In my first podcast for Fractal Youniverse I sat down with my friend Sachin with the Spoon of Consciousness Podcast (Check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSSe...) and discussed some of our own experiences with psychedelics and spirituality. I named this podcast after Rudolf Otto's concept of the "numinous," a term that refers to the mysterious awe inspiring arousal of spiritual or religious emotion. Here is a brief description of the "numinous" by Otto himself, "The feeling of it may at times come sweeping like a gentle tide pervading the mind with a tranquil mood of deepest worship. It may pass over into a more set and lasting attitude of the soul, continuing, as it were, thrillingly vibrant and resonant, until at last it dies away and the soul resumes its “profane,” non-religious mood of everyday experience. [...] It has its crude, barbaric antecedents and early manifestations, and again it may be developed into something beautiful and pure and glorious. It may become the hushed, trembling, and speechless humility of the creature in the presence of—whom or what? In the presence of that which is a Mystery inexpressible and above all creatures." - Rudolf Otto
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