numinous

How To Use numinous In A Sentence

• a numinous wood
• “numinous” from the Latin word numen, which denoted a supernatural nonpersonalized being. ORIGINS OF RELIGION
• More than that, though, it is a mysterious, numinous presence that inhabits it, both attractive and frightening, grand and gentle, like the spirit of the sea itself, and the peoples that live by and with it.
• I think that our experience of the numinous is both undeniable and entirely biological: the state of spiritual peace is the result of tickling some evolved center of our brain, a bit of neurology that conferred a survival advantage on our ancestors whose numinous hallucinations of a higher order in the universe drove them to catch more antelopes, eat better, and have more babies. Boing Boing
• The icons are a numinous presence in this show. Times, Sunday Times
• But it works out superbly partly due to Tykwer's sense of the numinous that is present in all his films and equally due to some great performances.
• He inhabits a world where historical activity is surrounded by supernatural forces, where the numinous constantly interpenetrates the dull sublunary world of common sense.
• This betweenness is a numinous layer; it is why we want to possess things, and why we can't. Brian D. Cohen: Things
• Never had any doctrine or reading of canon law prevented him from beholding a religion's pure and numinous core. THE BROKEN GOD
• I find myself constantly asking what experience, what encounter with the numinous, lies behind and beneath this or that theology?