Varnashrama: student, householder, pilgrim, renouncer: it seems I’m in the pilgrimage phase, which could be a function of traveling the mandala, letting layer after layer unfold. I think my pilgrimage began last year when I accepted an invitation to come to Jerusalem. Everything was very raw then and I was halfway between sight and no sight. I reckoned that if I didn’t go, I would have more trouble later on in doing “big” travel, which is: negotiating airports, mainly. It was travel such as I had never experienced it before, and I can recommend it to everyone, because you get to see parts of an airport, of the mechanism behind the logistics you wouldn’t see otherwise. No fears about air travel then. Availability is another matter. Clearly, now that we’re past peak oil, air travel will be a thing of the past for many during the next decade. If I can travel by train I will: within Europe that takes time, but it can be done, and if I had time, I could travel overland to Japan even. That will be the future: more rivers to cross, more mountains to climb, travel in pilgrimage mode.
Varnashrama: student, householder, pilgrim, renouncer: it seems I’m in the pilgrimage phase, which could be a function of traveling the mandala, letting layer after layer unfold. I think my pilgrimage began last year when I accepted an invitation to come to Jerusalem. Everything was very raw then and I was halfway between sight and no [...]
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