Pilgrimage is an innovative publication featuring personal practical writings reflecting on the human journey. Our essays bubble up from the depths of the human heart and seek to celebrate and offer a deeper understanding of human experience. Our goal is to discover what can nurture our true Self, what transforms our soul. It is our belief that as we dig deeply for our own personal truths, we reach the healing waters which can sustain us all. Poetry, photos, reviews of books and films, insightful quotes all enrich our search for what is true and enduring in human life. We invite you to sample the articles on this website. Dive in; the water's fine!
GOOD NEWS! Pilgrimage has a new editor/publisher, Peter Anderson. Peter is a former newspaper reporter, and presently teaches writing. Currently, Peter is the publisher and editor of Pilgrimage Magazine and the poetry editor for the Mountain Gazette. You can check out his work in a collection of essays, First Church of Higher Elevations (Ghost Road Press; 2005), which is available from Ghost Road Press (www.ghostroadpress.com) and on the Pilgrimage Magazine website (www.pilgrimagepress.org). He will continue the same focus for Pilgrimage: lively, personal writing reflecting on the celebrations and struggles of the human journey.
Discover much more about the new Pilgrimage via their website (only a click away): www.pilgrimagepress.org. To contact the new editor for information on subscribing or for guidelines on the submission of mss., please write:
Peter Anderson
Editor, Pilgrimage
P.O. Box 696
Crestone, CO 81131Email pilgrimage@ctelco.net
On this website you can continue to order volumes 26 and 27 as well as The Best of Pilgrimage. All articles explore ways in which we can discover what can nurture our true Self, what transforms our soul; as well as offering poetry, book and film reviews, and photography. To order, click here.
Please bookmark our site and check back often, as we are regularly adding new material. Following is just a sampling of the complete articles currently available on this website:
Learning to Be Truly Kind (... being willing to honestly recognize why we aren't, and being willing to let go of the blocks we put in the way.)
A Connection of the Heart ("She was a large, joyous woman" "compassionate by nature.")
The Blacksmith ("Grandpa Lane's shop smelled of coke fire and horse sweat.")
On Reading Chekhov ("Chekhov is a true physician of the soul.")
Season of Shadows ("It is only in the individual pilgrimage that the shadow can be claimed and redeemed as gift.")
A Massage for My Mother (how massage became a way for a daughter to experience intimacy with her aging mother)
In Awe of the Transformative (reflections on unexpected moments of spiritual awareness)
Music from the Heart (a therapist trusts his own intuition)
The Garden of Marriage (how gardening and marriage shed light on each other)
The Song Finally Sung (a touching portrayal of transformation before death)
On Knowing and Loving a Person with AIDS (a personal portrait)
On Becoming a Grandfather (a surprising and delightful discovery)
To Catch a Ball (a simple but profound lesson from a professional ex-football player)
The Seasons (how the changing seasons affect one's personal experience)
Photograph by Zell McGee
An exciting, innovative, and unique publication, described by Robert Bly as "one of the best journals in the country."
Pilgrimage is bread and wine for the journey. It is hints about where to find guides and friendly spirits and how to survive the encounter with demons and monsters of the deep. Sometimes it's blood-rich meat, sometimes honey, sometimes C rations with a tossed salad on the side. It definitely belongs in the rucksack of pilgrims, adventurers, and those contemplating an heroic journey beyond the outskirts of the Average.
Sam Keen, writing about this journal
Long & Winding Road
Photo by Ellis Fleker
Pilgrimage: Reflections on the Human Journey, features writings which come out of the deep personal experience of our authors as illustrated by Neil Lamper:
Summer Lee, my granddaughter, comes running into the living room, holding up something; "Know what this is for" "What's it for" "It's for if you need something to look at." And so in nine words the 3 1/2 year-old sketches in a total philosophy of life. "Know what a symphony's for? It's for if you need something to listen to. "Know what a friend's for? If you need somebody to love."
"The Incredible Lightness of Listening"
Pilgrimage sees life as a journey, as an adventure of discovery; our wide range of articles are united by a fascination with the wonder of the human journey, and a strong desire to more fully understand and celebrate that journey.
It is only through letting our heart break that we discover something unexpected: the heart cannot actually break, it can only break open. When we feel both our love for this world and the pain of this world - together, at the same time - the heart breaks out of its shell. To live with an open heart is to experience life full-strength.
John Welwood in "The Broken-Hearted Warrior and the Renewal of the World."
Photograph by Dominica
In addition to articles, we publish book and movie reviews, poetry and photography.
We cordially invite you to order Pilgrimage, a refreshing way to enliven your spirit and nourish your soul. Our three most recent issues, volumes 26 and 27, along with The Best of Pilgrimage (all 120 pages) are available. To order, CLICK HERE.
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