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Why sacred spaces affect non-believers emotionally

Every time I walk into certain old churches I feel like I'm going to cry, even though I'm not religious and don't understand what's happening to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The body and spirit can respond to accumulated reverence in ways that bypass intellectual belief systems.

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