This is a series of articles from our ‘Personal Practice‘ category that focuses specifically on the shamanic practice of pilgrimage.
What I think is a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you arecalled to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? ~ Joseph Campbell It has been more than two years since I...
September, 2014: Devon, England After a half-hour climb, I stand in an outcropping of rock at the top of a hill covered in heather and gorse. Below me, shrouded in mist, lie the wild lands of Dartmoor National Park. I have come in search of Grimspound, the remains of...
"To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim." -Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk¹ As a shamanic initiatory rite of passage, pilgrimage has...
Each of us is on a journey. This is something we know if we pursue any kind of spiritual practice. This knowing is inescapable when we follow a shamanic path. After all, journeying is what we do. Many journeys await us. We are on a journey from birth to death; we move...