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    best way to travel to astorga

    I am getting an Easyjet flight from Stansted to Asturias, stopping the night in Oviedo and then getting the train to Leon - nice trip. Buses and trains go regularly Leon to Astorga. I did it this way before and it was a good way of easing into a different mode of being.
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    The Varieties of Camino Experiences

    Hey Vinotinto, have you been watching British TV or did you pick it up on the airways? There's a programme called Extreme Pilgrim running at the moment which involves an Anglican priest doing arduous pilgrimages in China, India and Egypt. In this week's he was wandering up the Ganges with two...
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    In Paris

    Thank you to Sil, Peter and Deirdre for all that information, which was very helpful. We found the Tour Saint Jacques, still covered with plastic and closed, but the top was peeking out in glorious newness, showing its late Gothic delicate beauty. When it's finished, in two years time and at a...
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    The Inner Journey

    That's wonderful, Deirdre. Can I put it on my website? - your translation, I mean. Do you know anything about Fraydino?
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    The Inner Journey

    Thank you, Arn, and it wasn't meant as a criticism for wandering off track - just a back reference for something I wanted to say. I've yet to try the quote system, I'm sure it's very simple. I find the various meanderings of discussion on these threads to be diverting in both senses.
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    The Inner Journey

    Returning to the Divine Companion, or the Holy Fire...... I found this gem from Hafiz (translated by Daniel Ladinsky): Like A pair Of mismatched newlyweds, One of whom still feels very insecure, I keep turning to God Saying, 'Kiss Me.'
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    The Inner Journey

    It might be helpful to see the Camino as a high-level educational device. As with most study courses, many people see completing it as an achievement and getting the piece of paper at the end is for them an important prize. Wiser people recognise that it's what they learn in the process of...
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    The Inner Journey

    I like the verses, Arn, clever and thoughtful. The phrase 'Divine Companion' must signify what in Sufi literature is called the Beloved. Someone recently gave me a copy of The Gift by Hafiz: it's amazing. A bit too big for carrying on the Camino. I wonder if some of the editions of Rumi's poems...
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    The Inner Journey

    I'm afraid I'm going to have to rubberstamp that - I agree! But it can also be an add-on processs, adding on new perspectives and new information to what has gone before. The important thing is not to get the ego wrapped up in it by identifying with a fixed position. I have to say that there is...
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    The Inner Journey

    It would be good if, just as you can ask a technical question about your packing and get a heap of informed answers, you could also ask a question on this forum about your inner journey and get a heap of informed answers as well. Yes that depends on trust, and that in turn depends on being able...
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    The Inner Journey

    This is an attempt to provide some objective factual information to help people be aware of and explore further the inner aspects of the Camino experience. There's lots of expertise on this site devoted to the practical external aspects of the journey, but as we know, one thing that...
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    In Paris

    Can anyone tell me something about the route in Paris itself. I am going there on New Years Day for a few days and would like to follow the start of the route. It's a bit late to get a guide. The Confraternity have temporarily sold out of their Paris Pilgrim booklets which I gather are a tour of...
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    The Varieties of Camino Experiences

    Thank you Deirdre and yes you can find my experiences in a little more detail in the My Camino section of http://www.balsacamino.org - and some more poetry on the Spirit of the Camino page. And yes, Sil, you can do what you like with it. I was thinking that the special nature of the Camino...
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    The Varieties of Camino Experiences

    Well Sil, I for one have found this religious debate very interesting because, whether we like it or not, the Camino de Santiago is organised by and largely walked by members of the Catholic Church. I am not a Catholic and so was very interested to know what everybody was thinking about all...
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    The Varieties of Camino Experiences

    Yes, it seems that most people are giving up classifications and the dogmas that perpetuate them. So maybe a bit of unlearning on the Camino is good for some. Freedom from the Known, as Krishnamurti put it. Then you can start to really experience things..... or you can just abandon yourself to...
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    Albergues and markers

    What about the two gay guys at Ruitelan? Lovely communal meals again, but you can't beat being woken at 6.30 to the sound of Ave Maria at full blast!
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    Post from Rosina - Santiago

    Not all private albergues are purely money-making operations. Certainly there's been an opportunity for local people to benefit from grants to the tourist trade to set up businesses. But a number have been set up by people from elsewhere who love the Camino and have chosen to provide good...
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    The Nature of Pilgrimage

    Life is a journey from A to Be.
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    The Nature of Pilgrimage

    There's more to the Camino than a long distance walk with cultural, or even religious interest: you're quite right there, Bob. Something about it gets inside of you (in more ways than one). For those interested, the keys elements of the San Nicolas leaflet can be found at...
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    A new Centre for World Peace on the Camino

    I find myself writing this at 11am on 11/11 - seems like a good time to be introducing a new centre for world peace on the Camino Frances. We were walking the route in May 2006 when my wife Linda had a vision of a new pilgrim healing centre in a traditional Galician house in what was, and still...

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