MichelleA world newly created
April 24th 2009 01:09
The Brave Traveller is aware at once of a distance between him and his surroundings, a kind of space in between his experience of a place and a culture and an affinity as he relates what he experiences with what he now sees. As travellers, we are often looking for meaning, for lines of similarity, moments that resonate with another place we've been to or other people we've encountered but what if there is no resonance? No sameness? What if you are visiting a place that is so distant from anywhere you've ever been or imagined that you can truly call it 'foreign'?
Albert and the newborn drug were soon dancing to a frenzied rhythm. He wasn't in control of and perhaps for a while he might have felt he was but he describes an incident in his book entitled 'LSD, My Problem Child' that resonates with a man in a place totally alien to him. He is enraptured with the view from the top of this mountain but he is also unable to control the heights or depths this drug forces him.
After his introduction to LSD, Albert describes his delirium as he experiments again with the drug. The dizziness gives way to further, deeper hallucinations and the sense that he's losing a sense of his own physical body. He begins to think that he may be going insane and the irony hits him that the drug he had brought into the world would be the same one to take him out of it. An inspection by a doctor and his own assistant brings no help and eventually Albert slides into a technicolored play of the world around him; sounds becoming colors becoming shapes becoming forms and shapes without edges and spirals of warmth.
He finally sleeps and wakes to declare: 'The world was as if newly created'.
Albert had travelled into time and space and returned with heightened sensitivity and a longed-for appreciation for the normal props and staples of his world. He had returned with the gift that extends to us all as we travel the pastures, cities and forests of this world: The world, once old and worn to me has become new.
Albert on LSD
Albert and the newborn drug were soon dancing to a frenzied rhythm. He wasn't in control of and perhaps for a while he might have felt he was but he describes an incident in his book entitled 'LSD, My Problem Child' that resonates with a man in a place totally alien to him. He is enraptured with the view from the top of this mountain but he is also unable to control the heights or depths this drug forces him.
After his introduction to LSD, Albert describes his delirium as he experiments again with the drug. The dizziness gives way to further, deeper hallucinations and the sense that he's losing a sense of his own physical body. He begins to think that he may be going insane and the irony hits him that the drug he had brought into the world would be the same one to take him out of it. An inspection by a doctor and his own assistant brings no help and eventually Albert slides into a technicolored play of the world around him; sounds becoming colors becoming shapes becoming forms and shapes without edges and spirals of warmth.
He finally sleeps and wakes to declare: 'The world was as if newly created'.
Albert had travelled into time and space and returned with heightened sensitivity and a longed-for appreciation for the normal props and staples of his world. He had returned with the gift that extends to us all as we travel the pastures, cities and forests of this world: The world, once old and worn to me has become new.
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