More Ghost Ranch numinosity.
May 31, 2025 at 6:10 AM
More Ghost Ranch numinosity.
We have stripped all things of their mystery and numinosity; nothing is holy any longer.
—Carl Jung #WyrdWednesday
—Carl Jung #WyrdWednesday
July 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We have stripped all things of their mystery and numinosity; nothing is holy any longer.
—Carl Jung #WyrdWednesday
—Carl Jung #WyrdWednesday
As a writer of some numinosity, I was interested in the premise of the essay, but I gave up halfway through. Read more, say less! 😄
March 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
As a writer of some numinosity, I was interested in the premise of the essay, but I gave up halfway through. Read more, say less! 😄
Tealby: high on the Lincolnshire Wolds - wide views & tingling numinosity. I spent a few days there in late August & knew it was special. What I didn't know then was there's reason to think this was the base for a late Roman cavalry unit, the Equites Taifali, which seems far-fetched until ... 👇
September 29, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Tealby: high on the Lincolnshire Wolds - wide views & tingling numinosity. I spent a few days there in late August & knew it was special. What I didn't know then was there's reason to think this was the base for a late Roman cavalry unit, the Equites Taifali, which seems far-fetched until ... 👇
The view from Whiteleaf Cross, Monks Risborough yesterday afternoon. #numinosity
May 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The view from Whiteleaf Cross, Monks Risborough yesterday afternoon. #numinosity
we all need a bit of numinosity in our lives!
:)
:)
August 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
we all need a bit of numinosity in our lives!
:)
:)
Thread (don’t bug Nome)…
There’s a numinosity craver in the brain that will create a sense of the sacred because it’s hardwired and it matters to us at a level we don’t understand. When it breaks, it’s bad.
We build ideas to believe in, feel awe about, and ask ineffable questions of.
There’s a numinosity craver in the brain that will create a sense of the sacred because it’s hardwired and it matters to us at a level we don’t understand. When it breaks, it’s bad.
We build ideas to believe in, feel awe about, and ask ineffable questions of.
Broke: Star Trek says humans will abandon all religion in the future.
Woke: Dune says religion will continue to be both a source of strength and a tool of control for oppressed peoples.
Bespoke: Babylon 5 says we'll get MORE religions, and Jews will have to sort out what alien foods are kosher.
Woke: Dune says religion will continue to be both a source of strength and a tool of control for oppressed peoples.
Bespoke: Babylon 5 says we'll get MORE religions, and Jews will have to sort out what alien foods are kosher.
March 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thread (don’t bug Nome)…
There’s a numinosity craver in the brain that will create a sense of the sacred because it’s hardwired and it matters to us at a level we don’t understand. When it breaks, it’s bad.
We build ideas to believe in, feel awe about, and ask ineffable questions of.
There’s a numinosity craver in the brain that will create a sense of the sacred because it’s hardwired and it matters to us at a level we don’t understand. When it breaks, it’s bad.
We build ideas to believe in, feel awe about, and ask ineffable questions of.
Pearly Dewdrops' Drops
#music Cocteau Twins #4AD
#dreampop #etherealwave
#numinosity
youtu.be/s-5Xgw6d3h0
#music Cocteau Twins #4AD
#dreampop #etherealwave
#numinosity
youtu.be/s-5Xgw6d3h0
September 29, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Pearly Dewdrops' Drops
#music Cocteau Twins #4AD
#dreampop #etherealwave
#numinosity
youtu.be/s-5Xgw6d3h0
#music Cocteau Twins #4AD
#dreampop #etherealwave
#numinosity
youtu.be/s-5Xgw6d3h0
Why bang on about re-enchantment? #ReEnchantmentIsResistance
August 13, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Why bang on about re-enchantment? #ReEnchantmentIsResistance
Now AI art is coming at the same disgusting idea from the other end. It is an assertion that images have *no* market value, and therefore that there is no such thing as art.
This is also disgusting. It is anti-human
Because it denies numinosity of human expression (from which art actually springs)
This is also disgusting. It is anti-human
Because it denies numinosity of human expression (from which art actually springs)
February 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Now AI art is coming at the same disgusting idea from the other end. It is an assertion that images have *no* market value, and therefore that there is no such thing as art.
This is also disgusting. It is anti-human
Because it denies numinosity of human expression (from which art actually springs)
This is also disgusting. It is anti-human
Because it denies numinosity of human expression (from which art actually springs)
Word of the day: "temenos" - a sacred place, an area of landscape dedicated to worship or deemed to be divine.
From ancient Greek TÉHEVOS; in Latin, a "fanum". Metaphorically, therefore, a space of special sanctuary, imaginative power or numinosity.
Where is your "temenos"?
From ancient Greek TÉHEVOS; in Latin, a "fanum". Metaphorically, therefore, a space of special sanctuary, imaginative power or numinosity.
Where is your "temenos"?
March 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Word of the day: "temenos" - a sacred place, an area of landscape dedicated to worship or deemed to be divine.
From ancient Greek TÉHEVOS; in Latin, a "fanum". Metaphorically, therefore, a space of special sanctuary, imaginative power or numinosity.
Where is your "temenos"?
From ancient Greek TÉHEVOS; in Latin, a "fanum". Metaphorically, therefore, a space of special sanctuary, imaginative power or numinosity.
Where is your "temenos"?
I had to look up "numinosity" and I'm all the better for it
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I had to look up "numinosity" and I'm all the better for it
In your "all religion is bad actually" takes are you including indigenous religious practices around the world?
All forms of Buddhism? (not all religions are deist)
All experiences of numinosity?
How about liberation theologies?
You aren't keen on the civil rights movement?
All forms of Buddhism? (not all religions are deist)
All experiences of numinosity?
How about liberation theologies?
You aren't keen on the civil rights movement?
June 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In your "all religion is bad actually" takes are you including indigenous religious practices around the world?
All forms of Buddhism? (not all religions are deist)
All experiences of numinosity?
How about liberation theologies?
You aren't keen on the civil rights movement?
All forms of Buddhism? (not all religions are deist)
All experiences of numinosity?
How about liberation theologies?
You aren't keen on the civil rights movement?
“In her pure numinosity, Sophia is forbidding.... Because she is a guide who always leads [the gnostic] towards the beyond…Sophia appears to him sometimes as compassionate and comforting, sometimes as severe and silent, because only Silence can "speak," can indicate transcendences.”
HENRY CORBIN
HENRY CORBIN
December 31, 2024 at 10:33 PM
“In her pure numinosity, Sophia is forbidding.... Because she is a guide who always leads [the gnostic] towards the beyond…Sophia appears to him sometimes as compassionate and comforting, sometimes as severe and silent, because only Silence can "speak," can indicate transcendences.”
HENRY CORBIN
HENRY CORBIN
Next week's Hookland talk is written and I just need to lose 20 minutes of material from it. Hopefully, this paragraph on the importance of folklore and re-enchantment will be retained. #Folklore #Reenchantment
September 16, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Next week's Hookland talk is written and I just need to lose 20 minutes of material from it. Hopefully, this paragraph on the importance of folklore and re-enchantment will be retained. #Folklore #Reenchantment
My ideal life would be as a conduit
Transposing numinosity into music
Traveling around to share raw, wild sounds
And unraveling Knots so tightly wound
Helping the lost feel a little more found
Eroding the chains which keeps us bound
What about you?
~~
#improv #guitar #poetry #musicimprov #dreams
Transposing numinosity into music
Traveling around to share raw, wild sounds
And unraveling Knots so tightly wound
Helping the lost feel a little more found
Eroding the chains which keeps us bound
What about you?
~~
#improv #guitar #poetry #musicimprov #dreams
December 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
My ideal life would be as a conduit
Transposing numinosity into music
Traveling around to share raw, wild sounds
And unraveling Knots so tightly wound
Helping the lost feel a little more found
Eroding the chains which keeps us bound
What about you?
~~
#improv #guitar #poetry #musicimprov #dreams
Transposing numinosity into music
Traveling around to share raw, wild sounds
And unraveling Knots so tightly wound
Helping the lost feel a little more found
Eroding the chains which keeps us bound
What about you?
~~
#improv #guitar #poetry #musicimprov #dreams
🙌 The brilliant Susana Sánchez-González has published a fascinating new article, The Ordinary Numinosity of the Book...
June 25, 2026 at 10:52 AM
🙌 The brilliant Susana Sánchez-González has published a fascinating new article, The Ordinary Numinosity of the Book...
Dragon Age such good games for people who grew up believing in god but kinda don’t anymore, only the part of the brain that responds to numinosity still does that 🥴
August 31, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Dragon Age such good games for people who grew up believing in god but kinda don’t anymore, only the part of the brain that responds to numinosity still does that 🥴
Brilliant researcher, educator and experiencer Sinèad Whelehan on her encounters with the transcendent, her framework for reality, and how children have a special link with numinosity. youtu.be/DZfInVWLUFA?... @declassifyuap.bsky.social @stefalefagus.bsky.social @g-pickle.bsky.social #ufosky
Sinéad Whelehan -- Neon Galactic -- Episode 75
YouTube video by Neon Galactic w/James Faulk
youtu.be
January 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Brilliant researcher, educator and experiencer Sinèad Whelehan on her encounters with the transcendent, her framework for reality, and how children have a special link with numinosity. youtu.be/DZfInVWLUFA?... @declassifyuap.bsky.social @stefalefagus.bsky.social @g-pickle.bsky.social #ufosky
Listening to something that really drove lots of thoughts about numinosity in my life, the search for it, the way it’s evinced itself in different settings and phases, and what it means in the greater scheme of things.
July 25, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Listening to something that really drove lots of thoughts about numinosity in my life, the search for it, the way it’s evinced itself in different settings and phases, and what it means in the greater scheme of things.
March 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A very low-church Episcopal priest once gave a homily at my very high-church Boston parish where he talked about the moment he realized the liturgy could be about mystery and not just meaning.
Mystery, awe, ancientness and numinosity — those feelings aren’t inherently liberal or conservative!
Mystery, awe, ancientness and numinosity — those feelings aren’t inherently liberal or conservative!
One reason movements like SSPX thrive is the tight bond between traditional liturgy and conservative theology and politics.
That bond makes some sense — conservatives want to conserve. But it’s not inherent or inevitable.
That bond makes some sense — conservatives want to conserve. But it’s not inherent or inevitable.
July 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
A very low-church Episcopal priest once gave a homily at my very high-church Boston parish where he talked about the moment he realized the liturgy could be about mystery and not just meaning.
Mystery, awe, ancientness and numinosity — those feelings aren’t inherently liberal or conservative!
Mystery, awe, ancientness and numinosity — those feelings aren’t inherently liberal or conservative!
… since the symbol derives as much from the conscious as from the unconscious, it is able to unite them both, reconciling their conceptual polarity through its form and their emotional polarity through its numinosity.
~C.G. Jung
~C.G. Jung
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 AM
… since the symbol derives as much from the conscious as from the unconscious, it is able to unite them both, reconciling their conceptual polarity through its form and their emotional polarity through its numinosity.
~C.G. Jung
~C.G. Jung
In my quest for good fiction about very angry and violent women, I am reading The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw. I didn't know words could do that. Outstanding so far and I'm barely into it.
A++ line: "Her casual numinosity is frankly offensive."
A++ line: "Her casual numinosity is frankly offensive."
January 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
In my quest for good fiction about very angry and violent women, I am reading The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw. I didn't know words could do that. Outstanding so far and I'm barely into it.
A++ line: "Her casual numinosity is frankly offensive."
A++ line: "Her casual numinosity is frankly offensive."
Was sitting here minding my own business when numinosity descended upon the scene
"Blue Madonna" (my work) - see alt text for details
"Blue Madonna" (my work) - see alt text for details
August 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Was sitting here minding my own business when numinosity descended upon the scene
"Blue Madonna" (my work) - see alt text for details
"Blue Madonna" (my work) - see alt text for details