| It's a different spiritual awareness than the numinous qualities of James MacMillan or the orthodox, religion-poaching Tavener. |
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| But if they're separated from the essence of music, which is its numinous quality, then the power of music has been debilitated. |
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| Is such an idea even comprehensible to men and women who live without the constant presence of the numinous or divine at our shoulder? |
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| To inquire into the meaning of the word was to open oneself to a powerful, numinous presence that had the capacity to transform their lives. |
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| Soon these experiences lost their numinous, revelatory character and became recreational and explicable. |
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| I could imagine myself doing all of those things attempted but without ever feeling any sense of the numinous or of transcendence. |
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| The numinous quality of the sunset changed a familiar landscape beyond recognition. |
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| These he divides into events, all possessing numinous phenomena and themes. |
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| Varieties of religious experience often appear under other labels such as mystical, ecstatic, numinous, anomalous, and paranormal. |
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| A traditional nursery rhyme catches this numinous mode of apprehending space and time. |
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| Brunnehilde, when she informs Siegmund of his imminent death, is another such darkling, numinous presence. |
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| Aside from the destruction of the spirit of numinous ancient places there is also the simple fact of artistic vandalism. |
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| He experienced the unconscious as a living, numinous presence, the constant companion of every waking moment. |
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| To cope creatively and effectively life generates the numinous new-we are always a different person when we awaken every morning. |
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| I think of my pictures as testimony to a mostly hidden interstitial universe, as the numinous made flesh. |
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| They have had a spiritual or numinous or paranormal experience at some point in their own lives. |
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| But I've always felt instinctively that music had this numinous quality. |
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| But if science and mysticism are combined here, another aspect of A Furnace's Modernist interest in the non-rational is a strong sense of the occult and the numinous. |
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| 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. |
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| Now, certain psychological or literary archetypes might very well reflect the numinous work of the gods. |
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| He inhabits a world where historical activity is surrounded by supernatural forces, where the numinous constantly interpenetrates the dull sublunary world of common sense. |
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| These mechanisms trigger delight and numinous experiences, moving and enthusing audiences. |
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| His universe was not clockwork and right angled but smoky and numinous. |
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| Part of its appeal is that the wax, more substantive than other mediums, traps the light, releasing it slowly with a numinous glow. |
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| With Mystery of the Tarot's two numinous bonus rounds your future is sure to hold great riches and rewards. |
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| But it was in the immediate numinous aftermath of that predawn visit that I first saw the next, final stage of our haplessly greenward collapse. |
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| They shape different parts of the world inside our heads, and they shape them not as pleasures, but as encounters with the inapprehensible – the numinous, to use a word that was very fashionable when I was a student. |
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| Govan Old Church is certainly a numinous location. |
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| Attempts have been made to find a distinctive ingredient in all religions, such as the numinous, or spiritual, experience, the contrast between the sacred and the profane, and the belief in one or more gods. |
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| By fear the hasidim understood the tremendous sense of awe man should experience when he realizes that he is in God's presence, Rudolf Otto's experience of the numinous. |
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| We seek to build bridges between our numinous experiences of art and self creation on all levels from mind to gene as the foundation for a new bioinformatic approach to medicine, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation. |
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| In some way, humanity uses the idea of God to suggest the superlative, the incomprehensible, the numinous, that which goes beyond our normal limits. |
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| This sublime perception has been called celestial, numinous and ecstatic. |
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| Spontaneous fantasy, memory, feeling-toned complexes, active imagination, and numinous states of being are orchestrated for healing and life reframing. |
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| Taken together these words point to a numinous mural of the mind, rooted in the indigenous earth, and accountable to immanent decay. |
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| All the flora and fauna, rivers and mountains, earth and ether mark this numinous care. |
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| One could hear the echoes of Robert Hass, but Roo seemed more numinous or metaphysical. |
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| The term noumenal is preferred to the term numinous, since, as Lewis-Williams commented, the San had no sense of the holy or the sacred. |
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| Yet Poseidon remained a numinous presence on the Acropolis in the form of his surrogate, Erechtheus. |
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| Do you think you could round up four others so we could have a numinous go at it, and nievie-nievie-nick-nack in one another's ear? |
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| Adhering unwaveringly to legal and institutional arrangements, the average monarch is numinous. |
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| A notion of the transcendent, supernatural, or numinous, usually involving entities like ghosts, demons, or deities, is a cultural universal. |
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| If asked to summarize the plot of Malone Dies, the narrative ephebe could only stammer and gesticulate, troubled by non-events and numinous debris. |
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| The artist views the creative experience as numinous and believes it can be transformed through the interaction with and assimilation of the archetypal images and energies. |
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| The Numinous comprises anything possessing ritual, belief, deep feeling, or community. |
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