The Camino

A Journey of the Spirit

De: Shirley MacLaine

Narrado por: Shirley MacLaine

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.

Great listen - captivating

Listened while on my treadmill. Shirley's voice is absolutely marvelous. Appreciate her honesty and detail. Highly recommend this thoughtful read.

Spiritual Guidance

Shirley's experience has provided me with a heightened desire to continue on my own spiritual journey. I would love to meet her in person to learn more about her experiences.

Thank you Shirley.

I'm moved beyond words.

I've never been one to follow some actor or actress, but after listening to this I would dearly love to speak with this wonderful woman about her experience and additional thoughts. this wad a treat!!!

spiritual camino

This is as much of a story of an individual's journey as it is a trek across the Camino de Santiago. Fascinating. Thought provoking. Intriguing. Interesting. Shirley MacLaine is truly a gifted (blessed) artist and storyteller.

Loved it Despite Some Rambling

If you are looking for a travel guide to the Camino, look elsewhere, as that's not this book's purpose. MacLaine introduces the book by saying that the Camino traverses ley lines that provoke deep insights and epiphanies in those who walk it, and the book focuses on how those realizations arose in MacLaine along her journey. I thoroughly enjoyed this book until Ch 6-8 when she talks about dreaming of her past life as a Lemurian who went to Atlantis and how the human race evolved from that civilization. That story had some interesting aspects, but I wish she hadn't spent three chapters on it; just one would have been sufficient for me. Whether her dreams were also past life recollections is sort of beside the point as far as I'm concerned because no one ever knows the truth about mystical experiences; they are in the mind and spirit of the beholder. I enjoyed the interweaving of her dreams with the personal insights she experienced while walking the Camino. She does a good job of portraying the interesting characters she met along the way, as well as her efforts to outsmart the press, who hounded her for much of her walk. I would say if you have an open mind and enjoy books that interweave the mystical and the real, you'll probably enjoy this book.