The science of awe

“ys they're in awe, usually they're talking about something big and grand, like a mountain range or a cathedral, or maybe a beautiful piece of music or art, the kind that overwhelms you when you see it or hear it. That is all good, but thinking about awe in those ways makes it seem like some kind of luxury feeling, something reserved for special places or super elevated states. And it makes awe seem like some kind of luxury feeling. like a fundamentally private, subjective”

“I feel more open to dialogues with a fundamentalist Christian who has different political views than myself. Yeah. You know, and that's happened through awe or a Mormon, right? And so, yeah, it was a, it was a big life-shifting experience of mystery and beauty. Do you think maybe the experience of awe is the birth of the religious impulse? I do. I really do. And, you know, that, That was Emil Durkheim, the great French sociologists, that vibrating together when you, at that concert you had this experience, Jose Gonzalez. Collected effervescence, right? Yeah, collective”

“lf for just a bit and feel caught up in something larger than yourself. If we do think of all like that in a much more broad way, is it still an individual experience? Or does it become, in a deeper sense, a social experience? I'm Sean Elling, and this is the gray area. Today's guest is Docker Keltner. He's a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and the author of awe, the new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform your life. This is a book that was recommended to me by two recent guests on the show, Michael Pollan and Allison Gopnik. And I'm glad they did because I really, really enjoyed the”

“The speaker mentions reading the Bhagavad Gita in the context of studying awe and spirituality across different religions.”