<Li> mysterium tremendum, which is the tendency to invoke fear and trembling; </Li> <Li> mysterium fascinans, the tendency to attract, fascinate and compel . </Li> <P> The numinous experience also has a personal quality to it, in that the person feels to be in communion with a holy other . Otto sees the numinous as the only possible religious experience . He states: "There is no religion in which it (the numinous) does not live as the real innermost core and without it no religion would be worthy of the name" (Otto: 1972). Otto does not take any other kind of religious experience such as ecstasy and enthusiasm seriously and is of the opinion that they belong to the' vestibule of religion' . </P> <P> Ecstasy--In ecstasy the believer is understood to have a soul or spirit which can leave the body . In ecstasy the focus is on the soul leaving the body and to experience transcendental realities . This type of religious experience is characteristic for the shaman . </P>

This scholar of religion characterized the encounter with the holy as a numinous experience
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