Thin Places

[Daxzentzu]

A good friend has described the concept of thin places.

Specifically, based on the Celtic saying that heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in the thin places that distance is even smaller.

In my life, I have experienced this - but did not have a convenient way to label it.

http://www.explorefaith.org/mystery/mysteryThinPlaces.html

I'd welcome any Peregrino sharing their Camino thin places

 

[wayfarer]

Have alook at this thread.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/thin-places.26977/#post-217348

 

[Daxzentzu]

Have alook at this thread.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/thin-places.26977/#post-217348

great

I searched but missed this

 

[Chris Day]

I expressed a view touching on this concept just recently on a thread titled "Why Multiple Times on the CF" - but with reference to the CF route as a whole
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/why-multiple-times-on-the-cf.57859/#post-660268

....I have pondered the question asked many a time and concluded the same (as Kanga's comments). There is something qualitatively very different about the Frances Route that I would say is akin to the Celtic description of some locations being described as "Thin Places"..... except that we are attributing that concept to a route rather than a place - "A Thin Path" might be a good way to put it, perhaps? I would also say that in comparing the Frances Route to others I have walked, there is maybe something "special" about a route made/established over a long time by pilgrims, compared to routes made or established for "pilgrims". Just my own thoughts..

 

[David Manzo]

A good friend has described the concept of thin places.

Specifically, based on the Celtic saying that heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in the thin places that distance is even smaller.

In my life, I have experienced this - but did not have a convenient way to label it.

http://www.explorefaith.org/mystery/mysteryThinPlaces.html

I'd welcome any Peregrino sharing their Camino thin places

Thank you!!!

 

[Pelgrimpaul]

[QUOTE=".... a route made/established over a long time by pilgrims, compared to routes made or established for "pilgrims". Just my own thoughts..[/QUOTE]

Interesting thought, it’s not only that pilgrims take experience from the camino (gathering while dwelling), we’re leaving experience on/to it!

Perhaps the thin place is also that it provides opportunity and potential for getting in touch with self. If ‘open’ serendipity provides magic!

 

[ginniek]

There is also the possibility that at certain times (such as what is now called "Halloween") of the year the two universes--heaven and earth--become even closer together and are the reason for even more sightings and related experiences then.