🏡 Shock and Awe
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🏡 Shock and Awe
After reviewing accounts of psychological, sociological, religious, artistic, and even primordial awe (awe toward power), the researchers surmised that awe universally involved the perception of vastness and the need to accommodate the experience into one's present worldview. That is, awe is triggered by some experience so expansive (in either a po... See more
Jesse Graham • How Awe Stops Your Clock
Awe is a primary stimulant for curiosity, which begets progress. It reinstates our acknowledgement of the expanse, in both the grandness of things and itti-bittiness of ourselves. In experiencing awe, and the wonder that can follow, we're invited to explore the edges of our knowledge.
Benjamin Laufer • On Awe
Local communities in different parts of the world are making a constructive difference in responding to a plethora of crises: global climate change, political authoritarianism, economic disparities, poverty, war and the threat of nuclear war, consumerism, and a general sense of meaninglness.
They are interested in inner transformation as well as out
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Phosphorescence: On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark
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Keltner became convinced that awe could be a counteragent to these immiserating modern neuroses. Notably, not a single respondent in Berkeley’s 26-culture study cited consumer purchases as the source of their awe-story. In “Awe,” Keltner writes: “Awe occurs in a realm separate from the mundane world of materialism, money, acquisition and status sig... See more
