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[QUOTE="kerrysean, post: 38639, member: 6530"] That opera singer guy would not have been one of my favourites either :) what an incredibly ego-centric way to behave, but sadly not at all uncommon amongst the 'peregrino's'. Br David is absolutely correct, I have no problem with the beliefs of anyone, people are free to believe what they wish, and in the context of a dialogue I am as prepared to listen and possibly learn as the next man or woman. No it is the correlation of smugness and ego-centric behaviour that I found often went with the people who seemed to be most convinced of their high degree of spirituality. Plenty of people who were 'talking the talk' but not 'walking the walk' ie their own degree of self obsessiveness contradicted their self proclaimed 'spirituality' To put it in simple terms I felt that there were plenty of people who would after no more than a 100 meters of road walked would start to indicate that they were 'spiritual' BUT 'not religious', this was usually code for a probe as to whether you too shared this particular 'smorgas-bord' of various new age ideas. My general impression can be summarised in the following three observations 1) There is usually an inverse relationship between the amount of talk about 'spirituality' and any actual evidence of enlightenment. 2) Selfish behaviour such as noisy pre-dawn rising, (it is by the way, by definition always noisy or disturbing to others to get up before dawn, regardless of the protestations of 'I always leave quietly'), was often imposed by the very people who would go on about their spirituality...Many of these people would be MUCH more concerned about disturbing an animal from its slumber than a fellow human being. 3) The new age believers are often guilty of paying scant regard to the Christian and Catholic nature of the Camino. Speak to many of the Spanish volunteers who man the churches about how so many of these folk, seem incapable of observing even a modicum of decorum in the churches...The 3 german 'new agers' who I witnessed wheeling their bicycles into the church in O'Cebreiro for example...the many observations of the volunteers that people who seem to be capable of adopting awed reverence to a pile of stones, walk about talking and laughing in churches over 800 years old...no genuflections, no prayer. The pain that was caused to one volunteer by the regular laughter directed at one particularly 'doll like' but very old and highly revered depiction of the Virgin Mary by ignorant 'peregrino's' . I was with a spanish speaker for the last 200 km and speaking to some of the church volunteers really enlightened me about the mixed feelings that many of the local people in these rural communities have about the so called 'peregrinos', many of whom believe they are beloved by one and all. Believe me THAT is FAR from the truth in all cases... [/QUOTE]
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