The Examined Path Through Pilgrimage and sacred time

To go on pilgrimage is to remove ordinary time and replace it with purposive time — every step now pointed at something beyond the everyday. The Camino, the Hajj, the Kumbh Mela, the Lakota vision quest: all suspend the usual categories and allow the pilgrim to be remade by the journey itself. The destination is often not the point.

The course sequence, in order.

Each step builds on the last.