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278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The Importance of Awe and Wonder

Religious enterprise involves no shortage of experiences like awe, which are 60 million years old. And these and that religious experienced, domain of religious experience also involves phenomena like or or our sense of being intensely gripped by the meaning that is produced by artistic beauty  and dance. To reduce the religious enterprise to a series of descriptions about the world is to do it great disservice,. but also to make it entirely demolishable on the scientific, reductionist, materialist, atheist front yes, you 're so right about the importance of awe and wonder.

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