Awe

hunter-gatherer cultures, 85

Huxley, Aldous, 16, 32–33

I

identity, 213

illumination, 80–83

immune system, 117–18, 127, 172

impermanence and change, 137–38, 245–46, 248

India, 216–19

Indigenous cultures, xvi, 14, 26, 33, 63, 70, 87, 113, 137, 160, 205, 208, 210, 232–33, 244, 247

psychedelic experience and, 211, 214, 216

individualism, 33, 35, 243

inflammation, 96, 117–18, 127, 129, 130, 274n

insects, 231, 232

Inside Out, 29–30, 41–42, 167–68, 260n

interdependence, 37, 40, 46, 98, 137, 138, 183, 184, 242, 245, 248

Invention of Nature, The (Wulf), 247

Iowa State Cyclones, 111

Iraq, 119, 129

isolation, 96

J

Jackson, Phil, 108

Jacobs, Jane, 108

Jaguar Within, The (Stone), 183

James, Henry, 50

James, William, 10, 40, 44, 50, 64, 97, 128, 175, 203, 211, 213, 243

mystical awe as defined by, 287n

The Varieties of Religious Experience, 199–201

Japan, 202

Jardin des Plantes, 123–24

Jesse, Bob, 211, 214

Jesus, 31, 64

jibun, 243

Job, book of, 51–52

Jobarteh, Sona, 151

John, Oliver, 213

John-Henderson, Neha, 117

Jones, Van, 87

Jordan, Michael, 108, 113

Josefowicz, Leila, 163, 164

journaling

daily diary studies, 23–26, 74

spiritual, 31

joy, 28

Joyce, James, 243

Julian of Norwich, 31, 64

Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 79

Jurassic Park, 166–67

Just Mercy (Stevenson), 70

K

Kahlo, Frida, 83–84

Kalapalo, 158

Kahneman, Daniel, 4, 255n

kama muta, 263n

Kandinsky, Wassily, 181

Karlsson, Mikel Cee, 180

Keeping Together in Time (McNeill), 104

Kelly, Gene, 115

Keltner, Rolf, 46, 53, 85, 91–93, 129–30, 139–41, 169, 211–12, 219, 236

cancer and death of, xviii–xxii, 17, 22, 26–28, 43–44, 138, 140, 164, 202, 234–36

Kendall, John, 145–46

Kendall, Yumi, 145–47, 149–51, 153–56, 162, 164, 210, 243, 244, 246

Kerr, Elsa and Stanley, 109

Kerr, Steve, 108–13, 244, 246

Kierkegaard, Søren, 107–8, 216

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 87, 217

King’s College Chapel, 147, 240

Kiyochika, Kobayashi, 238

Kollwitz, Käthe, 180–81

Kubrick, Stanley, 267n

Kundalini, 52

Kuo, Frances, 128

Kuwait, 185

L

Lakoff, George, 264n

Lamaze, Fernand, 228

Langer, Susanne, 148–49, 155, 170

language, 58, 152, 155, 171

Lao Tzu, 63, 195

leafcutter ants, 111–12

Lewis, Michael, 256n

life, 224–32, 245, 247, 250

life and death, cycle of, 17, 18, 178, 184, 223–36

death in, 232–36

life in, 224–32

life expectancy, 210, 228

life patterns, 155, 156, 158, 160, 178, 281n

literature and poetry, 51, 59–63, 77

loneliness, 96, 117, 118, 264n

Lourdes, 201

Louvre, 169–70, 176

love, 168, 235, 236

LSD, 9, 211, 233

lullabies, 146

lyrics, 156

M

Ma, Yo-Yo, 146

Magh Mela festival, 103–4

Mancoba, Ernest, 181

Mandela, Nelson, xxi

materialism, 33

Matrix, The, 168

McNeill, William, 104

MDMA, 9, 211

meditation, 203

Mehta, Guri, 216, 217

Mehta, Nipun, 216–17

Melville, Herman, 168

mescaline, 33

Mesoamerican art, 181–83, 209

microscopic awe, 173

Migration of the Golden People (Baca), 187

Milton, John, 79

mind, 171

Mind (Langer), 155

miniatures, 172

mirroring and mimicry, 99, 116, 158

mirth, 28

Moby-Dick (Melville), 168

Monet, Claude, 180

Monroy, Maria, 130

Mont Blanc, 138–41

moral beauty, 11–12, 18, 25, 35, 69–93, 110, 167, 170, 216, 239, 246

illumination, 80–83

reverence, 83–86, 90

solitary confinement and, 89–90

the wonders of others, 74–79, 83

moral courage, 24

Morales, Yuyi, 83–84

moral issues, 5

Morrison, Toni, 69, 70, 243

mosh pits, 99

Mother Teresa, 81

Mount Fuji, 60, 203

moving in unison, 209

in waves, 98–102, 272n

see also collective effervescence

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 153–54, 156

Muhammad, 158

Murdoch, Iris, 166, 167, 180

Murthy, Vivek, 264n

music, 14–15, 18, 25, 35, 47, 122, 145–65, 209, 243, 245, 247, 249

adolescents and, 160

“cashmere blanket of sound,” 149–53, 244, 246

chanting, 14, 158, 183, 209, 258n

chills and, 51, 148, 152, 158, 159, 240

community and, 146, 149, 151–53, 158–62

culture and, 159–62

epiphany and, 148, 160

feeling and, 153–58

life patterns and, 155, 156, 158, 160, 281n

lyrics in, 156

religion and, 151

sacred, 158

singing, 158

synchrony and, 146, 152–53, 159, 246, 282n

and tool development in hominids, 282n

musicians, 111

Muslims, 209

mystery, 124–25

mystical awe, see spiritual and religious awe

N

Nabokov, Vladimir, 51

Napoleon, 186

narcissism, 133, 134

Narmada River, 218

NASA, 280n

nature, 9, 13–14, 18, 25, 38, 40, 117–41, 242, 245–47

beauty in, 125, 126, 137, 196–97

brain and, 36

Divine in, 136–41

mean egotism and, 133–36

mystical awe and, 197–98

need for, 125–28

neurophysiology and, 127

rafting in, 129–32

religion and, 137

sacred geometries of, 173, 176–77, 275n

self in relation to, 33–35

strange sympathies and, 121–25

walking in, 127–29

wonder and, 231–32

Nature (Emerson), 133

Natyashastra, 114–15, 187

Nausea (Sartre), 54

near-death experiences (NDEs), 234–35

nekyia, 208

nesting, 227

New Jim Crow, The (Alexander), 70

Newton, Isaac, 39, 55

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, 199

Nhat Hanh, Thich, 233

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 194

Nightingale, Florence, 276n

Nisbett, Richard, 294n

nitrous oxide, 200, 201

Nixon, Richard, 51

O

Oatley, Keith, 257n