We pay little attention to reverence, but as Dacher Keltner’s new book claims, it makes our lives more meaningful and tackles big issues like the climate crisis. It may even be useful for
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January 4, 2023
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In January 2019, when Dacher Keltner was at his brother Rolf’s bedside in the final moments of his life, he felt a lot. Perhaps the most surprising thing was the awe. quiet. humble. pure. The boundaries that separated me from the outside world faded. “
Awe is something Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, is currently considering extensively. In 1988, when he asked his mentor, Paul Ekman…
