Awe

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

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