Numinous objects in the movie signify the pre-gothic (mushrooms, the dirt from which they are pulled) and the post-gothic (Woodcock's car, a purple Bristol sedan, possibly a 1955 405, a speed demon of almost science - fictional dimensions).
Not exact matches
Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly
numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the
numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the
object of worship.
The gods were conceived as visual
objects having excellence in themselves, an excellence that inspired interest and admiration rather than
numinous terror or the expectation of interference in the practical affairs of life.