RE: Defending Pantheism
May 3, 2019 at 12:41 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2019 at 12:48 pm by Acrobat.)
(May 3, 2019 at 12:18 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Search the boards, you'll find a thread entirely devoted to it. Religious folks primarly defined just about everything, part of their history of privilege, but that doesn;t mean that they, then, own those experiences.
Can you define the numinous for me? I searched the thread, I couldn't find any titles with numinous in it. I've seen it mentioned in a variety of threads, but those that elaborated on it, seem to be theist.
I'd be curious to hear you tell us what you mean by it, particularly if there's any real points of disagreement with the descriptions provided by Otto, and Lewis?
Can you elaborate on when was the last time you experienced it, and what evoked it? Was it evoked by some observation of some human interactions, features of human relationships, a mother and child so to say, or more evoked by the stars, or cosmos, or some other non-human element of reality?
If you were hypothesize, why do you think biological creatures like our selves experience the numinous? Do you think it was something evolution explicitly selected for that benefits our survival and reproduction?
