http://www.bloggernews.net/110871 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:12:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/110871#comment-214852 Tracy Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:09:37 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/110871#comment-214852 Dear Thisbe, I very much enjoyed your article on John Pratt's book an I thought you might be intersted in mine. I walked my own Camino in 1999 from the Pyrenees. There is still no doubt in my mind that it was perhaps the most important thing I have ever done, and, as it does with all pilgrims remains a constant influence in my everyday life. Along the way, somewhere between Ponferrada and Cacabelos, my fellow pilgrim, and a Gnostic priest, told me that there was increasing conjecture that it was not S. James buried in Compostela at all, but a "heretic" named Priscillian. I countered that I had never heard of Priscillian, but the idea wouldn't go away. So when I got back, I began to do a bit of research and what I found was fascinating indeed. Priscillian's story had all the elements of a best seller: persecution and injustice, alternative faiths, a scandal or two, but no such book existed. So I decided the only thing to do was write my own! Pilgrimage to Heresy has been recently published in the US. It is "novel" in so much as the story and dialogue are my own, but, the historical detail, such as we know it, is accurate, and it presents Priscillian's philosophy dovetailed with the thoughts of Miranda, a modern day Canadian pilgrim, who is looking for the basis for her own beliefs and insights into her own spirituality. If you have walked the Camino, or plan to, I would be very surprised if you do not find something of yourself within its pages. For more information, see http://www.pilgrimagetoheresy.com where you can read about Priscillian, my own Camino, and some links to Gnosticism, as well as ordering information. You can also read some pages from the book. If you wish to read the Prologue and the first chapter, see also http://www.iuniverse.com/lookinside/Loo ... 124&page=3 Ultreia y Buen Camino Tracy Saunders Spain Dear Thisbe,
I very much enjoyed your article on John Pratt’s book an I thought you might be intersted in mine.
I walked my own Camino in 1999 from the Pyrenees. There is still no doubt in my mind that it was perhaps the most important thing I have ever done, and, as it does with all pilgrims remains a constant influence in my everyday life.
Along the way, somewhere between Ponferrada and Cacabelos, my fellow pilgrim, and a Gnostic priest, told me that there was increasing conjecture that it was not S. James buried in Compostela at all, but a “heretic” named Priscillian. I countered that I had never heard of Priscillian, but the idea wouldn’t go away. So when I got back, I began to do a bit of research and what I found was fascinating indeed. Priscillian’s story had all the elements of a best seller: persecution and injustice, alternative faiths, a scandal or two, but no such book existed. So I decided the only thing to do was write my own!
Pilgrimage to Heresy has been recently published in the US. It is “novel” in so much as the story and dialogue are my own, but, the historical detail, such as we know it, is accurate, and it presents Priscillian’s philosophy dovetailed with the thoughts of Miranda, a modern day Canadian pilgrim, who is looking for the basis for her own beliefs and insights into her own spirituality. If you have walked the Camino, or plan to, I would be very surprised if you do not find something of yourself within its pages.
For more information, see http://www.pilgrimagetoheresy.com where you can read about Priscillian, my own Camino, and some links to Gnosticism, as well as ordering information. You can also read some pages from the book.
If you wish to read the Prologue and the first chapter, see also http://www.iuniverse.com/lookinside/Loo … 124&page=3
Ultreia y Buen Camino
Tracy Saunders
Spain

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