April 2023
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Walking and thinking the Way of Saint James is fascinating. Our meditation in nine steps is grounded in psychology, philosophy, and literature. This paper approaches etymologies associated with the Romero, a pilgrim headed for Rome, the Palmer, a pilgrim on journey to Jerusalem holding a palm branch, and the Xacobeo / Jacobean pilgrim on the Way of Saint James. We also explore the path as therapy, a metaphor of life with its challenges, through the senses. We are pilgrims and foreigners; walking and thinking, body and mind, interrelated. The Way of Saint James transforms us spiritually.