By Harry T. Hunt
Explores the roots of recent transpersonal psychology and spirituallity via psychobiography
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For Almaas, following Plotinus, the predominance of this sense marks the more “formless” dimensions of spiritual realization, also central to the later Heidegger. ” The numinous is not only 18 Lives in Spirit the primary but the broader category, including a range of experience that more traditional cultures have often seen as involving the sacred, such as creative ecstasy, intense sexuality, and ritualized physical pain and torture. Today a sensed numinosity also appears in the response of some scientists to the universe itself, as well as in peak experiences in athletics, drugs, and thrill seeking.
He saw and knew the foundation principle of the world as what we call love and that the happiness of everyone is in the long run absolutely certain. (Bucke, Cosmic Consciousness, 8) The second example is from one of my own subjects, a young woman describing a meditation session in an experimental study: I was unaware of which parts of my body were where. It was as if it was all mixed up. It was as if it didn’t matter which part was where, as if I was floating. It felt extremely good, floating and moving very calmly, nothing mattered at all.
There is the sense that the ego has been re-formed and purified, that one is personally redeemed in some fundamental way. Here again is an example from Bucke: I went out in a happy tranquil mood to look at the flowers. . The pleasure I felt deepened into rapture. . There was and is still a very decided and peculiar feeling across the brow above the eyes, as of a tension gone, a feeling of more room. . Another effect is that of being centered or of being a center. . The consciousness of completeness and permanence in myself is one with the completeness and permanence of nature.