The Transcendental Experience

In Plato, it's quite clear what he meant that he wanted us to transcend our earthly perceptions and our earthly way of seeing things. And this could be done if we enter the world of the pure forms and so on, leave empirical reality behind. I think actually in so far as the experience of the transcendent is available to us modern people, it's not that way that we get it. But some of them do emerge and manifest themselves as that conjunction between the factual and the meaningful. That's a very mysterious phenomenon in fact in some sense the essence of phenomenon which means to shine forth.