On 'the numinous' in Mason & Dixon. 25--1000 words. by Sunday.

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sat Mar 7 05:02:19 CST 2015


Besides our take on the 'ghosts' in M & D, and a perspective on
'spirits' there is
at least one textual example of a person 'hearing' another's thoughts.

I suggest TRP, who hadn't lost his sensitivity to the numinous, has
even more examples than
I can remember at the moment. Keep waiting.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "We became so enthralled with the power of our senses to observe, test, and
> verify in the heady certainty of empiricism that our religious sense, that
> of discerning the divine, atrophied."
>
> Sorry to hear that Matt Emerson has lost his sensitivity to the numinous.
> (But then, of course, he hasn't: as usual in this sort of thumbsucking
> piece, it's not really "we" but all those *other* poor benighted souls.)
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://americamagazine.org/content/ignatian-educator/loss-numinous
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