Pan, pan, pan, pan, psychast.

I always wanted to do that.

Let's pick up where the guy's left off.

Fine, it's okay, he's well, I'm sure he's joking about it himself.

So, to fully understand mystical experience,

we're not going to have a little bit of a look at Rudolf Otto. So Otto was born in 1869,

died in 1937. He's the person who coined the term, numinous experience, which he did in his book,

the idea of the holy in 1917. So, Andy, what do you understand as a numinous experience?

Well, the word numinous, what does that mean?

Yeah, well, it comes from the word deity,

but as far as what the Latin word, Newman comes from, it means deity.

In this case, a numinous experience is an indescribable experience,

which invokes feelings of awe, worship, and fascination. So very similar to what we were

talking about with James there. I think Otto's work typically, it kind of gives a lot of good

terminology, which is now even still used today. So that's why he's such an

important writer, because he attempted to write the ineffable. So that's why it's worth looking

at now. Yeah, kudos to him for trying to write about the ineffable as well. That's quite a bold

thing to do. Yeah, so if we're looking back at what William James was saying about the ineffability

of religious experience, Otto, I guess, takes this one William James was saying about the ineffability of religious experience,

Otto, I guess, takes this one part and kind of runs with it in terms of how religious experience is undescriable.

But anyway, let's dive in, let's have a look.

So, again, so the word Numinous is often used to describe the experience in which God's separateness is highlighted.

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