Status Updates From The Idea of the Holy

We process an ineffable experience using a rational mind through the association of feelings and ideas. Otto uses the example of sexual desire or music and what they trigger in the mind. The experience of those as “more” than ordinary life resemble what we may experience of the Numinous

This chapter explained the other side of the dual nature of the holy. Aside from the numinous being something we are terrified of, we are also equally allured by it.

It is “something more” than what any one word could capture. Its more than grace, more than love, more than bliss. It comforts us and eases our hearts in incomprehensible ways. We are stuptefid by it and that is what draws us to it

Hmm maybe ill start processing this with a sort of framework. Like in philo before haha. Just finished the chapters that we discussed back then so i wont do that for these. But maybe in the next? Maybe…

wifi is down and I ran out of data… found the copy i printed out when i was undergrad