ancestors whose numinous hallucinations of a higher order in the universe drove them to catch more antelopes, eat better, and have more babies.”

  Boing Boing

• “You can read the book fairly quickly, but there are things you'll want to come back to -- some of the musings about destiny, and the place of what some call the numinous or the fates, some call the workings of God, in the way things turn out.”

  Dewey's Treehouse

• ““numinous” from the Latin word numen, which denoted a supernatural nonpersonalized being.”

  ORIGINS OF RELIGION

• “I think that this kind of passion is also connected, and that, in touching it we are connected to something numinous, which is actually a long way to go from a venture capital-baiting blog post, but there you are.”

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• “The numinous is a reliably elusive theme for a writer, and Burnside hunts it down like an indefatigable lepidopterist.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “But people too have long felt the beauty of trees; what the theologian Bruno Otto called their "numinous" quality.”

  The Guardian: Why woodlands are wonderful

• “Perhaps it was just his way of tweaking the nose of a reaper he does not believe in, but Hitchens hinted at a belief – or a yearning, or an understanding: what he called a "numinous" or "transcendent" element of human experience.”

  The Guardian: Tony Blair v Christopher Hitchens: fight the good fight

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