Ačkoli se stalo něco úžasně zvláštního, připadala jsem si, jako by to byla nejnormálnější situace na světě. I zázraky mohou být zcela samozřejmé.–Banana Jošimoto, Kuchyně Není to tak dlouho, co si mě k sobě zavolala povlovná šírava mezi Budčí a Tuchoměřicemi na severozápadním cípu Prahy. Třebaže jsem byl ještě večer před odjezdem pevně rozhodnutý, že ráno…
Tag: Pilgrimage
Martin Nawrath: The flow of pilgrimage, the flow of mind
This essay "The flow of pilgrimage, the flow of mind" by Martin Nawrath was published in the thematic issue 4 of the XXXVII. year 2023 of the Veronica magazine (pp. 4-6), dedicated to pilgrimages through the landscape. At my age, I sometimes let my steps slow down. Perhaps the body of my legs knows better than I do what speeds to walk at in this stage of life. My head still likes to touch the terrain of the pilgrimage on the map,…
Miloslav Nevrlý: Praises of the Back Country
About the Rose Garden at Saint Eustace or How I Came to the Back Country "The praises of the Back Country, its creatures and colors, made by the blessed pilgrim, begin as he lay enchanted at Saint Eustace in the Rose Garden, alone under the blue sky on a white rock." Miloslav Nevrlý When I first entered the immense maze of ravines around the Křinice River...
Jiří Zemánek: Karel Hynek Mácha's Pilgrimage from Prague to Sněžka or How to Become Earthlings Again
“My love walked with me – over a high mountain, higher than the mountain I walked over…” Karel Hynek Mácha (Two Songs of Gypsies) Karel Hynek Mácha was a true poet-pilgrim who, during his short life, undertook a number of long walking expeditions across Bohemia and beyond its borders, to Venice. His literary work was particularly inspired by his travels to…
Jiří Zemánek: On the origin of Pilgrim, the meaning of pilgrimage and the Máchov pilgrimage
“We are not here to control the world. We are here to connect with the greater earthly community.” Thomas Berry In the mid-1990s, when I began to realize that we were in a time of great civilizational crisis and transformation—a time of searching for a new story—I asked myself how we could more deeply integrate our lives, our culture, and our spirituality…
Jiří Zemánek: The Imagination of the Earth as a Body
This text was originally written for the anthology Živel ZEMĚ (Agentura Koniklec, Prague 2004, pp. 222-227); however, it was first published in the magazine Ateliér (21 / 24.10. 2002, p. 16) and subsequently published in a German translation under the title “Die Erde als Körper” in the German magazine Hagia Chora (5 Jahrgang / 15 / 2003, pp. 82-85). “Her heart beats in the highest heaven,…
Jiří Zemánek: On the art of pilgrimage or knowing how to get lost and On walking
On the art of pilgrimage or knowing how to get lost Pilgrimage means embracing the land, nature and letting it embrace you – with all your senses! As a pilgrim, I simply cannot avoid it, escape from it into another reality, or intellectually deceive it in any way. On the contrary, it is necessary to be extremely attentive and at the same time humble, because the reality of the land that surrounds and carries me…