This page is part of “Creating a New Positive Religion or Spiritual Tradition”.

This is still a DRAFT.

Many religious people experience transcendence through their tradition. How does our tradition offer this?

A human need

Feeling transcendence, and connecting to it, is a human need: the felt experience of something greater than oneself, in moments of awe, oneness, and the sacred. A secular life can easily leave this need unanswered.

You don’t need to hold any particular metaphysical belief to experience transcendence. Lumessianity does not decide what, if anything, lies behind such moments. Each person may understand them in their own way.

Sources of transcendence

We can find transcendence in many sources, for example:

  • Nature: a mountain view, the sea, a forest, a sunrise.
  • The night sky: sensing our place in the solar system and in the universe.
  • Music: listening, singing, and playing together.
  • Meditation and silence
  • Deep connection with another person: moments of love and closeness in which the boundaries of the self seem to soften.

See also Connecting to wonder and the sublime.

Making room for it

We make room for these experiences in our practices, in our gatherings, and in our holidays, which connect us to nature and to our place in the universe.