Quotes I shared:
THE NUMINOUS:
FROM THE LATIN NUMEN, SIGNIFYING DIVINE, SUPERNATURAL POWER
“The feeling of it may at times come sweeping like a gentle tide, pervading the mind with a tranquil mood of deepest worship. It may pass over into a more set and lasting attitude of the soul, continuing, as it were, thrillingly vibrant and resonant, until at last it dies away and the soul resumes its ‘profane’, non-religious mood of everyday experience. It may burst in sudden eruption up from the depths of the soul with spasms and convulsions, or lead to the strangest excitements, to intoxicated frenzy, to transport, and to ecstasy. It has its wild and demonic forms and can sink to an almost grisly horror and shuddering. It has its crude, barbaric antecedents and early manifestations, and again it may be developed into something beautiful and pure and glorious. It may become the hushed, trembling and speechless humility of the creature in the presence of— whom or what? In the presence of that which is a mystery inexpressible and above all creatures.”
Rudolf Otto - Theologian and Philosopher
“The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses, but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact is that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and in as much as you attain to numinous experiences, you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.”
C.G. Jung
Link to next 8-week Jungian Somatics - Movement for Trauma training starting in September
The book I mentioned, “Trauma and the Soul” by Donald Kalsched
(Correction: I recovered in 7 days, not 7 weeks)
The Numinous and Living Inside a Miracle