Typically it's a numinous experience; the work speaks to me.
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For some in Malawi, a belief in the numinous runs deep.
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It's exciting to see Numinous now getting to tackle the latter.
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We no longer believe in a numinous life force, an élan vital.
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The landscape of red rock, changing colour every hour, creates a numinous atmosphere.
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His desire is to show the ever-so-slightly numinous in the ordinary.
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Untethered is the second release from Numinous Games, the studio behind That Dragon, Cancer.
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But perhaps the day's noise makes the quiet of drawing more numinous and clarifying.
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The play has encouraged him to take more notice of the numinous in everyday life.
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Not enough to play the debut release by Numinous Games, headed by developer Ryan Green.
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He describes a wine of "numinous emptiness," a phrase I'm still trying to puzzle out.
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And while the album's title refers to Chinese Buddhism, these aren't slow, numinous, incantatory sounds, either.
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It also acts, by some numinous, unseen force, as a kind of industrial-strength social lubricant.
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But it's precisely this dramatic irony that gives 'Portraits of Courage' its numinous and haunting quality.
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All Quests are concerned with some numinous Object, the Waters of Life, the Grail, buried treasure etc.
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Fowler instead tries to imbue his work with a numinous quality reflective of the subject's work and aesthetic.
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Like most doomsayers, Lewis is a realist; she can square the humdrum and bureaucratic with the numinous or whimsical.
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Not surprisingly, then, it's when the characters sing that "Girl" acquires the numinous glow associated with Mr. McPherson's plays.
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Other cathedrals have dreamed up even more eccentric ways to make use of the vast, numinous spaces under their control.
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Our beliefs and language are not abstract representations that correspond (or fail to correspond) to some numinous realm of independent reality.
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In book after book, his characters fall through constructed surfaces and constructed selves into deeper, more terrifying but also more numinous realities.
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The falling from the sky of ice crystals is the product of natural rules; but numinous causes and compossibilities now suggested themselves.
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They note that beauty is numinous and fleeting, a passing experience that enlarges the soul and gives us a glimpse of the sacred.
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Let us not forget that crossing its portal or even from afar, the Cathedral afforded any soul a chance to experience the numinous.
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For Sjon, the world is governed by numinous forces that we can only dimly observe, and which we have little language to understand.
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Perhaps for this reason, my favorite book of Roth's isn't fiction but "Patrimony," a memoir of understated prose, tender, yet unyielding; elegiac, numinous.
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I have so much admiration for Ryan and Amy, and the small team at Numinous Games, for seeing this project through to its conclusion.
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I myself didn't much care much about "Game of Thrones" per se, and even I felt it, a numinous shiver running through the forest.
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Simon McBurney's hypnotic, sui generis performance piece — which recreates an American photographer's numinous visit to the Amazon River Basin — hooks its audience by the ears.
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When he drops in the occasional heavenly choir — a gratuitous gesture given James Newton Howard's marvelous orchestral score — the effect is less numinous than overworked.
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Luminous, numinous, it filled me with rapture: it was the color of heaven, the color, I thought…I leaned toward it in a sort of ecstasy.
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She is capable of forgiving everyone and seeing something compelling, even numinous, in things that the rest of the world might otherwise pass over as banal.
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Basically, when it comes to fiction, I love character-based books with beautiful writing, plenty of atmosphere, secrets and mysteries, and maybe a touch of the numinous.
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But in plays like "Shining City" and "The Night Alive," Mr. McPherson has shown a mystical appreciation of music as an expression of the numinous in life.
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His earlier works, like "L'Effet de Serge" and "La Mélancolie des dragons," show that he can locate the numinous in nearly anything, even a colorblind burrowing mammal.
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Released this week from Numinous Games after years of development, That Dragon, Cancer is his family's grief transformed into a game, their private tragedy made public and achingly loud.
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She finds that many people are afraid to die because they have no language for the numinous; however, she is certain that neither life nor relationships end with death.
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There's a place among the numinous for the right kind of mortal, and Rupert makes a tentative, if ugly, living here and on the edges of Kuala Lumpur's underworld.
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Of the many noises that emanate from Mr. Murfi, the one that you are likely to keep hearing long after the play is over is the numinous whooshing of a wind.
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Egan wields a suspicion of the relics he encounters on his pilgrimage, until a potentially numinous experience at the crypt of St. Lucia Filippini challenges his idea of what might be possible.
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There are overlaps and offshoots, but these are the fundamental media, traveling via sound, sight, and language to reside in that numinous inner place that we could roughly translate as the soul.
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You are no longer looking at the actual surface of the painting, but some apparition hovering above it, a numinous specter that arises in part from the engagement of your own imagination.
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The music demonstrated Byrne's facility in different genres, and included elements of pop, jazz, and reggae, though Timbers likened its predominant mood to the numinous Nordic rock of the band Sigur Rós.
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"The Outrun" becomes a kind of personal travelogue of the Orkney Islands, their numinous geology and mystical history, from the unique perspective of one who is both an outsider and a native.
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The question of whether he is the Prince of Darkness or merely a farmyard pest, however, stays unresolved, and "The Witch" feels at once sticky with tangible detail and numinous with suggestion.
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The pilot of this new series, from Tarell Alvin McCraney ("Moonlight") came to viewers like something from a vision — lyrical, numinous, skating across the boundaries of fantasy and reality, memory and present.
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Or perhaps to snare incautious filmmakers, as it's also the setting for Gus Van Sant's movie of the same name, a numinous meditation on grief that's more likely to inspire laughter than tears.
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Also released in 2016, the earlier game is a stylized autobiographical account of Numinous founders Amy and Ryan Green's five-year journey as their son was diagnosed with and ultimately succumbed to cancer.
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Among the more recent big shifts in how we conceive of supernatural communication occurred around the time of Charles Darwin, when there was an explosion of secular interest in the numinous, called spiritualism.
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Although not formally religious himself, Mr Warren has much to say about the numinous nature of the desert and the rituals he performs when (as has happened 18 times) he discovers a dead body.
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He photographs, transmits worlds made numinous by the perfect confusion of edge and center, the perfect juxtaposition of culture and nature, the crossed voltages of immediate singular presence, the highly refined languages of art. . . .
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The mystery of her true identity — which, again, feels intentionally non-mysterious past Chapter 2 or so — is secondary, probably because the story is really about how ordinary people change, and are changed by, the numinous.
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Here a pinkish-orange pathway, rendered as a pool of overlapping strokes, lifts up from the ground just enough to look like an abstract shape without quite losing its numinous connection to the natural world.
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Here, in Lee Sunday Evans's bare-bones staging, there doesn't seem to be enough time — or maybe enough directorial imagination — to register fully the abrupt changes in tone, from tragedy to farce to something more numinous.
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Closer in spirit to the work of the naturalist Rick Bass than to the hard-drinking tales of Caroline Knapp or Augusten Burroughs, the book becomes a personal travelogue of the Orkneys, their numinous geology and mystical history.
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Developed by Ryan and Amy Green, along with a small team at Numinous Games, That Dragon, Cancer is a semi-autobiographical story about dealing with their son Joel's battle with cancer; a battle he sadly lost midway through development.
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But that still leaves large groups of people outside that binary split: those whose transcendent feelings don't prompt them to sign up to any particular faith (18%), and those who pray or fast but have little real interest in the numinous (22%).
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Above: 'Death Stranding' trailer from The Game Awards Amidst the bombast of an award show heavy with marketing and some awkward scene transitions, Ryan Green from Numinous Games gave a teary, brave speech upon accepting the Impact Award for That Dragon, Cancer.
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Ryan Green, who developed the title with a small team at Numinous Games, including his wife Amy who served as a writer, initially started working on the game as a way to deal with his son Joel's three-year battle with cancer.
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" He is also very receptive to her mystical inclinations (as one might expect from a Zeppelin biographer): "Her vision of the Welsh goddess was numinous — something that could be felt and experienced but not actually seen," he writes, explaining the namesake of Nicks's song "Rhiannon.
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Even as his health and reputation deteriorated — and the Nazis moved closer to the Swiss border in the lead-up to World War II — he painted idyllic mountain landscapes that combined the numinous presence of his portraits with the quivering energy of his crowd scenes.
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The characters in Disco Elysium go back to the banality of their districts and their jobs and their lives in the shadow of what we've seen, but the insulindian phasmid is meant to be a guarantor of the numinous qualities of the natural world.
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"I felt art was, above all, irrational, mysterious, numinous: The images of African sculpture I was looking at stood as a sign for all this," she wrote in the foreword to "The Myth of Primitivism: Perspectives on Art" (1991), an anthology that she compiled and edited.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Following the exhibition's Art Institute of Chicago debut, the Musée d'Orsay presents at the Grand Palais 54 paintings, 29 ceramics, 35 sculptures and objects, 14 wood pieces, 3203 engravings, and 34 drawings by Paul Gauguin under the numinous title Gauguin the Alchemist.
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The book included writers as diverse as Kelly Link, Dan Chaon, Elizabeth Hand, Neil Gaiman, Graham Joyce and M. John Harrison, and the stories, different as they were from one another, shared a sense of horror as something numinous and elusive, too tricky to be approached head-on.
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" As humans sit around a campfire, pondering their foibles and aspirations amid the dancing of numinous flames and shadows, we may be catching "a look into the other world; a glimpse into beings who are like us and not us, made of a smokeless fire that can consume us.
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His display at C.C. McKee, "Domesticating the Numinous," reveres the houseplant, with photographs of friends' plants — they look like intimate portraits, as if the plants were people, with golden halos — and actual plants on crates throughout, the room oxygenated with their chlorophyll and lit with a dim glow.
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Ancient Olympia's numinous site had been a place of worship long before the games began in 776 BC. The games were dedicated to Zeus, and if an athlete was caught and punished for cheating, a new statue of the father of the gods had to be erected to make amends.
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The launch was due to include a concert by nine traditional musicians from across the globe and, a few days later, a dawn reading in nearby Church Island, a numinous ancient site dear to the writer's heart, of a Heaney poem dealing with ancient Mycenae and hinting at the 1994 Northern Irish ceasefire.
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In most stories there is, in fact, only one lifelike character, sometimes referred to as a "personage" or "implied author," who dwells on various images—the face of a woman, a horse jockey's racing silks—that swim up from the depths of memory or imagination or some numinous combination of the two.
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Scruton is not suggesting that in those cases, some numinous entity — the image — is created; he is suggesting that a different way of seeing the lines and fields is available to us, a way of seeing that exposes us to a world beyond the one expressible by any purely physical description of paint.
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Front Row On a quiet stretch of the Upper East Side, at the slightly numinous, palindromic address of 17 East 71st Street, just down the block from the Frick Collection, a glass window displays a folding screen, a sculptural column and a single pair of women's shoes, composed with the painstaking precision of a Braque still life.
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So if what's missing from some modern bar and bat mitzvahs is essentially a sense of the magic of religion itself, or "direct contact with the numinous," as the former Harvard professor—born Richard Albert but now known as Ram Dass, a seminal figure in the history of psychedelics—put it in his essay, then these substances could liven things up a bit.
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Sometimes he fleetingly glimpses the father he never met, through a stern and kindly recorded announcement on a Staten Island Ferry boat; in a fountain's statue of Neptune near a "home for aged and decrepit sailors"; in a fortuitous encounter with a friend of his sister's, and that man's young son, in a restroom at a Lowe's in Wheeling, West Va. As Mr. Oliver says "Lowe's," that unromantic home improvement store acquires a numinous glow, as do the words Build It Green, the name of a house-fixtures salvage store in Queens, N.Y. The idea of home, you see, is as tantalizingly insubstantial to Mr. Oliver as that of a father.
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Numinous is an English adjective and noun, taken from the Latin numen, “divinity.” But where numen refers to an objective divine being, numinous as an adjective refers to a subjective state. Numinous the noun refers to that which stimulates the subjective state. For example, a numinous grotto is distinct from the numen of the grotto.
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Rudolf Otto compared the sublime with his newly coined concept of the numinous. The numinous comprises terror, Tremendum, but also a strange fascination, Fascinans.
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Otto's concept of the numinous influenced thinkers including Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, and C. S. Lewis.
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On numinous and arcane elixirs and medicines > 8\. On remote wanderings beyond the mundaneClunas 2004, p. 18.
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Numinous is defined in this encyclopedia as that which arouses "spiritual or religious emotion" or is "mysterious or awe-inspiring".
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Mark Staufer (born 3 November 1963) is a New Zealand native. He is the author and curator of The Numinous Place and a screenwriter, most notably of Love, Laughter and Truth, a biopic about US comedian Bill Hicks, which he developed with Oscar Award-winning actor, Russell Crowe."The Numinous Place: Mark Staufer's Transmedia Fiction Includes Lucid Dreaming". The Huffington Post.
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The numinous spirits of places in Asia are still honored today in city pillar shrines, outdoor spirit houses and indoor household and business shrines.
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Saturday also commissioned local dance troupe Numinous Flux to choreograph and perform a dance interpretation of the album, which streamed one time only on YouTube in 2015.
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Cited in: Otto argues that because the numinous is irreducible and sui generis it cannot be defined in terms of other concepts or experiences, and that the reader must therefore be "guided and led on by consideration and discussion of the matter through the ways of his own mind, until he reach the point at which 'the numinous' in him perforce begins to stir... In other words, our X cannot, strictly speaking, be taught, it can only be evoked, awakened in the mind." Chapters 4 to 6 are devoted to attempting to evoke the numinous and its various aspects. He writes: He describes it as a mystery () that is at once terrifying (tremendum) and fascinating (fascinans).Otto, Rudolf (1996).
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It is a journey to meet the self and at the same time to meet the Divine. Unlike Sigmund Freud, Jung thought spiritual experience was essential to well-being. The notion of the numinous was an important concept in the writings of Carl Jung. Jung regarded numinous experiences as fundamental to an understanding of the individuation process because of their association with experiences of synchronicity in which the presence of archetypes is felt.
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It is a journey to meet the self and at the same time to meet the Divine. Unlike Sigmund Freud, Jung thought spiritual experience was essential to our well-being. The notion of the numinous was an important concept in the writings of Carl Jung. Jung regarded numinous experiences as fundamental to an understanding of the individuation process because of their association with experiences of synchronicity in which the presence of archetypes is felt.
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Such a numinous, universal Self is called Brahman (Sanskrit: sacred power),Zaehner, The City within the Heart (1981), p. 21 (etymologies: Brahman, Atman). or Paramatma.Zaehner, Hinduism (1962, 1966), Brahman (pp.
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Some of his views, among others that the experience of the numinous was caused by a transcendental reality, are untestable and hence unscientific. His ideas strongly influenced phenomenologists and Mircea Eliade.
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L. Varnado, "The Idea of the Numinous in Gothic Literature," in The Gothic Imagination, ed. G.R. Thompson (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1974). make reference to the theologian Rudolf Otto, whose concept of the "numinous" was originally used to describe religious experience. A recent survey reports how often horror media is consumed: > To assess frequency of horror consumption, we asked respondents the > following question: “In the past year, about how often have you used horror > media (e.g.
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He has been principal or contributing photographer to dozens of books and is the author of seven of his own including, The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm (W.W. Norton/NY, 2003); On Earth's Furrowed Brow: The Appalachian Farm in Photographs (W.W. Norton/NY, 2007); Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia (W.W. Norton/NY, 2009); Blue Ridge Parkway Vistas: A Comprehensive Identification Guide to What You See From the Many Overlooks (Numinous Editions,2014), Great Smoky Mountains Vistas: A Guide, with Mountain Peak Identifications, for What to See and Do In and Around the National Park (Numinous Editions, 2016), Faces & Places of Cashiers Valley (Cashiers Historical Society, 2019), and Tide Runners: Shrimping and Fishing on the Carolinas and Georgia Coast (Numinous Editions, 2019).
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The notion of the numinous and the wholly Other were also central to the religious studies of ethnologist Mircea Eliade. C.S. Lewis described the numinous experience in The Problem of Pain as follows: Mysterium tremendum, another phrase coined by Otto to describe the numinous, is presented by Aldous Huxley in The Doors of Perception in this way: In a book-length scholarly treatment of the subject in fantasy literature, Chris Brawley devotes chapters to the concept in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Phantastes by George Macdonald, in the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien; and in work by Algernon Blackwood and Ursula Le Guin (e.g., The Centaur and Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight, respectively).Brawley, Chris (2014).
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Specifically, where morals come from and how we relate to them. He would say religion’s fusion of morals with the “numinous”/supernatural is an error and a way for religion to lord over humanity.
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Tribute remixes of Crayons were created by producers Numinous & Habersham, MV and Leama & Moor. Several DJ mixes were created in tribute to the late producer and can be downloaded via the "Long Live Starkid" site.
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Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature, e.g., p. ix and passim, Vol. 46, Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Palumbo, D.E. & Sullivan III, C.W.), Jefferson, NC, USA: McFarland, , see , accessed 17 October 2015.
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Things inspiring awe or wonder because they can't be fathomed as either yin or yang, because they cross or disrupt the polarity and therefore can't be conceptualised, are regarded as numinous. Entities possessing unusual spiritual characteristics, such as albino members of a species, beings that are part-animal part-human, or people who die in unusual ways such as suicide or on battlefields, are considered numinous. The notion of xian ling (), variously translated as "divine efficacy, virtue" or simply the "numen", is important for the relationship between men and gods.Zavidovskaya, 2012. p.
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A bias toward the empirical, toward the > evidential object in the numinous fullness of its being, leads to a certain > lininess, as the artist intently maps the visible in a New World that feels > surrounded by chaos and emptiness.
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Campany 2002: 53–54) The Numinous Treasure Talisman of the Grand Mystery for Living in Hiding, with graphic components of bìngsǐ (病死, died of illness), shi (尸, corpse), and gui (鬼, ghost). Second, the Lingbao wufu xu (靈寶五符序, Explanations on the Five Numinous Treasure Talismans) promises earthbound transcendence to those who follow a complex procedure involving a poisonous alchemical elixir, a mystical Daoist talisman, death meditation (cf. Buddhist Maraṇasati), and a shijie simulated corpse. The text gives instructions for compounding and ingesting a mercury-based elixir called shijie yao (尸解藥, shijie drug), and writing out in red characters (as for an imperial edict) the Numinous Treasure Talisman of the Grand Mystery for Living in Hiding (靈寶太玄陰生之符), which includes stylized Chinese calligraphy for bingsi (病死, died of illness), shi (尸, corpse), and gui (鬼, ghost).
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Creative and numinous drives come at second but religion is the first priority to her. On asking Marcel Duchamp, he explained that her work is not nostalgic. This art is more of a shamanistic activity. Its aim is to create consciousness.
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Since both Chinese ling and zhi have multiple meanings, lingzhi has diverse English translations. Renditions include "[zhi] possessed of soul power", "Herb of Spiritual Potency" or "Mushroom of Immortality", "Numinous Mushroom", "divine mushroom", "divine fungus", "Magic Fungus", and "Marvelous Fungus".
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The names of the first three Æsir in Norse mythology, Vili, Vé and Odin all refer to spiritual or mental state, vili to conscious will or desire, vé to the sacred or numinous and óðr to the manic or ecstatic.
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The original meaning of shen "god; spirit; deity" was also a religious concept. External spirits were believed to occasionally descend to human beings (particularly shamans), or humans could draw them down with the power of de "inner power; virtue" (Harper 1998: 119). Verse 13 describes the aspects of shen "numen; numinous": > There is a numinous [mind] naturally residing within [有神自在身]; One moment it > goes, the next it comes, And no one is able to conceive of it. If you lose > it you are inevitably disordered; If you attain it you are inevitably well > ordered.
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The Shangqing classic Jianjing (劍巠, Sword Scripture) compares several shijie alchemical preparations and says the lingwan (靈丸, Numinous Bolus) elixir is the only one that permits the adept to return home without changing his or her name. The Zhen'gao Appendix to the Jianjing describes the range of different techniques. > Those who manage to escape by means of the corpse through the use of other > medicines and are not transformed by means of the Numinous Bolus may not, in > any case, return to their hometowns, for the Three Offices would detain > them. There are those who die and revive.
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Otto was heavily involved in ecumenical activities between Christian denominations and between Christianity and other religions. He experimented with adding a time similar to a Quaker moment of silence to the Lutheran liturgy as an opportunity for worshipers to experience the numinous.
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Accordingly, in Zaehner's terms, such experience may be either (1) a dualistic Samkhya atheism, or (2) a monistic type of Advaita Vedanta. Neither for Zaehner can be called theistic, i.e., in neither case is there an interactive, sacred experience with a numinous personality.Zaehner, Mysticism.
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A notion of the transcendent, supernatural, or numinous, usually involving entities like ghosts, demons, or deities, is a cultural universal.Donald Brown (1991) Human Universals. Philadelphia, Temple University Press (online summary). In pre-literate folk religions, these beliefs are often summarized under animism and ancestor worship.
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Rudolf Otto (1869–1937) was a German Protestant theologian and scholar of comparative religion. Otto's most famous work, The Idea of the Holy (published first in 1917 as Das Heilige), defines the concept of the holy as that which is numinous. Otto explained the numinous as a "non-rational, non-sensory experience or feeling whose primary and immediate object is outside the self." It is a mystery (Latin: mysterium tremendum) that is both fascinating (fascinans) and terrifying at the same time; A mystery that causes trembling and fascination, attempting to explain that inexpressible and perhaps supernatural emotional reaction of wonder drawing us to seemingly ordinary and/or religious experiences of grace.
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Seiwert, 2003. pp. 255-257 By the time of Yao's successors in the late 17th century the sect was known as the Numinous Mountain (灵山 Lingshan).Seiwert, 2003. pp. 258-259 Yaoism later gave rise to the Dragon Flower (龙花 Longhua) sect and other branches.
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Gregory D. Alles, ed., Rudolf Otto, Autobiographical and Social Essays, History of Religions in Translation 2, Berlin/New York: Mouton De Gruyter, 1996, , Introduction, p. 34.Todd A. Gooch, The Numinous and Modernity: an Interpretation of Rudolf Otto's Philosophy of Religion, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2000, , p. 3.
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Bruce Arnott (15 September 1938 - July 19, 2018) was a South African sculptor, curator, educator and academic. He was a professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art. 'Numinous Beast', a 1979 sculpture by Arnott, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
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1119-1125) was a renowned author who was posthumously honored as the first woman to practice neidan inner alchemy. Song bibliographies list her writings to include commentaries on various Daoist texts, including the Xishengjing (Scripture of Western Ascension) and Daodejing, and a long poem on neidan entitled Lingyuan dadao ge (靈源大道歌, Song of the Great Dao, the Numinous Source) (Despeux 2008: 172). It begins, "I am telling all you ladies straight: The stem of destiny grows from perfect breathing that irradiates the body and provides long life, whether empty or not empty, and brings forth the numinous mirror which contains Heaven and all beings." (tr. Despeux and Kohn 2003: 137).
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Karl Barth, an influential Protestant theologian contemporary to Otto, acknowledged Otto's influence and approved a similar conception of God as ganz Andere or totaliter aliter, thus falling within the tradition of apophatic theology. Otto was also one of the very few modern theologians to whom C. S. Lewis indicates a debt, particularly to the idea of the numinous in The Problem of Pain. In that book Lewis offers his own description of the numinous: German-American theologian Paul Tillich acknowledged Otto's influence on him, as did Otto's most famous German pupil, Gustav Mensching (1901–1978) from Bonn University. Otto's views can be seen in the noted Catholic theologian Karl Rahner's presentation of man as a being of transcendence.
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Carl Jung considered symbols to provide a means for the numinous to return from the unconscious to the desacralized worldC. G. Jung, Man and his Symbols (1978) p. 83-94—a means for the recovery of myth, and the sense of wholeness it once provided, to a disenchanted modernity.Casement, Ann. 2007.
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Mondo et autres histoires is a 1978 short story collection by French author J. M. G. Le Clézio. The stories in this collection all concern adolescents who in one way or another leave their familiar (civilized) circumstances and have numinous experiences accompanied by a rite of passage or other initiation.
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Teotl () is a Nahuatl term that is often translated as "god". It may have held more abstract aspects of the numinous or divine, akin to the Polynesian concept of Mana.Taube and Miller 1993, pp 89. For a lengthy treatment of the subject see Hvidtfeldt, 1958 It is a central idea of Aztec religion.
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New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 3 September 2016 In an April 2006 article published in Inside the Vatican magazine, contributing editor John Mallon writes that the "fear" in "fear of the Lord" is often misinterpreted as "servile fear" (the fear of getting in trouble) when it should be understood as "filial fear" (the fear of offending someone whom one loves). Lutheran theologian Rudolf Otto coined the term numinous to express the type of fear one has for God. Anglican lay theologian C. S. Lewis references the term in many of his writings, but specifically describes it in his book The Problem of Pain and states that fear of the numinous is not a fear that one feels for a tiger, or even a ghost.
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In The Idea of the Holy, Otto writes that while the concept of "the holy" is often used to convey moral perfection—and does entail this—it contains another distinct element, beyond the ethical sphere, for which he coined the term numinous based on the Latin word numen ("divine power"). (The term is etymologically unrelated to Immanuel Kant's noumenon, a Greek term which Kant used to refer to an unknowable reality underlying sensations of the thing.) He explains the numinous as a "non-rational, non-sensory experience or feeling whose primary and immediate object is outside the self". This mental state "presents itself as ganz Andere, wholly other, a condition absolutely sui generis and incomparable whereby the human being finds himself utterly abashed." P. 169.
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Beginning around 400 CE, the Lingbao "Numinous Treasure" School eclectically adopted concepts and practices from Daoism and Buddhism, which had recently been introduced to China. Ge Chaofu, Ge Hong's grandnephew, "released to the world" the Wufu jing "Talismans of the Numinous Treasure" and other Lingbao scriptures, and claimed family transmission down from Ge Xuan (164–244), Ge Hong's great uncle (Bokenkamp 2008:664). The Lingbao School added the Buddhist concept of reincarnation to the Daoist tradition of xian "immortality; longevity", and viewed meditation as a means to unify body and spirit (Robinet 1997:157). Many Lingbao meditation methods came from native Chinese traditions, such as visualizing inner gods (Taiping jing), and circulating the solar and lunar essences (Huangting jing and Laozi zhongjing).
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Rather, the fear of the numinous, as C. S. Lewis describes it, is one filled with awe, in which you "feel wonder and a certain shrinking" or "a sense of inadequacy to cope with such a visitant and our prostration before it". It is a fear that comes forth out of love for the Lord.
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This marked the start of his professional career, in which he tried ailing the sick by offering magical potions that ultimately resulted in immorality. This pleased the Gods, which allowed the Perfect Man of the Ultimate (Zuo Chi) to descend to the Tiantai Mountain and pass on more scriptures; namely the Numinous Treasure (36 volumes).
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"The Genie's Pharmacopia" (仙藥, tr. Ware 1966: 179) categorizes zhi (芝 "a legendary numinous mushroom; Ganoderma; excrescence"), "There are five types of excrescences: rock [石芝], wood [木芝], herb [草芝], flesh [肉芝], and the tiny [菌芝, jun 菌 means "mushroom; fungus; bacterium; germ"]", and each of them has 120 species.
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Tillich sometimes called this source the "ground of being". For Jung it was the collective unconscious, variously qualified. Located in an autonomous realm of the psyche, this source was independent of the conscious ego's control or manipulation. Yet from its dynamic nature, numinous symbols came forth into human awareness which might powerfully impact an individual.
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Palace Of The Peacock (1960) is the first novel by Guyanese writer Wilson Harris. It is considered an important early postcolonial novelMaes-Jelinek, Hena 'Numinous Proportions: Wilson Harris's Alternative To All Posts' in Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism (Brighton: Harvester Wheatshef, 1991) p.60 and a canonical text in Caribbean Literary Studies.Benítez Rojo, Antonio.
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There are various sacred natural sites that people of various belief systems find numinous or having an "energy" with significance to humans. The idea that some kind of "negative energy" is responsible for creating or attracting ghosts or demons appears in contemporary paranormal culture and beliefs as exemplified in the TV shows Paranormal State and Ghost Hunters.
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Winter composed a number of poems during his Calcutta life some of which have been published under the title Guest and Host. The book cover suggests they record 'the experience of being welcomed into the household of another country'. They appear to deal with the commonplace and to touch on the numinous. The volume comprises four long poems.
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Numinosum is a musical journey based on the concept of "numinous conscious" used by Carl Gustav Jung. She combined her own lyrics with the poetry of Rumi. This album was recorded in Bristol, UK, with the post jazz group Limbo. Roger Mills and Osman Kent worked on the final edition, mixing, mastering and sound engineering of the album.
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Never yet, however, have they claimed that this was > "cut off from starches!" (15, tr. Ware 1966:248) The (c. 4th-5th century) Taishang Lingbao Wufuxu "Explanations of the Five Numinous Treasure Talismans", attributed to the Han Daoist Lezichang , gives instructions for practicing bigu, swallowing saliva, and ingesting the "five wonder plants" (pine resin, sesame, pepper, ginger, and calamus).
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In archaic Greece cattle were a source of wealthIliad xxiii.700-05; see also the Greek region of Euboia ("rich in cattle"). and a demonstration of social pre-eminence; they also signified the numinous presence of Hera. Cattle-queens, betokening the command of a large bride-price, are as familiar in Gaelic mythology as they are in Greek myth.
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24 Only one Minoan image of a bull-headed man has been found, a tiny Minoan sealstone currently held in the Archaeological Museum of Chania. In the Classical period of Greece, the bull and other animals identified with deities were separated as their agalma, a kind of heraldic show-piece that concretely signified their numinous presence.
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Irregular Gate divination is associated with Eight Gates, namely the Gate of Rest, of Life, of Injury, of Closing, of Brilliance, of Death, of Fright, and Gate of Opening. The incantation begins: > The essential wonder of the Dipper, the twelve chronograms (chen 辰). I mount > the numinous light, and the majestic martial forces are deployed. The > breaths appear like floating clouds.
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My entire life consisted > in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like > an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and > material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer > classification, scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But > the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.
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He was then revered as the god Fatuus after his death, worshipped in a sacred forest outside what is now Tivoli, but had been known since Etruscan times as Tibur, the seat of the Tiburtine Sibyl. His numinous presence was recognized by wolf skins, with wreaths and goblets. In Nonnos' Dionysiaca, Faunus/Phaunos accompanied Dionysus when the god campaigned in India.
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Mason Jones is a San Francisco-based guitarist, graphic designer, music journalist, audio engineer and independent record label owner. He is best recognized as a founding member of the psychedelic rock act SubArachnoid Space and for the music released under his monikers, such as Dada Fish, Numinous Eye and Trance. In 1988 he founded the music label Charnel Music which specialized in psychedelic, experimental and noise music.
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Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of analytic psychology, applied the concept of the numinous to psychology and psychotherapy, arguing it was therapeutic and brought greater self-understanding, and stating that to him religion was about a "careful and scrupulous observation... of the numinosum". The American Episcopal priest John A. Sanford applied the ideas of both Otto and Jung in his writings on religious psychotherapy.
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The Aeolian harp has a long history of being associated with the numinous, perhaps for its vibrant timbres that produce an ethereal sound. Homer relates that Hermes invented the lyre from dried sinews stretched over a tortoise shell. It was able to be played by the wind. The same is said of the lyre of King David, which was played by a wind sent from God.
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Numinous () is a concept derived from the Latin numen meaning "arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring."Collins English Dictionary -7th ed. - 2005 The term was popularized by the German theologian Rudolf Otto in his influential 1917 German book Das Heilige, which appeared in English as The Idea of the Holy in 1923. He also used the phrase mysterium tremendum as an alternative description.
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Otto's use of the term as referring to a characteristic of religious experience was influential among certain intellectuals of the subsequent generation. For example, "numinous" as understood by Otto was a frequently quoted concept in the writings of Carl Jung,Jung, Carl J. "Collected Works" vol. 11 (1969), "A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity" (1948), ¶222-225 (p.149). and C. S. Lewis.
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1898 may have brought about the > end of Spanish rule, but it was also the logical culmination of over three > hundred years of it. What followed, on the other hand, was a fundamental > psychical disruption. The sense of the hierarchical, the numinous, the > ceremonious, and the patrician—common to Asia and Europe alike—has no place > in the Republic of Mob Rule and Pursuit of Profit.
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Prismatic clouds wreathe the > cinnabar auroras; Numinous cumuli bestrew the Eight Hollows. The Perfected > Ones on high chant in rose-gem abodes; Lofty Transcendents carol in blue-gem > chambers. Nine phoenixes sing through the vermilion sounding-pipes; The > rhythms of the void commingle in the plumed bells. With our necks entwined, > within the Golden Court I'll unite with my mate amidst the unseen realm.
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She works with well- known structures and shapes which she develops further according to her own rules of rhythm and proportion. Her objects, weighing several tons, resemble grounded boulders. The choice of the material, its durability and the corresponding notion of longevity has a force that runs counter to the contemporary Zeitgeist of today's fast-paced world.Dorothy M. Joiner: Intimating the Numinous, Traces of Time and Spaces 2012, p. 19.
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Her drawings and paintings can be compared to diary entries complementing her work in stone. Her diaphanous, poetic evocations of natural phenomena investigate both the micro and the macrocosm. As intimated in the series' titles – Cells and Stars, New York (2008/09) and Stars and Snow, Engadine (2010) – her drawings join the fragile and delicate to the cosmic.Dorothy M. Joiner: Intimating the Numinous, Traces of Time and Spaces 2012, p. 21.
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In Baltic myth, Saule is the life-affirming sun goddess, whose numinous presence is signed by a wheel or a rosette. She spins the sunbeams. The Baltic connection between the sun and spinning is as old as spindles of the sun-stone, amber, that have been uncovered in burial mounds. Baltic legends as told have absorbed many images from Christianity and Greek myth that are not easy to disentangle.
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It can also be an act that evokes surprise and subsequent laughter and a letting go of sadness. What is significant about anasyrma is that it reflects the numinous quality of the female genitals and the genital region through which birth ensues. In several cultures, there is a myth of anasyrma used for emotional healing. Anasyrma may be a deliberately provocative self-exposing of one's naked genitals or buttocks.
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2015 "This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans."Comprehensive Compassion - An Interview with Brian Swimme retrieved 4.5.2011 This statement by Swimme has been widely quoted. For him the universe is a radiant, numinous revelation, and contemplating the wonders of the unfolding creativity of the cosmos is a mystical, ecstatic, awe-inspiring event.
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Now 2/3rd of the road is metalled and the rest is in a condition that even a small car can travel on it. The valley blessed with numinous springs, gushing rivers, lofty peaks, glaciers and best part is organic fruits and vegetables. The last village is known as Sath Gasunar (also known as Gasunar valley, must visit point). It has jumping point for trekkers to traverse Haramosh Valley.
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The 3rd or 4th century Taishang lingbao wufu xu (太上靈寳五符序, The Array of the Five Numinous Treasure Talismans) is sometimes cited as another early source that mentions zhi numinous mushrooms—a misunderstanding that is owing to the usage of wuzhi (五芝) to mean "five plants" rather than "five excrescences". The text has a section titled Fushi wuzhi zhj jing (服食五芝之精, Ingesting the Essences of the Five Plants), meaning "plants" since they are pine-resin (weixi 威僖), sesame (huma 胡麻), fagara (jiao 椒), ginger (jiang 薑), and calamus (changpu 菖蒲), Steavu translates Five Plants and notes this as one of the unambiguous and relatively rare occasions when the term zhi should be taken more generically as "plant" rather than "(numinous) mushroom" (2018: 363). However, the Taishang lingbao wufu xu mentions an otherwise unattested text named Shenxian zhi tu (神仙芝圖, Illustrations of the Mushrooms of Divine Immortality), which scholars associate with the five lost texts listed in the Baopuzi bibliographic chapter: Muzhi tu (木芝圖, Illustrations of Wood Mushrooms), Junzhi tu (菌芝圖, Illustrations of Fungus Mushrooms), Rouzhi tu (肉芝圖, Illustrations of Flesh Mushrooms), Shizhi tu (石芝圖, Illustrations of Stone Mushrooms), and Dapo zazhi tu (大魄雜芝圖, Illustrations of the Sundry Mushrooms of the Great Whitesoul) (Lu 2013: 54, tr. Steavu 2018: 363).
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Umm al-Kitab, or The Archetype of the Book, is in the form of a discussion between the imam and three companions. Resembling the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, it illustrates the similarity between imamology and gnostic Christology. A major concept of this work is the description of the numinous experience. Its central motif is the psychological and philosophical explanation of spiritual symbols, with believers instructed to perform acts of self-purification and renewal.
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The theologian Rudolf Otto (1869–1937) focused on religious experience, more specifically moments that he called numinous which means "Wholly Other". He described it as mysterium tremendum (terrifying mystery) and mysterium fascinans (awe inspiring, fascinating mystery). He saw religion as emerging from these experiences. He asserted that these experiences arise from a special, non-rational faculty of the human mind, largely unrelated to other faculties, so religion cannot be reduced to culture or society.
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Her works in the 21st century included wintry landscapes with skeletal hazel trees which Duncan Macmillan called "numinous pictures; they are spiritual landscapes". In 2004 Crowe was appointed Senior Visiting Scholar at St Catherine's College, University of Cambridge. The work she produced during this period was shown at the exhibition Plant Memory at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. In 2017 Crowe designed The Leathersellers' Tapestry for the Dining Hall of the Leathersellers' Building in London.
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7–8; William Francis Allen, "The Religion of the Ancient Romans," in Essays and Monographs (Boston, 1890), p. 68. Both the Lares and the Manes are "native" gods often regarded in ancient sources as the deified dead. Servius says that the novensiles are "old gods" who earned numinous status (dignitatem numinis) through their virtus, their quality of character.Servius, note to Aeneid 8.187: sane quidam veteres deos novensiles dicunt, quibus merita virtutis dederint numinis dignitatem.
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Nauman's use of neon as a medium recurs in his works over the decades. He uses neon to make allusions to the numinous connotations of light, similar to Mario Merz, who used neon to bring new life to assemblages of mundane objects. Neon also connotes the public atmosphere by the means of advertising, and in his later works he uses it ironically with private, erotic imagery as seen in his Hanged Man (1985).
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It depicts Eunice and her son, Saint Timothy. Chancel east wall - Made by James Ballantyne Jr. of Edinburgh. It depicts the appearance of the Risen Christ to Mary Magdalene and makes good use of external light to impart a numinous quality to the figure of Christ, distinguishing him from the living Mary. Nave south wall - Made in 1881 by Hardman & Co. This depicts the baptised Christ, with a dove bringing the Holy Spirit.
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Rushforth was interested in C.G. Jung's research into symbolism, spirituality and the numinous. She corresponded with Jung towards the end of his life - although they never met. For many years, Rushforth was a close friend of Sir Laurens van der Post. She was fascinated, in particular, by his work on the Bushmen of the Kalahari and kept a carved wooden statuette of a bushman, by the contemporary sculptor Christopher Hall, in the drawing room of her home in Edinburgh.
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According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Tillich believes the essence of religious attitudes is what he calls "ultimate concern". Separate from all profane and ordinary realities, the object of the concern is understood as sacred, numinous or holy. The perception of its reality is felt as so overwhelming and valuable that all else seems insignificant, and for this reason requires total surrender. In 1957, Tillich defined his conception of faith more explicitly in his work, Dynamics of Faith.
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"Tyche we know at Lebadeia as the wife of the Agathos Daimon, the Good or Rich Spirit". Their numinous presence could be represented in art as a serpent or more concretely as a young man bearing a cornucopia and a bowl in one hand, and a poppy and an ear of grain in the other. The agathodaemon was later adapted into a general daemon of fortuna, particularly of the continued abundance of a family's good food and drink.
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Cosmic powers dominate nature: the Sun, the Moon, stars, winds and clouds were considered informed by divine energies. The earth god is She () or Tu (). The Shang period had two methods to enter in contact with divine ancestors: the first is the numinous-mystical wu () practice, involving dances and trances; and the second is the method of the oracle bones, a rational way. The Zhou dynasty, succeeding the Shang, was more rooted in an agricultural worldview.
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Fingask was once an explicitly holy place, a convenient and numinous stop-off between the abbeys at Falkirk and Scone. It was later held by the Bruce family, and then by the Threiplands. In the eighteenth century it was owned by Jacobites and was forfeited (stolen by the Government). The castle is a Category B listed building, and the estate is included on the Inventory of Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes, the national register of significant gardens.
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This sugar was used not only for a sweetener but as a seasoning, since the North American natives of the time had no salt. Important documents written on birchbark (wiigwaasabak) were placed in makakoon for safekeeping. Anishinaabe initiates of the Midewiwin would often secure their numinous items in a wiigwaasi-makak. Exceptionally well-made makakoon could be used as cooking utensils, although this use declined after the arrival of Euro-American traders in the 1600s with metal pots and saucepans for sale.
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The Fossils film premiered online in July 2016. There were two additional screenings of the film in 2016. On June 4, 2016, Saturday and Wildman hosted "Fossils: A 360 Audio/Visual Experience" at abrasiveMedia art gallery in Nashville. The show was a one-night installation of the film's three parts on separate screens, the album playing in wireless headphones, the Clouds painting series by L.A. Bachman that was featured in the film, and the recorded dance performance by Numinous Flux.
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In ancient Roman religion, Rumina, also known as Diva Rumina, was a goddess who protected breastfeeding mothers, and possibly nursing infants. Her domain extended to protecting animal mothers, not just human ones. As one of the indigitamenta, Rumina lacked the elaborate mythology and personality of later Roman deities, and was instead a more abstract, numinous entity. Rumina's temple was near the Ficus Ruminalis, the fig tree at the foot of the Palatine Hill where Romulus and Remus were raised by a she-wolf.
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The castle is now a partial ruin with some accessible rooms and battlements. At the top of the castle lies the Stone of Eloquence, better known as the Blarney Stone. Tourists visiting Blarney Castle may hang upside-down over a sheer drop to kiss the stone, which is said to give the gift of eloquence. There are many versions of the origin of the stone, including a claim that it was the Lia Fáil — a numinous stone upon which Irish kings were crowned.
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H.J. Rose, "A Suggested Explanation of Ritual Combats," Folklore (1925) 322–331, noted but considered "stretching a point" by Pascal, "October Horse," p. 280, though on p. 282 Pascal seems to think the hypothetical courier who takes the tail to the Regia enhances the tail's numinous power through his efforts. In honoring the god who presided over the Roman census, which among other functions registered the eligibility of young men for military service, the festivals of Mars have a strongly lustral character.
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In 1969, British biologist Alister Hardy founded a Religious Experience Research Centre at Oxford after retiring from his post as Linacre Professor of Zoology. Citing William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), he set out to collect first-hand accounts of numinous experiences. He was awarded the Templeton Prize before his death in 1985. His successor David Hay suggested in God’s Biologist: A life of Alister Hardy (2011) that the RERC later dispersed as investigators turned to newer techniques of scientific investigation.
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The Dispute of Minerva and Neptune by René-Antoine Houasse (circa 1689 or 1706) Athena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens after a competition with Poseidon. Yet Poseidon remained a numinous presence on the Acropolis in the form of his surrogate, Erechtheus. At the dissolution festival at the end of the year in the Athenian calendar, the Skira, the priests of Athena and the priest of Poseidon would process under canopies to Eleusis.Burkert 1983, pp. 143–149.
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Numinous was derived in the 17th century from the Latin numen, meaning a "deity or spirit presiding over a thing or space." It describes the power or presence or realisation of a divinity. It is etymologically unrelated to Immanuel Kant's noumenon, a Greek term referring to an unknowable reality underlying all things. The term was popularized by the German theologian Rudolf Otto in his influential 1917 German book Das Heilige, which appeared in English as The Idea of the Holy in 1923.
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One of the more recent works in theology is Fools for Christ by Jaroslav Pelikan. Through six essays dealing with various "fools," Pelikan explores the motif of fool-for-Christ in relationship to the problem of understanding the numinous: > The Holy is too great and too terrible when encountered directly for men of > normal sanity to be able to contemplate it comfortably. Only those who > cannot care for the consequences run the risk of the direct confrontation of > the Holy.
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The two subsequent chapters in the Sanhuang neibi wen describe a list of thirty-six medicinal xianyao (仙藥, herbs of immortality) and jingcao (精草, essence-plants) (辯識三十六種仙藥形像章), and a talismanic seal of the dihuang (地皇, Earthly Sovereign) by means of which practitioners can cause numinous herbs and mushrooms to manifest before them (地皇君服餌仙朮昇仙得道章) (Steavu 2018: 368).
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Quánjùnxī línggōng, the "Numinous Palace by the Brook in the Land of Springs", in Quanzhou, Fujian. Yin and yang , whose root meanings respectively are "shady" and "sunny", or "dark" and "light", are modes of manifestation of the qi, not material things in themselves. Yin is the qi in its dense, dark, sinking, wet, condensing mode; yang denotes the light, and the bright, rising, dry, expanding modality. Described as Taiji (the "Great Pole"), they represent the polarity and complementarity that enlivens the cosmos.
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Also p. 244, note 65, quoting Baetke on Kummer: "Nun ist ja klar, daß diese 'Vergeistigung' germanischer Religion mit wissenschaftlicher Interpretation nichts mehr zu tun hat." - "Now it is quite clear that this 'spiritualisation' of Germanic religion no longer has anything to do with scholarly interpretation". In 1942 in Das Heilige im Germanischen, he opposed Rudolf Otto's influential viewpoint that the source of religion lay in a "stirring in the heart" of awareness of the numinous, arguing that all religious experience has a social and historical context.
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Genius of Domitian Octavius Caesar on return to Rome after the final victory of the Roman Civil War at the Battle of Actium appeared to the Senate to be a man of great power and success, clearly a mark of divinity. In recognition of the prodigy they voted that all banquets should include a libation to his genius. In concession to this sentiment he chose the name Augustus, capturing the numinous meaning of English "august." The household cult of the Genius Augusti dates from this period.
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In the first passage, the character Wearcoat (被衣) instructs Gnaw Gap (齧缺) about the Way. > You must align your body [正汝形], Unify your vision, And the heavenly harmony > will arrive. Gather in your knowledge, Unify your attention, And the > numinous will enter its lodging place [神將來舍], The inner power will beautify > you, And the Way will reside in you. You will see things with the eyes of a > newborn calf And will not seek out their precedents.
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They are typically melodic, mathematically structured meters, believed to be resonant with numinous qualities. At its simplest, the word ॐ (Aum, Om) serves as a mantra, it is believed to be the first sound which was originated on earth. Aum sound when produced creates a reverberation in the body which helps the body and mind to be calm. In more sophisticated forms, mantras are melodic phrases with spiritual interpretations such as a human longing for truth, reality, light, immortality, peace, love, knowledge, and action.
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Pöyliö 2012 Finnish native religion followers do not necessarily consider themselves "Neopagans" or identify with new religions such as Wicca.Pöyliö 2012 They emphasise love for the motherland as a key content of a balanced relationship of humans with nature, old and new generations, as well as individual and community. The Finnish native faith believers hold sacred many unspoiled natural places, woods, springs and rocks.Pöyliö 2012 They consider the numinous presence of the gods, the ancestors and the spirits, as pervading the natural sites and environments (hiisi).
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Corpus Hermeticum I, III, IV, VI, VIII, XI, XII, XIII. 2017. and written several collections of poems.One of Myatt's collection of poems is mentioned by former White House speech- writer Ben Coes in his novel Power Down, He has also developed a mystical philosophy which he calls both The Numinous WaySenholt, Jacob C: Political Esotericism & the convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism and National Socialism in the Order of the Nine Angles. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Conference: Satanism in the Modern World, November 2009.
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The passage about Liu Jing says, > Later he served Ji Zixun [薊子訓, i.e., Ji Liao 薊遼] as his teacher. Zixun > transmitted to him all the secret essentials of the Five Thearchs, Numinous > Flight (lingfei, 靈飛), the six jia spirits, the Twelve Matters (shier shi > 十二事), and the Perfected Forms of the Ten Continents of Divine Transcendents > (shenxian shizhou zhenxiang 神仙十洲真形). Liu Jing practiced them all according > to the instructions, and they were mightily efficacious.
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This ivy-crowned Dionysus is accompanied by the panther that signalises his numinous presence, and a satyr of reduced size, a member of his retinue. Long locks of his hair fall girlishly over his shoulders and in his left hand he holds a bunch of grapes, emblematic of his status as god of wine. The original elements are the heads, torsos and thighs of Dionysus and the satyr. The arms of the satyr and the lower legs and base are modern— that is, 16th-century— restorations.
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The profane world consists of all that we can know through our senses; it is the natural world of everyday life that we experience as either comprehensible or at least ultimately knowable — the Lebenswelt or lifeworld.Peter Berger, A Rumour of Angels (1973) p. 15 In contrast, the sacred, or sacrum in Latin, encompasses all that exists beyond the everyday, natural world that we experience with our senses. As such, the sacred or numinous can inspire feelings of awe, because it is regarded as ultimately unknowable and beyond limited human abilities to perceive and comprehend.
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In this case, the patient genuinely has been helped by the faith healer or faith-based remedy, not through any mysterious or numinous function, but by the power of their own belief that they would be healed. In both cases the patient may experience a real reduction in symptoms, though in neither case has anything miraculous or inexplicable occurred. Both cases, however, are strictly limited to the body's natural abilities. According to the American Cancer Society: The American Medical Association considers that prayer as therapy should not be a medically reimbursable or deductible expense.
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A.R.A. van Aken, "Some Aspects of Nymphaea in Pompeii, Herculaneum and Ostia" Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, 4.3/4 (1951), pp. 272–284 Tiberius, the Roman emperor, filled his grotto with sculptures to create a sense of mythology, perhaps channeling Polyphemus' cave in the Odyssey. The numinous quality of the grotto is still more ancient: in a grotto near Knossos in Crete, Eileithyia was venerated, even before Minoan palace-building. Even farther back in time, the immanence of the divine in a grotto is seen in the sacred caves of Lascaux.
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Instead of oppressive moralism, he was given a vision of moral integrity, service and a sense of the numinous. At the age of sixteen he left home, an early entrant to the University of Chicago. After a year of graduate studies, he transferred to Andover Newton Theological School outside of Boston, MA. His Mdiv thesis was done there on Paul Tillich’s Concept of God as the Ground of Being. He then continued his graduate training at the University of Chicago Divinity School, completing his doctorate there in 1973.
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He began to use the color blue to represent the divine. In both The Starry Night and his olive tree paintings, van Gogh used the intense blue of the sky to symbolize the "divine and infinite presence" of Jesus. Seeking a "modern artistic language" to represent the divine, he sought a numinous quality in many of his olive tree paintings, such as by bathing olive trees, an emblem for Jesus, in "radiant gold light". Georges-Pierre Seurat, Bathers at Asnières, 1884, National Gallery, London, detail of water and grass.
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They correspond with the meditational techniques from the c. 4th-century Yellow Court Classic that were popular during the Tang (Despeux 2000: 396). The illustrations have been long lost, but the book is "full of therapy and pharmacy, throwing valuable light on the borderline between medicine and Taoist physiological alchemy" (Needham and Lu 1983: 82). Cao Wenyi's 12th-century Lingyuan dadao ge (靈源大道歌, Song of the Great Dao of the Numinous Source) is also attributed to He Xiangu, the only female of the Eight Immortals.
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Instead of painting a surreal universe, the Sottorealist is interested in crawling beneath the surface of reality. While the world of the dream isn’t a creative act, and while no photographic device is able to fully mediate that which is beyond reality, the Sottorealist acknowledges that which is given in reality. In doing so, the Sottorealist, however, also acknowledges that unseen forces are active in our perception of reality, such as memory or cultural frameworks or metaphysical. By making these numinous realities present in his work, he creates a convergence of the seen and unseen.
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Giovanni Paolo Cavagna was an undistinguished pupil of Moroni, however, it is said that in following generations, his insightful portraiture influenced Fra' Galgario and Pietro Longhi. S. J. Freedberg notes that while his religious canvases are "archaic", recalling the additive compositions of the late Quattrocento and show stilted unemotive saints, his portraits are remarkable for their sophisticated psychological insight, dignified air, fluent control, and exquisite silvery tonality. Patrons for religious art were not interested in an individualized, expressive "Madonna", they desired numinous archetypal saints. On the other hand, patrons were interested in the animated portraiture.
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In this case, the patient genuinely has been helped by the healer not through any mysterious or numinous function, but by the power of their own belief that they would be healed. "Patients who seek the assistance of a faith healer must believe strongly in the healer's divine gifts and ability to focus them on the ill." In both cases the patient may experience a real reduction in symptoms, though in neither case has anything miraculous or inexplicable occurred. Both cases, are strictly limited to the body's natural abilities.
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Usman wrote a one-man show titled "Ultra American: A Patriot Act starring Azhar Usman" and premiered it at Silk Road Rising in Chicago in September 2016. The show was recommended for a Jeff Award. In May 2017, Usman appeared on comedian Pete Holmes' podcast You Made It Weird, for a wide-ranging interview that covered many topics. In the beginning of 2020, he announced the formation of Numinous Company, a boutique services firm offering creative producing and humor consulting services to fellow creatives, such as comedians and creators, startups, non- profits, and other clients.
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The stool is one of the main focal points of the Asante today because it still shows succession and power. Each stool is made from a single block of the wood of Alstonia boonei (a tall forest tree with numinous associations) and carved with a crescent-shaped seat, flat base and complex support structure. The many designs and symbolic meanings mean that every stool is unique; each has a different meaning for the person whose soul it seats. Some designs contain animal shapes or images that recall the person who used it.
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Its interpretation, and in particular the exact sense of numen has been discussed extensively in the literature. The supposition that a numinous presence in the natural world supposed in the earliest layers of Italic religion, as it were an "animistic" element left over in historical Roman religion and especially in the etymology of Latin theonyms, has often been popularly implied, but was criticised as "mostly a scholarly fiction" by McGeough (2004).Kevin McGeough The Romans: new perspectives 2004:179 "Numinous Forces and Other scholarly Inventions"; "Scholars may have to content themselves with nodes of meanings for the Italic gods rather than hard-and- fast definitions," observes Charles Robert Phillips III, in "A Note on Vergil's Aeneid 5, 744," Hermes 104.2 (1976:247–249) p. 248, with recent bibliography; Gerhard Radke's classification of the forms and significances of these multifarious names in Die Götter Altitaliens (Münster, 1965) was criticized as "unwarranted precision" in the review by A. Drummond in The Classical Review, New Series, 21.2 (June 1971:239–241); the coupling and uncoupling of Latin and Italic cognomina of the gods, creating the appearance of a multitude of deities, were classically dissected in Jesse Benedictus Carter, De Deorum Romanorum Cognominibus: Quaestiones Selectae (Leipzig, 1898).
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Yellow Emperor stele in the sacrificial hall of the Xuanyuan Temple, in Huangling, Yan'an, Shaanxi. Xian ling () is the notion of a numinous, sacred (ling) presence of a god or gods in the Chinese traditional religion. The term can be variously translated as "divine efficacy", "divine virtue", or also "efficacious response"; these terms describe the manifestation and activity of the power of a god (, "divine energy" or "divine effervescence", see qi). Within the context of traditional cosmology, the interaction of these energies constitutes the universe (the All-God, Tian), and their proper cultivation (bao ying) upholds the human world order.
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In the Jingfa, fa originates with the impersonal Dao; in the Mozi, it originates with the anthropomorphic Tian ("heaven; god"). Harold D. Roth (1991, 1997) contends that the original meaning of Chinese Daojia (道家 "Daoism") was Huang–Lao instead of the traditional understanding as "Lao- Zhuang" (老莊, namely the Laozi and Zhuangzi texts) Daoism. Sima Tan coined the term Daojia in his Shiji summary of the six philosophical jia ("schools"). > The Taoist school enables man's numinous essence to be concentrated and > unified, to move in unison with the formless, and to provide adequately for > the myriad things.
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Mackinac State Historic Parks website Mackinac Island's brecciated limestone has eroded into a variety of unusual formations. The cave's appearance is comparable to that of a human face with an open mouth.Dirk Gringhuis, "Lore of the Great Turtle" (1970; Mackinac State Historic Parks, Mackinac Island MI) Although shallow, Devil's Kitchen is much visited because of its location within Mackinac Island State Park on M-185, the state highway that circles Mackinac Island. Local stories allege that the Native Americans of the Straits of Mackinac considered the cave to be a numinous location inhabited by bad spirits.
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The Magical Negro is a supporting stock character in fiction who, by use of special insight or powers often of a supernatural or quasi-mystical nature, helps the white protagonist get out of trouble. African-American filmmaker Spike Lee popularized the term, deriding the archetype of the "super-duper magical negro" in 2001 while discussing films with students at Washington State University and at Yale University. The Magical Negro is a subset of the more generic numinous Negro, a term coined by Richard Brookhiser in National Review. The latter term refers to saintly, respected, or heroic black protagonists or mentors.
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The xin can become agitated by excessive thought or emotion, which leads to dissipation of one's jing 精 "vital essence", and can result in sickness and death. To preserve health and vitality, the Neiye says that jing 靜 "stabilizing; calming" the xin will draw in the external realities of shen and dao (Kirkland 2008: 771). Shen is usually translated as English "spirit; spiritual", but in order to avoid the connotative ambiguities of spirit, Roth uses "numen; numinous" in reference to a layer of mystical awareness that lies within the human body (1999: 43). Shen comprises perception, cognition, and higher forms of awareness.
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Though, by still needing to make a cognitive effort, perhaps not resolving the paradox of not doing, the concentration on accomplishing wu wei through the physiological would influence later thinkers. The Dao De Jing became influential in intellectual circles about 250 BCE (1999: 26–27), but, included in the 2nd century Guanzi, the likely older Neiye or Inward Training may be the oldest Chinese received text describing what would become Daoist breath meditation techniques and qi circulation, Harold D. Roth considering it a genuine 4th-century BCE text. Verse 13 describes the aspects of shen "numen; numinous", attained through relaxed efforts.
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In the Shanbei region near Inner Mongolia, "blind beggars who recited tales and travelled with pipa accompanists were common", prior to the 1949 revolution. Under Mao, blind itinerants called shuoshude () played a three-string lute in "household ritual contexts" using their narrative "as a potent force for social reform" by the Communist Party.De Ferranti 22-3. Prior to the spread of Buddhism during the sixth to ninth centuries, it was "generally acknowledged that in Japanese ritual life blind men and women [were] respected as shamanic celebrants who bore numinous power because of their separation from the world experienced by others".
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However, Jung was "also at pains to stress the numinous quality of these experiences, and there can be no doubt that he was attracted to the idea that the archetypes afford evidence of some communion with some divine or world mind', and perhaps 'his popularity as a thinker derives precisely from this"Cook, p. 405 - the maximal interpretation. Marie- Louise von Franz accepted that "it is naturally very tempting to identify the hypothesis of the collective unconscious historically and regressively with the ancient idea of an all-extensive world-soul."Marie-Louise von Franz, Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology (1985) p.
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The psychological approach clarifies the role of the unconscious as a level of human reality and the use of the symbolic as a window to the numinous. But this should be done without detriment to other realities, of sin and of salvation, and of a distinction between spontaneous religiosity and revealed religion – the historical character of the Biblical revelation, its uniqueness. The liberationist approach draws on an important strand in Biblical revelation, God's accompanying the poor, but other central themes must be allowed to interact with this. Also, if too one-sided it can lead to materialist doctrines and an earthly eschatology.
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23 They are characterised by egalitarianism, a foundation through a charismatic figure and a direct divine revelation, a millenarian eschatology and voluntary path of salvation, an embodied experience of the numinous through healing and cultivation, and an expansive orientation through good deeds, evangelism and philanthropy. Their practices are focused on improving morality, body cultivation, and recitation of scriptures. Many of the redemptive religions of the 20th and 21st century aspire to become the repository of the entirety of the Chinese tradition in the face of Western modernism and materialism.Palmer, 2011. p. 29 This group of religions includesPalmer, 2011. pp.
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Baemikkumi Sculpture Park is a landmark park. The name 'baemikkumi' comes from the local dialect, as people say the island resembles the shape of a hole normally seen from the bottom of a ship as 'baemit' translates to the bilge, and 'kkumi' is most closely translated to mean 'a hole' in English. Lee Il-Ho, a Korean surrealist sculptor in primarily decided to make a personal studio for display own artworks in the Modo Island in harmony with the nature and the ocean. It was just an art studio of him before, but after increasing numinous artworks became the present sculpture park.
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The experience of samadhi as understood in mystical epistemology would not be utterly new but, paradoxically, constitute a person's discovery of a pre-existing, abiding identity to cosmic awareness. The non-dualist finds a complete unity within a subjective sovereignty: ultimately absorption in a numinous presence, the absolute; its is a meditative perception of an all-encompassing "we" without any "they". The Samkhya dualist, however, understands that in transcendent meditation he will perceive himself as an isolated purusa, purified from enmeshment in an 'objective' prakrti. The mystic experience itself as found in Hindu literature Zaehner presents, as well as its theological filter of explanation.
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Upon its release A Winged Victory for the Sullen received positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 83, based on 10 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". BBC Musics David Sheppard called the album a "meditative and cinematic set" that "is a victory for subtlety [and] sensitivity" and "rich in melody", praising in particular its "genuinely haunting, numinous atmosphere". AllMusic reviewer Ned Ragget awarded the album a four-out-of-five-star rating and said there was "a knowing playfulness with the conventions of moodily beautiful 21st century drone/ambient".
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They were especially strong during the reign of Emperor Li Qiangshun (1086-1139), and the Dafo Temple dates from this time. The history of the temple relates that in 1098, a monk called Sineng Weimie had seen numinous lights and heard heavenly sounds coming from a nearby hill at the foot of a mountain. Investigating the area, Sineng unearthed a hoard which included a reclining Buddha statue and set out to build a great temple in honour of the image, which he believed had been revealed by divine favour.Sonya S. Lee, Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture (Hong Kong University Press, 2010), p.
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During the Spring and Autumn Period, the notion developed that swords could be used against evil spirits and demons. Under the Liu Song dynasty swords became a common instrument in religious rituals, most particularly in Taoist rituals; according to the Daoist Rituals of the Mystery Cavern and Numinous Treasure (洞玄靈寶道學科儀) it was essential for students of Taoism to be able to forge swords which had the capability to dispel demonic entities. Many Taoist sects formed during this period believed that swords could defeat demons and also contained medical properties. Under the Sui and Tang dynasties ritualistic swords constructed of peach wood started to appear.
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Beard et al, 207: see above for Augustus' permission for cult to his own numen only very late in his reign. Whether it was official cult is uncertain, but it would have been offered and permitted, not claimed. Fishwick (2007) asserts that inscriptional references to numen, connected to the living Augustus and his cult, as at Narbo in 12 BC, imply it as a property of the emperor, a "divinised abstraction", not identical with his person. Only much later, probably in consequence of the hyperinflation of honours to living Emperors, could a living emperor be openly, formally addressed as numen praesens (the numinous presence).
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Mysterium tremendum et fascinans. Otto felt that the numinous was most strongly present in the Old and New Testaments, but that it was also present in all other religions. According to Mark Wynn in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Idea of the Holy falls within a paradigm in the philosophy of emotion in which emotions are seen as including an element of perception with intrinsic epistemic value that is neither mediated by thoughts nor simply a response to physiological factors. Otto therefore understands religious experience as having mind-independent phenomenological content rather than being an internal response to belief in a divine reality.
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Christianity ( Jīdūjiào, "religion of Christ") in China comprises Protestantism ( Jīdūjiào xīnjiào, "New-Christianity"), Roman Catholicism ( Tiānzhǔjiào, "religion of the Lord of Heaven"), and a small number of Orthodox Christians ( Zhèngjiào). Also Mormonism ( Mó'ěrménjiào) has a tiny presence. The Orthodox Church, which has believers among the Russian minority and some Chinese in the far northeast and far northwest, is officially recognised in Heilongjiang. The category of "Protestantism" in China also comprehends a variety of heterodox sects of Christian inspiration, including Zhushenism ( Zhǔshénjiào, "Church of Lord God"), Linglingism ( Línglíngjiào, "Numinous Church"), Fuhuodao, the Church of the Disciples ( Méntúhuì) and Eastern Lightning or the Church of Almighty God ( Quánnéngshénjiào).
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Beginning in the early 1990s Hodgkinson again applied himself to composition, initially returning to the approach developed in his Henry Cow period. In 1994 he released Each in Our Own Thoughts, a collection of pieces including his first string quartet, and a piece written for Henry Cow in 1976 ("Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine"), which was performed at the time (as "Erk Gah") but never recorded in the studio. When finally recorded in 1993 he brought in three other members of the original band: Chris Cutler, Lindsay Cooper and Dagmar Krause. A further piece "Numinous Pools For Mental Orchestra" was realised entirely with MIDI-instruments.
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In this field he published Jung and the New Age; The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives (with Ann Casement); Gods and Diseases: Making Sense of our Physical and Mental Wellbeing; How to Read Jung and The Darkening Spirit: Jung, Spirituality, Religion. In 2012 he edited the scholarly volume The Jung Reader for Routledge. During his last six years at La Trobe, he co-taught, with sociologist John Carroll, The Crisis of Meaning in the 21st Century. Tacey is on the editorial boards of several international journals and in 2001 he was invited to lecture at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich.
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Hunting deities, whose role acknowledges the economic importance of animals and the ritual of the hunt, highlight a different relationship to nature. The animal elements in half-human, antlered deities suggest that the forest and its denizens possessed a numinous quality as well as an economic value. Hunter-gods were venerated among the Continental Celts, and they often seem to have had an ambivalent role as protector both of the hunter and the prey, not unlike the functions of Diana and Artemis in classical mythology. From Gaul, the armed deer-hunter depicted on an image from the temple of Le Donon in the Vosges lays his hands in benediction on the antlers of his stag companion.
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Each in Our Own Thoughts consists of three instrumental pieces and three songs. The music varies from contemporary classical music to avant-rock: there is a string quartet ("String Quartet 1"), two works for small ensembles ("A Hollow Miracle" and "Palimpsest"), a piece for samples and multiple horns ("From Descartes' Dreams"), a piece for MIDI- instruments ("Numinous Pools for Mental Orchestra"), and an unrecorded Henry Cow number from 1976 ("Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine"). Hodgkinson composed the music for all the tracks and wrote the lyrics for "Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine"; Chris Cutler wrote the song texts for "A Hollow Miracle" and "Palimpsest". Hodgkinson does not perform on "String Quartet 1".
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In the clip, she appears "as a goddess, floating out from a numinous light-streaked background." Sednaoui is known for having a particularly filmic technique for each of his clips; in "Possibly Maybe", the use of blacklighting "makes Björk glow sensuously and perversely". It was conceived in a theatrical way: nearly all of the scenes were filmed in the same space, which is transformed with changes in the mise en scène. The style of "Possibly Maybe"'s scenery and Björk's wardrobe reference East Asian imagery, and a Japanese traditional doll is featured as Björk's only accompaniment; as a silent witness, it is the object on which the protagonist casts reflections on her own identity.
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Pilgermann conceives of, designs and builds an enormous Kabbalistic courtyard and tower with a patterned design on the floor for Bembel which rapidly takes on numinous power among the community, attracting the displeasure of the Islamic authorities. Things come to a head when Frankish crusaders besiege Antioch. As it becomes increasingly clear that the city will fall, the Islamic authorities become more and more suspicious of non-Muslims and Pilgermann's life becomes increasingly threatened. Finally the city falls and Bembel and Pilgermann are killed fighting a crusader, but not before Pilgermann has a vision of Jerusalem - which he is never destined to get to - and sees Sophia lying, dying among a pile of corpses after a crusader massacre.
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According to Chinese legends, the first swords in China appeared under the reign of the legendary Yellow Emperor. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the notion developed that swords could be used against evil spirits and demons. Under the Liu Song dynasty swords became a common instrument in religious rituals, most particularly in Taoist rituals; according to the Daoist Rituals of the Mystery Cavern and Numinous Treasure (洞玄靈寶道學科儀) it was essential for students of Taoism to be able to forge swords which had the capability to dispel demonic entities. Many Taoist sects formed during this period believed that swords could defeat demons and also contained medical properties.
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According to Chinese legends, the first swords in China appeared under the reign of the legendary Yellow Emperor. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the notion developed that swords could be used against evil spirits and demons. Under the Liu Song dynasty swords became a common instrument in religious rituals, most particularly in Taoist rituals; according to the Daoist Rituals of the Mystery Cavern and Numinous Treasure (洞玄靈寶道學科儀) it was essential for students of Taoism to be able to forge swords which had the capability to dispel demonic entities. Many Taoist sects formed during this period believed that swords could defeat demons and also contained medical properties.
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Lay scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries began their studies on the historical and psychological descriptive analysis of the mystical experience, by investigating examples and categorizing it into types. Early notable examples include William James in "The Varieties of Religious Experience" (1902); the study of the term "cosmic consciousness" by Edward Carpenter (1892) and psychiatrist Richard Bucke (in his book Cosmic Consciousness, 1901); the definition of "oceanic feeling" by Romain Rolland (1927) and its study by Freud; Rudolf Otto's description of the "numinous" (1917) and its studies by Jung; Friedrich von Hügel in The Mystical Element of Religion (1908); Evelyn Underhill in her work Mysticism (1911); Aldous Huxley in The Perennial Philosophy (1945).
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Rudolf Otto (25 September 1869 – 7 March 1937) was an eminent German Lutheran theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist. He is regarded as one of the most influential scholars of religion in the early twentieth century and is best known for his concept of the numinous, a profound emotional experience he argued was at the heart of the world's religions. While his work started in the domain of liberal Christian theology, its main thrust was always apologetical, seeking to defend religion against naturalist critiques. Otto eventually came to conceive of his work as part of a science of religion, which was divided into the philosophy of religion, the history of religion, and the psychology of religion.
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Wilde / Roxanne Wilde / Sean J. Vincent) - 3:44 # "Birthday" (R. Wilde / S. Wilde / Shane Lee) - 3:38 # "Cyber.Nation.War" (K. Wilde / R. Wilde) - 4:55 # "Different Story" (Wikström, Thomander, K. Wilde) - 3:41 # "Rock the Paradiso" (K. Wilde / R. Wilde / S. Wilde) - 3:45 # "Rosetta" (K. Wilde / R. Wilde) - 4:46 Deluxe edition Bonus disc # "Amoureux des Reves" (K. Wilde / R. Wilde / Steve Lee) - 3:47 # "Fight Temptation" (Peredur Ap Gwenedd / R. Wilde / S. Wilde) - 3:35 # "Yours Til the End (Infinity Mix)" - 7:13 # "Stereo Shot/1969/Different Story (Numinous Mix)" - 5:00 # "Cyber Nation War (Keyboard Warrior Mix)" - 6:00 # "You Came Live 2018" (K. Wilde / R. Wilde) - 4:54 # "Cambodia Live 2018" (R.
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Mikao Usui 臼井甕男 (1865–1926) Chujiro Hayashi 林 忠次郎 (1880–1940) According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the English alternative medicine word reiki is etymologically from Japanese reiki (霊気) "mysterious atmosphere, miraculous sign" (first recorded in 1001), combining rei "soul, spirit" and ki "vital energy"—the Sino-Japanese reading of Chinese língqì (靈氣) "numinous atmosphere". Sino-Japanese readings were historically borrowed from Middle Chinese pronunciations, reconstructed by Baxter-Sagart as lengkhj (靈氣). The earliest recorded English usage dates to 1975.The OED cites The San Mateo Times, 2 May 1975, 32/1, announcing Hawayo Takata's lecture "A Reiki Master's Prediction and Participation in his Own Transition".
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Representatives of Jiangnan's indigenous religions responded to the spread of Celestial Masters' Taoism by reformulating their own traditions according to the imported religion. This led to the foundation of two new Taoist schools, with their own scriptural and ritual bodies: Shangqing Taoism ( Shàngqīngpài, "Highest Clarity school"), based on revelations that occurred between 364 and 370 in modern-day Nanjing, and Lingbao Taoism ( Língbǎopài, "Numinous Gem school"), based on revelations of the years between 397 and 402 and recodified later by Lu Xiujing (406-77). Lingbao incorporated from Buddhism the ideas of "universal salvation" and ranked "heavens", and focused on communal rituals. Buddhism brought a model of afterlife to Chinese people and had a deep influence on Chinese culture.
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Instead, he suggested that religious experience can be either numinous or mystical. He was also influenced by R.C. Zaehner's interest in mysticism, having consulted him at Oxford. He then examined what he took as key religious concepts, such as revelation, faith, conversion and knowledge and analysed what these meant in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism without evaluating any belief in terms of truth or falsity. He was consciously attempting to break out of captivity to Western modes of thought so that for example theism is not taken as an essential component of religion, thus such ideas as theophany or a single ultimate focus or sacrifice do not necessarily translate from the Christian into other religious contexts.
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This Daoist text has an unusually detailed description of only four zhi, rivaling the Baopuzi in terms of "the amount of information provided per specimen" (Steavu 2018: 366, 368). The text begins with a passage contrasting three kinds of plant-based medicinal and spiritual substances: longevity drugs, naturally growing zhi excrescences, and artificially cultivated ones. Traditional Chinese medicines, such as asparagus root (tianmen dong 天門冬), or atractylis (shanji 山蓟), can be effective in improving health and extending lifespan, but only if properly consumed every day. The varieties of numinous zhi mushrooms that grow on trees or mountains can bestow full immortality, however most need to be ingested gradually over many years before the adept achieves transcendence.
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Representation of a sitting of the Roman Senate: Cicero attacks Catiline, from a 19th-century fresco Auctoritas is a Latin word which is the origin of English "authority". While historically its use in English was restricted to discussions of the political history of Rome, the beginning of phenomenological philosophy in the 20th century expanded the use of the word. In ancient Rome, auctoritas referred to the general level of prestige a person had in Roman society, and, as a consequence, his clout, influence, and ability to rally support around his will. Auctoritas was not merely political, however; it had a numinous content and symbolized the mysterious "power of command" of heroic Roman figures.
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It is also known as buddha-nature or > numinous awakening 靈覺 ... If you wish to see the Way of the Buddhas, you > must awaken to this mind. Therefore, the generations of patriarchs in this > lineage transmit only this. If there is a sympathetic resonance and > reciprocal tallying [between master and disciple] 感應相契, then although a > single flame may be transmitted to a hundred thousand lamps, there will be > no difference between them. (2002: 131-132) Although the Chinese word ganying 感應 was not employed in translating any specific Sanskrit term, it frequently occurs in Chinese Buddhist discussions elucidating the workings of ritual invocation and "jiachi" 加持 "empowerment; assistance" (adhiṣṭhāna).
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His operatic works include Cremenville in 2006, for which he also wrote the libretto and Numinous City, a work in progress commissioned by the Royal Opera House's development arm, ROH2. In 2002 he formed the music-theatre company, SharpWire, with actor, singer and cellist, Matthew Sharp. Together they created a 'multi-media song-cycle' at Battersea Arts Centre, London, entitled Adam's Apple, based on Wyer's settings of poets Charles Simic, Federico García Lorca, Giuseppe Ungaretti and others. The work featured acting, singing, choreography and film (by Tobin Rothlein, who also designed the set) and toured the United Kingdom in 2004, with additional performances at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and a guest performance and interview on the long-running show, New Sounds, on WNYC, New York.
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Its most prominent feature was the procession that led out of Athens to a place called Skiron near Eleusis, in which the priestess of Athena and the priest of Poseidon took part, under a ceremonial canopy called the skiron, which was held up by the Eteoboutadai.L. Deubner, Attische Feste (Berlin 1932:49-50); their accompanier in late descriptions, the priest of Helios, Walter Burkert regards as a Hellenistic innovation rather than an archaic survival (Burkert 1983:) Their joint temple on the Acropolis was the Erechtheum, where Poseidon embodied as Erechtheus remained a numinous presence.See Poseidon#The foundation of Athens; the connection was an early one: in the Odyssey (vii.81), Athena was said to have "entered the house of Erechtheus" (noted by Burkert 1983:144).
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The author of The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762–1800 states that the origins of supernatural fiction come from Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century. Accounts of a ghost appearing on Cock Lane were featured in the newspapers in 1762, and an interest in Spiritualism was also currently prevalent. There was a need for people to see real ghosts and experience them vicariously through the writings of fiction. S. L. Varnado argues in Haunted Presence: The Numinous in Gothic Fiction that the beginning of an interest in the supernatural comes from humanity's craving for the experience of the divine, so that even the old mythological tales of the knights of King Arthur give the reader a sense of the presence of "holy" things.
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At Athens, the last month of the year was Skirophorion, after the festival. Its most prominent feature was the procession that led out of Athens to a place called Skiron near Eleusis, in which the priestess of Athena and the priest of Poseidon took part, under a ceremonial canopy called the skiron, which was held up by the Eteoboutadai.L. Deubner, Attische Feste (Berlin 1932:49-50); their accompanier in late descriptions, the priest of Helios, Walter Burkert regards as a Hellenistic innovation rather than an archaic survival (Burkert 1983:) Their joint temple on the Acropolis was the Erechtheum, where Poseidon embodied as Erechtheus remained a numinous presence.See Poseidon#The foundation of Athens; the connection was an early one: in the Odyssey (vii.
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The Guardian UK. 9 August 2012. The story is narrated by the protagonist, Henry Amadeus Meat, a wayward print journalist from Auckland who stumbles into a mystery when he is assigned to report on the controversial and highly publicised deaths of human research subjects at a dream research clinic in Los Angeles. When he begins to learn about the development of a covert dream technology involving voyages to the afterlife, Meat is propelled into a chain of events where green eyed vixens and anonymous phone calls lead him deeper into the heart of a secret he labels "The Grand Deception." While writing The Numinous Place, Staufer also developed and wrote a screenplay with Crowe about US comedian Bill Hicks who died of pancreatic cancer at age 32.
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These religions are characterised by egalitarianism, charismatic founding figures claiming to have received divine revelation, a millenarian eschatology and voluntary path of salvation, an embodied experience of the numinous through healing and cultivation, and an expansive orientation through good deeds, evangelism and philanthropy. Their practices are focused on improving morality, body cultivation, and on the recitation of scriptures. Many redemptive religions of the 20th and 21st century aspire to embody and reform Chinese tradition in the face of Western modernism and materialism. They include Yiguandao and other sects belonging to the Xiantiandao ( "Way of Former Heaven"), Jiugongdao ( "Way of the Nine Palaces"), the various branches of Luoism, Zailiism, and more recent ones such as the Church of Virtue, Weixinism, Xuanyuanism and Tiandiism.
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Zhao (w"Chao"). The commandery was organized following King Yong's military reforms and expansion into Loufan and Linhu (shown in outline to the northwest). Yanmen Commandery was first established around 300 during China's Warring States Period by the state of Zhao's King Yong, posthumously known as the Wuling ("Martial-&-Numinous") King.. It covered territory in what is now northern Shanxi and southern Inner Mongolia.. He created Yanmen Commandery along with its companion commanderies of Dai and Yunzhong to consolidate his conquests from invasions of the Loufan (t s Lóufán) and "forest nomads" or "barbarians" ( Línhú) in 306 and 304. He protected these new lands by raising earthen walls along their northern border,.. close to what is now Hohhot in Inner Mongolia.
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St Brigid's Well, near Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland St Oran's Well, Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland. A holy well or sacred spring is a well or spring or other small body of water revered either in a Christian or pagan context, sometimes both. The term holy well is commonly employed to refer to any water source of limited size (i.e. not a lake or river, but including pools and natural springs and seeps), which has some significance in the folklore of the area where it is located, whether in the form of a particular name, an associated legend, the attribution of healing qualities to the water through the numinous presence of its guardian spirit or Christian saint, or a ceremony or ritual centred on the well site.
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Chinese salvationist religions or Chinese folk religious sects are a Chinese religious tradition characterised by a concern for salvation (moral fulfillment) of the person and the society.; passim They are distinguished by egalitarianism, a founding charismatic person often informed by a divine revelation, a specific theology written in holy texts, a millenarian eschatology and a voluntary path of salvation, an embodied experience of the numinous through healing and self-cultivation, and an expansive orientation through evangelism and philanthropy. Some scholars consider these religions a single phenomenon, and others consider them the fourth great Chinese religious category alongside the well-established Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Generally these religions focus on the worship of the universal God, represented as either male, female, or genderless, and regard their holy patriarchs as embodiments of God.
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In 1998 Myatt converted to Islam and remained a practicing Muslim for eight years, in which time he encouraged violent jihad against Zionism and Israel's Western allies. In 2010, he announced that he had renounced Islam and was practicing an esoteric tradition that he termed the "Numinous Way". Goodrick-Clarke supported the idea that Myatt was Long, with the religious studies scholar Jacob C. Senholt adding that "the role of David Myatt [is] paramount to the whole creation and existence of the ONA". Senholt presented additional evidence that he believed confirmed Myatt's identity as Long, writing that Myatt's embrace of neo-Nazism and radical Islamism represented "insight roles" which Myatt had adopted as part of the ONA's "sinister strategy" to undermine Western society, a view endorsed by scholar of Satanism Per Faxneld.
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The ONA believe that humans live within the causal realm, which obeys the laws of cause and effect. However, they also believe in an acausal realm, in which the laws of physics do not apply, further promoting the idea that numinous energies from the acausal realm can be drawn into the causal, allowing for the performance of magic. Believing in the existence of magic - which the group spell "magick" following the example of Elias Ashmole's 1652 work Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum - the ONA distinguish between external, internal, and aeonic magick. External magic itself is divided into two categories: ceremonial magick, which is performed by more than two people to achieve a specific goal, and hermetic magick, which is performed either solitarily or in a pair and which is often sexual in nature.
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ONA influence extends to some black metal bands such as Hvile I Kaos, who according to a report in the music section of LA Weekly, "attribute their purpose and themes to the philosophies of the Order of Nine Angles", although as of December 2018 the band is no longer involved with the ONA. The French band Aosoth is named after an O9A deity, and takes direct lyrical influence from the O9A. The album Intra NAOS by Italian band Altar of Perversion is named after the O9A essay NAOS: A Practical Guide to Modern Magick and showcases the band members' own path through the Numinous Way. Some music associated with the O9A has also been controversial; The Quietus published a series of articles during 2018 exploring the connections between far-right politics, music and the ONA.
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Lingbao Tianzun Lingbao Tianzun (, "Lord of the Numinous Treasure") is also known as the "Supreme Pure One" () or "The Universally Honoured One of Divinities and Treasures". > In terms of worldview, the emergence of the Shàngqīng revelations signifies > a major expansion of Taoism. Where the celestial masters had added the pure > gods of the Tao to the popular pantheon, Shàngqīng enlarged this to include > an entirely new layer of existence between the original, creative force of > the Tao, represented by the deity "yuan shi tian wang" (heavenly king of > primordial beginning), and created world as we know it. This celestial layer > consisted of several different regions, located both in the far reaches of > the world and in the stars, and imagined along the lines of the ancient > paradises Penglai and Kunlun.
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She suggested that this could be a result of his personal experience. Firstly, women in early 20th century England normally stayed at home and looked after the children, she noted, and Tolkien expected as much of his wife Edith, even though she was a skilful pianist. Secondly, his environment was overwhelmingly male, and other Inklings, especially Lewis, believed that "full intimacy with another man was impossible unless women were totally excluded" from their intellectual and artistic discussions; Łaszkiewicz notes that Edith resented the Inklings meetings. The scholar of humanities Brian Rosebury wrote that Tolkien gave his mother's memory "something of the numinous intensity which radiates from the adored, benevolent, intimately present or achingly distant, feminine figures of his work", naming Galadriel, Arwen, Goldberry and the remote Varda/Elbereth.
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357 and has been widely popularised in Western popular culture as the "yin-yang symbol" since the 1960s."The 'River Diagram' is the pattern of black-and-white dots which appears superimposed on the interlocking spirals [...] Those spirals alone form the Taiji tu or 'Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate', often known in English since the 1960s as the 'yin-yang symbol'.) These dots were believed to be collated with the eight trigrams, and hence with the concepts of roundness and of the heavens, while the equally numinous 'Luo River Writing' was a pattern of dots accosiated with the number nine, with squareness and with the earth." Craig Clunas, Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (1997), p. 107. The contemporary Chinese term for the modern symbol is "two-part Taiji diagram".
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The date for the earliest use of the term neidan is uncertain. Arthur Waley proposed that it was first recorded in the 559 vow taken by Tiantai Buddhist patriarch Nanyue Huisi praying to successfully make an elixir that would keep him alive till the coming of Maitreya (1930: 14). Many scholars agreed, including Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen who translated Huisi's vow to live as an ascetic in the mountains: > I am seeking for the longevity in order to defend the Faith, not in order to > enjoy worldly happiness. I pray that all the saints and sages will come to > my help, so that I may get some good magic mushrooms [zhi ], and numinous > elixirs [shendan ], enabling me to cure all illnesses and to stop both > hunger and thirst.
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In a favourable review in the Guardian, Michael Billington explained, "Bartlett is saying that we live in a Britain where the old tribal loyalties are increasingly irrelevant. The real divide is between a popular protest movement, fed on Facebook and Twitter, that hungers for a change of direction, and an entrenched governmental system that clings precariously to the status quo." Ian Shuttleworth of the Financial Times noted that this was a play in which "sprawl wins out": "Both here and in Earthquakes Bartlett is groping towards some sense of a need to reconcile the worldly and the numinous. In this society, in the 21st century, that may be an admirable impulse for an individual, but in this case it is not proving a useful approach for a playwright." In 2012 Bartlett adapted Chariots of Fire for the stage.
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The ONA describe their occultism both as "Traditional Satanism", and as a "mystical sinisterly-numinous tradition". According to Jesper Aagaard Petersen, an academic specialist of Satanism, the Order present "a recognizable new interpretation of Satanism and the Left Hand Path", and for those involved in the group, Satanism is not simply a religion but a way of life. The Order postulates Satanism as an arduous individual achievement of self-mastery and Nietzschean self-overcoming, with an emphasis on individual growth through practical acts of risk, prowess and endurance. Therefore, "[t]he goal of the Satanism of the ONA is to create a new individual through direct experience, practice and self-development [with] the grades of the ONA system being highly individual, based on the initiates' own practical and real-life acts, instead of merely performing certain ceremonial rituals".
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King Yong of Zhao (posthumously known as the "Wuling" or "Martial-and-Numinous King") invaded and conquered the lands of the Loufan (t s Lóufán) and "forest nomads" ( Línhú) tribes of northern Shanxi in 306 and 304. He organized these conquests as the commanderies of Yunzhong, Yanmen, and Dai and, by around 300, had begun erecting earthen defensive works to protect his new holdings from other nomads from the Eurasian steppelands. Although Zhao's Yanmen Commandery was named after the pass, whose premodern importance for accessing the valleys of central Shanxi caused it to be scene of many battles throughout Chinese history, the ramparts raised under King Yong did not run through it but along the northern extent of his territory closer to Hohhot in Inner Mongolia. Yanmen itself was defended, but by a fort and garrison on a local hill.
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Roth 1999: 60) In both these verses, being aligned precedes being tranquil, and thus developing a stabilized mind. Neiye "alignment" apparently refers to sitting in a steady posture with the limbs aligned or squared up with one another, comparable to the vajrasana posture in Buddhist meditation (Roth 1999: 110). This Neiye metaphor of "make a lodging place for the vital essence" refers to the primary mystical praxis, which Verse 13 (above) symbolically describes, "Diligently clean out its [the bodily shen's] lodging place [敬除其舍] / And its vital essence will naturally arrive [精將自來]". The method of "cleaning out [chú 除 "eliminate; remove; clean out"] the lodging place of the numinous" is essentially an apophatic process in which one "gradually and systematically removes the normal feelings, desires, thoughts, and perceptions that commonly occupy consciousness" (Roth 1999: 134).
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Former Pizza Hut President Michael Rawlings runs the company. The company was also backed by Wall Street investment firm Goldman Sachs and Dallas private equity firm CIC Partners LP.Dallas Cowboys, New York Yankees form joint concessions venture (The Dallas Morning News) Cowboys, Yankees form company for new stadiums (Associated Press) Legends has since branched out to multiple venues across the world such as the One World Observatory in a 15-year, $875 million contract, Levi's Stadium, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and IndyCar, Banc of California Stadium, Nissan Stadium, Angel Stadium, Golden 1 Center, SoFi Stadium, Allegiant Stadium, University of Southern California, Prudential Center, Notre Dame, the Rose Bowl, Oklahoma Sooners, Dallas Mavericks and numinous other professional and college venues and companies. The company is estimated to be worth around $750 million. It has in addition branched out in what it offers.
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Modern Sinologists believe the character to be derived either from an image of the sun emerging from clouds, or from the content of a vessel being changed into another. The Zhou yi was traditionally ascribed to the Zhou cultural heroes King Wen of Zhou and the Duke of Zhou, and was also associated with the legendary world ruler Fu Xi. According to the canonical Great Commentary, Fu Xi observed the patterns of the world and created the eight trigrams (), "in order to become thoroughly conversant with the numinous and bright and to classify the myriad things." The Zhou yi itself does not contain this legend and indeed says nothing about its own origins. The Rites of Zhou, however, also claims that the hexagrams of the Zhou yi were derived from an initial set of eight trigrams.
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Otto describes das Heilige with the expression mysterium tremendum et fascinans—a numinous power revealed in a moment of "awe" that admits of both the horrible shuddering of "religious dread" (tremendum) and fascinating wonder (fascinans) with the overpowering majesty (majestas) of the ineffable, "wholly other" mystery (mysterium).Kristensen: 15-18; Otto: 5-32 Like Chantepie, Kristensen argues that phenomenology seeks the “meaning” of religious phenomena. Kristensen clarifies this supposition by defining the meaning that his phenomenology is seeking as “the meaning that the religious phenomena have for the believers themselves”.James: 144 Furthermore, Kristensen argues that phenomenology is not complete in grouping or classifying the phenomena according to their meaning, but in the act of understanding. “Phenomenology has as its objects to come as far as possible into contact with and to understand the extremely varied and divergent religious data”.
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Writers on the subject of weird fiction, such as China Miéville, sometimes use "the tentacle" to represent this type of writing. The tentacle is a limb-type absent from most of the monsters of European folklore and gothic fiction, but often attached to the monstrous creatures created by weird fiction writers, such as William Hope Hodgson, M. R. James, and H. P. Lovecraft. Weird fiction often attempts to inspire awe as well as fear in response to its fictional creations, causing commentators like Miéville to paraphrase Goethe in saying that weird fiction evokes a sense of the numinous. Although "weird fiction" has been chiefly used as a historical description for works through the 1930s, the term has also been increasingly used since the 1980s, sometimes to describe slipstream fiction that blends horror, fantasy, and science fiction.
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Comparative religion is the branch of the study of religions concerned with the systematic comparison of the doctrines and practices of the world's religions. In general, the comparative study of religion yields a deeper understanding of the fundamental philosophical concerns of religion such as ethics, metaphysics, and the nature and form of salvation. Studying such material is meant to give one a richer and more sophisticated understanding of human beliefs and practices regarding the sacred, numinous, spiritual and divine."Human beings' relation to that which they regard as holy, sacred, spiritual, and divine" Encyclopædia Britannica (online, 2006), cited after In the field of comparative religion, a common geographical classification of the main world religions includes Middle Eastern religions (including Zoroastrianism and Iranian religions), Indian religions, East Asian religions, African religions, American religions, Oceanic religions, and classical Hellenistic religions.
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Prāṅa pratiṣṭha refers to the rite or ceremony by which a murti (vessel for the spirit of god) is consecrated in a Hindu temple, wherein hymns and mantra are recited to invite the deity to be resident guest, and the murti's eye is opened for the first time. Practiced in the temples of Hinduism and Jainism, the ritual is considered to infuse life into the Hindu temple, and bring to it the numinous presence of divinity and spirituality. The ceremony, states Heather Elgood, marks the recognition of the image of god to represent "a particle of the divine whole, the divine perceived not in man's image as a separate entity but as a formless, indescribable omnipresent whole", with the divine presence a reminder of its transcendence and to be beheld in one's inner thoughts during darśana in the temple.
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In addition to these Taoist "Three Treasures", Chinese sanbao can also refer to the Three Treasures in Traditional Chinese Medicine or the Three Jewels in Buddhism. Victor H. Mair (1990:110) notes that Chinese Buddhists chose the Taoist term sanbao to translate Sanskrit triratna or ratnatraya ("three jewels"), and "It is not at all strange that the Taoists would take over this widespread ancient Indian expression and use it for their own purposes." Erik Zürcher, who studied influences of Buddhist doctrinal terms in Daoism, noted (1980:115) two later meanings of sanbao: Dao "the Way", jing "the Scriptures", and shi "the Master" seems to be patterned after Buddhist usage; Tianbao jun "Lord of Celestial Treasure", Lingbao jun "Lord of Numinous Treasure", and Shenbao jun "Lord of Divine Treasure" are the Sanyuan "Three Primes" of the Lingbao School.
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Yang had an early connection with Daoism in 350 when Wei Huacun's eldest son, Liu Pu (劉璞) gave Yang a manuscript of the Lingbao School Wufu xu (五符序, Prolegomena to the Five Talismans of the Numinous Treasure) (Espessett 2008a: 1147). Although Tao had copies of the Xu's jiapu (家譜, Family Genealogy), he preferred to rely upon the prophetic contents of the revelations themselves; the family records said Xu Mi died in 373, but Tao said 376 when it was predicted that he would enter Shangqing heaven (Strickmann 1977: 42). Unlike Yang's life, we have detailed information about the Xu family in more reliable sources such as the Book of Jin official dynastic history. The Xus had been established in Jurong since 185 CE, when Xu Guang (許光) joined the southward migration during the decline of the Eastern Han dynasty (Strickmann 1977: 6).
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Laozi, one of the most important gods in Lingbao Daoism The Lingbao School (Simplified Chinese: 灵宝派; Traditional Chinese: 靈寶派; pinyin: Líng Bǎo Pài), also known as the School of the Sacred Jewel or the School of Numinous Treasure, was an important Daoist school that emerged in China in between the Jin Dynasty and the Liu Song Dynasty in the early fifth century CE. It lasted for about two hundred years until it was absorbed into the Shangqing and Zhengyi currents during the Tang Dynasty. The Lingbao School is a synthesis of religious ideas based on Shangqing texts, the rituals of the Celestial Masters, and Buddhist practices. The Lingbao School borrowed many concepts from Buddhism, including the concept of reincarnation, and also some cosmological elements. Although reincarnation was an important concept in the Lingbao School, the earlier Daoist belief in attaining immortality remained.
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Northern Wei wall murals and painted figurines from the Yungang Grottoes The southern dynasties of China were rich in cultural achievement, with the flourishing of Buddhism and Daoism, especially the latter as two new canons of scriptural writings were created for the Supreme Purity sect and its rival the Numinous Treasure Sect. The southern Chinese were influenced greatly by the writings of Buddhist monks such as Huiyuan, who applied familiar Daoist terms to describe Buddhism for other Chinese. The Chinese were in contact and influenced by cultures of India and trading partners farther south, such as the kingdoms of Funan and Champa (located in modern-day Cambodia and Vietnam). Admonitions of the Instructress to the Palace Ladies, a Tang dynasty copy of the original by Gu Kaizhi The sophistication and complexity of the Chinese arts of poetry, calligraphy, painting, and playing of music reached new heights during this age.
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Zhao (w"Chao"), showing the town of Dai (w"Tai") in its northeast. The commandery was organized following King Yong's military reforms and expansion into Loufan and Linhu (shown in outline to the northwest). Dai Commandery was first established around 300 during China's Warring States Period by the state of Zhao's King Yong, posthumously known as the Wuling ("Martial-&-Numinous") King.. The commandery seat—then known as Dai—was southwest of present-day Yuzhou in Hebei.. It was the former capital of the independent state of Dai, which had been conquered by King Yong's ancestors around 476.. He created Dai Commandery along with its companion commanderies of Yanmen and Yunzhong to consolidate his conquests from invasions of the Loufan (t s Lóufán) and "forest nomads" ( Línhú) in 306 and 304. Following the Qin conquest of Zhao, Zhao Jia attempted to regroup at Dai, declaring himself its king.
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Only zhi that are cultivated above four special soil conditioning minerals, which are highly-valued in Chinese alchemy, can grant immortality almost instantly upon ingestion (Steavu 2018: 368). The esoteric basis for these mushrooms' exceptional potency is explained, > Indeed, accretions on top of cinnabar, accretions on top of gold, accretions > on top of laminar malachite, and accretions on top of realgar, all of them > generate [numinous] mushrooms. These mushrooms are not those of utmost > virtue that respond to divinity, for one can encounter them yet not see them > and not be able to eat them. The reason why these mushrooms can immediately > make people become immortals is because, by receiving the perfect essence > [zhijing 至精] of those four substances, they incorporate the harmonious > breath [heqi 和氣] of Heaven and Earth and Yin and Yang along with its > fragrant fluids; and by means of this they accomplish generative > transformation.
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The c. 10th- or 11th-century Bianshi sanshiliu zhong zhicao bianxing zhang (辯識三十六種芝草變形章, Chapter on the Explanation and Discernment of the Thirty-Six Varieties of Mushroom Plants' Transformations of Form) is part of a larger section on mountain survival in the Sanhuang neibi wen (三皇內祕文, Esoteric Secret Writ of the Three Sovereigns). This source is a compilation of methods traditionally associated with the Sanhuang (三皇, Three Sovereigns) tradition, which was an integral part of the southern Jiangnan esoteric lore, including the mycological path to immortality, that Ge Hong documented in his Baopuzi. This chapter on mushrooms lists the names of four sets of nine numinous zhi mushrooms, divided according to where they grow (on sacred mountains, along riverbanks, in caves, or on withered trees) along with details of their respective appearances and benefits (Steavu 2018: 367).
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Unlike the well-documented biography of Wei Huacun, little is known about Zu. After receiving ordination in the traditions of Daoist Tianshi, Shangqing, and Lingbao schools, she went to Guiyang (present-day Chenzhou, Hunan) where she met Lingguang shengmu (靈光聖母, Holy Mother of Numinous Radiance), who transmitted to Zu Shu the Way of Pure Subtlety together with talismans and exorcism techniques, said to have been passed down from Yuanshi Tianzun (Heavenly Worthy of Primordial Beginning) (Despeux 2000: 390). Later Qingwei followers placed Zu at the head of their "patriarchal" lineage, which Chen Cai (陳采) first constructed in the 13th-century Qingwei xianpu (清微仙普, Account of the Immortals of Pure Subtlety) (Boltz 1987: 38-39). According to Catherine Despeux, Zu Shu seems more like a southern shaman than a religious visionary. Rather than an active founder, she appears in the Pure Subtlety school mainly as a preceptor who transmitted methods that she learned from another woman (2000: 391).
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The magazine was issued monthly (excluding December) until March 1996, when it became bi-monthly, starting with the April/May issue. It ceased publication in 1998 after four years and 33 issues, with its February/March issue being the last. In his first editorial, Cruickshank wrote that 'Perspectives is concerned with the care and conservation of the best aspects of our built history and the countryside, and with the protection of the landscape, but it is also committed to the evolution of a new architecture which combines temporary technology with the inspirational ideas offered by traditional buildings ... The reconciliation of the old and the new, united with a concern for relating new buildings to their settings, will restore delight to our view of the world. Perspectives will campaign for beauty and inspiration and a recovery of that spiritual sense of the numinous that only great architecture or great works of art can offer.
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Illustration of hújiāo 胡椒 "Piper nigrum, black pepper" and fúlíng 茯苓 "Wolfiporia extensa, China-root fungus", from Michael Boym's (1656) Flora Sinensis. The (c. 400 CE) Taishang Lingbao wufuxu 太上靈寶五符序 "Explanations of the Five Numinous Treasure Talismans" or Wufuxu, compiled by the Lingbao School founder Ge Chaofu, describes various techniques for expelling the Three Corpses/Worms. The Wufuxu uses both sanchong "Three Worms" and fushi "Concealed Corpses" as interchangeable names for the malevolent beings residing in the human body, interpreted as either the reconciliation of regional varieties of Chinese names or the conflation of common names with religious terms. Among the 11 Wufuxu recipes for expelling corpse-worms, 6 mention sanchong fushi 三蟲伏尸 integrating two previously separate names for similar ideas, which allows the text to address both readers familiar with the Three Worms concept as well as those who knew of the Concealed, or Three, Corpses (Campany 2005, 43).
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The "common-core thesis" is criticised by "diversity theorists" such as S.T Katz and W. Proudfoot. They argue that The idea of a common essence has been questioned by Yandell, who discerns various "religious experiences" and their corresponding doctrinal settings, which differ in structure and phenomenological content, and in the "evidential value" they present. Yandell discerns five sorts: # Numinous experiences – Monotheism (Jewish, Christian, Vedantic) # Nirvanic experiences – Buddhism, "according to which one sees that the self is but a bundle of fleeting states" # Kevala experiences – Jainism, "according to which one sees the self as an indestructible subject of experience" # Moksha experiences – Hinduism, Brahman "either as a cosmic person, or, quite differently, as qualityless" # Nature mystical experience The specific teachings and practices of a specific tradition may determine what "experience" someone has, which means that this "experience" is not the proof of the teaching, but a result of the teaching. The notion of what exactly constitutes "liberating insight" varies between the various traditions, and even within the traditions.
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For example, consider Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Sound of the Sea": :The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep, :And round the pebbly beaches far and wide :I heard the first wave of the rising tide :Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep; :A voice out of the silence of the deep, :A sound mysteriously multiplied :As of a cataract from the mountain's side, :Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep. :So comes to us at times, from the unknown :And inaccessible solitudes of being, :The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul; :And inspirations, that we deem our own, :Are some divine foreshadowing and foreseeing :Of things beyond our reason or control. The octave presents the speaker's experience of the sound of the sea, coming to him from some distance. In the sestet, this experience mutates into a meditation on the nature of inspiration and man's connection to creation and his experience of the numinous.
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Present-day Dai County lies to north of the historic heartland of ancient Chinese civilization in the Fen, Wei, and Yellow River valleys. The Chinese knew their northern neighbors as the Di or "Northern Barbarians". The "White Di" (Baidi) are recorded originating in north Shaanxi west of the Yellow River but had settled in the Hutuo Valley by the 6th century.. The Zhou state of Jin pushed sporadically northward through both invasions and bribery of the Di's ruling class until its disintegration at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. King Yong (posthumously known as the "Wuling" or "Martial-&-Numinous King") of the Jin successor state of Zhao adopted nomad-style clothing, equipment, and cavalry tactics in 307; in campaigns in 306 and 304 overran the Loufan (t s Lóufán) and "forest nomads" ( Línhú) of the Hutuo Valley and the lands to the northwest of the Yanmen Pass, opening up to the Eurasian steppe.
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These instructions are essentially a more intricate version of what is found in the Baopuzi, a source that "set the standard for texts on numinous mushrooms and was still used as a template over five hundred years after it was written" (Steavu 2018: 370). Directives for the three remaining types of zhi mushrooms follow the same sacramental blueprint as well. The adept follows a precise practice of planting, harvesting, and consuming zhi fungi that sprout upon a divine class of minerals identified with four of the Wuxing (Five Agents, Five Phases), corresponding to the spring/east/blue malachite zhi in seasons, cardinal directions, cloud and mist colors, and supernatural results. Summer/south/red cinnabar zhi: will transform all internal illnesses into turbid blood that flows out through the mouth and nose, and adepts will "immediately be able to pace on water, [pass through] flames and fire without getting burned, and cut out grains and not eat [without being hungry]" (Steavu 2018: 371).
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For the art game That Dragon, Cancer, its developer Ryan Green noted that while there were let's plays of the game, several which commented emotionally on the game's topic, some of these playthroughs had simply played through the game without added commentary, and provided no links to where players could learn more about the title. Green and his team at Numinous Games had used YouTube's content ID to have some of these videos taken down, a result that brought some complaints and which Green admitted later was not the right approach to address the issue. Green requested that with games such as That Dragon, Cancer, that those creating let's play use the playthrough of the game to initiate conversations with their viewers, and that viewers could show their appreciation of the game by tipping the developers in lieu of purchasing the full title. The phenomenon of Let's Plays was a focal point for the South Park episode "#REHASH".
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In Angst und Vorurteil, Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg on the one hand supplements the structural history of Western Leibfeindlichkeit (repression of sensuality) she related at a fuller scope in Tabu Homosexualität before, by pointing out in Angst und Vorurteil further aspects she had already brushed on in Der pädophile Impuls four years earlier. According to Angst und Vorurteil, an important derivational motivation of Leibfeindlichkeit was an intense connotation that was at first numinous, then mythological, then religious in nature, of sexual deviance with divine punishments for it, particularly natural disasters and epidemics. An obvious, exemplary line originated from the Old Testament where leprosy was God's just answer to sensual sins, especially sins of the flesh; by the Medieval Age, the Black Death had taken the former place of leprosy in ecclesiastical dogma. Just when early science dawned, syphilis came from across the ocean to the Old World, perpetuating the ancient cultural notions repressive towards sensuality by seemingly confirming the idea that lose sexual morals resulted in severe epidemics of fatal diseases.
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Roth > 1999: 150; cf. Mair 1994: 69) First, this Daodejing term baoyi 抱一 "embracing the One" parallels the Neiye zhiyi 執一 "hold fast to the One" (verse 9, tr. Roth 1999: 62), and both terms refer to retaining a sense of union with the Way in everyday life. Second, zhuanqi 專氣 "concentrating the vital breath (until it is at its softest)" closely resembles tuanqi 摶氣 "concentrating your vital breath (as if numinous)" denoting to the practice of breath meditation (19, tr. Roth 1999: 82). Third, dichu xuanjian 滌除玄覽 " sweep clean your Profound Mirror" and the distinctive Neiye metaphor jingchu qi she 敬除其舍 "diligently clean out its lodging place" (13, tr. Roth 1999: 70) share the same syntax and verb chu "eliminate; remove". These three textual counterparts demonstrate that the redactors of both the Neiye and Daodejing shared knowledge of traditional proto-Daoist meditation techniques through which one could directly experience the Way and its inner power (Roth 1999: 152).
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According to Shangqing traditions, the Queen Mother of the West gave zhi numinous mushrooms to Lord Mao, who planted five kinds on the Shangqing center Maoshan (茅山, Mt. Mao) in Jiangsu, which is the site of Jintan (金壇, Golden Altar), one of the ten greater Grotto-Heavens, and Jinling (金陵, Golden Mound), one of the seventy-two Blissful Lands (or Paradises, 福地) (Miura 2008: 368-369). The Daoist scholar and alchemist Tao Hongjing (456-536), who compiled the Shangqing canon, recorded that the hidden mushrooms Lord Mao planted on Maoshan were still found during his lifetime (Strickmann 1979: 176). The Maojun wuzhong zhirong fang describes Lord Mao's five types of zhi fungi, recommends searching for them in the third or ninth month, gives instructions for consumption, and accounts their expected benefits. Two of these five descriptions closely correspond, almost verbatim, to passages from the caozhi "plant mushrooms" and muzhi "wood mushrooms" sub-headings in the Baopuzi, underscoring the text's "status as a locus classicus of all things at once Daoist and fungal" (Steavu 2018: 365).
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Peigen, Xiao and Liyi, He Ethnopharmacologic investigation on tropane-containing drugs in Chinese Solanaceous plants in Journal of Ethnopharmacology Volume 8 No. 1 July (1983) pub. Elsevier. The nomenclatural association of P. infundibularis with Mount Hua – 'West Great Mountain' of the Five Great Mountains of China of Taoism – is an interesting one and merits further study : in common with other mountains regarded in China as numinous/Xian ling, Mount Hua (a precipitous assemblage of five (counted anciently only as three) peaks in the Qin range) is held to be a source of rare medicinal plants and life-prolonging elixirs. Furthermore, at the foot of the West Peak of Mount Hua (known as Lianhua Feng (蓮花峰) or Furong Feng (芙蓉峰), both meaning Lotus Flower Summit) stood, from as early as the second century BCE, a Taoist temple which was the site of shamanic practices undertaken by spirit mediums (see also Wu (shaman)) to contact an (unnamed) God of the Underworld and his minions, believed to dwell in the heart of the mountain.(See also Chinese folk religion).
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"The special character of Greek anthropomorphism", especially p.184. Alternatively, the epithet may identify a particular and localized aspect of the god, such as a reference to the mythological place of birth or numinous presence at a specific sanctuary: sacrifice might be offered on one and the same occasion to Pythian Apollo (Apollo Pythios) and Delphic Apollo (Apollo Delphinios). A localizing epithet refers simply to a particular center of veneration and the cultic tradition there, as the god manifested at a particular festival, for example: Zeus Olympios, Zeus as present at Olympia, or Apollo Karneios, Apollo at the Spartan Carneian festival. Often the epithet is the result of fusion of the Olympian divinity with an older one: Poseidon Erechtheus, Artemis Orthia, reflect intercultural equations of a divinity with an older one, that is generally considered its pendant; thus most Roman gods and goddesses, especially the Twelve Olympians, had traditional counterparts in Greek, Etruscan, and most other Mediterranean pantheons, such as Jupiter as head of the Olympian Gods with Zeus, but in specific cults, there may be a different equation, based on one specific aspect of the divinity.
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The Zuowanglun is associated with six contemporaneous texts by Daoist mediation masters from the Chongxuan 重玄 "Twofold Mystery" and Shangqing "Highest Clarity" Schools. Sima Chengzhen led an influential school of Buddho-Daoist mediation centered on Mount Tiantai, which was also the headquarters of the Tiantai school of Buddhism. The (early 8th century) Dingguanjing 定觀經 "Scripture on Concentration and Observation", or Dongxuan lingbao dingguanjing 洞玄靈寶定觀經 "Scripture on Concentration and Observation of the Numinous Treasure from the Cavern Mystery", appears three times in the Daoist Canon: as an appendix to the Zuowanglun edition, as a separate text (DZ 400, tr. Kohn 2010:163-173), and in the Yunji Qiqian anthology. This 49-stanza text outlines the psychological transition from an ordinary perspective with emotions and desires to a mental state of stability and quietude (Kohn 2010:65). The popular Dingguanjing was summarized under the title Guanmiaojing 觀妙經 "Scripture on Concentration on the Mystery" (DZ 326). The Cunshen lianqiming 存神鍊氣銘 "Inscription on Visualizing Spirit and Refining Qi" (DZ 834, tr. Kohn 2010:174-178) is attributed to the Daoist physician and alchemist Sun Simiao (d. 682).
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The third earliest source is the c. 7th or 8th century Laozi yuxia zhongzhi jing shenxian bishi (老子玉匣中種芝經神仙秘事, Scripture on Growing Mushrooms from Laozi's Jade Casket: The Secret of Divine Immortals) is the last section of the Mingjian yaojing (明鑒要經, Scripture on the Essentials of the Bright Mirror [Method]), and shares passages with another Shangqing text, the Zhong zhicao fa (種芝草法, Methods for Planting the Zhi Plants), probably dating from the late Six Dynasties (222-589) or Southern dynasties (420-589) periods (Pregadio 2008: 1273, Lu 2013: 52). The Shenxian bishi is the only text in the Daoist Canon that precisely explains the fungiculture for numinous zhi, in contrast, other canonical texts simply guide mushroom hunters in identifying and locating zhi in the wild. It contains instructions attributed to Laozi that the best zhi are those that grow above deposits of cinnabar (dansha 丹砂), gold (huangjin 黃金), laminar malachite (cengqing 曾青), and realgar (xionghuang 雄黃), and teaches how to bury these minerals in the four seasons and the four directions of a mountain in order to generate the four zhi excrescences.
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In this way I shall be able to practice continually the > way of the Sutras and to engage in the several forms of meditations. I shall > hope to find a peaceful dwelling in the depths of the mountains, with enough > numinous elixirs and medicine to carry out my plans. Thus by the aids of > external elixirs [waidan] I shall be able to cultivate the elixir within > [neidan]. (1983: 140) Others believed that neidan first occurred in the biographies of Deng Yuzhi (fl. 483–493) and Su Yuanming (fl. c. 600). However, the authenticity of the relevant passages in these "pseudo-historical sources" is doubtful (Baldrian- Hussein 1989: 164–171). The term neidan was seldom used throughout the late Tang dynasty (618–907) and Five dynasties (907–960) period, and only became widespread around the beginning of the Song dynasty (960–1279) period, when neidan evolved into a highly complex system in both its theoretical and practical aspects (Baldrian-Hussein 2008: 763). Tang texts described internal alchemical practices with the words fúyào "take drug/medicine" and chángshēng "long life, longevity; (Daoism) eternal life" (Baldrian-Hussein 1989: 170). Liu Xiyue's 988 Taixuan langranzi jindao shi (Master Taixuan Langran's Poems on Advancing in the Dao) has the earliest datable mention of the terms neidan and waidan (Baldrian-Hussein 1989: 174, 178, 180).
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