- Surpassing comprehension or understanding; mysterious: that element in artistic expression that remains numinous.

- Filled with awe or wonder; feeling that one is in the presence of God or something greater than oneself; spiritual experience.

"We have a need for what I would call “the transcendent” or “the numinous” or even “the ecstatic,” which comes out in love and music, poetry, and landscape. I wouldn’t trust anyone who didn’t respond to things of that sort. But I think the cultural task is to separate those impulses and those needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious." -Christopher Hitchens