Dacher Keltner

It's where you're at a sporting event or you're dancing with people and our bodies sync up.

We start to mimic each other and mirror each other physiologically.

And I love the, the,

psychological effects of that because you really feel like, wow, I'm a shared mind here.

There's something beyond me that's real.

And it is.

Yeah, we do.

We know the big story right now, and this will refine with more precise measurement and better statistics, is the default mode network, which is big chunks of your cortex on the side and the front, which is about the self, tends to deactivate when you feel off.

And that's where neuroscience is really illuminating because when you ask people about awe, they say like, I get quiet, I feel small.

We did research on that.

You just get kind of small.

You feel like, you know, in psychedelics, like I'm dissolving.

I'm just, there's no me, you know?

And lo and behold, in the brain,

the me starts to disappear.

Yeah.

And, you know, across all experiences, people talk about like, wow, my sense of self got small.

I didn't hear that voice of like, you know, what are you doing right now?

And are you achieving your goals?

And their self critique is so common today.