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