🏡 Shock and Awe
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🏡 Shock and Awe
Vastness can be challenging, unsettling, and destabilizing. In evoking awe, it reveals that our current knowledge is not up to the task of making sense of what we have encountered. And so, in awe, we go in search of new forms of understanding.
like imagination, awe is struggling to find space in our lives today.
How does awe transform us? By quieting the nagging, self-critical, overbearing, status-conscious voice of our self, or ego, and empowering us to collaborate, to open our minds to wonders, and to see the deep patterns of life.
What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?