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At once tiny and huge: what is this feeling we call ‘sublime’? | Aeon Ideas
Attempting to provide an academic definition of awe, social psychologists Dacher Keltner and Jonathain Haidt wrote: ‘Two appraisals are central and are present in all clear cases of awe: perceived vastness, and a need for accommodation, defined as an inability to assimilate an experience into current mental structures.’
Julia Baird • Phosphorescence: On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark
“As mystical awe unfolds, the default self dissolves, a shift in selfawareness that William James called "surrender." This has been found in studies in which through different means people are led to feel mystical awe, and activation in the DMN is observed with measures of brain response. These studies find that the DMN is quieted when Carmelite nu
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