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

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which makes the case that drugs and
travel or so

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discursively entangle so discursively
intimate then we used the seen of

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metaphors and analogies to describe the
subjective experiences of each.

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

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

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

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leaving normal thoughts behind

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

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slaying the dragon, solving the conundrum the
existential itch,

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then making a return with new lesson learned

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

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motif of transformation, 
an unfolding that happens in time

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

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of ecstasy, non static, right?

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

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

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we take a trip we call it tripping

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

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

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In fact they're one and the same

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

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

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

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

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

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we long to crossover we long to
experience

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to take the trip the tak the journey