I often refer to this deeper reality as nonhuman or superhuman. A dual-aspect monist who is more precise than me might want to refer to it as “neutral” (that is, as neither material nor mental). I would invoke negative theology and mystical literature here and look for other, more poetic, ways of expressing the same metaphysical truth—some “divine darkness” or Buddhist “emptiness” or Eckhartian “Nothing,” perhaps. In any case, I mean to refer to a presence that is cosmic, everywhere, everywhen, because it is nowhere and nowhen (that is, not restricted to space or time but always appearing to
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