Workshop : The Pilgrimage

by Paulo Coelho on July 1, 2009

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Jaymii October 4, 2011 at 12:57 pm

Can you do the messenger’s ritual mentioned in the book? Is there any harm in doing it?

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kendran January 23, 2011 at 2:19 pm

I am about halfway through ‘The Pilgrimage’. I didn’t know until know that the Messenger Ritual is not a complete description and so I decided I would give it a try the other night. Of course, it didn’t work, because I have no idea what I am doing. However, I was lying in bed, next to my husband (he didnt know what I was doing), I closed my eyes and just started letting images appear, I tried to focus on a fire, but other things came up instead. After a few moments, my breathing was considerably slower and suddenly I felt a weird sensation pass through my body, or over my body, I’m not sure. A few seconds after that, my husband suddenly asked me if I was okay. I said, “Yes, why?” He said he got a strange feeling from me that made him uncomfortable. I don’t know…Anyway, I think I will not try anything else unless I have someone to guide me through the way and make sense of what I am doing. It is not a good idea to mess around in a realm where you have no experience.

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T August 10, 2010 at 10:11 pm

I really enjoyed this book, I just love the way Coelho writes, his style, and again it was hard for me to tell how much of the book was fiction, also some parts of the story were a little rough, I think it would have been nice if he would give a little more explanation about situations like for example with Legion, to a reader like me not that familiar with this type of scenarios, but then again this was his first book? So this was just his “take off”.
Respeto y admiracion!

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Chris July 14, 2010 at 10:58 pm

Astounding! Is the Road to Rome to be published?
The world truly is stranger than we can imagine and we await 21.12.2012 with baited breath and expectancy. Was Yeats correct in his description of The Second Coming? Edgar Cayce thought so. Rechad Feild’s experience with a Sufi Master parallels the largely unseen challenges placed before us in our daily life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFnCcz-MXZo&feature=related

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Monica February 22, 2010 at 7:51 pm

The Pilgrimage has been by far my favorite book. It gave me an undestanding of AGAPE as I had been seeing “love” everywhere. I can “feel” everytime I read the love that consumes meditation and I tried it with my retreat sisters and it was a wonderful feeling. I have only tried a few meditations, the cruelty exercise and awakening the intuition. The second one has been working wonders in my life, for instance last night as I was about to go to sleep I decided to go back and check on my younger son because my intuition kept telling me to go back and take him with me to my bed. He had a 102 fever, had I not followed my intuition he would have had a pretty bad night. I love the book, it’s magical and everytime I read it my mind is walking with Paulo.
Thank you Paulo for sharing your walk to Santiago with your readers. It was a lovely experience and I know that in the near future I will walk it too..

Love

Monica

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anderson luis January 31, 2010 at 3:45 pm

eu li esse livro em uma tarde ele é fantastico.
quem realmente entende se envolve com o livro e não para mais.
Eu acho o paulo um cara genial mesmo a ponto extremo, o que seria a literatura do brasil la fora sem paulo coelho.

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Lucinda January 9, 2010 at 6:40 pm

What if I did the messenger exercise, I did not realize I was not suppose to and now strange paranormal things are happening around me? I am concerned. My family also witnessed them so I am not nuts!

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Monica February 22, 2010 at 7:33 pm

wow!! It’s always puzzled me that this excercise was put in the book (I was discussing this with a friend at work and we were both reading the bible, while talking to him he got the answer to some questions he had and I got an affirmation too, God’s synchronicity again), which to tell you the truth I didn’t even bother to read as this is not my interest, although I read the chapter on the messenger. The book came to me recently, after I had decided what my interests were and after I had already read all of Paulo’s previous books. Now I understand why it never came before, for I was not ready. For me and my house I only have one Lord. I pray for you Lucinda, may the Lord walk along your side and please remember that there is no force stronger than that of God, trust in him and he will respond.

Love

Monica

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ahmad selim December 16, 2009 at 1:51 pm

I have read almost all your books , it is very interesting to read all your writing as it is exploring many hidden treasury inside us, but I need to comment mainly on “the pilgrimage”, as you have mentioned in the “arrival Part “ the following sentence

(Just as Muslim tradition that all members of the faith , at least once in their life, makes the same pilgrimage that muhammed made from mecca to medina ,)

I would like to clarify the following :

1-Pilgrimage in Islam is not tradition it is the fifth pillar in Islam.
2-Pilgrimage is not from mecca to medina it is from any where in the world to mecca.

Thank you very much wish you all the success in your writing

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laila abdallah June 17, 2010 at 8:09 am

thanks ahmad for the clarification….allah yjzeek kol kher

andersom December 5, 2009 at 12:55 am

olha gostei muito desse livro e acho q vc poderia m explicar se realmente vc viveu todas aquelas aventuras esperituais!!!!!
sou loko por todo tipó de magia sei que tive problemas com esses rituais mas cosegui me livrar!!!!
sou seu fã
e gosto muito do que vc escreve!!!!
obrigado por exestir vc sempre sera eterno.
andersom
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Patricia December 4, 2009 at 2:29 am

Wow, This book really tested my little earthly brain lol, it really made me think and I had to keep reading and re-reading certain paragraphs, so much so that my friend asked me if I was ever going to finish it, it has been some time since I read it and still I find questions being asked when I think about it now.

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Marta Adriana December 2, 2009 at 2:27 am

The Pilgrimage spreads magic all around. It makes you believe the sublime is there for all of us.

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Zaidan November 23, 2009 at 3:57 pm

Gostei muito desse livro, o qual li pela primeira vez num exemplar de primeira edição, emprestado por alguém.

Quando o comprei e li pela segunda vez, em um exemplar bem mais novo, até entendi o porquê da extensa explicação sobre o caminho percorrido pelo autor na realidade. Mas não gostei.

O livro é excelente e toda aquela explicação -além de cansativa- é totalmente dispensável, na minha opinião.

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Andrea November 23, 2009 at 2:36 am

The first book I read of your collection was Veronika decides to die, and i really love it, I was only 14 years old, now i have almost the complete collection!

one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read, was this, the Pilgrim, I can identificate with You, and your pathway. Im a young writer, and you have a lot of influence in my texts and artworks. I’ve wrote a lot of poems, about the “Art of Living”, also I am doing my own trip for discover who I am.

congratulations for your work, I really admirate you…

love,

Andrea

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emilia November 22, 2009 at 1:18 am

Ciao Paulo sono davvero entusiasta del tuo lavoro. Da quando ho scoperto un tuo libro in casa di mia nonna “l’Alchimista” all’età di 14 anni, non ho più smesso di leggere le tue fantastiche opere, che mi hanno migliorato nel modo in cui guardare la mia vita. Sin da piccola ho delle percezioni, faccio sogni che poi accadono, avverto pericoli tramite dei flash di visioni e so quando deve accadere qualcosa di brutto alle persone a me care. Avverto e sento e vedo anche presenze negative come delle ombre pesanti e quando accade ciò prego la Madre Vergine e mi affido a Lei pregando con tutto il cuore sicura di sconfiggere con il mio Amore il Male e così accade ogni volta che riesco ad allontanare almeno un pò il Male da me. Non so di preciso cosa vogliano dire queste cose, ormai ci convivo da quando avevo 5 anni e oggi ne ho 26 quindi per me è diventata una cosa che mi appartiene e fors senza queste cose belle o brutte che accadono non mi sentirei più io.
A volte mi sento in pace e in contatto con tutta la Natura ed è stupendo tale sensazione.
Spero di fare al più presto il Cammino di Santiago perchè sento che lo devo fare che c’è qualcosa per me lì, qualche cosa che mi possa dare risposte alle mie domande e che mi daranno più serenità nella vita, visto che la mia vita fino a d ora non è stata davvero una delle migliori ma grazie a Dio ho avuto un padre che era tutto per me e che era davvero speciale, purtroppo non c’è più da 5 anni, ma io ci sono in contatto, a volte lo sento e ci parlo ci dialogo e sento la sua voce, un suo sorriso. Non sono pazza credimi! Mi manca ma so che mi è accanto e mi abbraccia come fece quando il suo corpo morì e la sua anima mi venne a dare il suo ultimo abbraccio in una luce immensa.
Vorei solo sapere se avresti dei consigli per me da darmi, come potrei conoscere e andare in fondo in questa mia vita e come posso intraprendere il Cammino di Santiago. Ci tengo davvero molto Spero di ricevere una tua risposta anche nella mia e mail
Sei davvero unico e ti ammiro molto
emilia

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