Drugs, Wanderlust and Our Innate Desire To Explore

"In offering similar threats to the boundaries between self and other and similar promises of alterity, travel and drugs are also subversive in similar ways." - Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature

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there's an amazing book called drugs and
travel in 20th-century literature

which makes the case that drugs and
travel or so

discursively entangle so discursively
intimate then we used the seen of

metaphors and analogies to describe the
subjective experiences of each.

I mean even the term, hallucination derives from the Latin term, allucinatic, which means to wandering our minds

so when we are hallucinating we are traveling in
our heads. Right? Why travel?

Well, the heroes journey, right? This map that
describes a departure from the ordinary

leaving normal thoughts behind

treading forth in the new environment dealing with
conflicts real ones or cognitive ones

slaying the dragon, solving the conundrum the
existential itch,

then making a return with new lesson learned

wandering in our minds and taking the
physical journey both incorporate this

motif of transformation,
an unfolding that happens in time

we cross over an implicit in the term
ecstatic drug experience is this notion

of ecstasy, non static, right?

Pushing through the crossing over the breaking
the threshold the piercing the viel

The curtain parts and had never
been seen is devoured by the eyes

we take a trip we call it tripping

you see the analogous, you see the
parrallel . These too discursively intimate

universes reveal to us, the outer journey and the inner
journey mirror each other.

In fact they're one and the same

and I loved that, right I loved that because I
have the travelers itch I have the wanderlust

I yearn for the holy other, I I look at the departure monitors

in the airports listing all those
destinations. As Alian De Botton sites in his book

"The Art of Travel" we look upon those screens
and we think to ourselves: London,

Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin, Mozambique South Africa
whatever it maybe it's anywhere else but here

we long to crossover we long to
experience

to take the trip the tak the journey