rediscovery of awe

In Schneider's Rediscovery of Awe, he talks abt. shifting from competency based study to awe based one.He looks at "attunement as not simply intellectual appraisal or behavioral awareness, but as a sustained encounter with the most intimate regions of experience". He also addresses tragedy as integral to life experience and confronting ambiguities that brings strength and self-realization to people developing a "sense of life that both includes and yet transforms the suffering they have undergone and that intensifies their daily living. In my educational advocacy work, I have encountered families of children with disabilities having truly, intimately confronted "chaos and human dread" every day. Enabling them to use "neglected perceptual capacities" to see how"the cultivation of ambiguity and paradox directly parallels the cultivation of awe: (it is the stark realization of our dialectical nature - before creation") is a helpful tactic to face polarizing elements within society. Acknowledging through service, complexity and diversity"also directs us to the peak of human hopes, dreams, and desires, alongside of that dread".