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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
ABBA, 152
Abhidhamma, 52
ability, 8–9, 11, 78
Abu Ghraib, 185–86
Adams, John, 149, 150, 162–64
addiction, 215
admiration, 56
adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), 73, 268n
aesthetic emotions, 115–16, 155
aesthetics
science of, 179
see also art; visual design
Afghanistan, 119, 129
Africa, 113, 159, 160
afterlife, 208, 255n
Age of Wonder, The (Holmes), 37
Agrawal, Radha, 94–97, 114, 210
AIDS, 233, 290n
Alexander, Michelle, 70
allowing goodness its own speech, 69, 70, 77–79, 87, 91, 92, 243
Almond Blossoms (Van Gogh), 180
American River, 129–31
Amy Foundation, 82
Anderson, Craig, 130, 229–30
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 59–60
anxiety, 106–8, 118, 128, 130, 133, 156, 215
Arabian Nights, 162
Aristotle, 59
Armenians, 109–10
Armstrong, Karen, 289n
art, 13, 121, 122, 155, 245, 246, 247, 249
meaning in, 155, 172
Murdoch on, 166, 167, 180
see also visual design
Art Forms in Nature (Haeckel), 177
Art Institute of Chicago, 172
Ashker, Todd, 89–90
Ashker v. Governor of California, 89
ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response), 48–49, 63, 264n
astonishment, 56
astronomy, 38
atrocities, 13
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, 128
Aua, 203
autoimmune problems, 118
awe, xiv–xviii, 4, 6
beauty and, 19, 22–23, 26
bodily expressions of, 56–57, 115, 116
categories of, see eight wonders of life
culture and, xvi, xviii, xxiii, xxiv, 9, 25, 57–65
defining, 7–11, 19
etymology of word, 19, 177–78
everyday, 23–26, 63, 125, 178, 262n, 267n
fear and, 9, 19, 22–23, 26, 53, 257n
finding, xiv, xviii, xxii–xxiii, xxiv
flavoring themes and, 8–10
goose bumps and, 53
growth from, xxiii, xxiv
in literature and poetry, 59–63, 77
personal stories of, xvii–xviii, xxiii–xxiv, 10–19, 23–26, 31
purpose of, 249–50
relation to the world transformed by, 29–42
rigorous thought promoted by, 39–40
science of, xiv, xvi, xviii, xxiii, 20–26
sensory systems and, 249
and something larger than the self, 31–37, 52
systems and, 244–50
tears of, 48
threat and, 9, 10, 25, 37, 129, 257n
use of word, 240
vastness and, 7–8, 38, 54, 55, 124, 154, 231
wonder and, 37–40
awe walks, 105–7, 233
in India, 216–19
axes, 282n
ayahuasca, 9, 211
B
babies, 115, 128, 224, 225
birth of, 224–29
lullabies and, 146
Baca, Judy, 187
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 146
backpacking, 135, 136
Bai, Yang, 10, 23, 33–34
Bailey, Reverend Jen, 193–96, 201, 210, 243, 244, 246
Balmat, Jacques, 138
Bardacke, Nancy, 228–29
Bare, Stacy, 118–21, 129, 243
Barrymore, Drew, 168
Bashō, 60
Beagle, HMS, 237–39, 248
beauty, 19, 22–23, 26, 169
Burke on, 178–79
in nature, 125, 126, 137, 196–97
Bee (Fisher), 174
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 147, 148, 279n
Being with Dying (Halifax), 233
Berger, John, 285n
Berlin, 181
Bernadette, Saint, 201
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 56
Bernstein, Carl, 51
Beyoncé, 151, 194
Bharata Muni, 114
bhavas, 115–16
biases in reasoning, 136
Biehl, Amy, 82
biophilia, 125
Black, Louis, 30
Black Elk, 193
Blake, William, 64, 173
bliss, 28
Blood, Benjamin Paul, 200
blood pressure, 127, 152, 156, 265n
blushing, 89
body, 50
awe expressed in, 56–57
temperature of, 53–54, 56
see also emotional body
Bolívar, Simón, 248
Bonnycastle, John, 38
Book of Delights, The (Gay), 99
Boots & Coots, 185
Born to Be Good (Keltner), xv
Born to Rebel (Sulloway), 239
Boulevard Montmartre (Pissarro), 179
Brahman, 158
brain, 5, 126, 224, 247, 250
amygdala in, 37, 152, 215, 226, 257n
art and, 171–72
in children, 127
crying and, 47
death and, 234
default mode network (DMN) in, 36–37, 203, 215, 261n
dopamine network in, 126, 127, 152, 183, 249
hippocampus in, 151
mammalian hypothalamus in, 226
oxytocin and, 54
parenting and, 226
prefrontal cortex in, 152, 172, 249
psychedelics and, 215
salat and, 209
shivers and, 54
social rejection and, 96
sound and, 151–53
vanishing self and, 36
Brief History of Death, A (Spellman), 255n
British Salt Act, 216
Buddhism, Buddha, 52, 62, 64, 203, 218, 233
Burke, Edmund, 64, 178–80, 231
Burning Man, 94–95
Bush, George H. W., 184–85
Buveuse, La (de Hooch), 170, 171
Byrne, David, 153
C
California State University, 123
Campbell, Joseph, 168, 233
Campos, Belinda, 101–2, 243
Capshaw, Kate, 190–91
Carhart-Harris, Robin, 215
Carmelite nuns, 203
Carson, Rachel, 26, 29, 31, 117, 148, 230
“Help Your Child to Wonder,” 230–32
catharsis, 59
Cathedral, The (Rodin), 24
cathedrals, 184
Cave, Nick, 279n
Celidwen, Yuria, 205–8, 210, 234, 244, 246
Central American Families: Networks and Cultural Resistance (exhibition), 188
ceremonies and rituals, 101–4
CGI (computer-generated imagery), 167
change and impermanence, 137–38, 245–46, 248
chanting, 14, 158, 183, 209, 258n
chapels, 184, 286n
character, 11
Chavez, Cesar, 83–84, 188
childbirth, 224–29
childhood
adverse experiences in, 73, 268n
length of, 127, 224
children
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in, 128
awe and wonder in, 105, 126–27, 229–31
belonging and, 126, 146
brain of, 127
imitation in, 99
lullabies and, 146
parenting and, 78, 292–93n
poverty and, 130
chills, 45, 48–55, 65, 249
music and, 51, 148, 152, 158, 159, 240
chimpanzees, xxiii, 42, 44, 56
China, 138, 157
Christ, 31, 64
Christianity, 194, 196, 204
Chu, Steven, 138
circle of care, 40