The Traveler

who cares where from or where to, as long as we move I’m walking on air

The Symbols

House, Door, Labradoodle Dog, Doghouse, Wheel, Rope Ladder, Aspen Tree

Might Mean

Drive: motivation, willfulness, impetuosity, call to adventure, taking risks, impatience, hurry, speed, nervousness, difficulty sleeping, inflammation, burnout

Movement: change, travel, mobility, moving on, going from door to door, wandering, getting lost, transience, instability, unsettled life, restless, never ending quest

Improvisation: alertness, spontaneity, novelty, excitable, autonomy, living in the moment, instinct, uncontrolled, not thinking, reactiveness, domino effect, urgency, hypervigilance

For Example

Movie Clips & Videos:

The Beauty of Nomadland

Fleeing from one life to the next – The Bare Necessity

"The slower we move the faster we die" – Up in The Air

I Thought There Would Be More – Boyhood,
Just To Feel Alive Again – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,
Adventure Is Out There!, The Dog Pack – Up (Pixar),
The Spectacular Now

The Body as an Automobile (Animated) – Allan Watts,
Life in Movement, The Dance of the World – Joseph Campbell,
What Do You Want To Do In Life? – Brian Cranston,
Do Cause and Effects Really Exists?

"It is characteristic of the Western mind that it has no concept for Tao. The Chinese character is made up of the character for 'head' and that for 'going.' Wilhelm translates Tao by Sinn (meaning). Other translate it as 'way,' 'providence,' or even as 'God,' as the Jesuits do... 'Head' can be taken as consciousness and 'to go' as traveling by a way, thus the idea would be: to go consciously or the conscious way."

– C.G. Jung, quoted in The Inner Journey by Barbara Hannah, p.33

TV Shows:
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates (Netflix)

Podcasts:
Another Voice Had Come Between Us (Modern Love),
Driverless Dilemma, Loops – temporarily stuck in the present,
The Story of Clive: Living Without Memory (Radiolab)

This Too Shall Pass – OK Go

Writings:
Fables of the Dog and the Whale, Road Trip Elegy,
Anywhere But Here, Living With A Sense of Urgency, Hurry Sickness,
Why Grounding is Hard + What To Do About It, Home and Belonging

This Is What Being A Nomad Is Really Like, The Wanderer (i-Ching),
The Blind Traveler: How James Holman Felt His Way Around The World,
What It Really Means To Be In The Present Moment, The Presence Process,
How To Create a Chain Reaction of Good Habits


Action, Drive, Reward, Akrasia, Instinct, Fight or Flight, Hypervigilance,
Adventure, Arousal, Novelty Seeking, Sensation Seeking, Youth,
Autopilot, Mechanical Clock, Peripheral NS, Working Memory,
Temporality, Causality, Samsara, Self-Discovery, Escape, Stimulation,
Hypermobility, Wanderlust, Hunter vs Farmer

"It is the drive of the instincts that makes life worth living; without it, life is merely momentary and fragmentary. Is it this drive that gives life form and meaning... It is necessary to have some understanding in order to feel in harmony with life, and this is the reason why initiation rituals were conceived and established... When you take these rites from the people they lose their sense of life, and then they just go from one cigarette to the next, one drink to the next."

– Barbara Hannah, The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals

Literature:
Hercules and the Waggoner (Aesop),
The Little Prince – Geographer (Saint-Exupéry),
The Opposite of Nostalgia (poem by Eric Gamalinda)

Songs:
Once in a Lifetime (and How it Came About) – Talking Heads,
My Silver Lining (First Aid Kit)