The numinous experience in the context of psychopathology and traumatic stress studies
Culture & Psychology September 1, 2021 Christian Lönneker, Andreas Maercker
The psychological phenomenon of a suddenly appearing, extremely enigmatic, and at the same time fascinating state in which one feels influenced by higher powers was described as a “numinous experience” by R. Otto and C. G. Jung. This condition is one of those subjectively non-rational experiences that have so far received little attention in cultural clinical psychology and yet have great...