Many Indigenous peoples: My colleague Richard Nisbett has argued that cultures divide in terms of their systems thinking, which is more prevalent in East Asian cultures than in the West, shaped so by classical Greek philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment, and its privileging of reductionistic analysis. Nisbett, Richard.
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the centrality of systems thinking: Wulf, Andrea.
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Experiences of awe open: For a fascinating account of how extraordinary perceptual experiences lead people to new systems of thought, often of a spiritual or religious quality, see: Kripal, Jeffrey J.
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shift us from the illusions: Bai, Yang, Laura A. Maruskin, Serena Chen, Amie M. Gordon, Jennifer E. Stellar, Galen D. McNeil, Kaiping Peng, and Dacher Keltner. “Awe, the Diminished Self, and Collective Engagement: Universals and Cultural Variations in the Small Self.”
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complex systems of interdependent adaptations: Wilson, Edward O.
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systems-like patterns of agency: Valdesolo, P., and Jesse Graham. “Awe, Uncertainty, and Agency Detection.”
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Being cultural animals: Keltner, Dacher, and James J. Gross. “Functional Accounts of Emotion.”
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
ABBA, 152
Abhidhamma, 52
ability, 8–9, 11, 78
Abu Ghraib, 185–86
Adams, John, 149, 150, 162–64
addiction, 215
admiration, 56
adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), 73, 268n
aesthetic emotions, 115–16, 155
aesthetics
science of, 179
Afghanistan, 119, 129
Africa, 113, 159, 160
afterlife, 208, 255n
Agrawal, Radha, 94–97, 114, 210
AIDS, 233, 290n
Alexander, Michelle, 70
allowing goodness its own speech, 69, 70, 77–79, 87, 91, 92, 243
American River, 129–31
Amy Foundation, 82
Anderson, Craig, 130, 229–30
anxiety, 106–8, 118, 128, 130, 133, 156, 215
Aristotle, 59
Armenians, 109–10
Armstrong, Karen, 289n
art, 13, 121, 122, 155, 245, 246, 247, 249
meaning in, 155, 172
Murdoch on, 166, 167, 180
Art Institute of Chicago, 172
Ashker, Todd, 89–90
ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response), 48–49, 63, 264n
astonishment, 56
astronomy, 38
atrocities, 13
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, 128
Aua, 203
autoimmune problems, 118
awe, xiv–xviii, 4, 6
beauty and, 19, 22–23, 26
bodily expressions of, 56–57, 115, 116
categories of,
culture and, xvi, xviii, xxiii, xxiv, 9, 25, 57–65
defining, 7–11, 19
etymology of word, 19, 177–78
everyday, 23–26, 63, 125, 178, 262n, 267n
fear and, 9, 19, 22–23, 26, 53, 257n
finding, xiv, xviii, xxii–xxiii, xxiv
flavoring themes and, 8–10
goose bumps and, 53
growth from, xxiii, xxiv
in literature and poetry, 59–63, 77
personal stories of, xvii–xviii, xxiii–xxiv, 10–19, 23–26, 31
purpose of, 249–50
relation to the world transformed by, 29–42
rigorous thought promoted by, 39–40
science of, xiv, xvi, xviii, xxiii, 20–26
sensory systems and, 249
and something larger than the self, 31–37, 52
systems and, 244–50
tears of, 48
threat and, 9, 10, 25, 37, 129, 257n
use of word, 240
vastness and, 7–8, 38, 54, 55, 124, 154, 231
wonder and, 37–40
awe walks, 105–7, 233
in India, 216–19
axes, 282n
ayahuasca, 9, 211
B
babies, 115, 128, 224, 225
birth of, 224–29
lullabies and, 146
Baca, Judy, 187
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 146
backpacking, 135, 136
