Healthcare and it’s related industries are so massive because of the high number of people with health ailments that they don't understand. Since the human body is so complex, there are an infinite number of things that can go wrong, but only a small percentage that we can self-diagnose and treat. Accordingly, doctors train for a decade to be considered a professional who can treat patients. Yet, even the most experienced doctors carry an inextinguishable humility from watching life slip through their hands as they got beat by the complexity of the human body.

Although it may terrify us to admit it, even the most experienced doctor only knows a small percentage of the mysteries of the human body. The larger unknown percentage is effectively super natural. In fact, anything beyond the commonly accepted understanding in the natural world is considered super natural. To illustrate, consider the smallest component of the body that you understand, probably the cell. Now, even the world’s leading expert on cellular biology understands that particles, charges, and distance are the basic components for organic compounds, but they don’t understand what’s beneath those sub-microscopic particles. That mysterious plane of quantum oneness is super natural even to them. And somewhere in that super natural space lies the answers to age-old maladies like cancer and genetic birth defects.

So when we go to describe a human, we’re inclined to focus on the natural portion because we can understand and articulate the characteristics with (at least some) confidence. However, if we choose to think deeper and be more courageous in our description of a human, we’ll find ourselves putting forth a meaningful effort to wrestle with the super natural portion of a human.

In the natural world, the baseline requirement for humans to exist is to demonstrate a response cycle driven by sensory input. We get three dimensions and five senses to field inputs and then a brain and a bunch of muscles to create responses. Strictly and mechanically speaking, our natural existence is a complex series of electrical pulses. Super scary when you truly think about it.

Alas, humanity must be more than a theatrical array of electric signals exciting different processes in our body. The daring romantic hidden away in all of us longs for more than that. And if we want to define humanity as more than this, then we have the daunting task of considering the super natural. While daunting for many reasons, what stands out the most is the sheer indefinability of the super natural. It’s literally the set that contains natural things, along with ALL other things.

Surprising to few in this digital era, even the natural world contains a whole orchestra of things us that touch us but we can’t sense: wifi waves, radio waves, etc. Now, if the natural world contains so many things that we can’t sense, it’s laborious to imagine several planes of things that we can’t sense, let alone describe. At this point, we arrive at the harsh realization that we’re unable to describe many things in the super natural world because we literally don’t have the sensing and processing equipment. You can’t be definite, let alone be right or wrong, about something you can’t measure.

But this can’t be where our exploration ends; at a humble admittance of an inability to sense and measure things that are hard to describe in the first place.

Yes, humans are indescribably complex, but the bolder we are in our exploration, the more we stand to gain in understanding. And with more understanding comes more meaning to our personal existence as a human. That’s right- all of us have a different level of meaningfulness in our lives based on our individual understanding of what it means to be human. Here, you’ll find perhaps your grandest responsibility-- to search for the meaning to your humanity beyond what you can readily sense in natural world.