{"id":4261,"date":"2015-07-22T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/2015\/07\/22\/pout-krkonosska-o-ritualu-prechodu\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T17:26:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:26:29","slug":"pout-krkonosska-o-ritualu-prechodu","status":"publish","type":"aktivity","link":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/aktivity\/pout-krkonosska-o-ritualu-prechodu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Krkono\u0161e pilgrimage: about the rite of passage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summer wanderings<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Krkono\u0161e pilgrimage: about the rite of passage<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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Traveling from Prague across Bohemia to Sn\u011b\u017eka with Karel Hynek M\u00e1cha<\/p>\n\n\n\n

dedicated to poets Kamil Bedn\u00e1\u0159 and Robinson Jeffers<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 20 \u2014 August 30, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIn retrospect, it seems that the entire journey of Western civilization has led humanity and the planet onto a path of initiatory transformation\u2026 It seems that we are all entering something new, into a new development, into a crisis that accelerates maturity, into a birth\u2026\u201d<\/p>Richard TARNAS<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This year we are taking the M\u00e1chov pilgrimage from Prague to Sn\u011b\u017eka as part of the project Crossing the Threshold \/ About Death and Rebirth <\/strong><\/em>(dedicated to Stanislav Grof)<\/strong>, which we are implementing in cooperation with the Na shledanou Gallery in Volhynia (the first installation will be launched on August 8). As part of this year's journey, we will try to bring closer the initiatory character of M\u00e1cha's Krkono\u0161e pilgrimage for his life and work, and at the same time present the stories of radical inner transformations of another trio of personalities, who today open new perspectives for a more comprehensive understanding of reality and for new possibilities of cultural evolution. In addition to M\u00e1cha's story, we will recall the "rites of passage" of transpersonal psychologist Stanislav Grof, Dagar shaman Malidoma Patrice Som\u00e9 and transpersonal philosopher Chris Bache, as well as the insights and reflections of some other poets, artists, mystics and scientists - Novalis, Rilke, Jeffers, Krishnamurti, Campbell, Eliade, Tarnas. Inspired by Richard Tarnas and Chris Bach, who see today's planetary crisis as a great collective rite of passage - a time of dramatic self-transcendence, death and rebirth - we will try to reflect on the connections between personal and collective transformation. It is a challenge to embrace the journey not as a competitive sport, but as an opportunity for inner work, a private rite of passage - a dive into the inner and a connection with nature and the cosmos. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Kampa "Holan's Plane Tree" "Works of art have always been born from those who faced danger, who went to the very end of experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go."<\/p>Rainer Maria RILKE<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, August 20: <\/strong>We will meet at 9 am at Charles Square <\/em>at the lower fountain, near the house where KH. M\u00e1cha lived. We will introduce you to the project "Poetry Paths" through Prague (including selected verses); we will walk its route from Charles Square to Letn\u00e1. We will set off on Vysehrad<\/em>, from there along the embankment to the National Theatre and across the Bridge of Legions to Kampu<\/em>. Here we will settle under the "Holan plane tree". We will introduce you to the project "Crossing the Threshold" and read the first lines from poems by Robinson Jeffers <\/strong>Shepherdess traveling to April<\/strong><\/em>, which will accompany us throughout the journey. From Kampa we will head up the slope of Pet\u0159\u00edn to the statue of Jaroslav Vrchlick\u00fd and then through Prague Castle, Chotkovy sady to Letn\u00e1. We will end the journey at the Alchymista caf\u00e9 in Letn\u00e1, where an impromptu lecture will take place. Macha's rite of passage <\/strong><\/em>(SW). The event is expected to end at 4 p.m. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Koko\u0159\u00ednsk\u00fd mine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

"Do you agree to be wiped out, erased, crossed out, reduced to nothing? Do you agree to be reduced to nothing? Cast into oblivion? If not, you will never truly change."<\/p>DH LAWRENCE (Phoenix)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Pilgrimage of the Giant Mountains<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We will embark on our own journey on Friday, August 21st at 8 a.m. from the observatory in L\u00e1dv\u00ed<\/strong>. From the city center you can get here by metro to the L\u00e1dv\u00ed station and from there on foot to the L\u00e1dv\u00ed observatory on a beautiful rocky promontory with a cross. From L\u00e1dv\u00ed we will follow the yellow sign to \u010e\u00e1blice and from there along a dirt road to Zdib. Further to Zdibsko, Sedlec and through the forest to Panensk\u00e9 B\u0159e\u017eany, where we will see the Baroque chapel of St. Anne by architect Santini. From there we will go to \u010cenkov and through the charming natural monument Kope\u010d and Net\u0159ebsk\u00e1 slaniska to Ob\u0159\u00edstv\u00ed on the banks of the Elbe. Here we will have lunch and then cross the Elbe over the \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1n bridge and along its course we will walk to the castle in M\u011bln\u00edk. We will spend the night on the other bank of the Elbe in the Ho\u0159\u00ednsk\u00fd park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, August 22<\/strong> at 8 am we will meet at the viewpoint above the confluence of the Vltava and Elbe rivers at the M\u011blnice castle. From there we will set off along the red trail along the M\u00e1cha Way to Bezd\u011bz: via Chloumek we will continue to Lhotka, Harasov, Koko\u0159\u00ednsk\u00fd d\u016fl to Koko\u0159\u00edn and then via Vojt\u011bchov, Ole\u0161no and R\u00e1j to Houska. We will visit the beech forest behind Houska castle and the Na konci sil pub. We will go down to Hostince pod Houskou, where we will hold a lecture from 8 pm O <\/strong><\/em>r<\/strong>The ritual of transition by Stanislav Grof <\/strong><\/em>(SW). We will spend the night in an inn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, August 23<\/strong> we will go through Borejov (<\/em>where we will visit the church of St. James the Elder with a modern altarpiece of the pilgrim St. James the Greater by Ale\u0161 Krej\u010d) \u017dd\u00edrec and Okna up to the castle Bezdez;<\/em> here we will visit a Gothic chapel, where we will try to improvise a reading of one of the chapters from Jeffers <\/strong>Shepherdesses traveling to April.<\/strong><\/em> We will then head to B\u011bl\u00e1 pod Bezd\u011bzem, where we will commemorate Vladim\u00edr Holan reading from his collection <\/strong>The triumph of death.<\/strong><\/em> From B\u011bl\u00e1 we will continue along the blue trail to Bitouchov and from there to the ruins of Zv\u00ed\u0159etice Castle, where we will spend the night.<\/p>\n\n\n

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ascent to Bezd\u011bz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cIf we want to move even one step higher on our life path, we must accept the fact that we will lose something important. If we decide to take a radical action, we must count on suffering, sadness, and pain. It is natural and healthy.\u201d<\/p>Malidoma Patrice SOM\u00c9, Dagar shaman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Monday, August 24<\/strong> we will set off along the Jizera River to Mal\u00e1 B\u011bl\u00e1 and follow the red trail through Nov\u00e1 Ves to the Ra\u010dov National Nature Monument with moorland meadows and wetland alders, around the St. Prokop spring through the Kloko\u010dka field to the Hradi\u0161t\u011b nad Jizerou Monastery and to Mnichov Hradi\u0161t\u011b. From there we will continue along the red trail to the Bohemian Paradise, first to M\u00e1cha's rock castle Vale\u010dov and then along the green trail to the Kom\u00e1rovsk\u00fd pond, where we will swim. We will then set off along the green trail and then along the red trail to the Kost castle, from there along the blue trail through Dob\u0161ice to Vyske\u0159, in front of which we will spend the night in a meadow by the forest. If it is clear, it will be possible to uniquely observe the starry sky without light pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, August 25 <\/strong>We will ascend the Stations of the Cross to the chapel on Vyske\u0159 (466 m above sea level) and from there we will continue along the blue trail to Hrub\u00e1 sk\u00e1la and then along the red trail to Trosky. From Trosky along the green trail and then along the red trail through Mlad\u011bjov to the rock castle of Pa\u0159ez, near which we will spend the night in a rocky overhang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, August 26 <\/strong>we will follow the green trail through Prachov Rocks to Prachov and from there follow the blue trail through P\u0159iv\u00fd\u0161ina, Brad and Kbelnice to Ji\u010d\u00edn, where we will have lunch. We will visit the Wallenstein Loggia and Zeb\u00edn. Here we will hold a lecture Between Two Worlds \u2013 about the ritual of passage of the Dagar shaman Malidoma Som\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>In the evening we will take the green path to \u017deleznice and further past Bradleck\u00e1 Lhota and the ruins of Bradlec Castle to the ruins of Kumburk Castle, where we will spend the night.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Bradlec<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cAnyone who deeply desires his liberation must voluntarily deny everything\u2026He must come to the point of inducing within himself a state of innocence that would be void of purity.\u201d<\/p>Roger GILBERT-LECOMTE<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, August 27<\/strong> We will hike along the red trail to Nov\u00e1 Paka and then continue along the red trail through Radkyn\u011b to Pecky. From there, follow the yellow trail under Jelen\u00ed h\u0159bet to Borovnice and further under \u010cisteck\u00e1 h\u016fra (586 m above sea level), where we will spend the night at the edge of the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, August 28<\/strong> We will follow the yellow path over \u010cisteck\u00e1 h\u016fra to \u010cist\u00e1 and from there we will continue along the dirt road to Bukovina u Studenec and then along the road to Studenec and from there along the red path to Str\u00e1\u017en\u00edk peak (630 m above sea level). From Str\u00e1\u017en\u00edk along the blue path to Martinice v Krkono\u0161e and to Horn\u00ed Bran\u00e1. We will pass Horn\u00ed Bran\u00e1 to Valte\u0159ice, from where we will follow the blue path to the foot of the Krkono\u0161e, where we will spend the night in the meadows under the forest (possibly we will sleep in our makeshift hayloft).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, August 29th <\/strong>we will reach the blue trail at the K\u0159\u00ed\u017eovka crossroads on the border of the Krkono\u0161e National Park and from there we will follow the yellow trail to P\u0159edn\u00ed \u017dal\u00fd (1018 m asl). We will continue along the ridge along the red trail to \u010cern\u00e1 sk\u00e1la (1038 m asl) and further to Mechovinec (1074 m asl) and Horn\u00ed M\u00edse\u010dky, from where we will descend along the red trail to \u0160pindler\u016fv Ml\u00fdn, where we will have lunch. From \u0160pindler\u016fv Ml\u00fdn we will set off along the yellow trail through the B\u00edl\u00e9 Elbe Valley to Lu\u010dn\u00ed bouda. <\/strong><\/em>Improvised lecture: Dark Night, Early Dawn \u2013 about Chris Bache's psychedelic journey of initiation and his vision of collective transformation.<\/strong><\/em>We spend the night in a meadow hut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, August 30<\/strong> we climb to the sunrise on Sn\u011b\u017eka (1602 m above sea level). On the top of Sn\u011b\u017eka we read M\u00e1cha's prose ""Krkono\u0161e Pilgrimage"<\/em>. <\/strong>From the top of Sn\u011b\u017eka we descend via Ob\u0159\u00ed D\u016fl to Pec pod Sn\u011b\u017ekou and from there we return by bus to Prague. Or we take the road via Horn\u00ed M\u00edse\u010dky to Horn\u00ed Mar\u0161ov and from there by bus to Prague.<\/p>\n\n\n

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"The pilgrim looked at himself and was terribly transformed, ... an unknown power pressed him forward, an inexpressible desire pulled him along an unknown path in an unknown land."<\/p>Karel Hynek M\u00c1CHA (Krkono\u0161e Pilgrimage)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

NOTICE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you do not go with us for the entire journey, you can join us anywhere, preferably at the main points of the route (M\u011blnik, Houska, Mnichovo Hradi\u0161t\u011b, Ji\u010d\u00edn, Pecka, \u0160pindler\u016fv Ml\u00fdn, etc.) and go with us for as long as you want. We do not provide accommodation in advance. We sleep under the stars. If you want to insure your accommodation, please book it yourself. We recommend that you bring blister plasters with you. Everyone is free to travel and is responsible for themselves. We only ask for tolerance towards other pilgrims.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bus connection on August 30 from Pec to Prague<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pec pod Sn\u011b\u017ekou \/ departure: 13:15 \u2013 Prague, \u010cern\u00fd most \/ arrival: 16:28Next departures: 14:50 (e.g. 17:49), 16:16 (e.g. 19:28), 17:00 (e.g. 20:00)Next connections with a transfer depart from Pec at 13:37, 17:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONTACT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  • Ji\u0159\u00ed Zem\u00e1nek, sarvanga@centrum.cz, mobile: 777 117 466<\/li>
  • Vladimir Dr\u00e1bek, drabekvladimir00@gmail.com, mobile: 602 646 665<\/li>
  • Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hr\u016fza, tomashruza@gmail.com, mobile: 775 052 607<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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