I want to understand the initiatory step that represents this journey for the author but what about when once that he has recovered his sword ceases its approach and joined Compostela car !!!! It realizes that this path has been imposed, it as the path to "retrieve his sword," acquire "powers" to lead the "good fight." In short, a path that paradoxically strengthens the ego of the author who seeks to completely finish a return on investment within RAM. RAM, narrête not to talk much more than the way ... and what about the "exercises" at the limit of sectarianism, let alone the mentor who guides so that the author looks like a zombie did no own idea. In the end an empty path with meaning.
If this book was the first I read on this subject, I would have thought the camino was just a dilluminé thing (I did not say sectarian because everyone is free to walk and believe what he wants on the camino but it is not far :() and it was better to go his way :).
To those who wonder why we are still likely to simply walk this path in 2013, I recommend rather read "Immortal hike" J-Ch Ruffin. It's alive, much better written without pretensions esoteric, very human and if the sacred is the appointment ("Starting to Saint-Jacques I sought nothing and I found it."), The author not as ferociously seeks Coelho.
For those who want to follow the way of St James, whether one is a believer, agnostic or single walker, I let Ruffin concluded: "Whenever the question I was asked," Why did you go to Santiago ? "I was at a loss to answer. How to explain to those who have not lived the path has the effect if not virtue to forget the reasons that led to engage in it? It's gone, that's all. "
Happy reading (Ruffin :)) and "good camino" to all.