Online Lecture: Tracing Sacred Routes — Mediterranean & Europe

“Drawing on these deep metaphors..that life is a kind of journey, and the spiritual life is a particular road which to take that journey.” The above paraphrased comment was made by Dr. Robert Weiner in his Q & A session at the end of his lecture, Tracing Sacred Routes -Mediterranean & Europe. It speaks to me as I write this review, because he talks about the definition of a road or route and how it could play a role in religion. The four cites that Dr. Weiner references are: Brunequiel Cave, Karnak Temple and the Avenue of the Sphinxes, Stonehenge, and Eleusis in Greece, are great examples of routes that people took for rituals. Although their purposes may have been different, they were rituals of movement. Great lecture, and it gave me enough information to further my own research.

The lecture about sacred pathways was very good for a general introduction to the topic. Now I hope there will be lectures that go into more detail.