Thesiss

Researchers have examined reverie and the numinous autonomously; however concomitant studies on reverie and the numinous are nonexistent. Moreover, no research in depth psychotherapy explores reverie or the numinous as essential experiences associated with early childhood psycho…

This thesis explores the nuances of what it felt like to experience depression born of spiritual frustration and to then find a healing path through the meaning generated from a spiritual relationship with the numinous as presented through a creative process first discovered thr…

Numinous experiences (defined in this study as direct, unwilled experiences which evoke a sense of being gripped or seized by a powerful affective state of trembling fascination in relation to a mysterious non-ego ‘other’) are described as having both a fragmenting and healing e…