Pilgrimage
“Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home…the traveler belonging no more to one place than the next, moves slowly…from one part of the earth to another.”
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
Beyond die Hütte: The Pilgrimage
In addition to sponsoring sojourns at die Hütte, Dasein Foundation organizes learning opportunities involving travel well beyond The Sea Ranch area. Dasein’s pilgrimages are explorations into relatively unfrequented or foreign destinations where a traveler may go in search of a deeper understanding about oneself. Several recent and forthcoming pilgrimages are listed below.
Pilgrimage 2022
From Todtnauberg to Zauberberg
2022: Germany and Switzerland. Guide: Magnus Eckhart
The Foundation’s first international pilgrimage, From Todtnauberg to Zauberberg, took place over the summer of 2022. Travelers explored Germany’s Schwarzwald, walked the rundweg around Martin Heidegger’s chalet, sailed upon Lake Zürich, visited a tower built by Carl Jung in Bollingen, enjoyed a rest cure at a Davos sanatorium, lodged in traditional mountain huts, and hiked the Swiss Alps. The reading package for the journey included selections from the following texts:
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann; Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche; Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung; Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past by William McGuire; Heidegger's Hut by Adam Scharr, Walden by Henry David Thoreau; and Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos by Peter E. Gordon.
Pilgrimage 2024 (Proposed)
Basho, Dōgen, and Uji
2024: Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto, Japan. ‘Ginkaku-Ji Temple stone garden.’ Guide: Brad Bennett
Past Pilgrimages
Beneath the Bixby Canyon Bridge
2017: Big Sur, California. Guide: Laura Schulkind
Desert Solitaire Revisited
2014: Castle Valley, Utah. Guide: Michael “Stoke” Dunton
Phenomenology of Solitude
2009: Three Fingers Lookout, Washington. Guides: Edward Courtright & John Martin
“Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you’re destined for. But don’t hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you’re old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you wouldn't have set out. She has nothing left to give you now. And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.”