ABSTRACT
An affinity between the void and the divine is indicated by the fact that appearances of the divine, epiphanies or hierophanies indeed often take place in a void, through a void, or due to the void. The most frequent places for epiphanies are mountain tops, deserts or - indeed - caves; occasions of death, illness or other liminal moments; occasions where stabilities are dissolved and thus replaced by emptiness or the void. Beauty is characterised by two words, 'visceral' and 'mysterious'. Seemingly, they cannot be further apart from each other: 'visceral' evokes the most material aspects of the body, the guts, connected to digestion, while 'mysterious' alludes to the most spiritual qualities of the human mind. 'Rational planning' and 'consciousness' are central terms for rationalist philosophy, neoclassical economic theory, communist administration and managerial ideology, among others, but irrelevant for the world-vision to be gained through walking: a way to liberate from such modernist modes of entrapment.
