Definition of "daimonic" []

• In the way of a daimon; befitting a demon; fiendish. (adjective)
• Motivated by a spiritual force or genius; inspired. (adjective)
• The unrest that exists in us all which forces us into the unknown, leading to self-destruction and/or self-discovery. (noun)
• The journey and transition from innocence to experience; part of the process of individuation. (noun)
• The place where light and dark meet. (noun)

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• "On the other hand, in the past few years I've also grown increasingly attached to the daimonic theory of consciousness, which invokes in quasi-metaphorical fashion the ancient idea of the daimon or personal genius, the accompanying spirit that houses a person's deep character, life, pattern, and destiny."
• "But in my own case it's not so much fear of the unknown that drives me as it is a sense of numinous uncanniness, verging into Rudolf Otto's "daemonic dread," at the very fact of existence itself -- which, crucially, includes not just the disenchanted world of physical nature that's visible to empirical science but the world of immediate, first-person experience with all of its daimonic psychological oddities."
• "Supposing, just for a second, that we take these metaphors literally; what we would basically be saying is that God -- that Supreme Being, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient -- is the real evil, while Lucifer and Christ were both good guys, both trying but failing to wake humanity up to its daimonic -- which is to say divine -- potential."