
Ep. 33 - The Spirituality of RR: Wonder, Awe, Mystery, and Sacredness
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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The Importance of Wonder and Awe in Spirituality
Costas argues that we are not aware of the atmosphere in a focal objectified way, as a perceptually focalized object. Then goes on to argue that the atmospheric nature of the bubble of significance means that we do not experience it as a focal object but through non-focal states such as wonder and awe or I would add their opposites which we will talk about later, absurdity and horror. The transjectivity is deeper than our subjectivity and our objectivity because the constitution of subjectivity and objectivity require all of this machinery. Now somebody who is aligned with this butI don't think is, I am secular is the masterful work by Robert Fuller on wonder.
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