This is an interview with Olver Sacks. It’s worth reading. He sums up my feelings almost exactly:
I intensely dislike any reference to supernaturalism, but I think there can be profound mystical feelings which do not have to call on fictitious agencies like angels and demons and deities. The whole natural world is bathed in wonder and beauty and mystery. The feeling of the holy, the sacred, the wonderful, the mystical, can be divorced from anything theological, and is conveyed very powerfully in music.
Absolutely. But, I would add, the powerful conveyance of those feelings is not simply constrained to music alone.
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