limit-experience

Darkness provides us with a therapeutic limit-experience, illuminating the meagerness of human resources for experiencing, understanding and communicating the divine.

Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Understanding The Truth Of Advent By Acknowledging The Reality Of Death Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2010

Darkness provides us with a therapeutic limit-experience, illuminating the meagerness of human resources for experiencing, understanding and communicating the divine.

Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Understanding the Truth of Advent by Acknowledging the Reality of Death Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2010

Darkness provides us with a therapeutic limit-experience, illuminating the meagerness of human resources for experiencing, understanding and communicating the divine.

Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Understanding the Truth of Advent by Acknowledging the Reality of Death Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2010

Darkness provides us with a therapeutic limit-experience, illuminating the meagerness of human resources for experiencing, understanding and communicating the divine.

Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Understanding The Truth Of Advent By Acknowledging The Reality Of Death Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2010

Darkness provides us with a therapeutic limit-experience, illuminating the meagerness of human resources for experiencing, understanding and communicating the divine.

Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Understanding the Truth of Advent by Acknowledging the Reality of Death Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2010

The limit-experience idea has shown up in the literature of war and extreme sports, invoked by all manner of adrenaline junkies attempting to intellectualize their dangerous ways.

Olympian Acceleration for the (Very Rich) Masses Dan Neil 2010

To court a limit-experience is to seek out a sensation that, in its raw intensity fear, pain, pleasure, vertigo, tears the veil of common perception, and in that moment the individual confronts the true, undisguised nature of reality.

Olympian Acceleration for the (Very Rich) Masses Dan Neil 2010

Darkness provides us with a therapeutic limit-experience, illuminating the meagerness of human resources for experiencing, understanding and communicating the divine.

Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Understanding the Truth of Advent by Acknowledging the Reality of Death Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2010

It's been a while since graduate school but I'll try to do justice to this idea: Among the works of some 20th-century French philosophers — particularly Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault, who were pretty out-there cats, believe you me — there was the notion of the limit-experience.

Olympian Acceleration for the (Very Rich) Masses Dan Neil 2010

Darkness provides us with a therapeutic limit-experience, illuminating the meagerness of human resources for experiencing, understanding and communicating the divine.

Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Understanding the Truth of Advent by Acknowledging the Reality of Death Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2010