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whariwharangi said:A religious experience would be one that brings you to feel closer to God.
A spiritual experience would be one that makes you grow as a person.
JohnMcM said:I'm deeply saddened that you should feel the need to apparently mock his/her post.
I believe that the Camino is both religious and spiritual at the same time. Every pilgrim has their own individual journey on the Camino. I believe no journey is the same. My experience was both religious and spiritual.
The journey on the Camino will teach you something, show you something, and make you feel something that you haven't felt before. However, you have to be open to the journey or experience. The people that live in the villages along the Camino are an addition to the experience. The are truly wonderful and they are there to help you.
There are many people that walk the Camino for the hike it seems. A lot of people say that they walked the Camino in 30 days or 20 days, etc. They talk about having walked 30, 40 or 50 kil per day. They talk about how fast they went, but not about what they learned, or the people they met along the way, or anything about the towns they went through.
Your journey to and from the Camino, i believe, Starts and ends at home. When you get back home your experience lingers.
If at the end of your journey, you haven't learned anything from the Camino experience, in my opinion, you were not paying attention.
Buen Camino
Reading all these answers I'm left with the idea that there is a lack of knowledge between what "Spiritual" and "Religious" means. Religion is much more than rules and dogmas, Spirituality is much more less that transcendence. I guess this comes from the false dichotomy between religion and spirituality our culture has created as of late. The thing is...You can not be spiritual but not religious or religious but not spiritual. These two human experiences complement and feed each other. If you think you if you think you have one but not the other you have neither.
"Viva cristo Rey!!"
DHS
Please be careful not to judge, however. Some people are just very private about matters of the heart and spirit.
I am one of those people. I will happily chat on this board and to other casual acquaintances about gear and distance/rate walked and weather and sights seen and physical hardships & successes..... but I will only share my internal motivations, inspirations, growth & challenges, joys & sorrows with my very small inner circle.
Just because another peregrino only discusses distance walked with you, and not lessons learned along the way, does NOT mean they were not paying attention.
As a mystical atheist, I strongly disagree!
Hi John,
Just wondering how you feel about these questions now. I know the Camino did not bring what I thought it would bring me, but it gave me just what I needed and much more. I am not a religious person, but I do know that the Camino is much more than just a long walk.
Amazing answermaybe some questions don't really have answers
and maybe, if they did, the answer would come when it came
and maybe, if it came, it would not really be all that important
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