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What's the Difference between a Pilgrimage and a Long Walk?
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[QUOTE="Victoria_Peregrina, post: 321112, member: 47850"] For me this topic is very interesting and I've read all the replies. One common theme is that people choose to walk the Camino as either pilgrims or non-spiritual walkers and that the latter usually acquire spiritual meaning. The reality is more complex. Many of our opinions and beliefs are developed subconsciously. We are influenced by our environment more than we are willing to admit. Someone embarking on the Camino [I]knows[/I] that it's a spiritual journey. He has read multiple accounts of people who have found profound meaning. And so he is wondering if he'll also stumble on his life's truths. He may be wondering without consciously realizing it, but his mind becomes fertile for spirituality. On the Camino, our skeptic is surrounded by places of incredible beauty, natural and man-made. He spends nights in places of worship, enters churches and cathedrals, makes friends with spiritual people who are (otherwise) are just like him. And then one day, when he is walking alone, perhaps in Meseta, he sees fata morgana. The image is vivid and significant, and he starts thinking of it as the spirit of the Camino. Many hours of solo walking also invoke deep mental processes and he uncovers some truths about his life. These self-discoveries could have happened on a solo walk on the Appalachian Trail, but on the Camino, it's more natural to attribute them to the Camino. And this attribution is not a delusion; because the spirit of the Camino (the expectations, the people, the places) has facilitated and colored these thoughts. And so, unless one stubbornly resists any hint of his own spirituality, he becomes a pilgrim; the spirit of the Camino makes him a pilgrim. [/QUOTE]
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