Awareness deactivates the default mode network in Japan and Holland. It tells us that awe is a pathway by which music and drugs and meditation get us to this capacity to fold into social collective. I love the image of my mind of if you're terrified, you run away. If it's Godzilla, there's a moment of awe and then you're like, well, this is Norse awe. But there's this blossoming form that we're so privileged to have as humans.
In this episode we sit down with psychologist Dacher Keltner, one of the world’s leading experts on the science of emotion, the man Pixar hired to help them write Inside Out. In his new book – Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life – he outlines his years of work in this field, the health benefits of awe, the evolutionary origins and likely functions, and how to better pursue more awe and wonder in your own life.