Dvasinių Ir Betikslių Kelionių Žemėlapiai
Maps of Spiritual and Pointless Wandering

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the phenomenon of spiritual and pointless travels, highlights the cultural context in which this topic appears in both the western and the eastern literature and philosophical traditions. Various philosophical texts and novels quite often contain maps of spiritual journeys. The goal is identified with the assumption that a spiritual journey is merely discovering something which always was hidden in the depths of the own soul. In Daoism a particularly popular idea was of a spiritual and pointless journey. The journey could take place in a geographical area, or be performed in the traveler’s mind or imagination. The present paper deals with such kinds of wanderers as a permanent fugitive and a loafer and highlights their specific features. It also analyzes wanderers’s alternative roads. These roads have in recent decades gained in popularity as alternatives to mass, standardized itineraries. This paper analyzes the phenomenon of travel from a historical perspective, highlights different types of travelers, travel motives and particularities of wonderers’s itineraries.

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