Meta Assimilation: A Meta-Mini

Huge appreciation of one's inescapable limitations is part of, I've argued, the function of horror. The problem for us humiliate is that we can only hear this negatively, but of course, humility isn't a bad thing. So it's a deep kind of reminding that's put at the heart of this power. Over here, we have world view attunement. And it's very clear why that would be regarded as sacred. This homes us against horror. But we've got this other notion of sacredness which is the numinous, which is designed to do the opposite. It's designed to expose us, fascinate us.