It is a funny thing about distance. Sometimes we feel that those we love or know are far away because they are in the next town, or the big city or another country. In older days when horses were the only form of speedy travel to be in another county was days away. Now to be on the other side of the world is a day away by plane. Of course it may be a year or more away in terms of saving up the money to pay for travelling.
And yet a Hindu can sit and contemplate and talk about travelling across the stars without observable moving so much as an inch. Travelling is not only relative in time and space, it is also relative in the mind. Sometimes people closest to us, in the same house, can appear distant. Almost unknown. And sometimes we can even become strangely unknown to ourselves.
The human being enjoys travelling, enjoys seeking out the unknown and we are now on the thresholds of one of the greatest journeys human beings will ever take; into the brain. Which is not only the beginning of all travelling, but for us the beginning of everything.
Why we are what we are. I hope you are packed and ready to go.