Awe

objects, sacred, 85

obstacles, overcoming, 77

Odyssey (Homer), 46, 208

Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), 59

Olympics, 110

om, 158, 203

100 Faces (Kiyochika), 238

On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 239, 241–42

openness, 214

Operation Desert Storm, 184–85

opioid system, 200

other people, wonders of, 74–79, 83

outdoors, see nature

overcoming obstacles, 77

overview effect, 36

oxytocin, 54, 126, 146, 226, 249

P

Pandya, Trupti and Swara, 217–18

Paris, 285n

Parker, Charlie, 148

Patel, Jayesh, 218

pedestrians, 103

Pelican Bay State Prison, 89–90

Pentecostal Christianity, 115

Pettersson, Otto, 232

peyote, 211

Philadelphia Orchestra, 146, 162

Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, The (Burke), 178

physics, 204

phytoncides, 127

Picasso, Pablo, 180

picnics, 96

Piff, Paul, 41, 134

piloerection, 42, 53–54

Pissarro, Camille, 179

Pittsburgh Steelers, 112–13

Pixar, 167–68

Planet Earth, 41, 136

plants, 127, 278n

Plato, 63–64

poetry and literature, 51, 59–63, 77

police brutality, 136

political elections, 46–47

political polarization, 135–36

Pollan, Michael, 32

Popovich, Gregg, 108

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 243

post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 130, 131

poverty, 130

Power of Ritual, The (ter Kuile), 289n

Prelude, The (Wordsworth), 139, 140

presidential election of 2016, 47

processes, 245

psilocybin, 32, 37, 211, 214

psychedelic experiences, 9, 32–33, 37, 181, 211–16

Pythagoras, 153

Q

qualities, 246

quantum physics, 204

Qur’an, 158

R

racism, 82, 133

rafting, 129–32

Raging Bull, 180

rainbows, 39, 55

Ramos, Leda, 187–88, 190

rap, 281n

rasas, 116

Ratatouille, 167

“Ray of Light, A” (Hass), 80–81

Reagan, Ronald, 217

Rear Window, 267n

reasoning, biases in, 136

Reeves, Keanu, 168

rejection, 96, 117, 118, 274n

religion, 9, 11, 85, 110, 114, 122, 194, 195, 201, 210, 247, 249

collective effervescence and, 13, 97

composting, 195–96, 199, 211, 216, 244, 246

music and, 151

nature and, 137

Pentecostal Christianity, 115

scientific studies of, 202

use of word, 287n

see also spiritual and religious awe

Rembrandt, 180

Remote Associates Test, 135

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, 285n

Requiem (Mozart), 153–54, 156

restorative justice (RJ), 69–70, 87–88, 90

Revelations of Divine Love (Julian of Norwich), 31

reverence, 83–86, 90, 209

Rich and Poor (Goldberg), 181

Ríos Montt, Efraín, 188

risk perception, 50

ritualization, 58–59

rituals and ceremonies, 101–4

Rivera, Diego, 188

river rafting, 129–32

Rodin, Auguste, 24, 150

Rodin Museum, 150

Romanticism, 64, 122–23, 136, 147

Roosevelt, Theodore, 33

Rothko, Mark, 181

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 64, 121–22

Rozin, Paul, 288–89n

Rue Montorgueil with Flags (Monet), 180

S

Sabarmati River, 217

sacred geometries, 172–78, 209, 244, 275n

sacred objects, 85

sacred sound, 158, 203, 209

Saddam Hussein, 185

saintly tendencies, 40–41, 98, 158

art and, 183–84

St. Patrick’s Day, 103

salat, 209

Salgado, Sebastião, 176

salt march, 216, 246

San Quentin News, 87

San Quentin State Prison, 69–74, 87–91

Sarandon, Susan, 87

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 54

Saussure, Horace Bénédict de, 138

scents, 126, 127, 178, 179, 285n

Scheherazade.2 (Adams), 162–64

Scherer, Klaus, 156–57, 256n

Schindler’s List, 191

science, xv, xvi, 121–23

of aesthetics, 179

of awe, xiv, xvi, xviii, xxiii, 20–26

of chills, 52

of emotions, 3–7, 19–20, 22, 237–38, 260n

quantum physics, 204

of tears, 46

wonder and, 37–39

Scorsese, Martin, 180

Scott, Louis, 86–92, 243

self, 6, 25

and control over one’s life, 35, 40

default, see default self and mind

drawings of, 33–34

mirroring and, 99

nature and, 33–35

something larger than, 31–37, 52, 98, 209, 243, 244, 285n

things and people outside of, xxiii, 6, 31–37, 125, 153

vanishing, 32–38, 107, 139, 174, 215

and vast forces shaping one’s life, 35–37, 40

self-transcendence, 28

semantic space, 22

sensory systems, 249

September 11 attacks, 185

Serra Pelada gold mine, 176

Shakespeare, William, 59–60, 64, 79

Shakur, Tupac, 71

shamanism, 183

shared awareness, 100

shared representations of reality, 100–101

shared substance, 137

sharing, 46, 64

Shelley, Mary, 122

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 64, 123

Shiota, Michelle, 35

shivers, 52–54

Sierra Club, 129

Singer, Peter, 40

singing, 158

chanting, 14, 158, 183, 209, 258n

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