The Camino

The Camino by Shirley Maclaine 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 Dont 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 MacLaines
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 Shirleys 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 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 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.