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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
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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
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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
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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.
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With the Uncanny one has reached the fringes of the Numinous.
Archive 2010-05-23 2010
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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
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With the Uncanny one has reached the fringes of the Numinous.
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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
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To begin with, no one even agrees what to call it: the Divine, Spirit, the Cosmos, God, Goddess, the Numinous.
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Hitchens and the Numinous « Anglican Samizdat
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