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sca272's picture Sebastian Calmes
Wellness Specialist
College or Department
Phone Number
(859) 218-5178
Email Address
Sebastian.calmes@uky.edu

Listen as host Sebastian Calmes, a Wellness Specialist with UK HR Health and Wellness and Professor of Philosophy, Dr. David Bradshaw, discuss the topic of Awe and Beauty. Each month, Sebastian Calmes will interview an expert guest with the conversation aimed at deepening the resilience practice and meditation offered by co-hosts, Amy Rodquist-Kodet and Jackie Carroll. 

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  • Related Episodes: 
    • BWR Practice: Awe and Beauty with Amy Rodquist-Kodet 
    • BWR Meditation: Awe and Beauty with Jackie Carroll 
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  • Key Takeaways: 
    • Awe is a complex emotion consisting of reverence, wonder, and dread
    • Typically, we find nature filled with awe because we didn’t create it—there’s an aspect of mystery. 
    • According to Plato, there are lower and higher forms of beauty—little b beauty and Big B Beauty. 
    • Remain open to the different forms of beauty the world shows us, even if it’s something we don’t typically see as beautiful.  
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