Carolina QuotesHow shall we define a god? Expressed in psychological terms (which are primary-there is no getting behind them) a god is something that gives us the peculiar kind of feeling which Professor Otto has called "numinous". Numinous feelings are the original god-stuff from which the theory-making mind extracts the individualised gods of the pantheon.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Meditation on the Moon"
- work
- Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
- year
- 1931
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