Waking Up the Numinous

[The Mystical Man]

https://youtu.be/nVgj68tcCbU

"The great religious stories, east and west, are there for the purpose of evoking the sacred in us, the numinous. We turn them into history lessons. They were meant to be stories that could wake up some dimension of being within us." 

"Because we can give it a word, we can lose the sense of how mysterious something is."

"People can be in a given environment, and they can leave a signature of presence in that environment, and sometimes they can leave it there for hundreds of years." 

"The bigness of a given experience has no indication of how deep it has gone and how lasting and transformative it will be."

"One good encounter with the numinous can alter someone's entire life course."

"It's a transformation in our vision, not in our being. We don't become something that's numinous. It's a transformation of seeing, not a transformation of being. That's so important to understand."

"If it has no intimacy, then you know it's just something that someone's baked up in their mind."

"The secret to being still: grant permission to all movement."

Adya references this movie:

 

[The Mystical Man]

One of the many things that I love about Adya is that he can take a single word, go on the stage, and spontaneously contemplate that word for an hour. Sometimes he combines two words: for example, Emptiness and Love. Sometimes he meditates on a whole phrase like Be a Lamp unto Yourself.

Edited October 20, 2022 by The Mystical Man