The Meaningness project aims for a relationship with meaning that is similar in feel to “peak experiences,” but less intense, more deliberate, easier to sustain, and more cognitive.
https://meaningness.com/peak-experiences …
Ah, I think most worthwhile art does. This is discussed in passing on the wonder page:https://meaningness.com/wonder
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Hm, though not the Egyptian BoTD in particular? eg "To be on this hot earth a cool jug of water, to stand in the wind like sturdy sycamore branches, a place where birds rest, where cattle gather, where sap rises, wherein earth and sky are home."
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And: "May all the world envelop me that I might know the conversation of wind or the willful flight of a bee, that I might become the song of earth and turn again to greening."

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Thanks for this link, btw – it helped me understand why my aesthetic taste has shifted away from art/experiences primarily focused on awe-provocation. It seems awe-causing things bewilderingly "pop you out" of default experience in a way that can cause an addiction to escapism.
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