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What makes a place sacred, and can you find spiritual transformation without traveling thousands of miles? Why do ordinary English villages and Scottish islands continue to draw seekers from around the world? Award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith talks about British pilgrimage sites from Lindisfarne to Iona, and Walsingham to Glastonbury, and how these ancient places still draw even secular pilgrims today.
Oliver Smith is a multi award-winning travel writer and author of The Atlas of Abandoned Places, and On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain.
- The double lives of pilgrimage places, and how ordinary locations can offer transcendent experiences
- Lindisfarne’s tidal causeway
- The tension between commercial tourism and genuine spiritual seeking at sacred sites
- Iona’s remote Scottish island setting and the challenging journey required to reach it
- Walsingham’s remarkable history from medieval powerhouse to modern multicultural pilgrimage destination
- Why Glastonbury might be Britain’s best pilgrimage
- The philosophy of traveling deeper not further, and finding extraordinary meaning in familiar places
You can find Oli at OliverSmithTravel.com
You can find more Pilgrimage Resources here, as well as my book, Pilgrimage: Lessons Learned from Solo Walking Three Ancient Ways.
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