A numinous wood. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The term numinous is often said to have been coined by the German Lutheran scholar Rudolf. From Wordnik.com. [Earthpages.ca - Think Free] Reference
The term numinous is also used by C.G. Jung to depict a spiritual experience involving some kind of alteration of ego-based consciousness (i.e. "altered states"). From Wordnik.com. [Earthpages.ca - Think Free] Reference
“numinous” from the Latin word numen, which denoted a supernatural nonpersonalized being. From Wordnik.com. [ORIGINS OF RELIGION] Reference
Hence Rudolf Otto, for example, whose 'numinous' is the same as Kant's transcendent realm. From Wordnik.com. [About religious experience (William James, Schleiermacher etc)] Reference
I prefer a more rigorous - a more dogged - exposition of how they identify what is "numinous", personally. From Wordnik.com. [On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight] Reference
But people too have long felt the beauty of trees; what the theologian Bruno Otto called their "numinous" quality. From Wordnik.com. [Why woodlands are wonderful] Reference
"numinous" speaks in a multitude of ways including in a completely secular way. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Meds] Reference
With magic it’s even more tricky, at least for me; I prefer magic to have some kind of numinous, ineffable quality to it. From Wordnik.com. [Just enough fact «] Reference
As the offspring of numinous marriages, the Divine. From Wordnik.com. [MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES] Reference
They have never been entirely robbed of their numinous aura. From Wordnik.com. ["THE NOSTRADAMUS CODE-EXPLAINED"] Reference
The mundane is mystified and afforded an almost numinous aura. From Wordnik.com. [This week's new exhibitions] Reference
Questions so numinous I could not begin to frame them in words. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamthief's Daughter]
This seemed like a miracle invention, numinous and life-changing. From Wordnik.com. [My Glass is Waiting] Reference
Worse, they say it in the same slow, numinous, image-heavy voice. From Wordnik.com. [Giraffes and Communists Collide in Eastern Europe] Reference
Some people relish the numinous the way others value the practical. From Wordnik.com. [The Skrayling Tree]
(I happen to think that evolution is every bit as numinous as 'God'). From Wordnik.com. [Erica Jong: If Men Could Get Pregnant, Abortion Would be a Sacrament] Reference
As always, Morrison's prose makes the commonplace strange and numinous. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble In 'Paradise'] Reference
And if he failed in this numinous quest, his own life at very least would be forfeit. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortress of the Pearl]
This aura will be his empowerment, as numinous as good luck, as permanent as spring snow. From Wordnik.com. [A New Dawn] Reference
Satisfaction is nothing but a temporary anesthetizing of the numinous noogie of existence. From Wordnik.com. [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]
A pillar, one of those that upheld the enclosing sky, was in many ways still more numinous. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
What counts is the attitude of men toward the ... toward that which thereby becomes numinous. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
But it had a numinous beauty, her skin, even in the awful fluorescent lighting of the hallway. From Wordnik.com. [The several stages of grief] Reference
It was this sense of the numinous, so Otto maintained, that constituted the essence of holiness. From Wordnik.com. [ORIGINS OF RELIGION] Reference
They understand the orphan arroyo; they intuit the numinous prairie; they predict a wooly suburbia. From Wordnik.com. [The Bison's Alimony] Reference
Fénelon, and everything touching on that “numinous” element about which Rudolf Otto has written. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
I have had enough experience of the numinous to place great value on what is familiar and substantial. From Wordnik.com. [The Skrayling Tree]
What possible use could anyone abiding in the Kingdom of Purple have for nonpurple numinous luminosity?. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
But to the three, it was this equivalency, this sameness that endowed the ritual with its numinous quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Hole Between Them] Reference
A screen of words between himself and the numinous was always just a tactic ... it never let him feel any freer. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
This praise is not perceived as “beautiful” music, but as numinous sounding and ringing of over - powering volume. From Wordnik.com. [MUSIC AS A DIVINE ART] Reference
They were small figures in an enormous place, reminded of their smallness and overwhelmed with a sense of the numinous. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaway Asteroid] Reference
Yet, while the numinous presence terrified, it could also fascinate, and strangely attract to closer contact with itself. From Wordnik.com. [ORIGINS OF RELIGION] Reference
Too much of American liberalism is detached from the numinous realm of deeply experienced meaning that empowers and enflames. From Wordnik.com. [A Discussion Question: What Kind of Sacred Principles Do We Need?] Reference
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