Religious experience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Religious experience (also known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, or mystical experience) is a subjective experience where an individual reports contact with a transcendent reality, an e...
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By somebody who has actually read the book ... He suggests that those who experience the numinous experience a sense of dependency on something objective and external to themselves that is greater than themselves.
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www.bytrent.demon.co.uk/otto1.html
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Daoists believed that to attain Dao, you must surround yourself with the numinous (the blissful realms, the heavenly grottos). The children's book The Wind in the Willows may contain the greatest English language description of a numinous experience - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
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able2know.org/topic/1180-1
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Some might struggle over the general nature of the numinous experience. It is possible, although Otto does not explore this in any depth, that such experiences might not always be an encounter of the Divine but instead they may be experiences with the Enemy of the Divine.
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childfaith.net/numinous.pdf
childfaith.net/numinous.pdf
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I asked a co-worker to please grap my camera bag. This butterfly stayed with me for about 20 minutes! I think I would have hurt the poor thing if I had tried to remove it (since it was holding on so tightly). What a exhilarating experience this turned out to be!! ... My Numinous Experience! by newlight2.
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www.flickr.com/photos/newlight2/230478463/
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a numinous experience seems to experience a being that is awesome, ... disanalogies, between sensory and numinous experience. Sensory content ...
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www.springerlink.com/index/WQ3L653148063057.pdf
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But above all, the sense of presence which confronts a person in the numinous experience is majestic: marvelous in power and glory. In their rather different ways, the experiences of Arjuna, Isaiah, Job, Paul, and Muhammad are all numinous in character.
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www2.ida.net/graphics/shirtail/spiritua.htm
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I also have had this experience of the weight of the rocks being variable. It is much more mystical and definite than my personal variations in strength and energy from day to day. The rocks themselves either cooperate or refuse depending upon a wide range of influences and choices.
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www.rockstacker.com/press/pages/rsrjjn.html
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The use of plants to obtain numinous encounters go's back thousands and thousands of years. Ancient Chinese writings mentioning the use of hallucinogenic plants date back more than 2000 yrs. B.C.. Archaeological evidence shows that the hallucinogenic plant peyote was used in religious ceremonies over 3000 yrs ago.
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www.angelfire.com/ca/beekeeper/plants.html
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