I think that we might take a good look at that word “ambivalence.” Ambivalence is our very nature. Yes, we are numinous beings. Yes, we are animals. We don’t have to decide which to believe; both are true. In meditation, I occasionally find a space of awareness, where I recognize that I am spirit. Or love. Or consciousness (or whatever word you want to use), and that I am connected to everything/everyone else in the universe, that there is no separation. No duality. And then, I get up from my cushion, and I go to the grocery store and check my bank balance online and put my shirts in the washer…all the things that “separate” creatures do. I mourn those gone from my life. I get lonely. It could be that some day these two separate ways of knowing/being will come together into a single understanding…but I doubt it.