Awe

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

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