The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit

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It has been nearly three decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. In testament to the endurance and vitality of her message, each of her eight legendary bestsellers -- from Don't Fall Off the Mountain to My Lucky Stars -- continues today to attract, dazzle, and transform countless new readers. Now Shirley is back -- with her most breathtakingly powerful and unique book yet.

This is the story of a journey. It is the eagerly anticipated and altogether startling culmination of Shirley MacLaine's extraordinary -- and ultimately rewarding -- road through life. The riveting odyssey began with a pair of anonymous handwritten letters imploring Shirley to make a difficult pilgrimage along the Santiago de Compostela Camino in Spain. Throughout history, countless illustrious pilgrims from all over Europe have taken up the trail. It is an ancient -- and allegedly enchanted -- pilgrimage. People from St. Francis of Assisi and Charlemagne to Ferdinand and Isabella to Dante and Chaucer have taken the journey, which comprises a nearly 500-mile trek across highways, mountains and valleys, cities and towns, and fields. Now it would be Shirley's turn.

For Shirley, the Camino was both an intense spiritual and physical challenge. A woman in her sixth decade completing such a grueling trip on foot in thirty days at twenty miles per day was nothing short of remarkable. But even more astounding was the route she took spiritually: back thousands of years, through past lives to the very origin of the universe. Immensely gifted with intelligence, curiosity, warmth, and a profound openness to people and places outside her own experience, Shirley MacLaine is truly an American treasure. And once again, she brings her inimitable qualities of mind and heart to her writing. Balancing and negotiating the revelations inspired by the mysterious energy of the Camino, she endured her exhausting journey to Compostela until it gradually gave way to a far more universal voyage: that of the soul. Through a range of astonishing and liberating visions and revelations, Shirley saw into the meaning of the cosmos, including the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria, insights into human genesis, the essence of gender and sexuality, and the true path to higher love.

With rich insight, humility, and her trademark grace, Shirley MacLaine gently leads us on a sacred adventure toward an inexpressibly transcendent climax. The Camino promises readers the journey of a thousand lifetimes.

What Customers Say About The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit:

The book is in excellent condition. I had been looking for some information on Atlantis. A great read. This book answered my questions. I have read several books on "mysticism" (a misnomer in my opinion) and this just tied it all together.

I was further turned off by the constant references to the press-it made me suspect her people had made sure the press knew she was there. Atlantis and Lemuria have been discussed in other works prior to this and I believe the author is having "Lucid dreams". On the whole I was not impressed. splitting the sexes to procreate-when before they were having 2 babies every nine months-after splitting the self- 1 baby every nine months.

My friend encouraged me to read this book. It is certainly feasible that I would not recognize her on the street. This was certainly not as enjoyable as "Out On a Limb" which I read over 20 years ago. He is NOT an avid reader and in fact read this a couple summer's ago.

the number 6666 is just hilarious as a consequence of the infamous 666. " Good morning," he said, " May I have your autograph." It appears the hike was taken in 1994 but the book was not published until 2000. When one analyzes her Atlantis revelations they often do not make sense e.g.

This was a great book. This is a fascinating book and once again Shirley Maclaine stretches your idea of what is possible, what is out there and what is reality. All this and she talks about an incredible journey on the Camino in Spain.

To use her quote, "the absence of evidence does not mean the evidence of absence".Enlightenment seems difficult to explain, but easy to experience. Within the pages of these books I have discovered the ease of well-being and how to live in the moment. Shirley MacLaine is a wonderful writer whose adventure on "The Camino" (a 500-mile trek/pilgrimage across Spain) is both enlightening and entertaining. Authors Ariel & Shya Kane explain it well in their books Working on Yourself Doesn't Work: The 3 Simple Ideas That Will Instantaneously Transform Your Life, How to Create a Magical Relationship: The 3 Simple Ideas that Will Instantaneously Transform Your Love Life and Being Here: Modern Day Tales of Enlightenment. I am grateful that authors like Shirley MacLaine and Ariel & Shya Kane have done the "footwork" so I can experience Enlightenment while reading a great book at home - without walking on fire or walking 500 miles on the Camino. Her journey of self discovery and her will to share her truth inspires me. I love her courage as she shares wisdom that cannot be proven, but can be experienced.

Just a bit too much. Maclaine's "spiritual travels" leave me in my own world, with the here and now. Interesting and enjoyable reading for about 2/3 of the book. Sometimes Ms.