transcendant

The human species _ mammalian primates though undoubtedly (s)he is, and made out of the dust of exploded suns - does have the need for the transcendent, the numinous, even the ecstatic. I wouldn__ trust anyone who hadn__ had this. This has to do with landscape, light, music, love and an awareness of the transience of all things, and the melancholy that invests all this. So it isn__ just gaping happily at the sunset while listening to music, and doing that while knowing that it can__ last very long. But there is no need for the supernatural in this at all. There is no dimension of the supernatural of which this gives one a share.