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What this example would amount to is a modern version of the type of thing which Wagner wished to create through his Ring cycle and his theatre at Bayreuth: a total artistic experience which makes us aware of some mythos, a numinosity, a Destiny, which raises us to a higher level.
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A new science is giving us a renewed sense of our interconnection with all things, of our relationality, and of the numinosity, extraordinary depth and prodigious richness of nature.
God, Strings, Emergence, and the Future of the World By Nicola Hoggard Creegan William Harryman 2009
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Sometimes, for me, the numinosity gets too, too precious and pretty and makes me climb the walls.
Book Reviews - 2005 Dr. Lisa 2006
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You see, one of the things that I like to do to amuse myself is to create a sort of artificial numinosity, a kind of self-projected apophenic skewing of reality into some sort of higher ritual meaning.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006
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Along these lines, the Romanian scholar, Mircea Eliade says that numinosity exhibits a diversity of intensities, qualities and effects.
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For Jung, the experience of numinosity arises when an archetype of the collective unconscious is activated.
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Depending on combined factors such as the condition of the psyche, the stability of the ego and the archetypal source, numinosity may be either psychologically healing or destructive.
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Drawn by a common interest, all those "college radio enthusaists" magically came together in the middle of an open field. -and then, with equal numinosity, broadcast equipment and studio space appeared ex nihilo, providing them with an outlet for their enthusiasm!
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For Otto, numinosity originates from outside the self but is perceived within.
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From today's standards, Otto's definition of numinosity might seem a bit vague and unsystematic.
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