Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the
world's great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on
solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American
Southwest. For companions, he has only such teachers as Rumi, John
of the Cross, Hildegard of Bingen, Dag Hammarskjold, and Thomas
Merton, and as he walks, he engages their writings with the natural
wonders he encounters--Bell Mountain Wilderness with Soren
Kierkegaard, Moonshine Hollow with Thich Nhat Hanh--demonstrating
how being alone in the wild opens a rare view onto one's interior
landscape, and how the saints' writings reveal the divine in
nature.
The discipline of backpacking, Lane shows, is a metaphor for a
spiritual journey. Just as the trail offered revelations to the
early Desert Christians, backpacking hones crucial spiritual
skills: paying attention, traveling light, practicing silence, and
exercising wonder. Lane engages the practice not only with a wide
range of spiritual writings--Celtic, Catholic, Protestant,
Buddhist, Hindu, and Sufi Muslim--but with the fascination of other
lovers of the backcountry, from John Muir and Ed Abbey to Bill
Plotkin and Cheryl Strayed. In this intimate and down-to-earth
narrative, backpacking is shown to be a spiritual practice that
allows the discovery of God amidst the beauty and unexpected
terrors of nature. Adoration, Lane suggests, is the most
appropriate human response to what we cannot explain, but have
nonetheless learned to love.
Backpacking with the Saints is an enchanting exploration of how
solitude, simplicity, and mindfulness are illuminated and
encouraged by the discipline of backcountry wandering, and of how
the wilderness itself becomes a way of knowing--an ecology of the
soul."
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