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Pilgrimage: From Imagination
to Divine Experience

We might think at times: I’ll make a pilgrimage. Some walk is imagined, usually through a sacred region, and a holy energy is felt. Imagined, then, is returning home with broadened perspective. This is beautiful: to go as a pilgrim in our hopes, then feel in our hearts. But a second possibility is: make that trip … go on a pilgrimage for real!
Pilgrim of the World enables both pilgrimages. Doing either the hope or the actuality, the Obscure drops away. Way into Divine Creation opens.
Pilgrimage, and the benefits from making pilgrimages, is a belief shared across faith traditions. A pilgrimage brings an individual closer to the Divine. We have come from Creation, and through Life we walk as pilgrims.
This millennia-old tradition can be applied by you today. And while each faith has specific beliefs about “going to Heaven,” the pilgrimage act is shared. More importantly, it is available to you now. Crossing the world opens appreciation of the beyond.
What happens is that making a pilgrimage re-frames your religion to you. A pilgrimage functions as a language. It allows you to communicate with, and thereby understand, the grand existential. Wach individual life, across the course of that individual’s time, can be a pilgrimage from birth creation to Creation.
As a religious text writes … or, as a painting patterns The Divine … or, as a holiday (holy day) distinguishes Time … a pilgrimage also distinguishes. It achieves this, by etching the Holy on Earth. Life flows on.

The organization, Pilgrim of the World, allows you to individualize the grandeur of the Sacred. A diversity of options wait to make fit. As a publishing house makes available many religious texts, or a museum shows sculptures of many faiths, or calendars align holidays, Pilgrim of the World advances journey—the format being a walk through a sector of Creation that you customize.
Whatever one’s religion, the force in that is bonding you to Creation identity. Faith connects you. Bond may turn this way or that (as does a road or river), but Faith connects one’s mortality to the Grand Universality. Faith can be considered like a handclasp; the me-to-Thee, individual with God. My devotion to God—God’s commitment to me.
Through Faith, I go to that force and that force flows to Me. To continue the metaphor of handclasp, pilgrimage is walking connection. Divine and person, walking holding hands, strengthening their relationship. From that comes Life’s experiencing.
Strong truths come—that is the purpose of pilgrimage. A pilgrimage is an intentional seeking. This is not an ending, but a becoming. Established pilgrimages gain their authority by the joining of individual pilgrims who walk seeking. Collective, integrated gathering, persons making the journeys across centuries, millennia, braids the destiny journey.

What We Do

The experience of pilgrimage—all faiths share in their ways—some into holy places, others walking sacred lines, others testing on difficult rising trails.

The Congregation of the World expands understanding of Creation—locating this in experience of the journey of searching—shared worship though the world, especially its places and paths set aside by collective action.

Today’s generation inherits a Creation—our role is to pass that on. Nature is increasingly fragile because of humans, so we inherit a responsibility from our forbearers as they passed to us rising quality of life. The approaching responsibility is for All Life. Human actions position one-seventh of Earth today as places protected. Now, through growing this commons, we can gather in individual pilgrimages for the well-being of the whole.

Sanctified spaces can be viewed in a human-walled creation: temple, gurdwara, church, or laboratory. In these, controls over human actions are established to guide human use. The opportunity now is to walk out into wider wonder of Earth Sanctified. There already are paths to grow faith, pilgrimages leading us to explore also the vibrancy of Creation in established Nature Preserves.

Then ... through new creation—we learn and deepen—using a new shared social media we will grow to reach and gather people. Presenting to each distinctive understanding forward understanding rooted in ancient truths they still held and valid but now nurtured for new fruit.

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