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• Title: Pilgrims, Roosters, Sore Feet and Healing Spirit: A Conversation with Paul Myers (Interview)
• Author : Stephen Farris
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Reference,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 57 KB

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I WAS ENVIOUS a few years ago when I heard that Paul Myers was walking El Camino, the ancient pilgrim way to Santiago de Compostella in northwest Spain. He travelled from Le Puy en Vallay, the town where the various pilgrimage routes through France met, to begin the journey into Spain and the long, hot slog to the shrine of St. James. Myers was, at that time, the minister of a Vancouver-area Presbyterian church and the whole venture seemed an enticing mixture of holiday and spiritual exercise, at least from my armchair. Recently, Myers wrote Rooster in the Cathedral, a description of his experiences on El Camino and I had the opportunity to speak with him about the book and about the spiritual journey it chronicles. "Which section of the bookstore does it belong in," I asked, "with the travel books, the religion section or elsewhere?" Myers replied that the publisher had labeled it a memoir, a book that tells a piece of the author's life, a verdict he understands but does not entirely share. It certainly isn't a travel book, though you will feel the heat of the Spanish sun, the grit on your face and, with imagination, the blisters on your feet. Don't take it with you on the journey; it isn't a guidebook and though not a heavy book in any sense of the word, it does weigh something. Myers admits that on the road he became obsessed by weight, even photocopying his guidebook and throwing pages away once he had passed a landmark. "Pilgrim, everything weighs something," he reminds us, a truth of the spirit as well as of the backpack. But even that simple observation tells us what this book really is. It is actually "a tool to go about the business of reflecting on a spiritual journey."

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