Pilgrimage is intimately linked to spatiality: it is a landscape of the heart. It often seeks some sort of
epiphany either while moving towards or on reaching a locational goal. In a model of intangivle human
relationships with environment pilgrimage is generally located at "spirituality", but can be reached in a
variety of ways via "attachmetn", "aesthetics", or "ethics". On a secular pilgrimage to the barren
landscapes of teh Canadian High Arctic at 80o N, several persons interviewed
claimed epiphanic experiences, usually while alone, tired and still. Similar conditions can be attained in
the semi-natural landscapes of the monastic theocracy of Mounth Athos, Greece, where twenty monasteries and
many hermitages are also available for religious experience. Nevertheless, none of my inteviewees there
reported epiphany. I speculate why a neutral, secular environment devoid of people might be more conducive
to epiphany than an explicitly religious one.