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The Psychedelic Emotion: We Need More “Awe” In Everyday Life

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

— Albert Einstein

Awe is a profound self-transcendent feeling.

benefits?

• After an experience of awe, you’re more likely to engage in altruistic behavior because you’re feeling a deeper sense of connectedness with others
• You’re more likely to engage in experiences over material goods
• Your perception of time transforms creating the feeling that you’re inside of a timeless moment
• Awe is the emotion that most strongly predicts reduced levels of cytokines, a marker of inflammation that’s linked to depression because they block serotonin and dopamine
• It sharpens your mind making you more discerning and enhances your capacity to analyze the strength of an argument

awe?

It’s made up of two primary characteristics….

1. Perceived vastness: Experiencing something so incredibly expansive or deep that the self-feels small in comparison
2. Need for accommodation: The need to update our mental structures to assimilate the experience we are having.

Great works of art and lavish natural experiences can evoke awe.

This solar system is embedded within a vast galaxy known as the Milky Way. There are 100 billion planets within this galaxy alone.

There are an estimated 100-200 billion galaxies in the Cosmos.

The cannon was the Big Bang setting all of this in motion some 13.6 billion years ago.

Humans have only been around for an estimated 50,000 years.

100 billion of us have died.

There are 7.6 billion of us alive today sitting on the shoulders of all of those who came before us.

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