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The Camino

A Journey of the Spirit

by Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine
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It has been nearly five decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. Now Shirley is back — with her most breathtakingly powerful and unique book yet.

The Camino is the story of a riveting odyssey that began with a pair of anonymous handwritten letters imploring Shirley to make a difficult pilgrimage along the Santiago de Compostela Camino in Spain. Throughout history, countless pilgrims have taken up the trail. It is an ancient — and allegedly enchanted — pilgrimage. People from St. Francis of Assisi to Dante and Chaucer have taken the journey — a nearly 500-mile trek across highways, mountains, cities and fields.

For Shirley, the Camino was both an intense spiritual and physical challenge. For a woman in her sixth decade completing such a grueling trip on foot in thirty days at twenty miles per day was remarkable. But even more astounding was her spiritual route: back thousands of years, through past lives to the very origin of the universe.

With rich insight, humility, and grace, The Camino promises listeners the journey of a thousand lifetimes.

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    May 1, 2000

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      • ISBN: 9780743519472
      • File size: 142619 KB
      • Duration: 04:57:07

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Shirley MacLaine has done it again! If fans have been anticipating another spiritual journey from the ever-searching Academy Award-winning actress, the wait is over! MacLaine carried out a five-hundred-mile spiritual pilgrimage from France to Spain along the renowned Santiago de Compostela. With her insightfully unique wit and caustically charming style, Shirley painstakingly recounts the physical trials of walking 20 miles per day over mountains and rugged terrain; tromping through unfamiliar, fast-paced cities; dodging the press; and taking remarkable internal journeys back thousands of years to reencounter spiritual teachers, lovers, the lost continent of Atlantis, and the Garden of Eden! This is a fascinating performance, as this author shares the whole shebang with her listeners! B.J.P. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 1, 2001
      Following a centuries-old tradition, entertainer MacLaine walked nearly 500 miles across northern Spain's Camino Santiago de Compostela. This memoir of her formidable journey, like her other books, is a likely candidate for bestsellerdom as well as for ridicule in some quarters. An effort to "feel human again," her physical feat was daunting: she hiked for 10 hours a day on her own, often in intense heat, and slept in refugios--crowded, dirty shelters. Though she observes the small villages, historic cathedrals and other trekkers along the way, MacLaine is most interested in her interior journey. The actress, who has written before about her numerous past lives in such books as Out on a Limb and Dancing in the Light, senses that she's walked the Camino before as a coffee-colored, dark-haired woman of Charlemagne's time. Visited in dreams by a spiritual guide, she connects her various lives and soul mates, revealing that her former lover (in this life) was Olaf Palme, the assassinated Swedish Prime Minister. As the journey progresses, she revisits the origins of the human race in the edenic Lemuria, then the dawn of Atlantis and on to ADAMic civilization. On the earthly plane, MacLaine seems to enjoy evading the press, which she compares to fearsome dogs, and whose pursuit escalates as she gets closer to the end of the journey. Though she completed the Camino in 30 days instead of the planned 40, her arrival in Santiago lacks a Hollywood finale. Instead, she slips into the famous cathedral and leaves immediately for Madrid. Major ad/promo; author tour; 20-city TV satellite tour; 20-city radio satellite tour.

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