"He is wholly other and wholly present.
It is wholly other, and requires to be looked at with open eyes".
It's neither a return to Graham, nor is it a blind adherence to Judson's rules, but something wholly other.
The forms (ideograms) through which the sacred is expressed are secondary and are simply reactions to the "wholly other".
If there is a God, he will be so wholly other that no science can reach him, especially not the science that calls itself intelligent design.
The horror writer Thomas Ligotti believes that even tales of virus-created zombies — and other essentially comprehensible creatures — can elicit what we might call, quoting the theologian Rudolf Otto, "the wholly other," but it requires a deft hand.
For their plot, Murnau and Galeen pillaged Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (without troubling themselves about permissions), and the vampire's liminal status (dead or alive? part of our world or wholly Other?) was beautifully suited to Murnau's larger cinematic project.
As in the best fantasy and science fiction, the characters and settings are familiar enough to resonate emotionally while remaining wholly other; Lanagan's vision of the world skews effortlessly towards the seriously weird.
The horror writer Thomas Ligotti believes that even tales of virus-created zombies and other essentially comprehensible creatures can elicit what we might call, quoting the theologian Rudolf Otto, "the wholly other," but it requires a deft hand.
When existence is seen in terms of the dichotomy of sacred and profane which assumes that the sacred is wholly other than, yet necessary for, everyday existence it is very important to know and to get in contact with the sacred.
Otto's treatment of mysticism, which is central to Buddhism, wavers somewhat, and the notions of the "wholly Other" and of the tremendum do not easily apply to the experience of Nirvāṇa (the state of bliss) or to other deliverances of the contemplative mystical consciousness.
