Search for Your Soul's Desert

SEARCH FOR YOUR SOUL'S DESERT

Pilgrim, how you journey

On the road you chose

To find out why the winds die

And where the stories go.

All days come from one day

That much you must know,

You cannot change what's over

But only where you go.

Enya,Pilgrim

Every individual has his own world with a thought of reality. Some people search for the meaning of life and their spirit through travelling, some people do it without changing the place and the time. Birds migrate to other places and whales cross the oceans throughout the year in order to adapt to the nature. Yet why do the people in the west travel to the east or vice versa? The answer lies beneath the meaning that different cultures and ideologies give to the time and the space. As in the song of Enya, people generally have mental, physical and time travel so as to build a bridge between the past and future by going into the depth of our spirits.

Travelling to west or east depends on the spatial and time differences of various cultures, languages and ideologies. Thus, some people in the west travel to the east to discover the inexperienced past with exotic and mystic culture. Moreover, some people in the east travel to the west in order to find the future with higher life standards and technology. Therefore, travelling to east and west is for crossing the borders of nationality and learning what is missing in your own identity that prevents perfect life . Then this type of travelling becomes a mental and physical travel. Moreover it is a time travel depending on your concept of modernization and development.

The need for travelling in the world changes according to the strength of mentality and identity. In other words, if a person has discovered his inner world with the knowledge of time and space then there is no need to travel. Therefore, people generally travel to search for the lost values and the center of their existence. When there is a change in the space, the change in the culture and the perspective towards life is inevitable. Therefore travelling removes the obstacles that surround our brain and heart. This removal brings you an experience to question your life style, your country's rules and your mind. So illumination of the self begins with the travel through mind.

Where is the time travel in this enlightment? Time changes when the history, culture, politics and even religion of the space change because the events that people react, the ritiuals the societies have and the life styles differ. For instance, with the technological developments some countries augment in science and technical issues so at first glance they grab the future. So going from a place where the technology has not the prior place to a technologically developed country, you feel to have a time travel as you see machines and life styles you have never seen before. Thus the differences in in the level of science and the presence of history, arts and religion can cause time travel apart from physical travel.

Unfortunately, not every physical travel brings about mental and time travel as the traveller closes his senses so change can not be perceived

. These people are like sleepwalkers who are isolated from their environment. If you are not related with your surrounding, then you can not discover your identity as place is a spark that starts the great fire within your mind and heart. For instance, the people who travel abroad in order to relax and get away from their fast lives can hardly realize the existence of the change within another culture because their mind is occupied with their selves not in the sense of discovery but feeling well and healthy. In contrast to people who need travelling, some people do not need travelling as they have already discovered the meaning of life, freedom and their spirits. These are the people who have time travel within their minds because they have all present, past and future so that they can relate these without losing their consciousness. For example, if we ignore the effect of assimilation, Aborigines, Mauris, Native Americans and other people who exist with their indigenious life styles do not need to travel as they have learned how to be free and discovered their culture with the harmony of the nature. So that if you do not lose your values like mental freedom and do not destroy the nature, you will not have to travel to discover yourself. Therefore, physical travel with mental and time travel are done in order to find the values you have lost or you do not have.

The search for the indigenious values which have been obliterated then becomes a result of the different perception of space and time. Perception is related with mind and senses so the people who travel have various paradigms in order to discover the reality. If the space, in other words the nature and the environment, change, then the way people perceive the reality differs. The characteristics of a place depend on the culture, tradition and life style of a society, then the world of reality in one's mind is determined by this characteristics. So a person living in a certain culture with a confined reality can want to break these borders so as to perceive the world in a different way. For example, a person living in a place full of criminals and dishonest people can perceive the world as a space made up of cruelty and can become pessimistic. Yet if he travels to wilderness, he can observe innocence and balance so his reality about the world alters with being open to change. Thus spatial diversities cause different realities in people's mind and if people want to find the exact reality, then they should travel to different spaces with various identities.

How does then time difference throughout the world occur? The concept of time is relative according to the activities of societies who are in different places in development, technology, science, art and history. The society with technological development and high life standards can think that they are in the future and this society can think that the other societies who do not have these are in the past. Yet if we think that development and going to future is not only related with the technology but also with arts, the socieites with higher level of arts can think that they are in the future. However the modernization is related with respect to nature, human rights, arts and technology so the future should have

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