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High altitudes trigger spiritual peaks

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Because looking down on everyone else historically makes people feel very enlightened. Mountains are universally treated as mystical thresholds where the earth meets the sky. The lack of oxygen probably contributes heavily to all the profound realizations people have up there.

High altitudes trigger spiritual peaks
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