gestures
mirroring of, 99
symbolic, 85
Gibson, Ed, 36
Gillespie, Dizzy, 148
Giotto, 56
Goldberg, Jim, 181
Golden State Warriors, 108–9, 111
Goodall, Jane, xxiii, 42, 44, 267n
good life, xiii–xiv
goodness, allowing it its own speech, 69, 70, 77–79, 87, 91, 92, 243
goose bumps, 53, 54, 83, 203
Gopi Krishna, 209
Gordon, Amie, 23, 257n, 261n
Goya, Francisco, 186
grace, 46
Grace Cathedral, 198
graduations, 101–2
grandparents, 227–28
gratitude, 28
Greatest Show on Earth, The, 191–92
Great Transformation, The (Armstrong), 289n
Grey, Alex, 181
Grey Eagle, 71
Griffiths, Roland, 214, 215
Grof, Stanislav, 233
growth, from awe, xxiii, xxiv
Guantánamo Bay, 186
Gulf War veterans, 120–21
H
Hader, Bill, 30
Haeckel, Ernst, 176–77
Haidt, Jonathan, 7, 8, 269n
haiku, 60
haka, 71, 114
Halifax, Joan, 232–34
happiness, 106, 128, 132, 198
Hass, Leif, 80–81
Hass, Robert, 59–63, 186–87, 244
heart, 50, 118, 152, 156, 172
hedonic adaptation, 106
“Help Your Child to Wonder” (Carson), 230–32
Hendricks, Peter, 215
Hera, 110
Herschel, Caroline, 38
Herschel, William, 38
Hinduism, 158
Hine-raumati, 71
Hoffmann, E. T. A., 147, 279n
Holmes, Richard, 37
homeless people, 80
Homer, Odyssey, 46, 208
Homo sapiens, 57, 58
Hood, Ralph, 213
Hood’s Mysticism Scale, 213, 214
horror, 13, 19, 22–23, 26, 52, 53
hospitals, 184
How Music Works (Byrne), 153
Huerta, Dolores, 188
human waves, 98–102, 272n
Humboldt, Alexander von, 123, 247–48
Hume, David, 4
humility, 36
Hunt, Helen, 87
hunter-gatherer cultures, 85
Huxley, Aldous, 16, 32–33
I
identity, 213
illumination, 80–83
immune system, 117–18, 127, 172
impermanence and change, 137–38, 245–46, 248
India, 216–19
Indigenous cultures, xvi, 14, 26, 33, 63, 70, 87, 113, 137, 160, 205, 208, 210, 232–33, 244, 247
psychedelic experience and, 211, 214, 216
individualism, 33, 35, 243
inflammation, 96, 117–18, 127, 129, 130, 274n
insects, 231, 232
Inside Out, 29–30, 41–42, 167–68, 260n
interdependence, 37, 40, 46, 98, 137, 138, 183, 184, 242, 245, 248
Invention of Nature, The (Wulf), 247
Iowa State Cyclones, 111
Iraq, 119, 129
isolation, 96
J
Jackson, Phil, 108
Jacobs, Jane, 108
Jaguar Within, The (Stone), 183
James, Henry, 50
James, William, 10, 40, 44, 50, 64, 97, 128, 175, 203, 211, 213, 243
mystical awe as defined by, 287n
The Varieties of Religious Experience, 199–201
Japan, 202
Jardin des Plantes, 123–24
Jesse, Bob, 211, 214
Jesus, 31, 64
jibun, 243
Job, book of, 51–52
Jobarteh, Sona, 151
John, Oliver, 213
John-Henderson, Neha, 117
Jones, Van, 87
Jordan, Michael, 108, 113
Josefowicz, Leila, 163, 164
journaling
daily diary studies, 23–26, 74
spiritual, 31
joy, 28
Joyce, James, 243
Julian of Norwich, 31, 64
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 79
Jurassic Park, 166–67
Just Mercy (Stevenson), 70
K
Kahlo, Frida, 83–84
Kalapalo, 158
Kahneman, Daniel, 4, 255n
kama muta, 263n
Kandinsky, Wassily, 181
Karlsson, Mikel Cee, 180
Keeping Together in Time (McNeill), 104
Kelly, Gene, 115
Keltner, Rolf, 46, 53, 85, 91–93, 129–30, 139–41, 169, 211–12, 219, 236
cancer and death of, xviii–xxii, 17, 22, 26–28, 43–44, 138, 140, 164, 202, 234–36
Kendall, John, 145–46
Kendall, Yumi, 145–47, 149–51, 153–56, 162, 164, 210, 243, 244, 246
Kerr, Elsa and Stanley, 109
Kerr, Steve, 108–13, 244, 246
Kierkegaard, Søren, 107–8, 216
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 87, 217
King’s College Chapel, 147, 240
Kiyochika, Kobayashi, 238
Kollwitz, Käthe, 180–81
Kubrick, Stanley, 267n
Kundalini, 52
Kuo, Frances, 128
Kuwait, 185
L
Lakoff, George, 264n
Lamaze, Fernand, 228
Langer, Susanne, 148–49, 155, 170
language, 58, 152, 155, 171
Lao Tzu, 63, 195
leafcutter ants, 111–12
Lewis, Michael, 256n
life, 224–32, 245, 247, 250
life and death, cycle of, 17, 18, 178, 184, 223–36
death in, 232–36
life in, 224–32
life expectancy, 210, 228
life patterns, 155, 156, 158, 160, 178, 281n
literature and poetry, 51, 59–63, 77
loneliness, 96, 117, 118, 264n
Lourdes, 201
Louvre, 169–70, 176
love, 168, 235, 236
LSD, 9, 211, 233
lullabies, 146
lyrics, 156
M
Ma, Yo-Yo, 146
Magh Mela festival, 103–4
Mancoba, Ernest, 181
Mandela, Nelson, xxi
materialism, 33
Matrix, The, 168
McNeill, William, 104
MDMA, 9, 211
meditation, 203
Mehta, Guri, 216, 217
Mehta, Nipun, 216–17
Melville, Herman, 168
mescaline, 33
Mesoamerican art, 181–83, 209
microscopic awe, 173
Migration of the Golden People (Baca), 187
Milton, John, 79
mind, 171
Mind (Langer), 155
miniatures, 172
mirroring and mimicry, 99, 116, 158
mirth, 28
Moby-Dick (Melville), 168
Monet, Claude, 180
Monroy, Maria, 130
Mont Blanc, 138–41
moral beauty, 11–12, 18, 25, 35, 69–93, 110, 167, 170, 216, 239, 246
illumination, 80–83
reverence, 83–86, 90
solitary confinement and, 89–90
the wonders of others, 74–79, 83
moral courage, 24
Morales, Yuyi, 83–84
moral issues, 5
Morrison, Toni, 69, 70, 243
mosh pits, 99
Mother Teresa, 81
Mount Fuji, 60, 203
moving in unison, 209
in waves, 98–102, 272n
see also collective effervescence
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 153–54, 156
Muhammad, 158
Murdoch, Iris, 166, 167, 180
Murthy, Vivek, 264n
music, 14–15, 18, 25, 35, 47, 122, 145–65, 209, 243, 245, 247, 249
adolescents and, 160
“cashmere blanket of sound,” 149–53, 244, 246
chanting, 14, 158, 183, 209, 258n
chills and, 51, 148, 152, 158, 159, 240
community and, 146, 149, 151–53, 158–62
culture and, 159–62
epiphany and, 148, 160
feeling and, 153–58
life patterns and, 155, 156, 158, 160, 281n