Camino Mystic
The journey continues
Welcome to Camino Mystic
Camino Mystic began in 2014 as a way to share our first Camino de Santiago with family and friends. What began as a 500-mile walk across Spain became a much longer journey—one that continues today.
More than a decade later, those experiences have become the foundation for my book, Walking the Camino: A Pilgrimage of Body, Mind, and Soul.
The Camino has taught me that the journey is not simply about reaching Santiago. It is about what happens along the way—and what we carry home with us.
What is a Mystic?
A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optimist sees the glass as half full. A mystic sees the glass as always full—half with water and half with air.
To me, a mystic is someone who sees the fullness of life in every moment. It does not mean withdrawing from the world. It means living fully in the world without becoming caught in its negativity or its traps—accepting life’s joys and sorrows, its successes and disappointments, as waves in the ocean.
When I began this journey in 2014, I had spent much of my life in the corporate world while trying to live with this perspective—a corporate mystic. I intended to take that same mindset onto the path called the Camino.
And so, the Corporate Mystic became the Camino Mystic.
Walking the Camino
A pilgrimage of Body, Mind, and Soul
In 2014, I walked the 500-mile Camino Francés across Spain with my wife, daughter, sister, and a friend. What began as a physical pilgrimage gradually became something much deeper—a journey of simplicity, presence, trust, and quiet transformation.
This is not a guidebook. It is an invitation to walk alongside us through moments of challenge, wonder, friendship, silence, and reflection—and to discover what the Camino can teach us about the way we live.
Why the Camino?
People come to the Camino for many reasons.
Some come for adventure. Some for faith. Some to mark a transition in life. Others simply feel drawn to walk without quite knowing why.
That was true for me as well.
Over the years, and across different Caminos, I have come to see the pilgrimage as something remarkably simple: you walk, you carry what you need, you meet whoever appears along the way, and you accept each day largely as it comes.
Yet within that simplicity, something happens.
The noise of ordinary life begins to quiet. What seemed important becomes less important. And there is room to notice the landscape, the people around us, and perhaps something within ourselves.
The Camino does not give everyone the same answer. It simply creates the space in which we may hear our own.
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