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Podcast: Andrea Hurst and Belinda du Plooy
on The Water Pilgrimage
David: “It’s an experimental project people voyage to, is more of an alibi
that we’ll be talking about; this is … … to go out of your comfort zones,
an experimental conversation as your ideological bubbles, and
well … let’s see where we go.” encounter people in a true
The excerpts focus on David’s philosophical encounter. It’s not
reflections. As a pilgrimage something you can pre-empt, it’s
organiser, David “deliberately not something you can direct.”
focussed on the autumn and spring Philosophical solidarity, David
equinox … and the winter solstice, remarked, starts out when you
so those are symbolic, cyclical dates speak to the people you know, “and
for the movement of the sun, and then about things that you are
our skies.” For him, it “ties nicely familiar with each other about …
with “pilgrimage.” He adds: “a but by the end, you’re just walking
destination, such as the end of the with each other and sharing strange
pilgrimage, be it Groendal in our stories, maybe, sometimes
case, or other sacred spaces that experiences in your life that you
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