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February 12, 2010

Posttraumatic Growth from Awe?

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tweetmeme_source = 'colebitting';tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.goodfables.com/blog/posttraumatic-growth-from-awe.html';The emotion awe is little studied, but is unique and perhaps exceptionally important because of its ability to induce accommodation - a state which creates flexibility in values and beliefs. Awe, simply put, facilitates personal change and growth. Awe a

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June 19, 2009

Atheists also have a sense of awe and wonder

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Cardinal Cormack Murphy O'Connor caused a stir last month with his claim that atheists are not fully human because they don't have a sense of transcendental. Now, atheists mostly aren't transcendental almost by definition - the word refers to a belief in something for which there is no evidence.But do atheists also lack more common human emotions, like a sense of awe and wonder? After all, these

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June 2, 2009

Have You Ever Felt Awe and Wonder? (Psychiatric Times)

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I have been practicing psychodynamic psychotherapy for more than 30 years. During this time, there has been an accepted taboo against coupling psychotherapy with spirituality-despite a number of articles that have been written on this subject. 1-5

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Have You Ever Felt Awe and Wonder?

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I have been practicing psychodynamic psychotherapy for more than 30 years. During this time, there has been an accepted taboo against coupling psychotherapy with spirituality-despite a number of articles that have been written on this subject.

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