Defending Pantheism

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Can you define the numinous for me? I searched the thread, I couldn't find any titles with numinous in it. I've seen in mentioned in a variety of threads, but those that elaborated on it, seem to be theist.

We can go by google's definition for now. If we don't want to agree on it for the purposes of our discussion, we can adapt it:

nu·mi·nous
adjective
adjective: numinous
having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity.
"the strange, numinous beauty of this ancient landmark"

I was using "holy" and "numinous" colloquially and merely suggesting that such words might be used to describe natural phenomena (like a landmark... or the entire universe). I don't think my entire argument rests on how these words are defined. I could easily construct my argument without using these words.

The google definition is perfectly fine for me, because I'm a theist, and I don't have any qualms about the presence of divinity, but as to what I should take what the "presence of divinity" means for non-theists, is unclear. 

Perhaps I can try to offer a less theistic definition, in hopes of putting us on the same page:

A deep sense that reality is more than the sum of its material parts, a sense that it possess a sort of poetic resonance, encapsulated in a song, a beauty that's part of its very makeup, and not one extrinsically afforded to it by us, that when perceived by us, it causes us to shutter and feel overwhelmed, and humbled by it. For some it might be called God, and for others just a Mystery.