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Backpacking with the saints, wilderness hiking as spiritual practice, Belden C. Lane

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Backpacking with the saints

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Belden C. Lane

wilderness hiking as spiritual practice

"Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American Southwest. For companions, he has only such teachers as Rumi, John of the Cross, Hildegard of Bingen, Dag Hammarskjöld, and Thomas Merton, and as he walks, he engages their writings with the natural wonders he encounters, demonstrating how being alone in the wild opens a rare view onto one's interior landscape."--Publisher description

The allure of the wild: backpacking as spiritual practice -- The risk-taking character of wilderness reading -- Venturing out: the Irish wilderniss and Columbia of Iona -- Disillusionment: Laramie Peak and T€???rse of Lisieux -- Desire: Rockpile Mountsin wilderness and Thomas Traherne -- Solitude: Bell Mountain wilderness and S©ıren Kierkegaard -- Traveling light: Gunstock Hollow and Dag Hammarskjold -- Mindfulness: Moonshine Hollow and Thich Nhat Hanh -- Fear: the maze in Canyonlands and John of the Cross -- Failure: Mt. Whitney and Martin Luter -- Dying: Mudlick Mountain Trail and The Cloud of Unknowing -- Discernment: Taum Sauk Mountain and Jelaluddin Rumi -- Community: Lower Rock Creed and Teilhard de Chardin -- Justice: the Mermec River at Times Beach and Mohandas Gandhi -- Holy folly: Aravaipa Canyon and Thomas Merton