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It has been scarcely 3 decades given Shirley MacLaine commenced her dauntless and open joining to chronicling her personal query for devout understanding. In covenant to a continuation and vitality of her message, any of her 8 mythological bestsellers -- from Don't Fall Off a Mountain to My Lucky Stars -- continues currently to attract, dazzle, and renovate large new readers. Now Shirley is behind -- with her many breathtakingly absolute and singular book yet.
This is a story of a journey. It is a energetically expected and altogether unusual perfection of Shirley MacLaine's unusual -- and eventually rewarding -- highway by life. The riveting odyssey began with a span of unknown handwritten letters imploring Shirley to make a challenging event along a Santiago de Compostela Camino in Spain. Throughout history, large shining pilgrims from all over Europe have taken adult a trail. It is an ancient -- and allegedly fascinated -- pilgrimage. People from St. Francis of Assisi and Charlemagne to Ferdinand and Isabella to Dante and Chaucer have taken a journey, that comprises a scarcely 500-mile trek opposite highways, plateau and valleys, cities and towns, and fields. Now it would be Shirley's turn.
For Shirley, a Camino was both an heated devout and earthy challenge. A lady in her sixth decade completing such a burdensome outing on feet in thirty days during twenty miles per day was zero brief of remarkable. But even some-more strange was a track she took spiritually: behind thousands of years, by past lives to a really start of a universe. Immensely means with intelligence, curiosity, warmth, and a surpassing honesty to people and places outward her possess experience, Shirley MacLaine is truly an American treasure. And once again, she brings her matchless qualities of mind and heart to her writing. Balancing and negotiating a revelations desirous by a puzzling appetite of a Camino, she endured her burdensome debate to Compostela until it gradually gave approach to a distant some-more concept voyage: that of a soul. Through a operation of startling and liberating visions and revelations, Shirley saw into a definition of a cosmos, including a secrets of a ancient civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria, insights into tellurian genesis, a hint of gender and sexuality, and a loyal trail to aloft love.
With abounding insight, humility, and her heading grace, Shirley MacLaine kindly leads us on a dedicated debate toward an inexpressibly conceptual climax. The Camino promises readers a debate of a thousand lifetimes.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #51141 in eBooks
- Published on: 2000-05-16
- Released on: 2000-05-16
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Known as a Camino, a Santiago de Compostela Camino is a famous event that has been undertaken by people for centuries opposite northern Spain. It is pronounced that this 500-mile trail lies directly underneath a Milky Way and that it reflects a appetite of a star systems above it. Facing her sixth decade of life on earth, author and actor Shirley MacLaine motionless to go on this trek. She wasn't certain why, she usually knew that a Camino had been trafficked for thousands of years by "saints, sinners, generals, misfits, kings and queens. It is finished by a vigilant to find one's deepest devout definition and resolutions per conflicts in Self."
Typical of MacLaine, this is a personal story with huge adventure, a smattering of flashbacks, and a large portion of vast revelations. Like a loyal pilgrim, MacLaine travels solo, peaceful to frame herself down to a backpacking essentials and find deeper definition in all a bizarre, frightening, and coincidental events she encounters along a way. It is no tiny attainment that this sixtysomething lady walked a burdensome trail in 30 days. Readers can design clear stories of stalking paparazzi, icy showers, bouts of hunger, mislaid paths, a worshipping immature man, a demented lady screaming in a roadside shelter, devout lorry drivers, a associate traveller in a wheelchair, bouts of constipation and diarrhea, and a vast crescendo that will hit a hosiery of MacLaine's fans. --Gail Hudson
From Publishers Weekly
Following a centuries-old tradition, hostess MacLaine walked scarcely 500 miles opposite northern Spain's Camino Santiago de Compostela. This discourse of her challenging journey, like her other books, is a expected claimant for bestsellerdom as good as for gibe in some quarters. An bid to "feel tellurian again," her earthy attainment was daunting: she hiked for 10 hours a day on her own, mostly in heated heat, and slept in refugios--crowded, unwashed shelters. Though she observes a tiny villages, ancestral cathedrals and other trekkers along a way, MacLaine is many meddlesome in her interior journey. The actress, who has created before about her countless past lives in such books as Out on a Limb and Dancing in a Light, senses that she's walked a Camino before as a coffee-colored, dark-haired lady of Charlemagne's time. Visited in dreams by a devout guide, she connects her several lives and hint mates, divulgence that her former partner (in this life) was Olaf Palme, a assassinated Swedish Prime Minister. As a debate progresses, she revisits a origins of a tellurian competition in a edenic Lemuria, afterwards a emergence of Atlantis and on to ADAMic civilization. On a conceivable plane, MacLaine seems to suffer escaped a press, that she compares to fearsome dogs, and whose office escalates as she gets closer to a finish of a journey. Though she finished a Camino in 30 days instead of a designed 40, her attainment in Santiago lacks a Hollywood finale. Instead, she slips into a famous cathedral and leaves immediately for Madrid. Major ad/promo; author tour; 20-city TV satellite tour; 20-city radio satellite tour. (May)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
MacLaine, an award-winning singer and a author of 8 best sellers, shares her 30-day event to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. The "camino" (the highway that all pilgrims contingency take) gives her time to simulate on a values in her life. She suggests ideas along a way, e.g., "Tune in to a knowledge and dump your course of accomplishing a goal. The idea is a path." One comes to know MacLaineDwhat has happened in her 60 years, what she considers important, how her father shabby her, how she views life philosophically, and what she has to work on as she spends 10 hours each day walking a roughly 500 miles. She relates many bland happenings, from removing mislaid or perplexing to equivocate a organisation who commend her as a celebrity, to her dreams (from that she draws some parallels). Readers of her prior works will suffer this comment of her journey; libraries carrying her progressing titles will do good to supplement this pretension for enthusiast requests.
-DLeroy Hommerding, Fort Myers Beach P.L., FL
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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140 of 151 people found a following examination helpful.
More Steps on a Road To Enlightenment
By Mimi DiFrancesca
"The Camino", Shirley Maclaine's new book, covers a 500 mile walking outing she finished along a Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. Blisters and physique pain, loneliness followed by relentless press who listened she was creation a pilgrimage, clear dream/recollections and synchronicity are common in this journal. 40 pages into this book, we announced to my family that we will be creation this same trek. Ms. MacLaine is an glorious writer; clean, intelligent, giveaway of a need to infer anything to anyone. She's usually observant what she experienced. We come divided with a glance during a story of a route from a days of Charlemange. We see her knowledge of a probable start of 3 dimensional tellurian life, Atlantis, Lemuria, ancestral connectors to ET's and genetic engineerring that unequivocally presumably got us where we are right now. Skeptics will scoff. Students of Spirit will nod. (Remember, in open 2000, scientists JUST found out that dinosaurs had 4 cover hearts that uncover they were WARM blooded, not cold blooded like a "fact" they have "known" for years.) Whatever your turn of listening, desiring or remembering, "The Camino" is a smashing tour that leaves us feeling renewed. Ultreya, Ms. MacLaine!
74 of 78 people found a following examination helpful.
The Camino
By Kelly
One of my friends during work gave me Shirley's new book, and we was thrilled. In a normal Christian world, Shirley MacLaine is one of those people who would be on a "LIST"---forbidden to any God-fearing, Bible desiring Christian. we used to lift Shirley's books around in brownish-red paper bags and lift them median out and examination them when nobody was looking. Our reverend would be articulate about how "Shirley MacLaine has mislaid her mind," and I'd be reading her books underneath a pews and thinking, "She creates some-more clarity than a preacher." In Christian college, we got called on a runner when somebody motionless to examine one of my brownish-red bags to see if we was unctuous alcohol. GOD FORBID, he found something WORSE--one of Shirley MacLaine's novels, that would certainly send me to ruin faster than booze. Needless to say, my days in a normal Christian knowledge were short-lived.
I consider Shirley MacLaine is amazing! we consider she's one of a bravest women alive. She has never been fearful to share her devout journeys for a advantage of those who can "receive" them and during a cost of personal gibe from those who cannot.
People are criticizing this book and observant it was not about a Camino though about her possess middle journey. we would have been unhappy had it not been. we don't caring if Shirley walks a Camino, a Appalachian Trail, or walks to a dilemma drugstore. we wish to know what happened to her spiritually along a way.
This is a smashing book for all associate "Pilgrims" and "Sojourners in a Strange Land."
40 of 42 people found a following examination helpful.
A Fascinating Quest!
By Judith E. Pavluvcik
"There are many ways to knowledge one's devout education." This quote from Shirley MacLaine sums adult this implausible book perfectly. This is Shirley's tour of one anticipating themselves, or re-discovering themselves on a centuries aged Camino - a 500 mile devout trek opposite Spain.
I found this book to be splendidly enlightening, illuminating, and we extol Shirley for a bravery to finish this tour of a Spirit. Shirley says, "The Camino itself helps promote a fortitude of romantic issues."
The reader is treated to flashbacks of Shirley's past lives as she once lived along a Camino, including an extraordinary past life in Lemuria and Atlantis. we found Shirley's probity and fairness refreshing, and many of her insights strike directly home with me. we do trust that a reader will also benefit as many insights as we did and stop and let it all penetrate in. We are treated to her lessons and fears that she has to conquer as well.
I unequivocally resonated with her thoughts on fear: "Never ask yourself what it is we fear - instead ask yourself what it is that concerns you. A fear thought, put out, will return, since all appetite earnings to a sender. Any appetite always creates a loop until it regains a source. A regard suspicion will lapse also. A that impulse discern since you're concerned."
I began my devout questing with Shirley's initial book and have devoured all she has written. She is not fearful to pronounce her law and she is not fearful to find to lower her spirituality and afterwards share a rest of that with humanity. we am certain that we am not a usually one who she has deeply and definitely affected. We are devout beings carrying a tellurian knowledge and once again we are reminded of a goal - to reconnect to a Divine source - to adore - to God.
Another smashing quote, "I had walked a Camino in sequence to know what we were able of as tellurian beings - such devout gracefulness and such mortal fragmentation of a possess souls. Were we all repeating such dramas even currently since we hadn't remembered what we came from?"
I titillate everybody to examination this fascinating book. You too, will wish to trek a Camino after finishing a book.
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