Dacher Keltner
speaker
526 appearances
3 recordings
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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It's transcendent.
The vagus nerve is activated.
Oxytocin is released.
Your parasympathetic, calming, opening branches to your nervous system are activated, giving rise to tears.
And that's the neurophysiology of merging early in life when you come into life and you look up at the caregivers around you and you make eye contact and you really merge.
And I think at the core, as you rightly suggested, is listening to music.
We think of it as our own interior experience, but in fact, it's really a merging with the sounds and the person who made the sounds, the band, the people appreciating it.
So I think merging is key.
And what a desperately needed experience right now.
We're so asynchronized with others because of the technologies and awe gives us that merging, which is transcendent really.
Oh, yeah.
You're getting to a sweet spot of mine.
Yeah, no, mosh pit.
Every human should go into a mosh pit.
And I love that finding because mosh pits actually are very collaborative.
They look like chaos, but they're mathematically very principled and people move around and lose themselves and they have an ethical code to them.
And they tell us humans hunger for this collective movement.
We want to feel merging with others and sharing in movement.
And what I love is the reemergence of these processes like farmer's markets.
Do you go to a farmer's market?
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