Numinous (disambiguation)
Numinous is an English adjective and noun, taken from the Latin numen, “divinity.” But where numen refers to an objective divine being, numinous as an adjective refers to a subjective state. Numinous the noun refers to that which stimulates the subjective state. For example, a numinous grotto is distinct from the numen of the grotto. Numinous is used in the following contexts:
Interface with divinity
- Numinous, inner perception of the interface with God especially as described by Rudolph Otto
- Numinous, a topic of Comparative religion
- Numinous, a word used of Religious experience
- Numinous, a translation of a word used in some of the titles of the Jade Books in Heaven, scriptures of the Daoist Canon
- Numinous presence, Xian ling in Chinese religion
- Experience of the numinous, a feature of Chinese salvationist religions
Philosophy
- Numinous legitimacy, Legitimacy (political) of a state based on divine ordination
- Numinous Way, the current self-named philosophy of David Myatt, ex-neo-nazi and ex-Islamic-convert
- Numinous, a property of all minds in the Korean Zen philosophy of Jinul
- School of the Numinous Treasure, another name for the Chinese Lingbao School
- Numinous presence in nature, a belief of Finnish neopaganism
- Numinous quality, a characteristic of Jung’s Collective unconscious
Numinous contexts
- Numinous, the feeling evoked by Horror fiction
- Numinous, the feeling evoked by Anasyrma
- Numinous, the feeling evoked by chanting a Mantra
- Numinous, the feeling evoked by a Grotto
- Numinous, the feeling evoked by the festival of Skira at ancient Athens
- Numinous, said of the mystical wu-practice of Chinese shamanism in the Shang Period
Numinous objects
- Numinous mushroom, folk name for the Lingzhi mushroom
- Numinous, the power attributed to Arch Rock (Mackinac Island) by native Americans
- Numinous, an evil power attributed to Devil's Kitchen (cave) by native Americans
- Numinous presence considered to be in a Spring (hydrology)
Roman numina
- Rumina, goddess of breastfeeding
- Auctoritas, the numen of authority
Other numina
- Numinous, a power ascribed to Teotl
Other uses
- Numinous, the fictional experiences of teen-agers in Mondo and Other Stories by Le Clézio
- Numinous Negro, a term coined by Richard Brookhiser based on the previous term Magical Negro
- Numinous communal experiences, a topic of study of Roger D. Nelson
- Numinous Pivot, a translation of the Lingshu Jing, a Chinese medical text
gollark: It compiles in reasonable time *and* makes a 600KB binary in debug mode which is much nicer than equivalent Rust.
gollark: I only need something like two routes so a full web framework is overkill.
gollark: ```nimimport optionsimport asyncdispatchimport httpximport tiny_sqliteimport macrosimport karax/[karaxdsl, vdom]import ./dbmacro includeFile(x: string): string = newStrLitNode(readFile(x.strVal))const css = includeFile("./src/style.css")let database = openDatabase("./monitoring.sqlite3")migrate(database)var threadDB {.threadvar.}: Option[DbConn]proc openDB(): DbConn = if isNone threadDB: threadDB = some openDatabase("./monitoring.sqlite3") get threadDBproc mainPage(): string = let vnode = buildHtml(html()): head: style: text css text "Bee deployed" $vnodeproc onRequest(req: Request) {.async.} = if req.httpMethod == some(HttpGet): case req.path.get() of "/": req.send(body=mainPage(), code=Http200, headers="Content-Type: text/html") else: req.send(Http404) else: req.send(Http404)echo "Starting up"run(onRequest, initSettings(Port(7800), "", 0))```This is what I have so far.
gollark: One per thread is likely sort of better ish slightly anyway.
gollark: Nope, this is probably fine.
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