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  • I used to have a shop called Numinous, but I closed it in June of 2008 so that I could focus more on creating art.

    World of SL 2008

  • Had a really fun panel on "The Unspeakable Numinous Unknowable Inexplicable" with yuki_onna, swan_tower, and Kim Stanley Robinson, who consented to be "Kim" for the evening so as to not mess up the gender balance of the panel.

    i'm not a lier. i had to lie. yuki_onna 2009

  • After a while, you stop experiencing any kind of transcendence, you're not really watching the Holy Light of Numinous Life flicker out of a fellow travelers 'eyes.

    The Meat Not Eaten 2009

  • Lewis discusses the difference between fear, which he sees as an apprehension of danger, and dread, which he equates with the uncanny and a religious concept of the Numinous.

    Supernatural Superserious 2010

  • With the Uncanny one has reached the fringes of the Numinous.

    Archive 2010-05-23 2010

  • For instance, to perform magic in “Spellwright”, one must first learn the alphabet of a magical language such as Jejunus, Magnus or Numinous, which are depicted as runes.

    “Spellwright” by Blake Charlton (Reviewed by Robert Thompson) Robert 2010

  • With the Uncanny one has reached the fringes of the Numinous.

    Supernatural Superserious 2010

  • Lewis discusses the difference between fear, which he sees as an apprehension of danger, and dread, which he equates with the uncanny and a religious concept of the Numinous.

    Archive 2010-05-23 2010

  • To begin with, no one even agrees what to call it: the Divine, Spirit, the Cosmos, God, Goddess, the Numinous.

    Anne Hill: Dreaming of the Divine 2009

  • Hitchens and the Numinous « Anglican Samizdat

    Hitchens and the Numinous « Anglican Samizdat 2008

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