Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life. By Dacher Keltner. Penguin 2023. Excellent overview, well researched, practical advice. Notes, bibliography, index, 309 pages. FVR Library.
After extensive international surveys and interviews, as well as careful research, Dacher Keltner outlines the "Eight Wonders of Life." These experiences are what most commonly led people around the world to feel awe:
1. Other people's courage, kindness, strength, or overcoming.
2. Collective effervescence: group rituals and ceremonies and events
3. Nature, outdoors, dramatic scenery, gardens, fearsome events
4. Music, dancing, singing
5. Visual Design, Art, Architecture, Beauty
6. Stories of spiritual and religious awe, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, films
7. Stories of life and death, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, films
8. Epiphany, Mystical Experience, Altered Consciousness
"We can find awe, then, in eight wonders of life: moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, life and death, and epiphany."
- Dach Keltner, "Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder," p. 18
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