Numinous is a reflection feed. Each screen holds one passage from one of eleven traditions, under a drawing from that tradition's own art: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, the Stoics and philosophers, and the poets and mystics. More than a thousand passages on twenty-three themes, from stillness and gratitude to grief, doubt and anger.
Every passage is quoted word for word from a public-domain or CC0 source, most of them translations, and checked against that source; the app won't show a quote that doesn't match. Each one shows its citation and its translator or edition. The short note under each passage, the context and the questions are ours: they never carry a citation, and the context is labeled Context · written by Numinous, so you can tell who is speaking.
And the feed ends. Choose one passage or up to twenty minutes, and when it's enough, Numinous says so. No streaks, no ads, no account, no notifications. What you keep and write stays on your devices and in your own iCloud, never with us.
Numinous is free: every passage and voice, Themes, search, Kept and your journal, I'm going through…, breathing practices, the widget and the Apple Watch app. Numinous Plus, an in-app purchase, adds the days after the first of every journey and seasonal companion, soundscapes, reading aloud and Lock Screen wallpapers.
