Actress,Dancer,writer,-U.S. born,Irish-Scottish Spiritualist, Shirley Maclaine-has a book called "The Camino." The Camino is a trail that Catholic pilgrims take from France into Spain by foot and back packing. The objective of this pilgrimage is to gain insight into one's inner world and the world outside. The Camino is thought to have a spiritual significance for anyone who walks its path.
The ley lines carry energies of the Universe, God and creation. Even though one walks forward on this path-it is like retracing ones steps in each lifetime. The Camino lines begin in France, crosses the Pyrenees and makes its way from east to west across northern Spain until it reaches an exquisite and very famous cathedral called Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of Saint James are buried.
The Camino is a whopping 500 mile walk. The idea is to completely drop from the current world and surrender to God. Most churches of today-have lost the power to harness God-energy into the temples. It is all about preaching current events, politics and finances with, if your luck, a word or two to make you feel more whole as a soul.
I have always followed Shirley Maclain writings since the age of 12. I used to sit along the Mississippi river bank and go through her entire collection. As a young creole boy of lower Louisiana she has help shape me into someone with a strong sense of justice, inquiring mind and an ability to cut through bullshit with anyone and any group. These are my tools of the trade as I March through life. These are my strengths. I do not suffer consequences because I have a spiritual ability to see exactly who or what is standing before me. I can see motives, mind sets and outcomes based on God and not only on words that come out of silly human mouths. I feel sorry for the citizen who has total faith in failed world governments, countries, religions and politicians. These things change and never stay the same. Religions, church policies, governments-all come and go but the soul remains. I feel sorry for Creoles who have lost their heritage and identity because there isn't a place for them on the U.S. racial-census data. I feel sorry that media can come into someone's home and tell people that they do not exists and never did accomplish anything as a people-when you have entire cities built by the people-which some claim didn't exist. If you raise your family to suck on the nipple of the world and America-then you will have a starving child. Creole parents need to raise their children with their true identities-and stop worrying about what whites or African-Americans think about one who has multi-ancestry. This is the new world-and Creoles have seen governments, colonizers, countries come and go-and we are still here. The current government, states and system-will one day be a thing of the past also. Don't sell you soul and knowledge for man-made illusions. Don't be like an African slave and think that education is a bad and "uppity" thing to pursue. Misery loves company and right now there are some miserable people in this country-looking to feed off of our collective energy.
I read her book quite some time ago and have been planning to make the pilgrimage into France and start the journey. Hurricane Katrina appears to have everyone about 2 years behind on their lives -so it will be a couple of more years before I can up and leave for the amount of time it will take to complete the trail.
Hurricane Katrina, American policy regarding certain people, the barbaric prison justice system, pollution, the destruction of Creole colonies in Louisiana, the incompetence of current U.S. politicians along with the Catholic church feeling it more important to lecture about gay marriage and abortion on Sunday's instead of God's role into an increasing unstable, and shaky world for the little people-is enough of reason to hop, skip and jump my butt to France. The Catholic church can lobby and petition the U.S. government for illegal immigrants out of Mexico-but they are silent and sometimes offensive when it comes to Creole folks-who established the Catholic church in Louisiana and parts of the Caribbean. New Orleans is a majority black city, most blacks fell into being Protestants due to slavery-but New Orleans has always had a Catholic center. This was no accident. Many Creoles gave their built New Orleans from the ground up-in pour reflection and Catholics are still prominent in the middle of a hostile, anti-Catholic, Protestant South.
I have been blessed with French-Creole insight and every insight that I have been getting isn't good or positive. The more that one is willing to allow one situation to reveal itself-the more every situation starts to reveal itself. If there is one thing that I do know and recognize-it is that the current image of the United States aren't the realities of what really goes down in this country.
I advise any Catholic-who is thinking of taking this journey-to read Shirley's book-"The Camino." Pocket Books-2000.
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