cities, 184
climate crisis, 5, 135, 138
Clinton, Hillary, 47
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 192
cold shivers, 52–54
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 123, 248
collective effervescence, 13, 18, 94–116, 149, 246
dance, 95–97, 113–16, 246
games, 108–13
human waves, 98–102, 272n
political, 216
walking, 102–8
communal sharing, 46, 64
communitas, 153, 158
community, 108, 110, 118, 245, 247
music and, 146, 149, 151–53, 158–62
mystical awe and, 210
compassion, 234, 235
composting religion, 195–96, 199, 211, 216, 244, 246
concertgoers, 99
consciousness, 100, 137, 168, 235
Cook, James, 123
Cordaro, Daniel, 56
Corday, Charlotte, 234
cortisol, 130, 131, 152
courage, 11–12, 24, 75, 76
Cowen, Alan, 20–23, 157
crabs, 212, 290n
Craig, Bud, 264n
Crile, Susan, 184–86, 190
Critchley, Hugo, 265n
crying
in children, 47
tears in, 44–48, 54–55, 65, 83, 152, 249, 263n
culture, xvi–xvii, 9, 47, 101, 249, 257n
awe and, xvi, xviii, xxiii, xxiv, 9, 25, 57–65
music and, 159–62
symbols in, 9
cycles, 138
of life and death, see life and death, cycle of
cytokines, 117–18
Czifra, Steven, 79
D
daily diary studies, 23–26, 74
Dalai Lama, 76
dance, 95–97, 113–16, 209, 246
Dante Alighieri, 150
Darwin, Annie, 237
Darwin, Charles, 5, 18, 44, 55–56, 89, 123, 125, 147–49, 177, 237–42, 244, 245
emotion studies of, 237–38, 260n
Humboldt and, 248
“tangled bank” and, 241, 244, 246
Darwin, Emma, 238, 240
Darwin and His Bears (Sulloway), 238–39
Davis, Miles, 148
Dawkins, Richard, 256n
Daybreaker, 96–98
Dear Homeland, 161
death, 9, 232–36, 245, 248, 250, 255n
of author’s brother, xviii–xxii, 17, 22, 26–28, 43–44, 138, 140, 164, 202, 234–36
near-death experiences (NDEs), 234–35
see also life and death, cycle of
Death and Life of Great American Cities, The (Jacobs), 108
default self and mind, 33, 35–38, 41, 51, 100, 136, 163, 168, 178, 196, 200, 201, 233, 235, 245, 248
default mode network (DMN) in brain, 36–37, 203, 215, 261n
Degas, Edgar, 285n
de Hooch, Pieter, 169–72
del Carmen, Ronnie, 30
DeMille, Cecil B., 191
Dennett, Daniel, 262n
depression, 106, 107, 118, 126, 128, 130, 133, 210, 215, 260n, 290n
in Gulf War veterans, 120–21
Descartes, René, 39, 55
Descent of Man, The (Darwin), 238
despair, 118
devotion, 56
Dial, 31
diary studies, 23–26, 74
Dickens, Charles, 51
Dickinson, Emily, 61–62
Diderot, Denis, 121
Didion, Joan, xxii
Disasters of War (Goya), 186
Dixson, Dante, 229–30
DMN (default mode network), 36–37, 203, 215, 261n
DMT, 211
Docter, Pete, 29–30, 260n
Doctors Without Borders, 75
Doors of Perception, The (Huxley), 16
dopamine, 126, 127, 152, 183, 249
Dort, Reginald, 82
Douglas, Kirk, 191
Douglas, Mary, 258n
Dreamers (Morales), 84
Durkheim, Émile, 13, 94, 95, 97, 112
E
Earth
overview effect and, 36
stars and, 38
ecosystems, 37, 40, 137, 232, 239, 245, 247, 248
ecstasy, 28, 52
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, The (Bernini), 56
ego, 36, 100
death of (vanishing self), 32–38, 107, 139, 174, 215
mean egotism, 133–36
Eighth Amendment, 90
eight wonders of life, xviii, 10–19, 26, 30, 65, 242–43
saintly tendencies and, 40
small self and, 34–35
as systems, 246–48
see also collective effervescence; epiphanies; life and death cycle; moral beauty; music; nature; spiritual and religious awe; visual design
Einstein, Albert, 29, 204
Ekman, Paul, 3–5, 19–20, 249, 256n
elderly, 105–7, 128
elections, 46–47
Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, The (Durkheim), 97
embodiment, 50, 264n
of soul, 45, 52, 55
Emerson, Ellen, 123
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 31, 64, 123–25, 133–34, 243, 244, 248, 275n
Harvard Divinity School address of, 197, 198, 211
emotional body, 44, 264n
chills and, 45, 48–55, 65
tears and, 44–48, 54–55, 65
whoas and, 44, 55–59
emotions, 126, 256n, 260n, 266n
actions and, 158
aesthetic, 115–16, 155
contagion of, 97, 100, 101
inflammation and, 118
in Inside Out, 29–30, 41–42, 167–68, 260n
life patterns and, 155
science of, 3–7, 19–20, 22, 237–38, 260n
sound and, 153–58
as stories, 10
vocal expression of, 156–57
Enlightenment, 64, 122
entheogens, 211
Environmental Sanitation Institute (ESI), 217, 218
epigenetics, 287n
epiphanies, 17–18, 81, 154, 232, 237–50
chills and, 51
of Darwin, 242
music and, 148, 160
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, 168, 192
eucalyptus trees, 277n
everyday awe, 23–26, 63, 125, 178, 262n, 267n
evolution, xviii, 5, 18, 44–45, 53, 58, 127, 177, 190, 224, 238, 242, 246, 250, 262n
movement and, 112
preadaptation in, 288n
sacred geometries and, 275n
selfish gene hypothesis in, 256n
upright walking and, 102, 224
existentialism, 54
Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, The (Darwin), 55–56, 238
F
Faith Matters Network, 194
fear, 30, 259n
awe and, 9, 19, 22–23, 26, 53, 257n
Feeling and Form (Langer), 155
fight-or-flight response, 37, 127, 234, 257n, 261n, 266n
film, 168, 247
Finding Dory, 167
Fisher, Mark, 265n
Fisher, Rose-Lynn, 173–75, 177–78, 244
Fisherman’s Wharf, 34
Fiske, Alan, 46–47, 263n
FitzRoy, Robert, 237
flavoring themes, 8–10
forest bathing, 127–28
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 46, 56, 203–4
Frankenstein (Shelley), 122
Frederickson, Michael, 167–68
Fredrickson, Barbara, 256n
Freud, Biologist of the Mind (Sulloway), 239
friends, 96
Fu Hao, 24
Fuller, Margaret, 31–32, 64, 244
fun, 28
funerals, 101–2
G
GABA, 200
Gameros, Diana, 160–61
games, 108–13
Gandhi, Mahatma, 87, 216–18
Gandhi 3.0 retreat, 216–19
gardens, 126, 276n
Garfinkel, Sarah, 265n
Gates of Hell, The (Rodin), 150
Gaudí, Antoni, 248
Gay, Ross, 99
geometries, sacred, 172–78, 209, 244, 275n