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Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.48,0:00:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the philosopher Joseph Campbell used to\Nsay that when we are transfixed by beauty,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.89,0:00:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are beheld in a kind of aesthetic arrest, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.16,0:00:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are so transfixed that we stop breathing,\Nwe well up inside.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.65,0:00:36.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We experience what Camus says,\Nas life lived to the point of tears, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.68,0:00:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And why do we love these experiences so much?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.09,0:00:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they arrest time.\NThey freeze time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.63,0:00:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They force us to marvel.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.86,0:00:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They allow us to become contemplative beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.72,0:00:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To enter those head spaces outside of\Nnormal Euclidian space and time,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.77,0:00:54.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and provide a kind of respite of the\Nhuman condition, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.25,0:00:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We temporarily step off that people mover\Nthat's carrying everyone else towards death
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.88,0:01:03.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we become gods outside of time,\Nreveling in a kind of ecstatic illumination!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.82,0:01:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Staring into the sun and being moved by\Nits magnificent opulence, you know!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.92,0:01:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The universe singing in rapture and us\Njust like, drowning in it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.74,0:01:18.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like the last scene in the movie\N"The Fountain" when he becomes, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.17,0:01:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the bubble in that explodes in space, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.13,0:01:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a kind of mythic, ah,\Ndeath and rebirth
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.08,0:01:25.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this weird resurrection\Nhappening, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.51,0:01:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's, it's ah,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.97,0:01:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we smash our sense of separateness\Nin these moments, and um,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.36,0:01:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yeah it's kind of wonderful.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.78,0:01:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I just think that's why we do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.20,0:01:34.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's therapy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.34,0:01:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awe is therapy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.44,0:01:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inspiration is therapy.