We can call a numinous (from "numen" meaning divine or spirit) experience, a non-unitive experience (purportedly) granting acquaintance of realities or states of affairs that are of a kind not accessible by way of sense perception, somatosensory modalities, or standard introspection.
We hope that by using many words we can indicate the attributes that traditions have sufficiently in common that we know we are talking about the same thing that the human spirit experiences or relates to or is part of, but we deliberately avoid any definitions for this.
What we remember are movements which our spirit has experienced and given out when being in contact with external forces.
In one of his essays on Hegel, Ortega remarked on the change in European intellectual sensitivity that "the 'modern' spirit has experienced in the last years….
Langston Hughes, in many of his poem deconstructs these images as: light that is seen in darkness, spirit is experienced in flesh.
God bless you, God bless those in harm's way today, and God Bless America!" The Travis Manion Foundation, created in a time of sadness in a family's basement, manifests the same American spirit we experienced as a nation on 9/12.
When our attitude is lined up with Spirit, we experience the Scripture "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6 10).
Let us stress once more that the purpose of Lent is not to force on us a few formal obligations, but to "soften" our heart so that it may open itself to the realities of the spirit, to experience the hidden "thirst and hunger for communion with God".
"I forgive myself for bullying myself with the thought....... fill in) "I praise and raise my best self, noticing that what I appreciate about me right now is.................... .. What helps you 'Call Back Your Spirit?' What experiences with bullies can you share?
By virtue of this irradiation, he foresees his own death, and his prescience gives rise not to a commotion of the spirit but to a commotion in the spirit, which is experienced as a passion of the soul (CommJohn 32.18.221 224).
