Status Updates From Awe: The Transformative Pow...

“… awe shifts are minds from a more reductionist mode of seeing things in terms of separateness and independence to a view of phenomena as interrelating and dependent.”

“For Burke, feelings of beauty arise out of a sense of familiarity and affection; awe, by contrast, arises in our recognition of what is powerful, obscure, and dreadful. Current studies in the science of aesthetics align with this distinction.” Super cool to think about the differences there!

“For Burke, feelings of butt arise out of a sense of familiarity and affection; awe, by contrast, arises in our recognition of what is powerful, obscure, and dreadful. Current studies in the science of aesthetics align with this distinction.” Super cool to think about the differences there!

This book also mentions the Arabian Nights and Scheherazade !!! I think this is a sign that I need to read those as an adult here soon…

I would just like to update everyone to say that this book is not the science of how awe impacts us so much as a discussion of ways and areas in our lives that we have opportunities for awe. Maybe that is on me for having the wrong expectations, but I’m disappointed.