Is There a Transhistorical Experience?

"It suggests the possibility of a transhistorical, finamental experience of human encounter with something greater than ourselves," he says. "We're talking about a transcendence in the direction of a either, you know, down, word in hydagerian language, to the ground of our existence,. or upward, in another type of topography." He adds that it's not just a matter of 20 first century capitalism and late capitalism; man as man at any given time is able to transcend some limitation or horizon. 'I didn't even know this about your worko, about your history yet, or about mystics,' his friend writes.