Late night supper leads to latest morning for quite a while ... and rain ... never mind, the organism is settled and feet ready for first reunion with their walking shoes since Santiago ... and laced in without complaint for the post-breakfast wander the few kilometres to the lighthouse ... and the restaurant at the end of the universe ... or bar at the end of the westward Ways anyway ... North lies Muxia, with its own energy and a decent day's walk for tomorrow perhaps. .. meanwhile more philosophy at breakfast with the very deep duo hospitalero, Pietro and Simone ... plus Nil and new peregrina Nina, from Germany ... temptation to discover nationality persisting, though the dangers of identification with such arbitrary boundaries acknowledged ...
French duo, Antoine and Nathan, prepare for Santiago and debriefing on results of first month of amazing programme to reprogramme young people away from a life of crime ... seems to be working for 16 year old Nathan, already planning his next Camino, though more work at a centre in Andalusia is required next ... these projects run by a voluntary sector association an inspiration for other nations and their justice departments, too often driven by outdated notions of punishment ... troubled youngsters so often demonised as a problem for society, rather than the more enlightened view ... a young person produced by a dysfunctional society ... so, dear readers, here's our choice, shall we punish the child for failing to fit in to a world of violence, coercion, fear, greed .... batter them into shape to become a broken, obedient slave for the decaying system? Or ... open their hearts to love and the More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible ... which, if you wonder about the capitalisation, is also the title of a book by Charles Eisenstein, available via Hive, your ethical alternative to the tax avoiding, people exploiting, high street destroying behemoth whose name need not be mentioned ... attention being energy and without judgement of good or bad ... which is why this traveller through the parallel universe(s) of the Camino(s) de Santiago chooses to clear out decades, maybe lifetimes, of conditioning and coercion to old stories, keep all the illusions, including persistent parables of consensus reality, in awareness, while focusing on the new world we create with our energies of love ... the immortal role models of Lao Tse, Buddha, Jesus, J.Krishnamurti, Ramana Maharshi, Martin Luther King, John Lennon and others, joined by new inspirations ... like Greta Thunberg ... Nathan ...
If any of these ramblings offend sensibilities, especially in Semana Santa when the myth of suffering, crucifixion and resurrection is so strong, then ... sorry! As seen and described before on these pages, the separation is the fundamental problem, or error, or original sin (sin actually only being an error covered with layers of judgement) ... and once the numinous is experienced and seen as not separate we fall into the ancient heresy, for which many were burned, crucified, shot or otherwise martyred ... ah, well ... truth is truth and better spoken than suppressed ... blocking our divine nature never turns out well in the end ... the end being only a phrase of limited use in a cosmos of beginingless and endless universes ... as suggested by contemporary scientist Jude Currivan, prophets through the ages, systems in Buddhist and Hindu cosmology and so on ...
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