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When nature feels more sacred than religious spaces

I grew up Muslim but I feel closest to God when I'm alone in nature, not in the mosque, and I'm worried this makes me a bad Muslim.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Direct spiritual experience in the natural world challenges inherited notions of where and how the divine should be encountered.

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