Dacher Keltner
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526 appearances
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3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 3 Jun
Dacher Keltner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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81% of Americans feel a sense of the divine.
Half of those people find it in nature.
And awe is the emotion that tracks that relationship to spirit and the divine.
One of the many sort of transcendent emotions like- Stories also of life and death, number seven.
Yeah, you know, we started getting stories around the world, watching children be born, infants be born, grandmothers, parents, friends, relatives, you just see life come in, the life cycle begins.
Likewise, you could now think about, you know, why are people awestruck by spring?
Right, because it's this maximum moment of life in nature.
It's like, everything is blooming.
Blooming and blooming, yes, coming forth.
Right, life.
But life, it's a law like pattern, it ends.
And I remember Oprah, when I started to talk publicly about the science before the book, I remember very clearly this, I was just asking this group like, when have you felt awe?
And this woman raises her hand and she said, I was holding my sister's hand.
as she had her last breath in life.
And I was awestruck by her place in my life, that things like this end, she continues like I felt with my brother, Rolf,
And so the life cycle is a very underappreciated, but reliable source of awe.
Yeah, and people feel awe about these big ideas, AI, quantum physics, evolution, et cetera.
And for me, the challenge of my brother's passing, not only concretely to live a life without my companion in awe, my brother,
was to understand what life means, which is it is a cycle for us physically.
And we all have to lose people.
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