Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 188
60 Minutes, 82
Snyder, Gary, 62
social change, 51
social dominance orientation (SDO), 82
social rejection, 96, 117, 118, 274n
Society of Professional Journalists, 87
solar system, 153
solitary confinement, 89–90, 126, 186
Solnit, Rebecca, 104, 106
Sonnenberg, Joel, 82
Sontag, Susan, 145, 148
Sophocles, 59
soul, 44, 45, 64, 204, 246
embodiment of, 45, 52, 55
sound, 151
brain and, 151–53
feeling and, 153–58
parameters of, 281n
sacred, 158, 203, 209
of voices, 156–58
see also music
Spellman, W. M., 255n
Spielberg, Steven, 166–68, 190–92
spiritual, use of word, 287n
spiritual and religious awe (mystical awe), 6, 7, 9–11, 16–18, 25, 37, 64, 193–219, 232
awe walk in India, 216–19
chimpanzees and, xxiii, 42
community and, 210
composting, 195–96, 199, 211, 216, 244, 246
intelligent design in, 204–11
James’s definition of, 287n
nature and, 197–98
psychedelic, 9, 32–33, 37, 181, 211–16
saintly tendencies and, 40–41
science and, 202, 204
spiritual journaling, 31
sports, 108–13
Stancato, Daniel, 136
Star Wars, 168
Steen, Jan, 169, 176
Stellar, Jennifer, 35–36, 117
Stevenson, Bryan, 70
stigmata, 204
Stimmung, 181
Stone, Rebecca, 181–83
stress, 118, 127, 128, 130–32
Sturm, Virginia, 104–5
sublime, 122, 148
suffering, 12, 234
suicide, 120–21
Sulloway, Frank, 238–41
Sun Yang, 78
surrender, 203
Sutton, Peter, 169
Suzuki, Shunryu, 26
symbolic gestures, 85
symbolization, 58
synchrony, 97, 99–100, 110, 111, 115, 131
music and, 146, 152–53, 159, 246, 282n
synesthesia, 154
systems, 40, 244–50
T
Taiwan, 160
talents, 78
talking circle, 88
Tao, 63, 195
Taylor, Shelley E., 266n
tears, 44–48, 54–55, 65, 83, 152, 249, 263n
teleological reasoning, 262n
ter Kuile, Casper, 289n
terror, 9, 19, 52
terrorist attacks, 100
Thaler, Richard, 255n
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman), 4, 255n
Thoreau, Henry David, 31, 244, 248
thought
body and, 50
rigorous, 39–40
threat, 54, 117, 118, 215, 226, 257n, 266n
awe and, 9, 10, 25, 37, 129, 257n
Tolan, Claire, 48–50, 63, 244
Tolstoy, Leo, 200, 213
Tomasello, Michael, 100
Topography of Tears, The (Fisher), 175
To the Lighthouse (Woolf), 212, 243
traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), 137
transcendentalists, 31, 64
traumatic events, 100
“Tristan and Iseult” (Updike), 264n
Trump, Donald, 47
truth, 148
Tubman, Harriet, 193, 195
Tutu, Desmond, 81
Twain, Mark, 201
2001: A Space Odyssey, 267n
U
ullamaliztli, 110–11
Underground Scholars Initiative (USI), 79
United Farm Workers of America, 188
United Nations, 208
United Negro College Fund, 82
University of California, Berkeley, 79, 130, 134–35
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 109
Up, 29
Upaya Zen Center, 233
Updike, John, 264n
Upu, 71, 114
U’Ren, Nick, 108–9
V
vagus nerve, 46, 54, 85, 126, 127, 152, 156, 249
van Eyck, Jan, 173
van Gogh, Vincent, 180
vanishing self, 32–38, 107, 139, 174, 215
Varieties of Religious Experience, The (James), 199–201
Vasquez, Paul “Bear,” 55, 57
vastness, 7–8, 38, 54, 55, 124, 154, 231
Vermeer, Johannes, 169
veterans, 120–21, 129–32
virtue, 8–11
visual design, 15–16, 18, 166–92, 209
brain and, 171–72
collective health and well-being promoted by, 184
direct perception and, 180–84
expectations and, 179, 180
patterns in, 171
profusion in, 179
repetition in, 179–80
sacred geometries in, 172–78, 209, 244, 275n
shock and, 184–90
vast mysteries and, 178–80
see also art
voice, 156–58, 209
chanting, 14, 158, 183, 209, 258n
singing, 158
vocal bursts, 57–58
W
wabi-sabi, 235
walking, 102–8
in nature, 127–29
Walk on the Wild Side, 41
walks, awe, 105–7, 233
in India, 216–19
Wanderlust (Solnit), 104
Washington Post, 51
water, 127
Watergate, 51
waves, human, 98–102, 272n
Ways of Seeing (Berger), 285n
wealth, 74, 268n
Weber, Max, 7
Weird and the Eerie, The (Fisher), 265n
WEIRD bias, 10–11
West Side Story, 191
Whitman, Walt, 26, 37, 43, 45, 49, 52, 54, 55, 64, 173, 200, 213, 223, 244
whoas, 44, 55–59, 98, 131, 157, 158
wild awe, see nature
Williams, William Carlos, 48
Wilson, E. O., 125
Winfrey, Oprah, 96
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Fuller), 31
Woman’s Home Companion, 230
wonder, 37–40, 63–64, 115, 116, 231–32
in children, 105, 126–27, 229–31
in awe walk, 105
“wander” and, 279n
wonders of life, see eight wonders of life
wonders of others, 74–79, 83
Wooden, John, 109
Woodward, Bob, 51
Woolf, Virginia, 3, 4, 212, 234, 243
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 139
Wordsworth, William, 31, 64, 123, 248
The Prelude, 139, 140
World War II, 119
Wulf, Andrea, 247
Y
Yaden, David, 215
Year of Magical Thinking, The (Didion), xxii
yoga, 52, 209
yōkai, 202
Yosemite National Park, 33–34
Young, Malcolm Clemens, 196–99, 202, 210, 244
Z
Zhang, Jia Wei, 41
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About the Author
Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. A renowned expert in the science of human emotion, Dr. Keltner studies compassion and awe, how we express emotion, and how emotions guide our moral identities and search for meaning. His research interests also span issues of power, status, inequality, and social class. He is the author of The Power Paradox and the bestselling book Born to Be Good, and the coeditor of The Compassionate Instinct.
