Dr. Dacher Keltner
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577 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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You see how you, as Mel or Dak or our listener out there, are part of larger things, right?
And suddenly when you're feeling awe, you're like,
wow, I'm part of everybody who's listening to this podcast.
I'm part of these people quietly meditating.
I'm part of an ecosystem.
I'm listening to bird call and bird song, and it sounds like human song and music.
Wow, I'm part of this big thing, right?
And then you have this sense of deep meaning and purpose.
And that's so central to our conversation.
Like,
You know, when I have awe out backpacking, which, you know, which I do every summer, it's just with my daughter, Natalie, and friends.
And it's just so reliable.
And it's like, you know, I am this small species and a member of a big species, but we're just part of this ecosystem.
You know, I'm part of...
The trees and the rivers and the fish I see in the rivers and the changing light of the day, I'm just part of, this is life, right?
I'm part of life.
Darwin called it endless forms most beautiful is what life is.
And that's transcendent, right?
That's when you're like, all these individual concerns I have, the stresses, the exhaustion I feel, fade away and you find something to devote yourself to.
Yeah, you know, Mel, as I was doing this work and big lab, like lots of people working on this, we're heading into the mental health crises, the loneliness epidemic, Vivek Murthy had called our attention to.
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