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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    This is what I'd like to hear, an answer to the OP's excellent question.
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    Great news in the Telegraph today ... At last the question of who is a pilgrim and who isn't has been resolved. This issue is beyond the scope of human reason, but we've received help from an unexpected source ... The headline reads "Bedbugs carried into Spanish hotels by Christian pilgrims"...
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    Yes, that's exactly the question 😎
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    We are all pilgrims, on the same journey, to the same place ... Buen Camino, all
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    Nicholas of Cusa settled this fascinating issue in the 15th century ... Look at his "De Docta Ignorantia"
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    I mean that people of various kinds walk from various places towards Santiago, and they have some reason for doing so. Many have reasons that can be described as "religious", others as "spiritual". Modern paganism (the term is used loosely, so let's not go all dictionary just yet) interests...
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    Thanks, you too 😎
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    Very true, Kirkie, it's all anthropological ... People from different cultures will always grate on each other's nerves, as the testiness of the preceding post indicates. Once it gets personal, that's when I abandon the discussion. It's a pity that the original idea: pagan motives for Camino...
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    Thanks for the history lesson, but I was of course using the word "pagan" in a looser, less technical sense, in order to look at the Camino experience of the many modern pilgrims who don't see their spirituality in Christian terms. Also, my suggestion that the redoubtable Inquisitors might...
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    Fr. Richard Rohr on Tourist vs. Pilgrim

    The two are quite distinct but tourism can become pilgrimage. I remember two young women from Switzerland and Denmark on their first Camino clearly surprised by the experience of a communal dinner and discussion in a donativo albergue. I don't think they'd ever before seen the Christian life...
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    Fr. Richard Rohr on Tourist vs. Pilgrim

    It's a fascinating distinction, tourist or pilgrim ... We naturally all "judge", or subjectively describe, our fellow caminards on many axes, including this one. Perhaps it's like buddha-nature, of which the fool has no less, and the wise man no more ... I've met tourists who were on an inner...
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    Where's the Spanish Inquisition now that we really need them? You never know when you need an Inquisitor. Is there a phone number we can call when we meet an unrepentant pagan pilgrim?
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    Bloody pagans, can't get away from them 👹
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    According to a pagan pilgrim (if such there be), there is a huge and powerful line of energy, or "ley line", running along the Camino route we use today. I have no doubt the Camino pre-dates Christianity by a considerable time. Homo Neanderthalis was probably dodging Mastodons on the Meseta.
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    What is a pilgrim hospital?

    A sign of the times ... The buildings constructed in the middle ages for the assistance of poor pilgrims are now in use as luxury hotels for rich tourigrini. Recently, and particularly since Covid, the Camino has become less inclusive ... Poor pilgrims are literally left out in the cold and are...
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    Etiquette for not speaking the same language?

    I learned my Spanish from cowboy movies but soon found that phrases like "manos arriba" and "mata los gringos" were of limited use on the Camino. So I learned cafe con leche grande" and now I get by just fine.

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