A New Science of Awe.

I share reflections on a 2003 paper by Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt. Dacher wrote the book Awe last year. What is the experience of wonder and awe? What part does it play in our lives? How does awe influence us and our journey? ** What is missed by these great minds: the experience is governed by our own perspective or value of the experience. We are the arbiter is value. It is us, we are the 'doula' of awe, the midwife of value. We are the evaluators, the choice to see awe is ours. The experience of Awe and faith both require a commitment and community, both. ** Default mode network!? This is the term science uses for the place in the brain that they attribute to the self, to consciousness... Awe and meditation reduces activity in this area... **In Buddhism, equanimity (Pali: upekkhā; Sanskrit: upekṣā) is one of the four sublime attitudes and is considered: Neither a thought nor an emotion, it is the steady conscious realization of reality's transience. It is the ground for wisdom and freedom and the protector of compassion and love.