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concentration. When you achieve this

shift, your relationship to the world
changes, your sense of familiarity falls

away and is replaced with a sense of
wonder that can make your flesh

crawl. Perhaps significant moments of
such “defamiliarization” actually

occurred informally, even
unconsciously, on the pilgrimages,
and was a big part of their success.

The effect of these experiences is not

measurable, and often they subtly
lead to behaviour changes. On
anecdotal evidence, most participants

were significantly affected by the
journey, but whether, or in what

ways, this kind of experience might
translate into sustained attitude or

behaviour change; is open to
question. Are we indeed running in

circles?

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