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That feeling of awe, if that could be shared with most people on earth - perhaps they wouldn't waste their pity lives fighting each other.


Wasn’t their recently an article on how witnessing a solar eclipse has a measurable effect on people’s view of the world? It certainly affected me.


I have never seen a solar eclipse in person, but I wonder whether this type of feeling has similarities with the overview effect [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect


Some substances can get you there.




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