The Sacred Journey- not what I expected

I received this book free thru Booksneeze.com and am writing this review without being influenced by this site or any other parties. I was hoping for, and expected, something different with this book. I found this book to be a very deep, but very difficult read. Often, if seemed to go over my head, and yet, I have a master's degree, and loved school. I love to learn new things, so I went out of my comfort zone and selected this book, thinking I would learn more about the history of pilgrimages, past and present, but found any bits that I was hoping for to be slow in coming. . I did my best to stretch my mind to 'go with it' and tried to get into the mindframe of what was presented, when the author offfered new ideas, but I felt I was trying too hard. A historian, scholar, or professor might feel differently, but my feeble mind could not wrap itself around it. Often, I wondered how a topic or thought was, at all, related to the previous one. I'll pass this book on to an intellectual.