In this episode we will walk through the physical and spiritual journey of a 19th century Russian pilgrim. The author of the account is unknown. It is commonly thought that it was narrated by a single pilgrim to a starets, or a monk, who wrote it down in the city of Irkutsk, in Siberia. The english version of the book is called “The Way of a Pilgrim”. The hero sets out on a quest on how to pray continuously. After wondering (and wandering) how this could be achieved, he eventually reached his goal with the help of a spiritual father, who taught him the Jesus Prayer. If you are a non believer or an atheist, I ask you not to assume right away that there is nothing relevant for you here, and in case you are a believer and you take active part in a religion, please indulge me for trying to understand the essence without its form. The way this episode was designed, aims to foster further reflection on how we can experience spirituality and an "ecstasy of truth" in our own times, assuming that there is a bridge or a translatability between the rituals we adopt (meditation, mantras, mindfulness) and those of our ancestors, which is something Aldous Huxley described as follows: "If, at any time, men have found satisfaction in a certain kind of activity, it is to be presumed that, at periods when this satisfying activity was not manifested, there must have been some kind of equivalent for it."

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