The Purpose of Travel in the Eyes of Mckenna

[Lateral Exploration]

Terrance Mckenna once spoke on travel..."We each must become like fisherman and go out on to the dark ocean... and let your nets down into that sea...And what your after is not some behemoth that will tear through your nets, fowl them, and drag you and your little boat down into the abyss. Nor are what we looking for a bunch of sardines that can slip through your net and disappear...What we are looking for are middle sized ideas that are not so small that they are trivial, and not so large that they are incomprehensible..

But middle sized ideas that we can wrestle into our boats and take back to the folks on shore and have fish dinner....and everyone of us who (travels) this is what we should be looking for, it's not for your elucidation....you are an explorer and you represent our species.

And the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea. Because our world is in danger by the absence of good ideas, our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness...so to any degree that anyone of us can bring back a small piece of the picture and implement it to contribute it to the building of the new paradigm, then we participate in the redemption of the human spirit. After all is what it is really about."