New Guides to walking the Camino – A life changing experience for times of profound change
In their search for a deeper meaning to life and to balance the stress and anxiety of western lifestyles, increasing numbers of people today are taking time out to go on a pilgrimage. Findhorn Press is launching three newly revised guides to the Caminos, Europe’s oldest pilgrimage routes, to support the pilgrims.

Camino expert and author John Brierley says, “We are in the middle of a huge questioning of the Western secular worldview and there’s a deep hunger for direct spiritual experience. Walking the Camino opens up a unique space that allows people an opportunity for profound personal transformation.”

The Camino has been changing people’s lives for over a thousand years. And John should know, after he first walked the Camino aged 39, the experience led him to re-evaluate his career and life choices, leaving the corporate world for a life of dedication to the inner journey of life.

These newly revised expert guides cover three of the most popular and beautiful routes, guiding the pilgrim through the ‘outer’ as well as the ‘inner’ journey‚ of the Camino.

The guides include:

1. A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Camino de Santiago, stunningly beautiful and deeply transformative, this centuries old route is the most popular Christian pilgrimage anywhere in the world, from St Jean de Port in the foothills of the French Pyrenees to the fabled city of Santiago de Compostela. This route was popularized by Shirley MacLaine’s book, ‘The Camino’ and launched Paulo Coelho’s writing career with the publication of his experiences along the Camino, in his first novel, ‘The Pilgrimage’.

2. A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Camino Portugués, there are many pilgrim paths to Santiago, but there is none more soulful and significant than the Camino Portugués, connected to the life and teachings of St James.

3. A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Camino Fisterra, covers the lesser known walk from Santiago to the ocean, into a region once known as the ‘End of the World’ rich with Druidic sites and legends about St James and Jesus.

Spanning historical and religious divides the Camino appeals to people of every persuasion or none, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, atheist, agnostic, even sceptics who know instinctively that something in life needs changing, and that means changing themselves. In recent years there has been a tenfold increase in people walking the Camino.