Ibon wrote:Plantagents suggestion is nice but stick to the North American wilderness for what ails you. Trappings of christianity, no matter how nicely dressed they are in century old stone churches doesn't nourish the soul nearly as well as pure wilderness.. no church organ can match the song of the Wood Thrush.
Walking is a way to silence the mind, regain your strenght and power, physicly and mentally, spiritually.
If you do not act now, have the courage and train the body, you might never do it.
Preparation is needed, for through hiking/cycling there are so many fine options, PCT/GDMBT.....AT sounds like a great start
I agree with IBON that the best place worldwide to do wilderness driving, riding and hiking is in North America.
Trail magic includes finding your soulmate, when you get silent, the key, your spiritual body, your energy, comes near you and you begin catching glimpses, feelings of being lucky, of being here and now, from the belly, that is how it first lets itself known.
You begin to know things like bad weather moving in, what to do next, where to find water and shelter.....trust yourself, your personal power, what you are. That is what all these people were after, after all. Plato, religious dudes and so on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoulmatePlato[edit]
In his dialogue The Symposium, Plato has Aristophanes present a story about soulmates. Aristophanes states that humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. He continues that there were three genders: man, woman and the "Androgynous", each with two sets of genitalia with the Androgynous having both male and female genitalia. The men were children of the sun, the women were children of the earth and the Androgynous were children of the moon, which was born of the sun and earth. It is said that humans had great strength at the time and threatened to conquer the gods. The gods were then faced with the prospect of destroying the humans with lightning as they had done with the Titans but then they would lose the tributes given to the gods by humans. Zeus developed a creative solution by splitting humans in half as punishment for humanity's pride and doubling the number of humans who would give tribute to the gods. These split humans were in utter misery to the point where they would not eat and would perish so Apollo had sewn them up and reconstituted their bodies with the navel being the only remnant harkening back to their original form. Each human would then only have one set of genitalia and would forever long for his/her other half; the other half of his/her soul. It is said that when the two find each other, there is an unspoken understanding of one another, that they feel unified and would lie with each other in unity and would know no greater joy than that.[3]