
Cruz de Hierro, León
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Oct 27, 2026
Ep 161: The Way of author and pilgrim Beebe Bahrami and the wild goose
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40:53CaitlinAUDIENCE
I think his name was Rowan.
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40:55CaitlinAUDIENCE
A bit disillusioned by just all of the, there was a lot of tourists kind of, and I think I delineate tourists from travellers in that they're there to take an Instagram photo, you know, of them putting a stone at Cruz de Ferro or something.
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41:10CaitlinAUDIENCE
And then I love again what you say about the churches felt to me in some places, and this is controversial because I'm not a Catholic or I don't follow a religion like that, but I felt like some places were a bit corrupted by the religious obscene wealth of the churches and, um, I think I wish that I had read this book before I went so that I could look deeper into the original kind of layers of meaning that people have put into those places from pagan times or maybe even as far back as the, you know, Adepwek and people, you know, the Neanderthal people that were perhaps before there, you know, perhaps they felt this energy and were drawn to these places along the way as well.
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41:55CaitlinAUDIENCE
And I wish I had been able to see that instead of just sometimes I could just see this great, you know, just obscene expenditure of money in what was otherwise generally a poor place.