tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204145129687731328.post8276365866841214769..comments2008-03-21T12:40:50.058-07:00Comments on Fordham Camino 2007: SantiagoRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579466468280889290noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204145129687731328.post-6622620853312204292008-02-24T08:52:00.000-08:002008-02-24T08:52:00.000-08:00Hola Peregrinos Todos,I just read your Camino Blog...Hola Peregrinos Todos,<BR/>I just read your Camino Blog and I have to tell you that it has brought back some precious memories. Especially loved the photo of the interior of the Cathedral. The angle is perfect. It's very hard to capture on film that feeling of immense gradness that the place gives. I looked long and hard through my own photos before deciding on the cover for my new book.<BR/>I hope you won't mind if I share something of that book with you here.<BR/>I walked my own Camino in 1999 from the Pyrenees. There is still no doubt in my mind that it was perhaps the most important thing I have ever done, and, as it does with all pilgrims remains a constant influence in my everyday life.<BR/>Along the way, somewhere between Ponferrada and Cacabelos, my fellow pilgrim, and a Gnostic priest, told me that there was increasing conjecture that it was not S. James buried in Compostela at all, but a "heretic" named Priscillian. I countered that I had never heard of Priscillian, but the idea wouldn't go away. So when I got back, I began to do a bit of research and what I found was fascinating indeed. Priscillian's story had all the elements of a best seller: persecution and injustice, alternative faiths, a scandal or two, but no such book existed. So I decided the only thing to do was write my own!<BR/>Pilgrimage to Heresy has been recently published in the US. It is "novel" in so much as the story and dialogue are my own, but, the historical detail, such as we know it, is accurate, and it presents Priscillian's philosophy dovetailed with the thoughts of Miranda, a modern day Canadian pilgrim, who is looking for the basis for her own beliefs and insights into her own spirituality. If you have walked the Camino, or plan to, I would be very surprised if you do not find something of yourselves within its pages.<BR/>For more information, see http://www.pilgrimagetoheresy.com where you can read about Priscillian, my own Camino, and some links to Gnosticism, as well as ordering information. You can also read some pages from the book.<BR/>If you wish to read the Prologue and the first chapter, see also http://www.iuniverse.com/lookinside/Loo ... 124&page=3<BR/>Pilgrimage to Heresy will not be to everyone's taste. It challenges established ideas about the pilgrimage and particularly asks "Who is buried in Compostela?" Ultimately, perhaps it doesn't matter: it is the Camino we experience in our hearts which lasts. Either way, it asks pertinent questions about the idea and rationale of going on a Pilgrimage in the 21st century.<BR/>I hope you enjoy reading about it.<BR/><BR/>Ultreia y Buen Camino<BR/>Tracy Saunders<BR/>SpainTracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11908316765712696986noreply@blogger.com