The Pilgrimage Experience

The Pilgrimage Experience

$20.00

This unique Global Spirit program with acclaimed travel writer and essayist Pico Iyer and Peruvian anthropologist Zoila Mendoza, explores and follows the actual experience of Pilgrimage, journeying with the Global Spirit team, to India and the ancient pilgrimage sites of Varanasi, the ancient Hindu city of light, Allahabad, where three sacred rivers, the Ganges, the Yamuna, and the Saraswati all converge, and to Bodh Gaya, the most important Buddhist pilgrimage site on earth, site of the Bodhi Tree, under which the Buddha sat for 49 days and attained enlightenment.

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Over a hundred years ago, Mark Twain wrote that “Travel is the death of prejudice,” But it’s not just any kind of travel because some forms of modern, mass tourism, can reinforce our prejudices. This program reveals the power of intentional travel, and how pilgrimage — a journey of spiritual transformation — has long proved to be one of the most genuine practices to help nourish the soul and help dispel the fear of the other. For this reason, famed mythologist Joseph Campbell pronounced that “enlightened travel” would be one of the ways human beings can stave off the catastrophe that comes from the fear or hatred of the other races or religions.