“Numinosity and the Quest for the Infinite”

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Sunday, November 17ᵗʰ, 2024 (4pm-6pm Eastern Time)

The Seeds for Jubilee Foundation announces a FREE Journey Conferences Zoom program:

“Numinosity and the Quest for the Infinite”

David P. Johnson, M.Div., Ph.D.

Dr. Johnson is a licensed clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst in Iowa City, Iowa with over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist and clinician. A former Lutheran minister, he is also interested in spirituality and dreamwork.

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Dr. Johnson’s Program Preview:

It gives me great pleasure to offer a presentation on this topic. My interest in it has arisen from C. G. Jung’s assertion that the approach to the numinous is the true healing, as well as from my lifelong desire for a vital relationship to the Infinite.

We will reference Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy as essential background for an understanding of the theoretical and experiential meaning of the numinous.

My central assertion is that the experience of the numinosum is that which underlies all spiritual, religious experience in its many and varied expressions. The experience of the numinous is ineffable, beyond language in its immediate affective impact. It partakes of an ultimate Mystery– of the mysterium tremendum et fascinans. Personal meaning is created from this experience of numinosity through a mutual, co-creative relationship between the ego and the Self, the human and the Divine.

The concept of the numinous, of sacred Otherness, will be linked to the personal life and philosophical education of C. G. Jung and to the role of the collective unconscious as the gateway to the experience of the numinous Other. The influence on Jung of William James will also be noted. The relationship of the numinous to religious experience will be further explored via aspects of my personal story and, in addition, will be amplified by means of additional “meetings with the Infinite.”

The presentation of this material, along with an opportunity for discussion, will fill the first segment of our time. Following a brief break, the second part will provide an opportunity for you to share, if you wish, something of your own personal experience of the numinous and what such experiences have meant for your life and spiritual journey. I look forward to sharing this material with you and to hearing your personal stories as well.

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