A Note from Pilgrim 958
Marjolein Pieks walked the Walk of Wisdom a while ago. Marjolein is a poet and, among other things, village poet of Heumen, one of the eleven municipalities where you pick up a bird ring on the tour. Marjolein not only wrote a song about her trip, but also this special ‘note’.
Hippocrates (Ahmed I Falnama +- 1580)
Hippocrates was a Greek scholar of alchemy, astrology and magic and the first to be convinced that the body was a holistic system.
In this image, he rides the mythological bird Simurgh who lives on the imaginary Mount Qaf, in the top of the Gaokerena tree, which contains the seeds of an elixir of immortality.
In a famous poem from Persia, the poet Attar describes how all the birds of the world undertake a journey to find the Simurgh. They are led by the Hopvogel. When only 30 of the thousands of birds reach the Simurgh, they discover that they themselves are collectively the Simurgh.
The Simurgh is a symbol for the many manifestations of God according to the Sufis. The Simurgh is nothing but all birds, but in order to understand this, the birds must travel through different stages of consciousness, or in other words, the journey of the soul.
During my pilgrimage of the Walk of Wisdom I was able to discover and release many birds in myself. For me, the pilgrimage meant traveling to the Simurgh, while discovering my body as one of the many divine manifestations that we collectively are.
Marjolein Pieks.
More about Marjolein on her website Luisterhart: link. Or go to her YouTube channel with a.o. the song ‘Wakeup the birds in your soul’ Following her journey: link.
Marjolein Pieks sometimes accompanies our departure ceremony on the third Saturday of the month in the Valkhof Chapel. See agenda.
