Religion And The Ecstasy Of Self-Transcendence By Jonathan Haidt Summary
Jonathan Haidt: Religion, Evolution, and the Ecstasy of Self-Transcendence
On TED Talk, psychologist Jonathan Haidt explains the main reason most people consider themselves spiritual in some way or form is a result of self-transcendence. He believes that it is a basic fact that when the self seems to melt away, what are left behind are feelings of ecstasy. Haidt goes on to tell the audience his thoughts on how people reach this state of ecstasy of self-transcendence. The metaphor he offers to explain the ecstasy of self-transcendence is to think of the mind as a house with many rooms, most of which are familiar, but sometimes suddenly a door appears out of nowhere. The door opens onto a staircase and we climb the staircase and experience a
On TED Talk, psychologist Jonathan Haidt explains the main reason most people consider themselves spiritual in some way or form is a result of self-transcendence. He believes that it is a basic fact that when the self seems to melt away, what are left behind are feelings of ecstasy. Haidt goes on to tell the audience his thoughts on how people reach this state of ecstasy of self-transcendence. The metaphor he offers to explain the ecstasy of self-transcendence is to think of the mind as a house with many rooms, most of which are familiar, but sometimes suddenly a door appears out of nowhere. The door opens onto a staircase and we climb the staircase and experience a