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DISCUSSION
We aimed to examine how hill and cave tours can prompt mystical-spiritual
experiences.
According to our quantitative results, both hill and cave tours prompt
such experiences and enhance all four (personal, social, environmental, and
transcendent**) domains of spiritual health. At the personal level, a sense of
identity, joy in life, and inner peace increased during tours. At the communal
level, we observed that love for other people, forgiveness toward others, trust
among individuals, and respect for others were all more prevalent during tours
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